Roxana Chapa
Channelview,TX
Summary
Patient-oriented Nurse with 2.5 years of diverse experience in direct patient care, staff supervision and emergency department operations. Skilled at multitasking and prioritizing patient needs and daily assignments. Bilingual in Spanish.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Registered Nurse Clinician II
Harris Health System-LBJ Hospital
10.2022 - Current
- Manage complex caseloads while maintaining accurate documentation of all assessments, treatments, interventions provided on an ongoing basis.
- Administered medications accurately and efficiently, ensuring patient safety and proper dosage.
- Utilize strong critical thinking skills in making clinical decisions that best supported overall health outcomes for patients served.
- Promote a culture of safety by adhering to established policies, procedures, and guidelines for patient care delivery across the organization.
- Teach patients and families how to manage illness and injury by explaining post-treatment care needs, diet and nutrition programs and proper medication self-administration procedures.
- Evaluate effectiveness of current nursing practices through continuous quality improvement initiatives, leading to enhanced patient satisfaction levels.
- Collaborated with interdisciplinary team members for comprehensive patient treatment plans, improving overall health outcomes.
Nurse Extern
HCA Houston Healthcare Clear Lake
03.2022 - 08.2022
- Assisted with activities of daily living by helping patients with bathing, changing clothes, eating, and daily hygiene tasks.
- Monitored patient vital signs and reported any changes to nursing staff.
- Collaborated with supervising nurses to ensure quality care for all patients on the unit.
- Documented and communicated patient information in EMR system for accurate tracking.
- Perform EKGs in the ER
- Perform blood draws
- Patient sitter
Medical Assistant
UT Physicians Orthopedic Surgery Trauma Clinic
04.2016 - 11.2018
- Prepared patient charts before office visits by obtaining surgery information from the hospital EMR system or obtaining new patent information.
- Showed patients to their exam room, fifty or more patients daily.
- Interviewed patients to obtain basic medical information.
- Input X-ray orders, administered injections, suture removal, dressing changes, splint, and cast application or removal with cast tech as directed by a physician.
- Scheduled surgeries with the hospital, obtained authorizations for surgery, exams, and certain medications.
- Answered calls, scheduled appointments, procedures, filled out patients' FMLA or disability paperwork for a physician to sign, checked faxes and voicemails.
Medical Assistant
The Foot and Ankle Specialist S.F Hartley, DPM
07.2012 - 04.2016
- Interviewed patients to obtain basic medical information and measured vital signs.
- Helped the physician during in-office procedures.
- Cleaned and sterilized instruments and disposed of contaminated material.
- Administered injections, removed sutures, and applied dressings.
- Operated foot/ankle x-ray machine.
- Performed general office duties, answering telephones, scheduling appointments, completing insurance forms checking faxes, inventory, and ordering medical supplies.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
San Jacinto College District
Pasadena, TX12.2023
Associate Degree Nursing -
San Jacinto College District
Pasadena, TX08.2022
Skills
- Clinical judgment
- Critical Thinking
- Compassionate Care
- Health Promotion
- Emergency Care
- Trauma Nursing Core Course
- BLS, ACLS, PALS Certified
Accomplishments
- Completed Nurse Residency Program through Harris Health System
- Joined Emergency Nurse Association
- Joined Stroke Committee
Timeline
Registered Nurse Clinician II
Harris Health System-LBJ Hospital
10.2022 - Current
Nurse Extern
HCA Houston Healthcare Clear Lake
03.2022 - 08.2022
Medical Assistant
UT Physicians Orthopedic Surgery Trauma Clinic
04.2016 - 11.2018
Medical Assistant
The Foot and Ankle Specialist S.F Hartley, DPM
07.2012 - 04.2016
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
San Jacinto College District
Associate Degree Nursing -
San Jacinto College District
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