Thomas Villarreal
Summary
Dynamic Critical Care Registered Nurse with two and a half years of experience. Compassionate professional with experience in managing needs of medically complex patients. Expert in assessing and managing treatments, administering medications and treatments, and evaluating efficacy of care. Proven record of responding quickly to changing patient needs and delivering positive outcomes.
Overview
3
3
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Rapid Response Nurse
Honor Health – Osborn Campus
02.2024 - Current
- Improve patient outcomes through timely assessment, intervention, and evaluation of critical patients.
- Enhance patient care by implementing rapid response protocols and collaborate with interdisciplinary teams in critical decision-making processes regarding appropriate interventions for complex medical cases.
- Utilize advanced clinical skills in monitoring vital signs, administering medications, and initiating life-saving interventions when necessary.
- Serve as a liaison between patients, families, and healthcare professionals to ensure optimal treatment plans are executed effectively.
- Mentor new nursing staff members on effective communication strategies when managing rapidly changing situations or emergencies.
- Facilitated seamless transitions between units for critically ill patients, ensuring continuity of care and appropriate handoffs.
Registered Nurse / Intensive Care Unit
Honor Health – Osborn Campus
07.2022 - Current
- Possess knowledge and handling of stroke patients utilizing protocols and pathways used to identify, evaluate, and management of stroke patients.
- NIHSS Stroke certified.
- Initiate treatments, medications, emergency, and resuscitative measures based on appropriate utilization of standing orders, policies and procedures.
- Streamline workflow by efficiently prioritizing tasks during high-stress situations, leading to better overall performance of the ICU team.
- Provide nursing care to meet the physical, emotional, spiritual, and social-cultural needs of the patient and family utilizing a family-centered approach to care delivery.
- Demonstrate advanced critical thinking skills while managing complex clinical situations involving multiple organ systems failures in critically ill patients.
- Assist physicians with bedside procedures, ensuring accurate treatment administration and timely patient recovery.
- Supervise new employees and student nurses to promote adherence to established patient care standards and practices.
Registered Nurse / Medical Surgical Unit
Honor Health – Osborn Campus
01.2022 - 07.2022
- Possessed the knowledge of how to collect health data in a systematic and ongoing manner, prioritized data collection as determined by the patient's immediate condition or needs and involved the family.
- Analyzed the assessment data in determining diagnoses, and utilized the nursing diagnosis to develop, implement, evaluate, and revise an appropriate patient plan of care that is family centered, developmentally and age-appropriate, and culturally relevant.
- Identified expected outcomes individualized to the patient and their specific health problems.
- Developed plans of care that were individualized to the patient's condition or needs, reflecting current nursing practice that was evidence-based, provided for continuity of care, and were family centered.
- Initiated treatments, medications, emergency, and resuscitative measures based on appropriate utilization of standing orders, policies and procedures.
- Provided nursing care to meet the physical, emotional, spiritual, and social-cultural needs of the patient and family utilizing a family-centered approach to care delivery.
- Evaluated the patient's progress toward attainment of outcomes.
- Documented observations, nursing interventions, therapeutic measures, multi-systems monitoring data, and other data relevant to the patient's care in a retrievable form.
- Provided ongoing evaluation of the quality and effectiveness of the care plan to ensure that they maintained and enhanced patient outcomes that promote the delivery of cost-effective high-quality healthcare.
Patient Care Technician / Nurse Extern I
Honor Health – Osborn Campus
04.2021 - 01.2022
- Contributed to ongoing patient care by utilizing the Nursing Process (subjective and objective data collection, formulation of a plan and diagnosis, implementation of the plan of care, and evaluation of patient response to intervention) and evidence-based knowledge to provide comprehensive care to a designated patient population
- Accurately documented and maintained the patient and hospital medical records and reported care data to appropriate members of the health care team
- Performed basic nursing procedures in accordance with hospital policies
- Provided customer service by addressing or redirecting questions or concerns from patients, families, caregivers, visitors, or health care team
- Participated in continuing education and quality improvement activities
- Practice and performance reflected knowledge of the relevant Nurse Practice Acts, compliance, regulation, legislation, certification, and HonorHealth system and department policies
- Utilized all resources effectively and efficiently
- Recommended cost-saving measures within the department or assigned unit
- Provided and collaborated direct patient care services under the direct supervisor of a licensed caregiver
- Responsibilities included, but were not limited to personal care, activities of daily living, vital signs, intake and output, ambulation, interventions, and implementation of selected portions of the patient care plan as directed under supervision of the nurse.
Education
Bachelor of Science in Nursing -
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ05.2023
Associate Degree in Nursing -
Mesa Community College
Mesa, AZ12.2021
Skills
- Proficient in Epic Charting System
- Ultrasound IV Certified
- Rapid Response Nurse Training
- New-Grad Preceptor
Certification
- National Institute of Health Stroke Scale Certification, 02/2025
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support – American Heart Association, 10/2024
- Basic Life Support – American Heart Association, 10/2024
References
- Addie Heitzinger, Fourth Floor Supervisor – Medical / Surgical Floor, Scottsdale Osborn Medical Center, 7400 East Osborn Road, Scottsdale, Arizona, 85251, (206) 794-2132
- Jody Johnson, Fifth Floor Director – Medical / Surgical Floor, Scottsdale Osborn Medical Center, 7400 East Osborn Road, Scottsdale, Arizona, 85251, (480) 459-8001
- Jaratany Portillos, ICU Supervisor – Intensive Care Unit, Scottsdale Osborn Medical Center, 7400 East Osborn Road, Scottsdale, Arizona, 85251, (480) 762-1010
Timeline
Rapid Response Nurse
Honor Health – Osborn Campus
02.2024 - Current
Registered Nurse / Intensive Care Unit
Honor Health – Osborn Campus
07.2022 - Current
Registered Nurse / Medical Surgical Unit
Honor Health – Osborn Campus
01.2022 - 07.2022
Patient Care Technician / Nurse Extern I
Honor Health – Osborn Campus
04.2021 - 01.2022
Bachelor of Science in Nursing -
Arizona State University
Associate Degree in Nursing -
Mesa Community College