RAFAELA ZUNIGA

A highly talented Licensed Vocational Nurse with huge experience in providing a wide variety of direct patient care.

Proactive and goal-oriented professional with excellent time management and problem-solving skills. Known for reliability and adaptability, with swift capacity to learn and apply new skills. Committed to leveraging these qualities to drive team success and contribute to organizational growth.

• More than Eighteen Years’ experience as Licensed Vocational Nurse.
• Great knowledge of general nursing procedures and techniques involved in the care of patients, disease processes and possible results, medical terminology, hospital routine, and equipment
• Excellent ability to learn and operate a wide variety of medical equipment
• Profound ability to properly administer enemas, douches, irrigations, and catheterizations.
• Deep ability to give medications prescribed by physicians.
• Excellent ability to recognize critical and significant changes in patients.
• Remarkable ability to keep records and prepare reports.
• Strong ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with the staff, patients and patients' families
• Sound knowledge of EKG testing, immunization skills, and current normal lab values.
• Proficiency in basic computer data entry skills, and experience with email.
• Immense ability to accurately record patient information in the patient medical record and to notify appropriate personnel when deviations from the norm occur.
• Deep ability to accurately measure medication doses, weights, lengths, and count vaccine/pharmacy inventory.
• Excellent ability to draw blood and to administer oral and injectable medications.
• Uncommon ability to converse in Spanish and deep cultural sensitivity in serving patients of varied ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds is preferred.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality of patients' medical and personal information.
• Ability to lift and transfer up to 25 lbs.