El Paso Patient Care
Resume:
Christina Reyes, RN
El Paso, TX 79928
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WORK EXPERIENCE
INPATIENT HOSPITAL CASE MANAGER ($400/HR - 40hrs/week) Del Sol Medical Center - 10301 Gateway Boulevard West El Paso Tx 79925 March 2021 – Present
Responsibilities and Duties:
Provided Discharge Planning Evaluations upon patient’s admission to initiate the discharge planning process. Coordinated discharge care plans with nursing staff, physicians, social workers, patients and their families to provide safe discharges home. Coordinated care for long term care placement, rehabilitative services both physical and occupational. Diligently worked on finding placement for patients with both poor social support and unfunded. Interqual certified. Completed Interqual on patients under observation and routine Interqual to determine patient’s status of meeting criteria for inpatient and informed physicians of patient’s status. Navigated discharges through Midas program for discharging patients and IMM’s and choice letters. Coordinated referrals to home health agencies for PT/OT/SN, IV infusions and nutritional needs, Skilled Nursing Facilities, Inpatient Rehabilitations and Long Term Care Facilities for insurance authorizations working closely with the facility liaisons. Assisted physicians in entering Case Management orders.
CORRECTIONS REGISTERED NURSE ($2800.00/week - 36hrs/week) GEO Central AZ Correctional Facility – 1401 E. Diversion Dam Rd. Florence AZ 85132 April 2023 – June 2023 (Traveling Assignment - All Medical Personnel Agency) Responsibilities and Duties:
providing healthcare services to inmates in correctional facilities such as jails and prisons. Delivering quality care to a population that often has unique and complex healthcare needs. Providing adaptable, compassionate, and skilled care to inmates/patients from diverse backgrounds and with various health concerns. Making assessments of patient status, providing emergency patient care, maintaining accurate documentation of treatments, Participating in unit and providing mental health assessments and referrals; Collaborating with other healthcare providers, monitoring patient's progress and response to treatment. Administration of medications, wound and respiratory treatments as ordered. Identifying for potential mental health issues such as risks for SI or HI concerns while maintaining a safe environment for the inmate and staff population as well.
MEDICAL-SURGICAL NURSE ($42.00/HR - 36 to 40 hrs/week) San Carlos Apache HealthCare – 103 Medicine Way Peridot AZ 85542 September 2017 – November 2020
Responsibilities and Duties:
Provided inpatient acute care to the Apache Native American community requiring direct patient care to patient’s requiring medical, surgical, hospice, detox or psychiatric care. COVID patients became the major focus in providing care since the start of the pandemic. Duties included providing patient care consisting of passing medications, IV fluids, drips, vapo therm, respiratory treatments, assessing pain level, and providing nursing interventions to also include end of life issues in coordination with physician orders specific to the patient’s diagnosis and medical issues. Other responsibilities included charge nurse duties when assigned and transferring of patient’s when acuity required a higher lever of care. PSYCHIATRIC NURSE ($36.00/HR - 36 to 40 hrs/week)
El Paso Behavioral Health Services - 1900 Denver El Paso TX 79902 May 2009 – September 20017
Responsibilities and Duties:
Duties included intervening with patients from preventing self-inflicting harm or harm to others type of behavior through active listening and at times by trained physical intervention and administration of physician ordered emergency medication administration to maintain a safe and injury free environment as well as administration of daily medications. Initiating EDO’s. Admission of patients and daily assessments for suicidal and homicidal ideation, depression, and other inappropriate behaviors. PICU (Psychiatric Intensive Care Nurse) NURSE UNIT MANAGER ($75/K - Yearly Salary) El Paso Behavioral Health Services - 1900 Denver El Paso TX 79902 March 2015 – March 2016
Responsibilities and Duties:
Responsible for managing the units needs to include staffing, auditing charts for state compliance, on call 24/7 for addressing nursing shortage needs. Duties included intervening with patients from preventing self-inflicting harm or harm to others type of behavior through active listening and at times by trained physical intervention and administration of physician ordered emergency medication administration to maintain a safe and injury free environment. Initiating EDO’s. Duties also included working closely with upper management and administration to assure safety of patients, nursing staff, and infection control issues by following hospital protocols as well as being within state compliance. HOME HEALTH DIRECTOR OF NURSING: ($75/K - Yearly Salary) Matrix Home Health – 1612 Lee Trevino El Paso TX 79936 September 2013 – December 30, 2013
Responsibilities and Duties:
Overseeing of the clinical staff providing direct patient care to client and ensuring the delivery of quality patient care and appropriate supervision during and off normal office hours. Planning in preparing annual budget with Administrator and Chief Financial officer for goal accomplishments. Implementing and integrating to maintain quality improvement program while ensuring compliance with regulatory accrediting standards. Establishing and maintain effective channels of communications with the community to implement and review/revise policies and procedures that guide and support the provision of services. Assuring that the patient’s plan of care is executed as written and the re-assessment of the patient’s needs is performed by the appropriate health care professional when there is significant health status in the patient’s condition at the Physicians request or after hospital discharge.
PRN MEDICAL-SURGICAL NURSE: ($3500/HR - PRN)
Nurse Finders – 1605 Beech St. #C El Paso Tx 79925 June 2009 – May 2013
Responsibilities and Duties:
Assisted with staffing concerns to provide floor coverage to local facilities such as rehabilitation, acute care, psychiatric and long-term care facilities on an as needed basis to address short staffing issues. Provided direct patient care to patients needing medical, surgical or psychiatric care. Duties included providing patient care consisting of passing medications, IV fluids and drips, assessing pain level, providing nursing interventions in coordination with physician orders specific to the patient’s diagnosis and medical issues.
CBA (COMMUNITY BASED ALTERNATIVE) NURSE CARE MANAGER ($59/K - Yearly Salary) Caprock Home Health Services – 11180 La Quinta El Paso TX 79936 December 2010 – March 2013
Responsibilities and Duties:
Supervising and managing a caseload of clients consisting anywhere from 45 to 50 patient’s per case load as well as their care providers who were trained and assisted the assigned client with direct patient care to include ADL’s as well as monitoring for any medical or health changes and reporting it immediately to the nurse case manager.
CBA (COMMUNITY BASED ALTERNATIVE) NURSE CARE MANAGER ($59/K - Yearly Salary) Outreach Home Health Services – 10501 Gateway Blvd. W Suite 16 El Paso TX 79925 December 2008 – December 2010
Responsibilities and Duties:
Supervising and managing a caseload of clients ranging from 45 to 50 patients per case load as well as their care providers who were trained and assisted the assigned client with direct patient care to include ADL’s as well as monitoring for any medical or health changes and reporting it immediately to the CM. ACTION PLAN STAFFING – TRAVELING DIALYSIS NURSE ($40.00/HR - 40 hrs/week) Traveling Nurse – Colorado Springs, CO.
April 2008 – December 2008
Responsibilities and Duties:
Assisting in traveling staffing needs to facilities in need. Monitoring patients while they underwent dialysis treatment. Overseeing and supervising 4 dialysis technicians while monitoring and treating patient’s anemia, calcium, blood glucose and clotting checks, water quality monitoring entering and retrieval by computer. Turning over machines in between patient treatments. DIALYSIS NURSE ($24.00/HR - 40 hrs/week)
Davita Dialysis – 1211 E. Cliff El Paso TX 79902
October 2007 – April 2008
Responsibilities and Duties:
Monitoring patients while they underwent dialysis treatment. Overseeing and supervising 4 dialysis technicians while monitoring and treating patient’s anemia, calcium, blood glucose and clotting checks, water quality monitoring entering and retrieval by computer. Turning over machines in between patient treatments.
MEDICAL-SURGICAL NURSE ($28.00/HR - 36 hrs/week)
Physicians Hospital – 1516 George Dieter El Paso TX 79936 October 2006 – October 2007
Responsibilities and Duties:
Provided direct patient care to patients requiring medical and surgical care. Duties included providing patient care consisting of passing medications, IV fluids, assessing pain level, providing nursing, CPM devices for s/p knee surgery patients and nursing interventions in coordination with physician orders specific to the patient’s diagnosis and medical needs. MEDICAL-SURGICAL NURSE ($23.00/HR - 36 hrs/week)
Las Palmas Medical Center 1801 N. Oregon St. El Paso TX 79902 October 2005 – October 2006
Responsibilities and Duties:
Provided direct patient care to patients needing medical, surgical or psychiatric care. Duties included providing patient care consisting of passing medications, IV fluids, assessing pain level, providing nursing interventions in coordination with physician orders specific to the patient’s diagnosis and medical needs.
EDUCATION
El Paso Community College - Rio Grande Campus - 100 W. Rio Grande Ave - El Paso TX 79902 REFERENCES
Lydia Crane - Registered Nurse - 915-***-****
Nellie Mendoza - Social Worker LMSW - 929-9300
Melissa Macias - Medical Assistance - 915-***-****
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