Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Individual Performance Profile
Individual Performance in the Major Content Areas
Nursing Process
Priority Setting
Thinking Skills
NCLEX®
QSEN
NLN Competency
BSN Essentials
Clinical Judgment
AACN Essentials
Score Explanation and Interpretation
Languages
Timeline
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PAOLA J NUNEZ

LENOIR,NC

Summary

Healthcare professional with strong background in patient care and medical support. Known for collaborative work with medical teams to deliver high-quality care and adapt to evolving patient needs. Expertise in patient assessment and medication administration, along with compassionate care and reliability.

Overview

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years of professional experience

Work History

Registered Nurse

Broughton Hospital
07.2026 - Current
  • Monitored patient vital signs, identifying changes and reporting to healthcare team promptly.
  • Administered medications and treatments according to established protocols and physician orders.
  • Assisted in developing and implementing patient care plans in collaboration with interdisciplinary teams.
  • Educated patients and families on health management, recovery processes, and available resources.

Nursing Assistant

Atrium Wake Forest Baptist Wilkes Medical Center
04.2023 - 06.2026
  • Monitored vital signs and reported changes to nursing staff for timely interventions.
  • Collaborated with multidisciplinary teams to develop personalized care plans for patients.
  • Assisted patients with daily living activities, ensuring comfort and dignity during care.
  • Maintained accurate patient records, documenting care provided and observations made.

Cardiovascular Technologist

Blue Ridge Cardiology
01.2023 - 04.2023
  • Assisted cardiologists during catheterizations and other invasive procedures.
  • Performed echocardiograms, ensuring high-quality images for accurate diagnoses.
  • Monitored patient vitals and provided pre- and post-procedure care.
  • Operated advanced imaging equipment, maintaining compliance with safety standards.

Nursing Assistant

Wilkes Health and Rehabilitations
05.2018 - 01.2023
  • Trained new nursing assistants on best practices for patient care and safety protocols.
  • Provided emotional support to patients and families, fostering a compassionate care environment.
  • Implemented infection control measures, adhering to hospital policies and procedures consistently.
  • Participated in quality improvement initiatives, enhancing operational efficiency within the unit.

Education

Associate of Applied Science - Nursing

Wilkes Community College
Wilkesboro, NC
05-2026

Skills

  • IV administration
  • Medication management
  • Patient education
  • Documentation and charting
  • Patient assessment
  • Strong clinical judgment
  • Patient assessment
  • Direct patient care

Individual Performance Profile

  • RN Targeted Medical Surgical Respiratory Online Practice 2023
  • Individual Score: 100.0%
  • Practice Time: 6 min
  • Student Number: 6441421
  • Institution: Wilkes CC
  • Program Type: ADN
  • Test Date: 2026-02-24
  • Report Created on: 2/25/2026 11:34 PM EST
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Individual Performance in the Major Content Areas

  • Safety and Infection Control | # Items: 1 | # Points: 1 | Individual Score: 100.0%
  • Pharmacological and Parenteral Therapies | # Items: 4 | # Points: 4 | Individual Score: 100.0%
  • Reduction of Risk Potential | # Items: 6 | # Points: 6 | Individual Score: 100.0%
  • Physiological Adaptation | # Items: 15 | # Points: 17 | Individual Score: 100.0%
  • Clinical Judgment | # Items: 4 | # Points: 14 | Individual Score: 100.0%

Nursing Process

  • RN Assessment | No of Points: 9 | Individual Score: 100.0% | The assessment step of the nursing process involves application of nursing knowledge to the collection, organization, validation and documentation of data about a client's health status. The nurse focuses on the client's response to a specific health problem including the client's health beliefs and practices. The nurse thinks critically to perform a comprehensive assessment of subjective and objective information. Nurses must have excellent communication and assessment skills in order to plan client care.
  • RN Analysis/Diagnosis | No of Points: 8 | Individual Score: 100.0% | The analysis step of the nursing process involves the nurse's ability to analyze assessment data to identify health problems/risks and client's needs for health intervention. The nurse identifies patterns or trends, compares the data with expected standards or reference ranges and draws conclusions to direct nursing care. The nurse then frames nursing diagnoses in order to direct client care.
  • RN Planning | No of Points: 5 | Individual Score: 100.0% | The planning step of the nursing process involves the nurse's ability to make decisions and problem solve. The nurse uses a client's assessment data and nursing diagnoses to develop measurable client goals/outcomes and identify nursing interventions. The nurse uses evidenced based practice to set client goals, establish priorities of care, and identify nursing interventions to assist the client to achieve his goals.
  • RN Implementation/Therapeutic Nursing Intervention | No of Points: 11 | Individual Score: 100.0% | The implementation step of the nursing process involves the nurse's ability to apply nursing knowledge to implement interventions to assist a client to promote, maintain, or restore his health. The nurse uses problem-solving skills, clinical judgment, and critical thinking when using interpersonal and technical skills to provide client care. During this step the nurse will also delegate and supervise care and document the care and the client's response.
  • RN Evaluation | No of Points: 9 | Individual Score: 100.0% | The evaluation step of the nursing process involves the nurse's ability to evaluate a client's response to nursing interventions and to reach a nursing judgment regarding the extent to which the client has met the goals and outcomes. During this step the nurse will also assess client/staff understanding of instruction, the effectiveness of interventions, and identify the need for further intervention or the need to alter the plan.

Priority Setting

No of Points: 10 | Individual Score: 100.0% | Ability to demonstrate nursing judgment in making decisions about priority responses to a client problem. Also includes establishing priorities regarding the sequence of care to be provided to multiple clients.

Thinking Skills

  • Foundational Thinking | No of Points: 3 | Individual Score: 100.0% | The ability to comprehend information and concepts. Incorporates Blooms Taxonomy categories of Remembering and Understanding.
  • Clinical Application | No of Points: 25 | Individual Score: 100.0% | The ability to apply nursing knowledge to a clinical situation. Incorporates Blooms Taxonomy category of Applying.
  • Clinical Judgment | No of Points: 14 | Individual Score: 100.0% | The ability to analyze and interpret elements of a clinical situation to make a decision and respond appropriately. Incorporates Blooms Taxonomy categories of Analyzing and Evaluating.

NCLEX®

  • RN Safety and Infection Prevention and Control | No of Points: 1 | Individual Score: 100.0% | The nurse uses preventive safety measures to promote the health and well-being of clients, significant others, and members of the health care team.
  • RN Pharmacological and Parenteral Therapies | No of Points: 4 | Individual Score: 100.0% | The nurse administers, monitors and evaluates pharmacological and parenteral therapy.
  • RN Reduction of Risk Potential | No of Points: 6 | Individual Score: 100.0% | The nurse directs nursing care to decrease clients' risk of developing complications from existing health disorders, treatments or procedures.
  • RN Physiological Adaptation | No of Points: 17 | Individual Score: 100.0% | The nurse manages and provides nursing care for clients with an acute, chronic or life threatening illness.

QSEN

  • Safety | No of Points: 10 | Individual Score: 100.0% | The minimization of risk factors that could cause injury or harm while promoting quality care and maintaining a secure environment for clients, self, and others.
  • Patient-Centered Care | No of Points: 9 | Individual Score: 100.0% | The provision of caring and compassionate, culturally sensitive care that is based on a patient's physiological, psychological, sociological, spiritual, and cultural needs, preferences, and values.
  • Evidence Based Practice | No of Points: 23 | Individual Score: 100.0% | The use of current knowledge from research and other credible sources to make clinical judgments and provide client-centered care.

NLN Competency

  • Human Flourishing | No of Points: 1 | Individual Score: 100.0% | Human flourishing is reflected in patient care that demonstrates respect for diversity, approaches patients in a holistic and patient-centered manner, and uses advocacy to enhance their health and well-being.
  • Nursing Judgment | No of Points: 41 | Individual Score: 100.0% | Nursing judgment involves the use of critical thinking and decision making skills when making clinical judgments that promote safe, quality patient care.

BSN Essentials

  • Basic Organization and Systems Leadership for Quality Care and Patient Safety | No of Points: 3 | Individual Score: 100.0% | The need for nurses to be able to understand power relationships and use decision-making and leadership skills to promote safe practice and quality improvement within health care systems.
  • Scholarship for Evidence-Based Practice | No of Points: 18 | Individual Score: 100.0% | The need for nurses to be able to understand the research process and base practice and clinical judgments upon fact-based evidence to enhance patient outcomes.
  • Clinical Prevention and Population Health | No of Points: 3 | Individual Score: 100.0% | The need for nurses to be able to identify health related risk factors and facilitate behaviors that support health promotion, and disease and injury prevention, while providing population-focused care that is based on principles of epidemiology and promotes social justice.
  • Baccalaureate Generalist Nursing Practice | No of Points: 18 | Individual Score: 100.0% | The need for nurses to be able to practice as a generalist using clinical reasoning to provide care to patients across the lifespan and healthcare continuum and to individuals, families, groups, communities, and populations.

Clinical Judgment

  • Recognize Cues | No of Points: 4 | Individual Score: 100.0% | Filter information from different sources (i.e., signs, symptoms, health history, environment). Identify relevant information related to the client's condition. Use knowledge, experience and evidence to assess clients. Use verbal, nonverbal, written, and electronic modes of communication. Recognize relevant subjective/objective client data. Identify subtle and apparent changes in client condition and related factors.
  • Prioritize Hypotheses | No of Points: 2 | Individual Score: 100.0% | Establish priorities of care based on the client's health problems (i.e. environmental factors, risk assessment, urgency, signs/ symptoms, diagnostic test, lab values, etc.). Organize client assessment information according to changes, patterns and trends. Use standards of care and empirical frameworks for priority setting. Establish and prioritize client problems/needs based on the analysis of information and factors.
  • Take Actions | No of Points: 3 | Individual Score: 100.0% | Implement appropriate interventions based on nursing knowledge, priorities of care, and planned outcomes to promote, maintain, or restore a client's health. Promptly and accurately perform nursing actions based on prioritized client problems. Implement a plan of care in collaboration with members of the interprofessional health care team. Implement a plan of care in collaboration with client and care partners. Accurately document client care data and information. Incorporate client preferences and needs when performing nursing actions. Provide education to the client and/or care partner(s) regarding their health condition and care management. Participate in coordination of care with the client and healthcare team. Monitor the client's response to interventions.
  • Evaluate Outcomes | No of Points: 5 | Individual Score: 100.0% | Evaluate a client's response to nursing interventions and reach a nursing judgment regarding the extent to which outcomes have been met. Reassess client condition to determine achievement of expected outcomes. Evaluate efficacy of nursing actions to determine if client outcomes were met. Modify client outcomes and/or nursing actions based on the client's response and clinical findings when indicated. Update and revise the plan of care.

AACN Essentials

Person-Centered Care | No of Points: 42 | Individual Score: 100.0% | Person-centered care focuses on the individual within multiple complicated contexts, including family and/or important others. Person-centered care is holistic, individualized, just, respectful, compassionate, coordinated, evidence-based, and developmentally appropriate. Person-centered care builds on a scientific body of knowledge that guides nursing practice regardless of specialty or functional area.

Score Explanation and Interpretation

  • ITEM SCORING: ATI follows NCSBN guidance for item scoring. Accordingly, each item is worth one or more points. Depending on the item-specific scoring method, a student's response may earn full, partial, or no points.
  • INDIVIDUAL SCORE: The individual score is the number of points received divided by the number of points on the assessment. It is on a scale of 0% to 100%.
  • TOPICS TO REVIEW: Based on the questions missed on this assessment, a listing of content areas and topics to review may be provided. A variety of learning resources may be used in the review process, including content, images, animations, and videos in ATI's Content Mastery Series Review Modules, online practice assessments, and a focused review that is individualized to the questions missed.
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Languages

Spanish
Native or Bilingual

Timeline

Registered Nurse

Broughton Hospital
07.2026 - Current

Nursing Assistant

Atrium Wake Forest Baptist Wilkes Medical Center
04.2023 - 06.2026

Cardiovascular Technologist

Blue Ridge Cardiology
01.2023 - 04.2023

Nursing Assistant

Wilkes Health and Rehabilitations
05.2018 - 01.2023

Associate of Applied Science - Nursing

Wilkes Community College