MARGUELLE RIOS

• Coordinated staffing, scheduling, and workflow to enhance patient service delivery.
• Support pharmacists with prescription processing, filling medications and inventory management.
• Coordinate staffing, scheduling and workflow to ensure efficient patient service.
• Promoted excellent patient service by upholding confidentiality and professionalism.

Senior Nursing Preceptorship | Medical-Surgical Cardiac Unit

• Provided direct care to adult medical-surgical and cardiac patients with complex acute and chronic conditions.
• Performed comprehensive and focused assessments, monitored changes in patient condition, and communicated significant findings to the RN and interdisciplinary team.
• Safely administered oral and IV medications, managed IV fluids, and monitored patient response to treatment.
• Cared for postoperative and cardiac patients, including patients following vascular procedures, with emphasis on neurovascular assessment, pain control, mobility, and complication prevention.
• Participated in wound care, fall prevention, oxygen management, bladder scanning, mobility assistance, and discharge preparation.
• Collaborated with nurses, providers, therapists, and other members of the healthcare team to provide safe, patient-centered care.

• Provided direct care to adult patients with acute and chronic medical-surgical conditions.
• Completed head-to-toe and focused assessments, monitored vital signs, and identified changes in patient status.
• Administered medications, performed IV therapy, managed wound care, facilitated mobility, implemented fall prevention strategies, and supported activities of daily living to enhance patient recovery.
• Collaborated with nurses and interdisciplinary team members to ensure delivery of safe, patient-centered care, enhancing overall patient outcomes.
• Enhanced clinical judgment, prioritized care tasks, improved communication, and refined time-management skills in high-pressure acute-care settings.

• Cared for higher-acuity patients with neurological and cardiovascular conditions, ensuring timely assessments and vigilant monitoring to detect changes in health status.
• Performed focused neurological and cardiac assessments, including level of consciousness, neurovascular status, heart rhythm, vital-sign trends, and changes from baseline.
• Assisted with care of patients with conditions such as stroke, dysrhythmia, heart failure, and other complex neuro-cardiac diagnoses.
• Facilitated safe medication administration, oxygen therapy, mobility support, fall prevention, and patient/family education to promote optimal recovery in a progressive-care setting.

• With honors
• Expected Graduation: August 2026
• Dean's List 2025-2026

• With honors
• Graduated: 2024