Ricah Niele Santos
South Richmond Hill,NY
Summary
Compassionate and dedicated Registered Nurse with a proven track record in diverse healthcare settings. Effective team player ensuring top-notch patient care and adherence to treatment protocols. Skilled healthcare leader with expertise in nursing, team management, patient care coordination, staff training, and protocol implementation. Recognized for reliability, communication skills, and fostering a collaborative environment for optimal outcomes in evolving healthcare settings.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Nursing Supervisor
Forest View Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing
09.2022 - Current
- Responsible for delivering a high standard patient care and ensuring all nursing staff fully comply with the regulatory and professional standards.
- Maintains a cooperative relationship among health care teams by communicating information, responding to requests, and participating in team problem-solving methods.
- Assures quality of care by developing and interpreting hospital standards of care, enforcing adherence to state board of nursing and state nurse practice act requirements and to other governing agency regulations, measuring health outcomes against standards, and making or recommending adjustments.
- Collaborates with physicians and therapist and multidisciplinary professional staff to implement patient care.
- Improved patient satisfaction by implementing efficient nursing schedules and staff assignments.
- Exemplified strong leadership skills by serving as a mentor for new nursing staff members, providing guidance and support throughout their onboarding process.
Registered Nurse
Mary Manning Walsh Home
03.2021 - 06.2022
- Consistently assessed and evaluated patients’ health needs by coordinating across the interdisciplinary team to create, implement and modify treatment plans.
- Managed post-operative short-term and long-term patients including orthopedic, neurological, cardiac rehabilitation, etc. while using Welisky/Sigma (e-mar) as main documentation system.
- Administer medication, injections, and IV treatments.
- Perform triage, assessments, hospital admissions, rooming patients, medication management, chemotherapy.
- Communicates all pertinent information and any interventions to the supervisor, physician or advanced practice provider.
- Managed patients recovering from medical and surgical procedures including facilitating wound care, ostomy care, pressure ulcer prevention and pain management.
- Maintained comfort and quality of life for terminally ill patients, and provided pain management using patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) pump.
- Provided tracheostomy care and suction patients with tracheostomy as needed.
- Utilize telemetry to monitor and treat patients with medical and surgical conditions, worked closely with EKG and relayed results to physician.
- Provided care to patients who have Left ventricular assist device (LVAD).
Registered Nurse
Resort Nursing Home
08.2020 - 03.2021
- Monitored vital signs and aided with daily medications while keeping a daily log for nursing review.
- Reported any significant information, change in patient condition or any other unusual findings to the family and nurse in charge.
- Able to handle patients with dementia and patients with behavioral issues.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Nursing (BSN)
University of Santo Tomas - College of Nursing
Manila06.2018
Skills
- Strong clinical skills and knowledge in a long term & acute setting
- Competent in nursing intervention skills such as: patient assessment, planning
- Care planning
- Staff scheduling
- Clinical leadership
- BLS and First Aid
Certification
- 2020: Registered Nurse: NY Board of Nursing No: 793023
- 2018: Registered Nurse: Philippine Board of Nursing
- Basic Life Support (BLS), Americal Heart Association- Exp 06/205
Languages
English
Filipino
Timeline
Nursing Supervisor
Forest View Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing
09.2022 - Current
Registered Nurse
Mary Manning Walsh Home
03.2021 - 06.2022
Registered Nurse
Resort Nursing Home
08.2020 - 03.2021
Bachelor of Science - Nursing (BSN)
University of Santo Tomas - College of Nursing
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