Miranda Rodriguez

• Provide comprehensive post-procedural care for patients undergoing cardiovascular and electrophysiology procedures, including pacemaker implantation, ICD placement, generator changes, cardiac catheterizations, and ablations.
• Monitor and manage patients during immediate post-anesthesia recovery, assessing hemodynamic stability, cardiac rhythms, neurological status, pain control, and procedural site complications.
• Cross-trained in Pre/Post Day Surgery Nurse and Pre-Admissions Testing providing preoperative and postoperative nursing care for elective surgical patients.
• Maintain competency in the care of patients requiring advanced mechanical circulatory support, including Intra-Aortic Balloon Pump (IABP) and Impella devices.
• Ensure compliance with evidence-based practice, patient safety initiatives, and regulatory standards.

• Performed continuous assessments, managed hemodynamics, and executed nursing interventions for high-acuity cardiovascular patients.

• Hands-on experience with ECMO, Impella, LVAD, CRRT, IABP, post-operative CABG/valve procedures, and vascular surgeries.

• Trained and mentored new nurses, facilitating their smooth transition into the CUB model with different acuities and improving overall nursing competence.

• Educated patients and their families on post-operative care measures, resulting in improved patient satisfaction scores and faster recovery times.

• Provided direct bedside care under RN supervision for diverse med/surg patient populations.

• Administered medications safely and timely; monitored patient changes.

• Performed wound care, catheter insertions, and IV starts.

• Precepted new LVNs.