Susana Linares

• Collaborated with interdisciplinary team of healthcare and social service providers to address patients' needs through effective intervention and care planning.
• Comforted and counseled patients and families throughout care process.
• Used aseptic techniques to provide sterilized wound care and dressing applications.
• Evaluated patients to identify and address wounds, behavioral concerns, and medically relevant symptoms.
• Performed routine evaluations of each patient's status, needs, and preferences.
• Assisted with admissions, appointments, transfers, and discharges.
• Documented accurate and complete patient information to address patient problems and expected outcomes.
• Supported physicians during examinations and scans to assist with diagnostic procedures.
• Obtained patient vital signs and input/output measurements from inpatients.
• Delivered updates in patient status to charge nurse, recording changes in medical records.
• Assisted with feeding and monitored intake to help patients achieve nutritional objectives.
• Managed patient care through closely monitoring respiration, blood pressure, and blood glucose levels.
• Monitored, tracked, and conveyed important patient information to healthcare staff to help optimize treatment planning and care delivery.
• Accurately recorded interactions in medical charts, documenting accidents and interventions applied.

Nursing care to 25 psychiatric patients in all departments: Geropsyh, Adults/psych, Adolescents to children psych, and Chemical/alcohol dependent patients.