Nina Wheeler

• Critical Care Assessment, conducting through assessment of patient recovery from general, regional, or local anesthesia, including monitoring and documenting vital signs, pain level, nausea, motor function, and overall well-being during recovery
• Comprehensive hemodynamic monitoring and interpreting hemodynamic parameters
• Administering safe and appropriate medication to manage pain, nausea, hypovolemia, and bleeding
• Surgical complication recognition, identifying and responding to potential post-operative complications such as infection, respiratory distress, hemorrhage
• Patient Advocacy, assuring patients safety, rights, and well-being during recovery
• Managed care from admission to discharge.

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• Pre-operative assessment involving a medical and physical examination
• Pre-operative interviews by phone
• Assessing the patients physical, psychological, and social state
• ASA classification, following the quidelines
• Assist with minor procedures
• Educated patients, families and caregivers on diagnosis and prognosis, treatment options, disease process, and management and lifestyle options.
• Endoscopy; preforming specimen collection, prepare patient for procedure, administering sedation and applying aseptic techniques, observing patients vital signs
• Updated patient charts with data such as medications to keep records current and support accurate treatments.

• Administered medications accurately and safely, reducing medication errors and adverse reactions.
• Enhanced patient satisfaction through effective communication, empathy, and timely response to their needs.
• Scrub nurse, sustaining a sterile field during the surgery and applying sterile technique when handling sterile equipments and maintaining sterile method of cleaning, scrubbing, gowning, and gloving
• Collaborating with surgeons and assisting surgeons during procedures
• Following proper safety checks prior and during operation
• Ensuring needle count, initial sponges, and instruments

• Vitals, IM injections, phlebotomy, assisting with minor procedures, post-operative care
• Educated patients, families and caregivers on diagnosis and prognosis, treatment options, disease process, and management and lifestyle options.
• Advocated for patients by communicating care preferences to practitioners, verifying interventions met treatment goals and identifying insurance coverage limitations.
• Collaborated with physician to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment.

• Sanitized, restocked, and organized exam rooms and medical equipment.
• Obtained client medical history, medication information, symptoms, and allergies.
• Documented vital signs and health history for patients in clinic and hospital environments.
• Collected and documented patient medical information such as blood pressure and weight.