Maricar Cuyas, staff nurse

Maricar Cuyas

staff nurse

Amang Rodriguez Memorial Medical Center

Location
Qatar - Doha
Education
Bachelor's degree, Nursing
Experience
12 years, 11 Months

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Total years of experience :12 years, 11 Months

staff nurse at Amang Rodriguez Memorial Medical Center
  • Philippines
  • March 2009 to June 2010

 Utilize the nursing process and nursing care plan according to theoretical framework of giving care.
 Supervise, follow-up, and monitor junior nursing students in clinical performance such as administering oral and topical medications, giving daily morning, afternoon and evening care and other bedside task following hospital procedures.
 Prepare and administer medication through different routes with strict observance at the standard operating procedures or as prescribed by the doctor.
 Observe patients for signs and symptoms of disease and gather accurate data regarding the health status of the patient.
 Identify actual and potentials problems.
 Maintain attentiveness to patient’s needs, initiate steps that will comply with their requirements to meet and exceed their expectation.
 Maintain alertness on opportunities for service enhancement and endeavour to continually improve quality of work.
 Ensure proper functioning of equipment used for treatment.
 Utilize relevant research findings in planning the care of patients.
 Involve relatives in the planning of patient care.
 Prioritize care according to the needs of individual patients.
 Execute physician’s orders concerning treatments and medications with an understanding of cause and effect thereof.
 Execute independent nursing treatments and procedures for patients.

Private Duty Nurse at Various Patients
  • Philippines
  • July 2006 to February 2009

 Monitor patient’s vital signs every 30 minutes for 4 hours throughout the course of hemodialysis
 Monitor patient’s daily weight
 Monitor patient’s fluid intake
 Provide assistance in opening and closing hemodialysis
 Provide assistance in oral feeding
 Accompany patient whenever he has board meeting to attend to
 Administer medication to the patient
 Provide hygiene, assist in daily bath and clad patient to his desired clothing

Senior Healthcare Assistant at Robert and Doris Watts Residential and Nursing Homes
  • United Kingdom
  • December 2004 to October 2005

 Ensure all junior members of staff contribute to the best of their ability, the efficient running of the home and create the right healthcare atmosphere.
 Assist residents with their personal care needs and help provide health supervision.
 Provide information regarding social and health care plans for residents.

 Participate in the development of activities for the residents in which they can join in with, while enhancing he residents quality of life.
 Help ensure that rooms and common spaces are properly kept up to standard through out shift.
 To ensure that daily records are maintained throughout the shift for example: fluids balance charts and the communication books.
 Assist the Manager and the Deputy Manager maintain log books and record as these maybe required by the registering authority.
 Regularly participate in staff meeting.

ICU-CCU Nurse at Makati Medical Center
  • Philippines
  • January 2003 to December 2004

 Utilize the nursing process and nursing care plan as the theoretical framework of giving care.
 Supervise, follows-up, and monitors junior nursing students in clinical performance such as administering oral and topical medications, giving daily morning, afternoon and evening care and other bedside task following hospital procedures.
 Prepare and administers medication through different routes with strict observance at the standard operating procedures or as prescribed by the doctor.
 Observe for signs and symptoms of a disease and gathers accurate data regarding the health status of the patient.
 Identify actual and potentials problems.
 Maintain attentiveness to patient’s needs, initiate steps that will comply with their requirements to meet and exceed their expectation.
 Maintain alertness on opportunities for service enhancement, endeavours to continually improve quality of work.
 Ensure proper functioning of equipment used for treatment.
 Utilize relevant research findings in planning the care of patients.
 Involves relatives in the planning of patient care.
 Prioritize care according to the needs of individual patients.
 Execute physician’s orders concerning treatments and medications with an understanding of cause and effect thereof.
 Execute independent nursing treatments and procedures for patients.
 Set up treatment tray, prepares equipment and instrument and assist physician in the actual treatment of patient.
 Obtain specimen for diagnostic purpose with strict aseptic technique.
 Transcribe physician’s orders according to priority if and when his/her patient does not require her presence at the bedside.
 Provide health teachings to the patient and his family and gives accurate information regarding procedure and nursing treatments.
 Document facts about the whole care of the patient with maximum accuracy.
 Post mortem care, observing proper labeling and handling.

Industrial Nurse at Capitol Publishing House Inc.
  • Philippines
  • July 1999 to April 2001

 Attend conference and training programs.
 Maintain cleanliness of the clinic.
 Take vital signs of employee-patient.
 In-house record management, data gathering, chief complaints and patients conditions
 Assist physicians in minor procedures like physical examination, administering oral and injectable medications and in minor surgery.
 Teach health education, proper nutrition and exercise
 Give first aid treatment to employee-patients.

ICU-CCU Nurse at Dar Al Fouad Hospital
  • Egypt
  • February 1999 to July 1999

 Orient patients with hospital set up. Assess and collect data. Explain the role of the surgical team to lessen the fear and anxiety level of the patient.
 Familiarized patient in the immediate post-operative period -a visit to the intensive care unit, coronary care unit.
 Explain to the immediate family as to what to expect after surgery-how and when the surgeon will contact them, the visitation schedule, and how to communicate worth the patient as by torching making yes and no question.
 Assess level of consciousness, skin color, arterial pressure, cardiac rhythm on the transport monitor, all intra -vascular lines for patency, flow rates and drugs being infused, color of drainage amount and consistency.
 Monitor vital signs, as heart and lung conditions, watch out for untoward signs and symptoms of infections.
 Provide personal hygiene, bed bath and oral care for bedridden patients. Turning patients from side to side to promote better circulations and to prevent decubitus ulcers.
 Check emergency cart and equipments for availability and readiness.
 Extraction of blood glucose monitoring and arterial blood gases screening for CBC and other examinations.

ICU-CCU Nurse / Medical-Surgical Nurse at Makati Medical Center
  • Philippines
  • February 1995 to November 1998

 Orient patients with hospital set up. Assess and collect data. Explain the role of the surgical team to lessen the fear and anxiety level of the patient.
 Familiarized patient in the immediate post-operative period -a visit to the intensive care unit, coronary care unit.
 Explain to the immediate family as to what to expect after surgery-how and when the surgeon will contact them, the visitation schedule, and how to communicate worth the patient as by torching making yes and no question.
 Assess level of consciousness, skin color, arterial pressure, cardiac rhythm on the transport monitor, all intra -vascular lines for patency, flow rates and drugs being infused, color of drainage amount and consistency.
 Monitor vital signs, as heart and lung conditions, watch out for untoward signs and symptoms of infections.
 Provide personal hygiene, bed bath and oral care for bedridden patients. Turning patients from side to side to promote better circulations and to prevent decubitus ulcers.
 Check emergency cart and equipments for availability and readiness.
 Extraction of blood glucose monitoring and arterial blood gases screening for CBC and other examinations.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Nursing
  • at Makati Medical center College of Nursing
  • March 1994

Specialties & Skills

Hygiene
Vital Signs
Microsoft Words

Languages

English
Expert

Memberships

Philippine Professional Regulation Commission
  • Nurse
  • November 1994