Grace Love Salazar

• Directs, initiates, and implements a patient care plan in a home care environment.
• Prepares equipment, applies and changes dressings, and monitors patients.
• administer prescribed medications.

March 2012 - March 2017
AL-hada Armed Forces Hospital
Radiology Staff Nurse

Job Description:
• Assisting patients and their family with any questions or concerns about their procedure.
• Assessing a patient’s prior and current health, including any allergies and other health issues.
• Monitoring a patient’s vital signs; that is, blood pressure, temperature, critically analyzing any changes, and then reporting and acting on those findings.
• Administering and overseeing intravenous injections of contrast medium (solutions that enable the area of the body being imaged to show more clearly on the images or pictures).
• Administering any required medications and light sedation when used.
• Preparing patients for their procedure, including the use of antiseptic solutions and other methods of minimizing the risk of infection.
• Providing anesthetic assistance when patients need to be drowsy (sedated) or asleep (using general anesthesia) during the procedure.
• Start IV to instill special types of dyes for test.
• Support and inform family members and carers who often accompany patients for both elective and emergency procedures.
• Liaise with referring doctors and ward staff to ensure pre-procedural is completed.
• Prepare equipment for the safe care of the patient during the procedure.
• Communicate with other members of the interventional radiology team regarding the patient, thereby promoting good working relationships within the team.
• Identify and act upon potential hazards to both patients and staff and, where appropriate, act to prevent patient injury.
• Identify potential complications of various drugs used during the procedure, including contrast.
• Obtaining patients consent for the procedure in line with local policy
• Assess, plan and implement the total care of the conscious or conscious-sedated patients( this includes the monitoring of pulse, blood pressure and oxygen saturation)
• Ensure patients identifation by checking medical ID
• Practice and monitor correct wearing of gowns, gloves and masks where necessary
• Ensure patients laboratory work-up is checked ( BUN, CREATININE, PT, APTT, INR ) prior to procedure.
• Assist diagnostic and therapeutic interventional procedures.
• Practice the principles of asepsis during interventional procedure and act as a lead professional in infection control
• Positions patient appropriately on table for different procedures per radiologist preference.
• Monitoring the recovery and discharge of patients after their procedure.
• Inserting foley catheter as ordered by the radiologist for bladder exams.
• Assess patient Last Menstrual Period prior to hysterosalphingogram.
• Suction patient when necessary.
• Assess presence of implants ( pacemaker, valves) prior to MRI procedure.
• Position patient for MRI exam.
• Assess cardiovascular, respiratory, neurological, renal and peripheral vascular status when accepting patient into area. Documents findings and notifies physician of any changes/abnormalities.
• Ensure that emergency drugs are available and that the defibrillator crash cart trolley are checked everyday.

• Prepares and administer oral, topical and
parenteral medications
• Checks and record vital signs of patients
• Observes any report unusual symptoms of the
patients, institute remedial action when appropriate
and record those at chart.
• Carry out doctors order and assist during
procedure ( diagnostic and therapeutic )
• Gives direct patient care
• Administer blood transfusions.
• Gives health teaching to patients and their family.
• Perform cardio pulmonary resuscitation during
patient arrest.
• Proper documentation of all the procedures that
have been done to the patient through charting.
• Perform post mortem care.
• Explain pre-operative procedures, post-operative
routine to client and significant others.
• Ensure diagnostic test are completed.
• Evaluate nutritional status
• Instruct client to be NPO post-midnight if required.
• Monitor vital signs, input and output, intravenous
infusion, electrolytes, drainage tubes, neurologic
status and surgical wound dressing.
• Demonstrate and encourage turning every 2 hours,
deep breathing exercise every hour after airway
tube is removed.
• Suction secretion when needed.
• Keep side rails up and until clients neurological
status is stable.
• Care for surgical wound using aseptic technique.