Martha Obregon
San Antonio,TX
Summary
Highly experienced nursing professional with over 15 years of dedicated service in delivering exceptional direct patient care to medical/surgical, preop, post-op, and preadmission testing patients. Extensive knowledge in trach care, breast reconstruction surgery care, IV insertion, and a proven ability to maximize patient comfort and safety while adhering to strict cost control standards. Demonstrates exceptional organizational skills and a forward-thinking approach in effectively managing patient needs. Exhibits exceptional multitasking and prioritization abilities to ensure optimal patient care and efficient completion of daily assignments.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Charge Nurse & Staff Nurse at Outpatient Surgery
Northeast Baptist Hospital
08.2022 - Current
- Trained new nurses in proper techniques, care standards, operational procedures, and safety protocols.
- Coordinate nursing care of up to 50 patients per day on unit through staff assignments, assisting and rounding with physicians, monitoring patient orders, and communicating with ancillary departments.
- Optimized patient satisfaction through timely response to concerns and effective communication among staff members.
- Championed a positive work culture by recognizing exemplary performance from team members and addressing conflicts promptly when they arose.
- Streamlined nursing workflows for increased efficiency and improved patient outcomes.
- Supervised and managed daily scheduling, tasking, and administration.
- Managed staffing schedules, ensuring adequate coverage while minimizing overtime expenses.
- Facilitated cross-departmental communication, enhancing efficiency of patient care coordination.
- Maintained high standards of patient care during high-volume shifts, managing patient assignments to optimize nurse workload.
- Became an expert on iv insertion and blood draws.
- Was resourceful by helping other departments such as preadmission testing (PAT) and making patient charts.
- Did mostly preop but also did post op for about a year.
RN Staff PCU Nurse
Methodist Hospital
11.2008 - 08.2022
- Worked within interdisciplinary health care team to develop, implement and make adjustments to patient care plans, individualizing strategies and methods to improve health and meet recovery goals.
- Conferred with physicians to discuss diagnoses and devise well-coordinated treatment approaches.
- Performed various nursing interventions such as wound dressing, vital sign monitoring and specimen collection.
- Gathered patient health data through interviews and observation, documenting data in electronic records.
- Trained new nurses in proper techniques, care standards, operational procedures and safety protocols.
- Verified patients had information necessary for ongoing care, providing guidance on diagnoses, management of medications and prevention methods.
- Administered medications via oral, IV and intramuscular injections and monitored responses.
- Updated patient charts with data such as medications to keep records current and support accurate treatments.
- Minimized hospital stays with recovery-centered approaches, reducing average in-patient stay length.
- Effectively prioritized assignments, executing care based on each patient's relative condition and delegating tasks to available personnel deliver safe and efficient care.
- Vaccinated patients to protect individuals from measles, pneumonia, influenza and other illnesses of concern.
- Monitored patients' conditions and reported changes in physical presentation, appearance and behavior to discuss treatment with physicians.
- Led successful team comprised of RNs, LPNs and ancillary staff.
- Taught patients how to improve lifestyle choices, dramatically reducing chance of symptom reoccurrence.
- Identified patient care requirements by establishing personal rapport with patients and families.
- Assessed medical status of patients pre- and post-operation by checking vital parameters and supervising food intake.
- Collected blood, tissue and other laboratory specimens and prepared for lab testing.
- Ordered, interpreted and evaluated diagnostic tests to identify and assess patient condition.
- Directed patient care by initiating and following through with plan of care, continuing care and discharge instructions.
- Implemented medication and IV administration, catheter insertion and airway management.
- Identified learning needs of patients and families and responded with advocacy and health education.
- Formulated plans for nursing measures to restore, maintain and promote patients' physical and mental health.
- Promoted patient independence by teaching self-care skills.
- Assessed physical, psychological, physiologic and cognitive status of patients.
- Managed elements of patient care from admission to discharge or transfer to other units.
- Educated patients, families and caregivers on diagnosis and prognosis, treatment options, disease process and management and lifestyle options.
Education
Associate of Science - Nursing
San Antonio College
San Antonio, TX12.2006
Skills
- Patient Condition Monitoring
- Critical Thinking
- IV insertion
- Care Coordination
- Direct Patient Care
Accomplishments
Received five Daisy Awards nominations since Methodist hospital became a Daisy Award partner. The Daisy Award is an "international program that rewards and celebrates the extraordinary and compassionate and skillful care given by nurses everyday". My unit also received the Team Daisy Award. I received multiple what is know at Methodist Healthcare as "WOW " cards also from patients who felt received exceptional care by me. On Methodist social media, I was recognized during Patient Experience Week for "caring like a family" for a former patient.
My unit has the DIEP flap reconstruction patients from the PRIMA group. Patients travel from all over the United States to get this procedure done at my unit. We also get patients from Mexico and Canada. I also had a patient from the Bahamas who found the PRMA group through social media. I was able to train nurses to take care of this group of patients in our unit. The nurses who take care of this group of female patients is hand picked. I was privileged to be chosen to work with this patient population, and the tracheostomy patient population as well.
Languages
Spanish
Full Professional
Timeline
Charge Nurse & Staff Nurse at Outpatient Surgery
Northeast Baptist Hospital
08.2022 - Current
RN Staff PCU Nurse
Methodist Hospital
11.2008 - 08.2022
Associate of Science - Nursing
San Antonio College
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