MARIELA CALDERON

• Assist in overseeing the nursing department and ensure the delivery of quality resident care while maintaining strict confidentiality in accordance with HIPAA regulations.
• Ensure high-quality patient care by performing round to observe nursing staff and speaking directly with patients and their families to gather feedback.
• Manage and oversee nursing staff, including recruitment, training, scheduling, and performance management.
• Assist in completing audits in E-MAR daily to ascertain proper nursing charting and documentation of care given.
• Ensure nursing staff follows departmental procedures and policies.
• Prepare for State and Federal inspections by chart auditing and departmental inspection and review.
• Coach nurses to improve performance and handle discipline issues.
• Evaluating the performance of the department and recommending improvements.
• Oversee Fall program, Psychotropic program, and Medicare Unit.
• Develop treatment plan with multidisciplinary team to provide comprehensive and continuous care plan.
• Patient care coordinator facilitating discharges.
• Participated in management team meetings to discuss resident status, census changes, and resident complaints or concerns.

• Schedule nurses' shifts, assign nurses to patients, ensure nursing operational standards are met.
• Assign nursing assigments
• Ensure nursing operational standards are met
• Ensure staff is compliant with policies and procedures
• Chart audit upon admission
• Provide reports on productivity, quality, and customer service metrics
• Ensure all nurses follow policies and procedures
• Train new team members
• Handle complaints or other issues
• Follow and enforce infection prevention guidelines

• Develop own nursing knowledge via practice, observation, professional literature, networking and attending continuing education programs.
• Develop own nursing knowledge via practice, observation, professional literature, networking and attending continuing education programs.
• Assists the Clinical Manager with compliance for policies, procedures, regulations, and standards of care
• Performs peripheral venipuncture and peripheral and central vascular access care according to policy & procedure.
• Coordinates and facilitates the patient flow process for admission, discharges, and transfers within establishedguidelines.
• Performs clinical care in accordance with policy and procedure.
• Integrates principles of infection control & infection prevention into practice.
• Prioritizes and organizes work effectively within assigned shift.
• COVID-19: Follow CDC guidelines for tier level of patient and staff protection. Adhere to evolving hospitalprotocols and policies. Monitor and manage signs and symptoms for PUI patients.
• Electronic charting (EPIC) and PYXIS access

• Nursing activities consist of pain management; wound care, nutritional management including G tubes and J tubes, medication management and administration of all routes, including intravenous therapy.
• Nursing activities consist of pain management; wound care, nutritional management including G tubes and J tubes, medication management and administration of all routes, including intravenous therapy.
• Identify the patient common diagnoses served, equipment utilized, skills required to perform treatments/procedures, clinical parameters monitored, safety precaution initiated, and emergency events encountered.
• Initiate and maintain fall and safety precautions.
• Teach patient and families skills to ensure a safe and speedy recovery from life debilitating events
• Multiple admissions and discharges
• Electronic charting and PYXIS access
• SBAR communication process usage throughout the day, communicate with doctors, therapists, dietician, and others

involved in patient care.
• Coordinate with interdisciplinary team to help create individualized plan of care.