Raul Ortega Jr.

• Delivered age-appropriate medical care for adolescent, adults, and geriatric ICU patients.
• Assessed conditions of 2-3 patients per shift. Promptly and attentively notifying physicians of immediate clinical changes while preparing and implementing patient care plans for faster recovery and optimal health outcomes.
• Provided and performed care for patients on mechanical ventilators, CRRT, post cardiac catheterization: TR band & arterial/venous sheaths removals, unstable angina, cardiac dysrhythmia, Stroke, DKA, Suicidal-Ideation, & ETOH withdrawals.
• Provide direct care to patients needing intensive medical treatment, including those with septic shock, cardiogenic shock, and respiratory failure.
• Perform advanced life support per ACLS guidelines during life-threatening emergencies.
• Evaluated patient histories, complaints, and current symptoms.
• ICU Preceptor- Precepted new nurses & capstone students following established standards of practice and organizational policies.
• ICU Charge Nurse- Coordinated nursing care on unit through staff assignments, assisting and rounding with physicians, monitoring patient orders, and communicating with ancillary departments. Managed critical situations calmly under pressure while maintaining effective communication with all members of the healthcare team during crisis scenarios such as Code Blues or rapid responses calls.

Key Achievements:

• Daisy Award— August 2022
• Certificate of Achievement: EPIC Code Blue Narrator— May 2023
• Clinical Preceptor Certification- September 2024

• Delivered bedside care to patients in a busy 50-bed ICU unit for trauma, post-surgical, and neurological-related injuries.
• Assessed and managed various patient treatments for numerous patient diagnoses from sepsis to acute respiratory distress.
• Care & manage patients with: COVID-19, Strokes, Seizures, Intracranial hemorrhage, DKA, Renal failure, etc.
• Assist with patient resuscitation & administration of emergent-medications per ACLS guidelines.
• Assist intensivists during the intubation & extubation process, chest tube insertion procedures, and line placements.
• Monitored patients' respiratory status and ventilator operation
• Deliver care for critical ill patients with hemodynamic pressure lines: ART lines, EVDs.
• Manage NxStage system intended for continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) machine.
• Medication administration via NGT/OGT, PEG tube, IV, Sub Q, IM, etc.

Key Achievements:

• Graduated from Critical Care Internship— April 2020
• Recognized with the Excellence Always Award— November 2020