Yazan Nofal

• Provide advanced critical care to patients requiring mechanical circulatory support, including ECMO, Impella, IABP and post–open-heart surgery management.
• Manage patients post–heart and lung transplants, ensuring optimal hemodynamic stability and oxygenation.
• Collaborate with cardiothoracic surgeons, perfusionist, and multidisciplinary teams to implement individualized care plans.
• Monitor and titrate vasoactive infusions, ventilator settings, and ECMO circuit parameters to achieve targeted goals.
• Deliver expert interventions in emergencies such as cardiac tamponade, arrhythmias, and ECMO circuit complications.
• Administered patient care plans, ensuring adherence to protocols and best practices.
• Collaborated with interdisciplinary teams to coordinate comprehensive patient management strategies.
• Educated patients and families on treatment options, recovery processes, and health maintenance techniques.
• Monitored vital signs and assessed patient conditions, documenting changes accurately for medical review.

• Provide comprehensive care to critically ill cardiovascular patients, including those undergoing ECMO, open heart surgeries, and heart and lung transplants.
• Monitor and manage patients on ECMO, ensuring optimal oxygenation and perfusion.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to develop and implement individualized care plans.
• Perform advanced cardiovascular assessments, interventions, and evaluations.
• Administer medications, manage invasive lines, and use advanced medical equipment.
• Worked on regular basis with patients suffering from conditions such as COVID ARDS, traumatic brain injuries, burns and cardiac events.
• Meeting the complex needs of the patients, and responsible for ensuring the safe management of the ECMO circuit, which includes the titration of blood flow and sweep gas flow to achieve oxygen and carbon dioxide targets, titrations of blood flows and sweep gas flows to ease exercise and the management of emergency situations.
• Managed patients in prone position.
• CRRT certified, managed patients undergoing dialysis and able to titrate treatment to meet patient needs.
• Provided expert critical care response in emergency situations involving illnesses or injuries.
• Analyzed therapeutic interventions to monitor risk complications and contraindications.
• Functioned as charge nurse and assumed patient care in absence of nurses ending or arriving for shifts.
• Established and implemented nursing care plans for each patient through assessment, development, activation, and evaluation.
• Delivered age-appropriate medical care for adult, adolescent and geriatric ICU patients.
• Administered individualized care to Surgical, ENT. Transplant and Neurosurgical patients per Specialty guidelines and Attending preferences.
• Assessed and managed various patient treatments for numerous patient diagnoses from sepsis to acute respiratory distress.
• Explained health care issues and ramifications to patients and families to promote informed medical care choices.
• Administered medications and treatment to patients and monitored responses while working with healthcare teams to adjust care plans.
• Monitored patient condition, including monitoring vital signs and ICP readings, identifying irregular telemetry and ICP readings and updating team members on changes in stability or acuity.
• Collaborated with doctors to plan post-treatment home care and prevent return hospitalization due to complications.

• Rapid response team member, Conduct rapid and thorough assessments of patients showing signs of clinical deterioration, Implement immediate interventions to stabilize the patient, including administration of medications, oxygen therapy, and fluid resuscitation, Assist in coordinating the safe and efficient transfer of patients to higher levels of care, such as the ICU, if necessary.
• Provides direct and indirect patient care services, including the administration of medications and therapeutic agents necessary to implement treatment, disease prevention, or rehabilitative plan of care.
• Demonstrates advanced assessment skills to evaluate the signs, symptoms, reactions, behaviors, or general appearance to determine normal versus abnormal characteristics.
• Displays knowledge and is able to identify and make special adjustments to the specific populations needs, including cultural, spiritual, age, psychosocial, communication, gender, sexual orientation, economic, education, family and condition needs.
• Provides assistance to co-workers, new staff, temporary staff and students.
• Functions as a change champion and agent and participates in departmental quality improvement activities.
• Assist the physician, perfusionist and/or other clinical staff members with initiation of ECMO, the course and conduct of ECMO, and the conclusion of ECMO and any related therapies therein including but not limited to circuit or component changes, priming, blood bank communications, medication administration as licensure permits, and hemofiltration as examples.
• Demonstrate a culture of safety through a hand-off of the ECMO patient covering all aspects of the patient's care and the state of the ECMO circuit.
• Provide a detailed examination of the circuit to ensure its integrity, while written parameters and a plan of care are worked out during rounds.
• Ensure the continuity of the ECMO circuit as a whole, keeping it safe and secure during patient handling. Reducing the risks of circuit compromise by regular assessments is ongoing.
• Assess blood gas values, anticoagulation parameters and other laboratory values and work within a prescribed set of parameters and guidelines to maintain the patient in an optimal state of well-being.
• Monitor anticoagulation, analgesics, inotropes and other infusions are titrated, blood products are ordered and given, and the ECMO pump flow and oxygenator gas flow adjusted as needed.
• Lives the SpecialtyCare Values- Integrity, Care, Urgency, and Improvement

CORONA REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER

Corona, California

Feb 2022 - Jan 2024

Registered Nurse - ICU

Delivered age-appropriate medical care for adult, adolescent and geriatric ICU patients.

Administered individualized care to Surgical, ENT. Transplant and Neurosurgical patients per Specialty

guidelines and Attending preferences.

Assessed and managed various patient treatments for numerous patient diagnoses from sepsis to acute

respiratory distress.

Explained health care issues and ramifications to patients and families to promote informed medical care

choices.

Administered medications and treatment to patients and monitored responses while working with healthcare

teams to adjust care plans

Monitored patient condition, including monitoring vital signs and ICP readings, identifying irregular telemetry

and ICP readings and updating team members on changes in stability or acuity

Collaborated with doctors to plan post-treatment home care and prevent return hospitalization due to

complications.

• Delivered age-appropriate medical care for adult, adolescent, and geriatric ICU patients.
• Administered individualized care to Surgical, ENT. Transplant and Neurosurgical patients per Specialty guidelines and Attending preferences.
• Involved in care with patient with Burns, skin grafting, Fasciotomies and Escharotomy.
• Assessed and managed various patient treatments for numerous patient diagnoses from sepsis to acute respiratory distress.
• Explained health care issues and ramifications to patients and families to promote informed medical care choices.
• Administered medications and treatment to patients and monitored responses while working with healthcare teams to adjust care plans.
• Monitored patient condition, including monitoring vital signs and ICP readings, identifying irregular telemetry and ICP readings and updating team members on changes in stability or acuity.
• Collaborated with doctors to plan post-treatment home care and prevent return hospitalization due to complications.

• Treated patients with broad range of diagnoses ranging from sepsis, renal failure. diabetic ketoacidosis, pulmonary embolism. myocardial infarction. pneumonia, acute respiratory distress syndrome. congestive heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
• Collaborated with interdisciplinary healthcare professionals to create, implement, and adapt individualized care plans.
• Instructed patients. families and caregivers on diagnoses. chronic disease management and medication self-management.