Senior Nurse
The Atlanta Vision Clinic
مجموع سنوات الخبرة :8 years, 4 أشهر
• Taking patient’s vital signs.
• Prepares patients’ charts.
• Encoding and updating patients’ data to Charting Plus System..
• Prepares the patient for surgery, gives pre-operative instructions, pre-op medications for patients who are about to undergo surgery.
• Administers medications and eye drops as ordered by physician.
• Assists surgeons on surgeries as a scrub nurse and/or a circulating nurse.
• Gives health teachings to patients and families.
• Trains incoming (new) staffs.
• Filling up insurance claims for the patients.
• Doing procedures such as OCT, Zywave, Orbscan and Autorefraction.
• Handles surgical eye procedures as a scrub nurse and circulating nurse.
• Sterilizes instruments for surgical procedures.
• Ensures cleanliness and sterility of examination rooms, sterilization room and surgery room.
• Prepares medical reports and sick leave certificates.
• Reads power prescription for reading, distance and/or progressive eyeglasses.
• Checks eye pressure using Tonopen.
• Tests for color blindness using Ishihara Test.
• Doing reception works (answers phone calls and customer inquiries, puts patients’ details into database) whenever necessary.
• Assesses the patient’s visual acuity corrected and uncorrected.
• Does clinic marketing, goes to different events to promote the clinic, gives brochures, does preliminary consultations to screen possible patients.
• Responsible for monthly stock inventory making sure all the needed eye drops, instruments and other materials are available and enough for the whole month.
• Doing statistical data of patients to be encoded at DHA website at the end of the month.
• Responsible for ordering of stocks needed and receives them upon delivery.
• Responsible for all the instruments available in the clinic and doing statistical data regarding these instruments to be encoded at DHA website yearly.
December 15, 2009- June 15, 2010 Saint Gabriel Hospital
Aklan, Philippines
Staff Nurse (ICU)
Responsibilities:
➢ Responsible for noting the lab values and preparing report;
➢ Providing facilities for the anesthesia patients;
➢ Nursing patients and providing care and comfort;
➢ Calling doctors and referring patients' present status and condition;
➢ Monitoring Vital Signs and Input and Output of the patients;
➢ Carries out doctors' orders;
➢ Administering medications either intravenously, orally, or via NGT.
December 1, 2008- December 1, 2009 Malinao Rural Health Unit
Staff Nurse
Responsibilities:
➢ Maintains patients' records in order;
➢ Gives assistance to patients throughout their medical check up;
➢ Handles different cases such as Maternity, Surgery, Medical and Pediatric cases;
➢ Nursing patients and providing care and comfort;
➢ Carries out doctor's orders;
➢ Administers medications as ordered by physician;
➢ Documents patients' progress and ensures that their needs are properly managed;
➢ Gives health teachings to patients and relatives.
➢ BasicLife Support - Philippine National Red Cross, July 17- 18, 2008, Queszon City Chapter;
April 1, 2008- August 8, 2008 Lezo Rural Health Unit
Aklan, Philippines
Nurse
Responsibilities:
↘ Maintains patients' records in order;
↘ Assists patients during their entire medical check-up in the health center;
↘ Carries out doctor's orders;
↘ Administers medications, injections and changes dressings;
↘ Gives health teachings to patients and relatives;
↘ Maintains proper and accurate documentation of patients' progress and management in the notes and charts;
↘ Attends to patients' referrals;
↘ Coordinates with the staff nurses the necessary activities needed for the care of the patients.
August 2, 2007- March 31, 2008 Dr. Rafael S. Tumbokon Memorial Hospital
Aklan, Philippines
Nurse (ER)
Responsibilities:
↘ Assesses, plans, implements, and evaluates nursing care for patients in the pre-operative period;
↘ Administers medications/treatments prescribed for patients;
↘ Prepares for surgery and special procedures;
↘ Assists doctors with treatment and special diagnostic procedures;
↘ Attends to patients' referrals;
↘ Gives health teachings to patients and relatives;
↘ Responds to emergencies;
↘ Performs IV insertion;
↘ Administers injections of medications, changes dressings, and does perineal care;
↘ Carries out doctor's orders;
↘ Coordinates with other staff nurses the necessary activities needed for the care of the patients.
SPECIAL SKILL/S
Working knowledge of computer basics (Windows, Excel, MS Word, Internet), good
knowledge in driving
SEMINARS ATTENDED
➢ Creative Work Schedules: Making time for it all, November 2, 2011 (Online-CME);
➢ Updates in the Management of Moderate to Severe Alzheimer's Disease, October 30, 2011 (Online-CME);
➢ Physicians Practice, March 2011: Getting Patients to Comply, October 30, 2011, (Online-CLE);
➢ Oncology Nurse Edition, February 21, 2011: A ComprehensiveApproach to Falls Risk Assessment and Prevention, October 30, 2011, (Online- CME);
➢ Counseling Women at High Risk of Ovarian and Endometrial Cancer, October 30, 2011, (Online-CME);
• Assessed, planned, implemented, and evaluated nursing care for patients.
• Performed Electrocardiogram and catheter insertion.
• Inserted intravenous injections and titrated fluids as ordered.
• Assisted in ambu bagging procedures.
• Assessed for blood glucose level using Glucometer.
• Administered first aid medications/treatments prescribed.
• Assisting surgeons in doing wound sutures and responsible for dressing change.
• Prepared patients for surgery and special procedure.
• Assisted doctors with treatments and special diagnostic procedures.
• Assessed, planned, implemented, and evaluated nursing care for patients.
• Performed Electrocardiogram and catheter insertion.
• Inserted intravenous injections and titrated fluids as ordered.
• Assisted in ambu bagging procedures.
• Assessed for blood glucose level using Glucometer.
• Administered first aid medications/treatments prescribed.
• Assisting surgeons in doing wound sutures and responsible for dressing change.
• Prepared patients for surgery and special procedure.
• Assisted doctors with treatments and special diagnostic procedures.