Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Licensure And Certification
References
Timeline
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Sophia Raquel Peters, MSN,BSN, RN

Tamarac,USA

Summary

Dedicated and compassionate Registered Nurse (RN) with a progressive career history in direct patient care, triage, and care coordination in a fast-paced environment. Proven to remain calm under pressure and skillfully handle difficult patients and high-stress situations. Consistently developing strong therapeutic relationships with patients and families through empathetic communication, respectful attitude, and excellent customer service.

Overview

22
22
years of professional experience

Work History

Adjunct Professor

Miami Dade College of Nursing
01.2025 - Current
  • Skill lab and lecture
  • Participated in continuing development and training to bolster professional teaching skills.
  • Collaborated with fellow staff members to promote positive and welcoming learning environment.
  • Developed syllabus of lectures, classwork and assignments and distributed to students on first day of class.
  • Participated in departmental meetings to discuss teaching strategies and professional development opportunities.
  • Monitored student progress throughout the semester utilizing attendance records, grade reports, and other data sources.
  • Developed custom course syllabus outlining standards, material, grading, and progression for students.
  • Tutored and coached students to help achieve personal and academic goals.

Assistant Nurse Manager

Heart to Heart Home Care Services
Boca Raton, Florida
05.2020 - Current
  • Transition of care from Hospital or Rehab to home care
  • Participating in interdisciplinary team meetings to discuss patient progress and care plans
  • Maintain accurate and detailed documentation of all review activities and decisions
  • Collaborate with healthcare providers to ensure adherence to evidence-based clinical guidelines and protocols
  • Insurance authorization
  • Utilize InterQual and Milliman criteria to determine medical necessity and make recommendations for treatment plans
  • Scheduling the appropriate care for patients such as home health, physical therapy and occupational therapy
  • Ensuring the patient has all supplies needed on return home
  • Patient care follow-up, ensuring patients' safety and well-being
  • Staff training and development
  • Staffing and scheduling to ensure coverage

Registered Nurse

Broward Health
Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
01.2017 - Current
  • Company Overview: Critical care setting
  • Surgical Preparation and surgical Recovery
  • Vent management
  • Critical care medication management
  • Quickly and effectively discern patients' needs for treatment
  • Acute care setting
  • Working with an inter-disciplinary team in planning evaluating and coordinating patient care
  • Providing counseling and education
  • Wound care
  • Maintain safety and patient comfort
  • Patient education and counseling
  • Critical care setting

Clinical Research Coordinator/ Office Manager

Richard A. Mclean MD, PA (Berma Research Group)
Plantation, Florida
07.2008 - 10.2017
  • Patient chart review, requesting authorizations, requesting DME, requesting referrals
  • Insurance authorization
  • Educate healthcare providers and staff on utilization management principles and best practices
  • Conducting pharmaceutical trials in accordance with GCP guidelines, screening and randomizing patients in selected clinical trials; ensuring safety and efficacy of clinical trials
  • Assessing health history, vital signs, phlebotomy
  • ECG's; communicating with physicians and pharmacy; ensuring compliance: processing specimens to be shipped to clinical trial labs
  • Maintaining regulatory documents and ensuring compliance with pharmaceutical companies and sponsors; ensuring HIPPA, JACO, FDA compliance and hospital standards are met
  • Patient recruitment, screening, and electing trial participants for a multi-center research trial
  • Preparing for site initiation visit, reporting SAE and maintaining patient safety

Clinical Research Assistant

Gold Coast Research
Plantation, Florida
05.2003 - 07.2008
  • Screening study participants to determine study eligibility per inclusion/exclusion criteria
  • Maintain and train subjects on electronic diary use, maintaining source documents
  • Vital signs, phlebotomy, ECG, communicating with physicians and pharmacy, ensuring compliance, processing specimens to be shipped to clinical trials labs

Education

Master of Science - Nursing

St. Thomas University
Miami, Florida
12-2024

Bachelor of Science - Nursing

Southern New Hampshire University
Manchester, NH
01.2021

Associate of Science - Nursing

City College
Fort Lauderdale, FL
01.2015

Skills

  • Culturally Competent Care
  • Health Assessment
  • Comprehensive Case Coordination
  • Family education
  • IV and venipuncture-certified
  • Efficient Patient Record Management
  • Intensive Care Unit Expertise And Post Anesthesia care expertise
  • Biomedical, pharmaceutical and chemical waste management
  • Infectious disease control
  • Chronic Disease Management
  • Lab result interpretation
  • Care Planning
  • Medical assessment
  • Vaccine administration
  • Nursing staff leadership
  • Procedure preparations
  • Intake and discharge
  • Patient management
  • Patient monitoring
  • Call triaging
  • Ventilator care
  • Cardiac care
  • Palliative care awareness
  • Documenting vitals
  • Performing ekgs
  • Removing sutures
  • Insurance plan expert
  • Patient care planning
  • Ventilator support
  • Precepting
  • IV drug therapy management

Licensure And Certification

  • Florida Compact License and Hawaii Licensed Registered Nurse.
  • American Association of Critical Care Nurses Certified
  • Blood-borne Pathogens Safety Certified
  • Clinical Compliance- Skilled Homecare
  • Vent and Tracheostomy Care training
  • Trauma Certification
  • Clinical Research GCP trained
  • CPR/BLS/ ACLS for the Healthcare Provider Certified

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

Adjunct Professor

Miami Dade College of Nursing
01.2025 - Current

Assistant Nurse Manager

Heart to Heart Home Care Services
05.2020 - Current

Registered Nurse

Broward Health
01.2017 - Current

Clinical Research Coordinator/ Office Manager

Richard A. Mclean MD, PA (Berma Research Group)
07.2008 - 10.2017

Clinical Research Assistant

Gold Coast Research
05.2003 - 07.2008

Master of Science - Nursing

St. Thomas University

Bachelor of Science - Nursing

Southern New Hampshire University

Associate of Science - Nursing

City College

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