Medical Nurse

Yaguelin Salazar

**** *** ***** 909-***-**** Mobile

Pomona, CA 91766 *******.********@*****.***

KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS . . . VALUE OFFERED

Demonstrate the interpersonal skills to collaborate effectively with comprehensive care teams, patients, and caregivers; provide patients with detailed, easy-to-follow self-management education.

Providing each patient with compassionate, supportive care

Assisted with minor surgeries, instructed patients via phone triage, and performed laboratory tests, EKGs, and phlebotomy procedures.

Conveyed a caring, positive, and approachable attitude to patients and their caregivers in a comprehensive healthcare environment.

Assisted registered nurses with direct delivery of patient care and self-management education in an acute care hospital setting.

EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

Licensed Vocational Nurse Internship

Bellflower Hospital- Clinical Internship [06/09/ 2011- 07/22/2011]

Collect samples for testing; perform routine laboratory tests. Assist in Labor and Delivery, assisted in newborn care.

LAC-USC Medical Center-Clinical Rotation Medical-Surgical and Intensive Care Unit

[10/06/2010-05/20/2011]

Helped patients with bathing, dressing, and personal hygiene, care for their emotional needs. Taking vital signs such as temperature, blood pressure, pulse and respiration. Prepared and given injections and enemas, applied dressing. Given alcohol rubs and massages to patients. Observed patients and reported reactions to medications. Performed routine laboratory tests.

Kindred Hospital- Clinical Rotation Medical-Surgical Unit [10/06/2010-05/20/2011]

Provide basic patient care and treatments, such as taking temperatures and blood pressure, dressing wounds, treating bedsores, giving enemas, douches, alcohol rubs, and massages, or performing catheterizations. Help patients with bathing, dressing, and personal hygiene, moving in bed, and standing and walking. Supervise nurses’ aides and assistants. Work as part of a health care team to assess patient needs, plan and modify care and implement interventions. Collect samples for testing; perform routine laboratory tests, feed patients, and record food and fluid intake and output. Assist with bathing, dressing, and personal hygiene. Administer prescribed medicines or start intravenous fluids.

El Canto Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center- Clinical Rotation on Skilled Nursing

[08/10/2010-09/10/2010]

Help keep patients comfortable, assist with bathing, dressing, and personal hygiene. Provide basic bedside care, taking vital signs such as temperature, blood pressure, pulse, and respiration. Prepare and give injections and enemas, monitor catheters, apply dressings, treat bedsores, and give alcohol rubs and massages. Observe patients, charting and reporting changes in patients’ condition, such as adverse reactions to medication or treatment and taking any necessary action. Administer prescribed medications or start intravenous fluids, and note times and amounts on patients’ charts. Answer patients’ calls and determine how to assist them.

Emergency Room Admitting

Whittier Medical Center, Whittier, CA [06/01/2008-Present]

Admitting patients into the Emergency Room, calling the triage nurse to assess patient , assemble labels and charges sheet for nurses and doctors, verifying patients name and dob before placing wrist bands, making sure all chest pain and difficult breathing patients are registered first and seen by a nurse as soon as possible, verifying insurances : hmo’s ,ppo’s, commercial insurances, medical, and Medicare, collecting er copayments, admitting er patients into surgery, icu, dou, or med surg, updating all patients medical records with demographics, emergency contact, and insurances, explaining patients their patients’ rights, privacy rights (HIPPA), Medicare rights, charity acknowledgment, and hospital information. Overhead paging codes in cases of emergency. Cross trained in Labor and Delivery admitting, main admitting, and PBX.

EDUCATION

Licensed Vocational Nursing- Premiere Career College, Irwindale CA

LICENSURE

California State Licensed Vocational Nurse #265323

CERTIFICATION

BLS/CPR- American Heart Association

IV Certification

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