Nurse Manager Assistant
Resume:
Alexandra Caliendo, MSN, RN, IIWCC-NYU
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Residence: [516] 883-2305 • Cellular: [516] 456-8035
PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
Highly organized, detail-oriented, and meticulous about technique.
Remain calm under pressure.
Serve as a resource regarding systems, equipment and procedures.
Strong, supportive patient advocate; inspire confidence based on excellent skills and professionalism.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
NORTHWELL HEALTH/LENOX HILL, NY, New York 2019 – May 2023
Nurse Manager PACU/Ambulatory Surgery
Maintain nursing operations by coordinating schedules, initiating tasks and enforcing personnel policies Identify patient needs and build a personal rapport with everyone so that all patients are given a warm, compassionate environment. Managing human and financial resources; ensuring patient and staff satisfaction; maintaining a safe environment for staff, patients, and visitors; ensuring standards and quality of care are maintained; and aligning the unit's goals with the hospital's strategic goals.
Recruits select and guide nursing staff.
Maintain and completed our recent Joint Commission visit to our unit was found with no discrepancies.
Update the hospital’s procedures and policies and inform all staff members of any changes made.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
NEW YORK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 2018 – Present
Private University in Old Westbury, New York
Nursing Adjunct clinical professor
Coordinating with clinicians at the clinical site to make student patient assignments.
Teaching students how to perform duties in the clinical site and answering their questions.
Supervising care provided by a group of students (usually 8 students in a group),
while they complete their clinical rotation in area of specialty.
Evaluating students’ clinical work, in area of Maternal-Newborn Health, and Pediatrics
Instructs critiques and evaluates students’ care plans that correlate with theoretical objectives.
NYU LANGONE ORTHOPEDIC HOSPITAL, NY, New York 2010 – 2019
Clinical Nurse III – PACU, Magnet Champion
Recover adults and pediatric patients.
Communicate with a multi-disciplinary team to provide appropriate level of care. Serve as a mentor to new hires, preceptor and resource for the unit as well as preceptor for the emerging and nurse residency program. Serves as an educational and clinical resource to staff and establish practice standards.
Member of the review board’s Professional Development Program.
NORTHWELL HEALTH /NORTH SHORE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL, Manhasset, New York 2004 – 2010
Assistant Nurse Manager – Neuro Intensive Care Unit
Developed, prepared and monitored personnel. Assumed responsibility for the overall assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of patient care on the unit.
Executed the System, Hospital and Nursing Service mission, vision, values and the overall strategic planning including clinical management, patient care, budgeting, financial management and quality management on the unit.
Promoted the health system service standards and created a patient focused caring environment, while addressing and meeting the individual needs of the patient.
Fostered an environment of collaboration and respect with physician colleagues, nurses and other healthcare team members.
Clinical Nurse – Cardiothoracic Critical Care Unit
Administered care to patients following open-heart surgery.
Provided care in 23-bed unit, with a 6-bed step-down unit for close monitoring for patients who had undergone cardiac, thoracic surgery and thoracic trauma.
THE MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER, New York, New York 2001 – 2004
Clinical Nurse – Cardiothoracic Center
Per Diem R.N. – Cardiac Step-Down Unit and Wound Care Clinic
Provided care for patients following critical cardiac conditions including myocardial infarction, congestive heart failure, coronary artery disease, cardiomyopathy, dysrhthmias, etc.
Initiated the supervision and telemetry monitoring before and after surgical procedures including cardiac catheterization, stents, PTCA, EPS studies, pacemakers, AICD.
Carried out the pre – and postoperative management of Cardiothoracic surgical patients.
THE NEW YORK – PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL 1998 – 2004
C. N 1 – Neurosurgery, Neurology Unit and Surgical ICU
Provided care in 36-bed unit, with 4-bed step-down unit for close monitoring of post-ICU patients.
Charged Nurse, treated patient conditions that included myasthenia gravis, craniocerebral trauma, cerebrovascular accident, intracranial tumors, hydrocephalus, Guillian-Barre syndrome, trigerminal neuralgia,
Alexandra Caliendo, MSN, RN, IIWCC
EDUCATION EXCELSIOR COLLEGE, Albany, New York
MS in Nursing Education – 2016 GPA 3.84
THE UNIVERSITY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Albany, New York
BS in Nursing − 1997
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER AND ALBANY MEDICAL CENTER
Clinical Rotations: Maternal / Child, Pediatrics, Medical / Surgical
Psychiatry, Community Health and Leadership
NASSAU COMMUNITY COLLEGE, Garden City, New York
AS in Liberal Arts
CERTIFICATIONS International Interprofessional Wound Care Certification (IIWCC)
Accredited by the University of Toronto’s Continuing Education &
New York Mandated Infection Control, Nursing Spectrum
Child Abuse and Fire Safety and Prevention
BCLS, ACLS, PALS / American Heart Association
A.A.C.N. Cardio / Pulmonary
Wound Management, University of Southern Florida
LifeLine Staffing I.V. Therapy Administration
Office of Organizational Learning
Department of Nursing Education at New York Presbyterian Hospital:
Legal Issues
Management of Difficult Patients
I.V. Validation
Current Trends in Diabetes
Neurological Nursing Update
LICENSE Registered Professional Nurse, State of New York, #495910-1
PROFESSIONAL New York State Nurses Association, Member
AFFILIATIONS
HONORS &
RECOGNITION Sigma Theta Tau International Nursing Association
COMPUTER SKILLS Apple, MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint
LANGUAGES Fluent in Italian
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