Michele Lopez
Leander,TX
Summary
Disciplined, energetic Registered Nurse who quickly establishes rapport with patients and colleagues. Motivated leader dedicated to driving top-quality patient care. Dependable team leader with strong critical and analytical thinking skills. Looking for a position with a commitment to innovative processes.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Preop/Pacu Charge Supervisor Nurse
Northwest Hills Surgical Hospital
Austin, TX
06.2014 - Current
- Manages clinical, human resource, and financial data to support and enhance decision-making as well as provides assessment, analysis, planning, monitoring, and evaluation of delivery of care and services.
- Liaises between departments to improve function or communication and implements process or policy changes.
- Establishes work schedules and assignments according to workload, space, and equipment availability.
- Engages supervisors and staff in the development and implementation of departmental goals and objectives.
- Preop patients for surgical procedure. Verifying that preadmit testing has been completed and results reported to anesthesiologist, physician and cleared for surgery.
- Obtain surgical and anesthesia consent on day of surgery.
- Draw labs start IV, administer intravenous fluids and medication per physician orders or anesthesia protocol.
- Ensure vitals and labs are within normal limits and report abnormalities to physician and anesthesiologist before procedure.
- Postoperatively receive patient from anesthesia and nurse and obtain report.
- Maintain airway, monitor vitals, surgical site and pain level give medication per protocol and physician orders
- Ensure patient safety until stable and ready for discharge per protocol.
- Give discharge instruction to patient verifying understanding and follow up appointment.
- Discharge patient home or to floor when stable per anesthesia protocol.
- Collaborated with patients and healthcare teams to assess, plan, implement and evaluate custom care plans for each individual.
- Assessed and identified individual patient educational needs, removing barriers to learning and supporting comprehensive progress.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Biology
Eastern New Mexico University
Portales, NM05.2022
Associate of Science - Nursing
Central Texas College
Killeen, TX05.2014
Skills
- A strong history of leading high-performance nursing teams to deliver empathetic and compassionate care to patients
- Adept at driving continuous improvements for clinical operations
- IV insertion/IV drug therapy management
- Preop patient for surgery
- Monitor patient after surgery with airways
- Medication administration
- Perioperative Care
- Perioperative Management
- Wound cleaning/ care expertise
- Infection control standards expert
- Colostomy care familiarity
- Talented in minor surgery assistance
- Committed to compliance reporting
- Cardiac Monitoring
- Dedicated to patient pain alleviation and provision of comfort toward quality of family interaction in final days of life
Certification
Registered Nurse in the State of Texas License number 857023
Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)
Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification
Pediatric Life Support (PALS) Certification
Certified Sedation Registered Nurse
(CSRN)
Timeline
Preop/Pacu Charge Supervisor Nurse
Northwest Hills Surgical Hospital
06.2014 - Current
Bachelor of Science - Biology
Eastern New Mexico University
Associate of Science - Nursing
Central Texas College