STAFF NURSE - South Texas Health System - Mc Allen Medical Center - 301 West Expressway 83, Mc Allen, TX 78503
(2024-08)
Level 1 Trauma Center, Med Surg (7west) unit
- Admits/discharges patients
- Assess patients and refer to doctors or activate rapid response if needed
- Carries out doctor's order according to hospital policy
- Administer medicine such as oral, i.v or i.m route, administer blood transfusion and other blood products
- Feed or assist critically ill patients
- Responds to unique needs of patients and families coping with unanticipated quality of life
- Coordinates and collaborate with other teams
- Document and update patient's information and all assessment in the computer
- Gives report to next incoming shift
STAFF NURSE - Baguio General Hospital and Medical Center - Philippines
(2020-02 - 2024-06)
800 bed capacity ISO certified hospital, Medical Ward unit. Roles included: Nurse Educator emphasizing health promotion and illness prevention; Nurse Manager practicing leadership and managing time, people and resources; Case Manager managing comprehensive patient care; Clinical Nurse Specialist providing evidence-based nursing care; Nurse Practitioner providing primary health care to patients and families with independent function capability.
- Provides primary care to the patients such as feeding through NGT, vital signs, hygiene and others
- Supports and maintains physiologic stability of patients
- Assimilates and prioritizes information sources to take immediate and decisive patient-focused action
- Responds with confidence and adopts to rapidly changing patient condition
- Responds to the unique needs of patients and families coping with unanticipated treatment, quality of life, and end of-life decisions
- Monitors and allocates critical care services
- Engages in activities to promote own professional advancement
STAFF NURSE - King Saud Medical City - Al Imam Aziz Ibn Muhammad Ibn Saud, Ulaishah Area 12746, Saudi Arabia
(2013-05 - 2015-07)
1500 bed capacity hospital certified by CBAHI and JCI. General Surgery (Male) unit.
- Provides direct care to stable and critically ill patients
- Prepares preoperative patients and coordinates with OR personnel
- Take care post op patients and refer to physician for any unusual signs and symptoms
- Joins with doctor's rounds and carries out any legal order such as administration of medicines, performs surgical dressings and/or assisting doctor for dressings
- Receives and check medical equipments and apparatus before duty starts
- Discharge patients
- Instruct home medications according to their language
STAFF NURSE - Baguio General Hospital and Medical City - Philippines
(2006-07 - 2011-10)
450 bed capacity hospital, General Ward unit.
- Gives direct and comprehensive care to 20-30 patients daily
- Assess, identifies patients' needs, plans, implements, evaluates, records and charts nursing care
- Carries out legal orders of physicians and performs and charts nursing activities such as admissions and discharges, administration of injection and medicines, personal hygiene, cauterization, bladder irrigating, inhalation and oxygen therapy, suctioning, taking vital signs, enema, hot and cold application, skin preparations, good body mechanics, exercise, spinal tap, abdominal paracentesis, post mortem care
- Acts had head nurse in small wards and acts as charge nurse in bid wards when assigned
- Prepares and instructs patients for operations/delivery, physical examinations, diagnosis and therapeutic procedures and assists physicians as needed
- Makes rounds regularly during the shift to assess patients' conditions
- Feeds acutely ill patients
- Interprets and implements hospital, nursing and ward policies and standard operating procedures
- Helps prevent nosocomial infection and provides safe, clean and therapeutic environment
- Joins rounds and interpersonal relationship with nursing and other hospital personnel
- Receives and endorses equipments, articles and supplies as assigned
- Attends meetings, conferences, staff development programs and other nursing/hospital activities
