VICKY CUA

Oncology

• Facilitate and help coordinate expert medical opinion consultations for members.
• Consistently maintain quality while increasing client case load.
• Consistently increased number of consults provided while maintaining high quality.
• Consistently maintain greater than 95% on case audits.
• Willing to help in other nursing skillset teams.
• Worked with whole nursing department to assist with completing tasks to facilitate coordination of care for our clients.
• Gather and accurately document health information from members, upon intake through follow up.
• Advocate for members and assist in coordination and continuity of their health care plan.
• Collaborate effectively and efficiently with all team members to maintain high-quality care for our clients.
• Identify, analyze, and manage the factors influencing care outcomes for our members.

Transition Post-anesthesia Care Unit

• Cared for high acuity oncology patients postoperatively.
• Population includes post-op patients of all cancer diagnoses which require higher level of care and telemetry monitoring.
• Continually conducted patient assessments and updated plan of care.
• Provided education to patients and family members while during inpatient stay and upon discharge.
• Effectively multitasking with new patient admissions and discharges.
• Continually prioritize patient care needs.
• Comply with documentation per institutional standards.
• Participated in unit-based projects and committees to integrate care specific to our patient population
• Preceptor to new staff members and student nurses.

Gastrointestinal Medical Oncology

• Management of protocols of clinical trials in all phases involving gastrointestinal cancers.
• Coordinate, evaluate, and follow patient participation in clinical trials.
• Maintained accurate and comprehensive patient data in line with regulatory standards.
• Assist in collection and evaluation of data.
• Perform protocol-specific tasks including patient assessment, screening, ordering tests, collecting specimens and monitoring responses.
• Document adverse events and enter into medical record and/or protocol reporting database, as required.
• Prepare and review documents submitted to institutional review board (IRB).
• Participate in study procedures planning, such as clinical trial start-up meeting and review of clinical trials in departmental meetings.
• Maintain and organize source documents as required.
• Prepare for and actively engage in clinical trial audit visits with monitors, sponsors, and auditors.

Head and Neck Surgery, Breast Surgery, and Plastic Reconstruction Unit

• Caring for medical and surgical patients, providing education to patients and family members on post-operative care.
• Effectively multitask with new patient admissions and discharges.
• Facilitate appropriate discharge planning while experiencing high patient turnover rate.
• Performed as charge nurse and preceptor to new staff members and student nurses.
• Demonstrated knowledge of technical procedures and proper equipment use.
• Stayed current with health system initiatives and incorporated evidence-based practice and research into care routine.
• Administered medications and treatments to manage patient's condition.
• Educated patients and families to increase understanding of condition and best ways to manage.
• Responded to patient emergencies to provide prompt and correct intervention .