Margarita Gomez

Current travel location: Juneau, AK

Employer: SEARHC

Departments: (MSUC) Urgent and (ELMC) Ambulatory Care

• Communicated with healthcare team members to plan, implement and enhance treatment strategies.
• Performed triage on incoming patients and determined severity of injuries and illnesses.(MSUC)
• Taught patients how to improve lifestyle choices, dramatically reducing chance of symptom reoccurrence.

• Provided skilled, timely and level-headed emergency response to critically-ill patients.
• Conveyed treatment options, diagnosis information and home care techniques to patients and caregivers to continue care consistency.
• Provided exceptional care to high-acute patients needing complex care such as ventilator management, extensive wound care and rehabilitation.
• Float locations through out BSW medical system: Temple, Hillcrest, Dallas, Pflugerville.
• Float units: Med&Surg, COVID ICU, COVID Step-down, LTC COVID, Pediatrics

• Duties of a telemetry nurse is to assess and care for patients in critical condition, working collaboratively with patient and medical team for optimal care and health improvement
• Telemetry- An understanding cardiac rhythms, cardiac equipment- ECG, to track a patient's cardiac rhythm, heart rate, blood pressure, breathing and other vitals.

• Performed various nursing interventions such as wound dressing, vital sign monitoring, and specimen collection.
• Monitored patients' conditions and reported changes in physical presentation, appearance, and behavior to discuss treatment with physicians.
• Assessed physical, psychological, physiologic, and cognitive status of patients.
• Effectively prioritized assignments, executing care based on each patient's relative condition and delegating tasks to available personnel deliver safe and efficient care.
• Float units- Medical/Surgical, Labor and Delivery (postpartum), Emergency, Urology, Step-Down ICU

• Providing nursing support for patients with varied levels of acuity, educate patients on disease processes, medications and procedures with medical/nursing interventions
• Working collaboratively with medical staff to provide patient centered plan of care with continual assessment and education.