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Melissa Carril

ORLANDO,FL

Summary

Compassionate Registered Nurse with ten years of experience in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, as well as two years of experience in pediatric home health. I worked with children and their families, as well as a multidisciplinary team, to provide excellent, evidence based practice, and comprehensive care to critically ill, disabled/medically complex, and postop patients, including education and discharge planning with medical teams and families.

Overview

22
22
years of professional experience

Work History

Registered Nurse

Aveanna Healthcare
Orlando, FL
02.2020 - 04.2022
  • Provided care to medically complex and fragile pediatric population in the home setting through assessment, implementation, evaluation, and reevaluation of patients.
  • Implemented the plan of care per physician orders.
  • Administered medications, nebulized treatments, chest vest physiotherapy, cough assist, suctioning, and respiratory support via oxygen therapy, CPAP, and mechanical ventilation.
  • Provided ADL care.
  • Notified physician of changes in patient health status.
  • Coordinated holistic care with family.

Registered Nurse

Advent Health Orlando
ORLANDO, FL
06.2009 - 07.2019
  • Provided critical care management and postoperative care management to pediatric patients in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit through assessment, implementation, evaluation, and reevaluation of patients.
  • Oversaw unit as interim charge nurse/nurse leader, with responsibilities to receive and staff for admissions and coordinate admissions, transfers, and discharges wih MD; facilitate multidisciplinary rounding on all patients in unit; respond as Rapid Response Team to all pediatric units for code blues and other emergencies; converse with parents about goals of care.
  • Obtained vital signs and head to toe assessments, and reported findings to interdisciplinary team, including intensivist, ARNP, and respiratory therapist, in order to facilitate proper care and treatment for patients.
  • Utilized I-stat and glucometer machinery for quick point of care laboratory testing, including but not limited to, ABG, blood glucose, H&H, and electrolyte monitoring.
  • Operated PrismaFlex machinery for Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy, proficient at manual peritoneal dialysis, and oversaw machinery for Peritoneal Dialysis as well.
  • Provided ADL care and monitoring to patients requiring life support ventilation, including oscillators. Started and maintained (including titration of) all sedation and pressors/continuous infusions to keep patients comfortable and vitals within normal limits.
  • Addressed unit staff concerns, including staffing ratios, resource management, allocation of responsibilities and optimized workload management as interim nurse leader.
  • Care to postoperative patients included, but not limited to, general surgeries, bedside procedures (central line placement, LP, fracture reduction, intubation, bronchoscopy, EVD placement, chest tube placement, etc), cardiac cath, spinal fusion, urology procedures, and neuro surgeries (including mass removal, hemispherectomy, corpus callosotomy, craniosynostosis repair, and seizure focal point removal and internal lead placement).
  • Floated to other units including pediatric unit, pediatric cardiac ICU, and pediatric PCU (located on same unit as PICU).

Customer Service Associate

Publix Super Market
ORLANDO, FL
06.1999 - 06.2009
  • I started as a package clerk, then cashier, then customer service staff, and then back office staff with many responsibilities including accountability for all money within the store and providing customer service support to customers.
  • Utilized computer programming to input all store revenue, including cash, checks, credit card slips, coupons, lottery sales, and postal stamps.
  • Provided services for check cashing, Western Union, and the sale of store products, including lottery tickets.
  • Back office duties included assembling all registers(tills) with predetermined cash amounts and counting all registers (tills) at end of each cashier's shift and inputting totals into computer system. Depositing extra money in store safe, as well as assisting with deposits to Loomis money armored pickup services.

Education

BSN, RN - Nursing

University of Central Florida
Orlando, FL

Associates Degree -

Valencia Community College

Skills

  • Charting and clinical documentation with use of Cerner systems
  • Patient evaluation
  • Precepting
  • Lab result interpretation
  • Medication administration
  • Administering immunizations
  • IV setup
  • Foley catheters
  • Tracheostomy care
  • Emergency procedures
  • Insulin medication assistance
  • Specimen collection and analysis
  • Professional bedside manner
  • Wound cleaning/care expertise
  • Seizure management
  • Ventilator care
  • Postoperative care
  • Bedside procedures with conscious sedation
  • Sedation and IV drip management

Timeline

Registered Nurse

Aveanna Healthcare
02.2020 - 04.2022

Registered Nurse

Advent Health Orlando
06.2009 - 07.2019

Customer Service Associate

Publix Super Market
06.1999 - 06.2009

BSN, RN - Nursing

University of Central Florida

Associates Degree -

Valencia Community College

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