Michelle Esqueda

• Supervise and coordinate the daily activities of nursing staff to ensure optimal patient care and operational efficiency.
• Delegate tasks based on the skill levels and qualifications of nursing personnel, ensuring effective utilization of resources.
• Provide guidance and support to nurses, addressing any clinical or procedural questions and fostering a collaborative team environment.
• Monitor patient conditions and coordinate with multidisciplinary teams to deliver comprehensive, patient-centered care.
• Ensure adherence to clinical protocols and best practices in patient care delivery.
• Manage patient admissions, discharges, and transfers, ensuring seamless communication between departments.
• Collaborate with physicians, medical staff, and support personnel to ensure coordinated and high-quality care.
• Orient and train new nursing staff, providing instruction on hospital protocols, policies, and patient care standards.
• Respond to medical emergencies, provide leadership during critical situations and ensure the swift, effective response of the nursing team.
• Maintain calm under pressure while coordinating with other departments during high-stress scenarios or crises.
• Communicate patient information effectively to oncoming shifts and interdisciplinary teams to ensure continuity of care.

• Collaborate with other healthcare professionals to plan, manage, and assess patient treatments on a telemetry unit.
• Document data related to patient care needs to include assessment findings, interventions, medications, patient responses or treatment changes.
• Discuss treatment plans with patients and family members in a supportive manner.
• Work with a team of healthcare professionals to provide quality patient care.
• Monitor patient responses to medications that included titrating medications and monitoring laboratory values.
• Perform various tasks that included cardiac monitoring, transferring patients, bladder scanning, pre-operative preparation, and patient education.
• Create work assignments based on acuity and experience.
• Achieve first line service recovery involving patients and their family members.
• Use critical thinking skills to solve complex patient scenarios.

• Collaborated with other healthcare professionals to plan, manage, evaluate, and assess patient treatments.
• Documented data related to patients’ care need including assessment findings, interventions, medications, patient responses or treatment changes.
• Discussed treatment plans with patients and family members in a supportive manner.
• Cared for patient and educated them on pre-op and post-op surgical cases.
• Assisted the nursing staff and physician by helping prepare patients for surgical interventions.
• Assisted in providing care and patient teaching for the pre- and post-partum patient.
• Observed and developed a better understanding of the signs and symptoms related to a variety of mental health disorders.
• Developed therapeutic relationships with the patients and maintained professional boundaries.
• Developed better situational awareness to make sure that the staff and other patients remained safe in the environment.
• Collaborated with other healthcare professionals to plan, manage, and assess patient treatments on an ICU unit with a bed capacity of 24.