Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Projects and volunteer
Certification
Organizations
Roles And Responsibilities
Timeline
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Venus Coca

Pueblo,Colorado

Summary

Compassionate Charge Nurse offering several years of patient care and advocacy within Cardiac unit. Highly skilled in charting, managing patient intake and discharges and monitoring care plans. Well-versed in promoting policies and protocols to achieve core measures. Demonstrated success in cultivating strong patient and colleague rapport to promote a safe and efficient workplace.

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

RN Cardiac float/Charge RN

Parkview Medical Center
08.2004 - Current


  • Charge RN: progressive care cardiac 28 bed unit
  • Duties of leading, assigning, collaborating, coordinating, educating and promoting exceptional care and advocacy to our patients along with nursing colleagues
  • Management of bedside procedures, intubated patients, medications, chest tubes, wounds, dressings, surgical sites, peripheral and central lines, drains and tubes
  • Collaboration with colleagues, physicians, residents and axillary staff to plan, provide and coordinate best patient care and outcomes
  • Precepting new nurses, students, traveling and recently hired nursing staff.
  • Managed care from admission to discharge.
  • Precepting new nurses in proper techniques, care standards, operational procedures, and safety protocols.
  • Provided direct patient care, stabilized patients, and determined next course of action.
  • Educated patients, families and caregivers on diagnosis and prognosis, treatment options, disease process, and management and lifestyle options.

RN ICU

Centura Health
02.2015 - 12.2018
  • Assessed and managed various patient treatments for numerous patients in an acute care setting.
  • Oversaw various aspects of acute care, managing medicated, sedated and intubated patients.
  • Provided targeted care and treatment to ICU patients.
  • Guided patients, caregivers, and family members on plans of treatment and helpful resources available locally to support care.
  • Coordinated with healthcare staff from various disciplines to devise, carry out, and manage personalized care plans to benefit patient health and recovery.

Education

BSN Nursing -

Western Governors University
Salt Lake City, Utah
04.2018

ADN NURSING - undefined

OTERO JUNIOR COLLEGE
LA JUNTA, COLORADO
05.2013

Skills

  • Clinical judgment
  • Compassion and Empathy
  • Discharge Planning
  • Quality Improvement
  • Health Promotion
  • Precepting
  • Patient and family advocacy
  • Patient Management
  • Cardiac Care
  • Critical Care
  • Wound Care

Projects and volunteer

  • American Land and Title
  • Goddess Beauty, LLC
  • Adopt a Native Elder
  • Lasagna Love

Certification

  • ACLS
  • BLS
  • Neurotoxins and Cosmetic filler
  • Microdermabrasion
  • Chemical peels
  • Microneedling
  • Dermaplane

Organizations

Steel City Eagles, Aerie #3367

Roles And Responsibilities

Care of both critical ill, cardiac and vascular patients. Management of bedside procedures, intubated patients, medications, chest tubes, wounds, dressings, surgical sites, peripheral and central lines, drains and tubes. Collaboration with colleagues, physicians, residents and axillary staff to plan, provide and coordinate best patient care and outcomes. Charge RN: progressive care cardiac 28 bed unit. Duties of leading, assigning, collaborating, coordinating, educating and promoting exceptional care and advocacy to our patients along with nursing colleagues. Precepting new nurses, students, traveling and recently hired nursing staff.

Timeline

RN ICU

Centura Health
02.2015 - 12.2018

RN Cardiac float/Charge RN

Parkview Medical Center
08.2004 - Current

BSN Nursing -

Western Governors University

ADN NURSING - undefined

OTERO JUNIOR COLLEGE
  • ACLS
  • BLS
  • Neurotoxins and Cosmetic filler
  • Microdermabrasion
  • Chemical peels
  • Microneedling
  • Dermaplane
Venus Coca