Desiree Mendoza

Provides professional leadership and acts as a role model and mentor to fellow nursing staff.
• Provides patient care within the regulatory body Scope of practice, organization, policies and procedures, and the Unit Scope of Service.
• Assumes accountability and responsibility for own practice and does not carry out tasks beyond level of competence.
• Collaborates with the interdisciplinary team to provide patient and family centered care.
• Demonstrates a professional commitment to patients and fellow nursing staff.
• Demonstrates critical thinking and provides leadership in conflict management and problem solving.
• Ensures the junior nursing staff works within their capacity, experience, training, and scope of practice.
• Acts as a preceptor to less experienced staff.
• Provide guidance and support to team members on the shift.
• Responds to life-saving situations based upon nursing standards and protocol.
• Ensures clear and accurate documentation of all patient care events and is compliant with organization policies and procedures.

Ensures patient safety and comfort to patients recovering from anesthesia.
•Provide direct care to patients who are waking up from anesthesia.
•Measure vital signs, such as heart rate, blood pressure and oxygen level. In some instances, may perform tests, such as electrocardiograms to check the patient’s heart rhythm.
•Administer medication and check surgical wounds for bleeding.
•Determine when the patient is stable enough to be transferred into the room/ward or discharged home, if it was a minor procedure.
•Ensure patients receive the care and assistance required/prescribed with fluid and nutritional intake post-operative.
•Observes and reports any change in the clinical condition of the patient.
•Assists the patient who is unable to self-care, with their personal hygiene and dressing needs, adhering to all manual handling procedures and policies, and infection control policies.

• Collaborating with physicians regarding possible barriers to surgery. • Educating patients and families on post-op expectations and healing.
• Providing support to patient and families while promoting a positive self-image.
• Providing a sensitive, non-biased, non-judgmental environment for patients undergoing
cosmetic procedures.
• Remaining up to date with current cosmetic surgery standards of care and practice.
• Ensuring a safe, aseptic environment to avoid post-op infection/complications.
• Working with the entire care team to ensure physical, mental, and psychosocial needs are met. • Providing perioperative and post-operative care.

• Assess the physiologic and psychosocial health status of the patient and family.
• Performed assessments; provided intravenous therapy; complex wound care; monitored various
drainage devices, etc.
• Collaborated daily with physicians and health care team to achieve optimum patient care.
• Established strong relations with physicians built on trust and knowledge of patient care.
• Assisting surgeons with procedures, and treating patients during their recovery period.
• Responsible for the cleaning and tidying of clinical areas, equipment and storage cupboards
(excluding cupboards for the storage of controlled drugs and medicines) and reports any
defects and areas of concern to the Nurse in Charge.
• Act as a team player and demonstrated ability in managing critical situations and making care
based decisions.

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• Assessed signs and symptoms indicating physiologic and psychosocial changes in the patient's condition.
• Through effective patient communication skills.
• Educated patients regarding their medications, procedure and treatments. Additionally,
provided preoperative, inter-operative and post-operative care instruction.
• Maintained patient's physical and psychosocial health while ensuring their safety and
effectiveness of their treatment/care.
• Monitored the changing needs of patients in timely manner and respond accordingly
• Documented the patient's plan of care using identified nursing diagnoses, expected patient
outcomes, and selected nursing interventions.
• Responsible for discharge planning and followed infection control procedures.