Lorena Cruz

• Clinical insights: Establishing a diverse portfolio of clinical knowledge based on the needs of dental patients attending the clinic for transplant, chemotherapy, and medically compromised dental issues
• Motivational leadership: As a team leader/Charge Nurse, proactively providing departmental support/mentoring, ensuring every member of staff is equipped with the right support infrastructure/resources to fulfil duties with efficiency
• Pre-assessments: Performing detailed pre-procedure assessments by working closely with patients, documenting medical history and sharing procedure-related information with a compassionate manner; alleviating concerns by answering queries and providing ongoing reassurance
• Scheduling: Managing an organized appointment process by scheduling appointments, ensuring timeframes are carefully maintained and communicated
• Patient care: Implementing a structured approach to pre/post op care, adapting my approach and clinical support in line with the needs of the patient, promptly addressing medical emergencies when required
• Care plans: Enforcing a patient focused-care plan, ensuring medicine administration is clearly documented, patient updates/observations are shared with teams, ensuring a streamlined handover between shifts
• Procedures: IV procedural Sedation (Sedation Nurse), Outpatient and Inpatient under General Anesthesia.(Recovery Nurse) Professional Development Practice representative (UBC) Hand hygiene auditor representative Flu vaccine Champion (Dental Department): Playing a proactive role in driving change and improving processes.

• Pre-assessments: Performing detailed pre-procedure assessments by working closely with patients, documenting medical history and sharing procedure-related information with a compassionate manner; alleviating concerns by answering queries and providing ongoing reassurance
• Scheduling: Managing an organised appointment process by scheduling appointments, ensuring timeframes are carefully maintained and communicated
• Patient care: adapting my approach and clinical support in line with the needs of the patient, promptly addressing medical emergencies when required
• Care plans: Enforcing a patient focused-care plan, ensuring medicine administration is clearly documented, patient updates/observations are shared with teams.

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• Performed various nursing interventions such as wound dressing, vital sign monitoring, and specimen collection.
• Administered medications via oral, IV, and intramuscular injections and monitored responses.
• Assessed physical, psychological, physiologic, and cognitive status of patients.
• Monitored patients' conditions and reported changes in physical presentation, appearance, and behavior to discuss treatment with physicians.

· Assists in orientation of new staff as assigned. Recognizes problems and assists with resolution.

· Attends the required unit’s staff development activities (8 in-services and 8 staff meetings per contract year). Maintains current CPR certification.

· Communicates in a courteous, accurate and timely manner, speaking English and Arabic as appropriate.

• Developed strong rapport with patients and families, fostering trust and open communication during challenging times.
• Collaborated with physicians, pharmacists and therapists to deliver quality, evidence-based care.
• Educated patients, families and caregivers on diagnosis and prognosis, treatment options, disease process, and management and lifestyle options.
• Participated in regular staff meetings to share best practices, address challenges, and foster collaboration among team members.

• Team engagement: Took the lead in sharing relevant information to clinicians and leading positive, detailed handovers during shift changes, ensuring observations (formal and informal) were shared for further review
• Mentoring: Worked closely with junior team members to provide advice, insights and support to nurture practical learnings within a busy clinical setting
• Detailed observations: Confidently performed vital observations, medical intervention and administration, continually engaged with patients to ensure they were comfortable; led routine procedures with an enthusiastic manner, irrespective of how complex or intrusive treatments may be i.e
• Blood transfusions, IV administering, blood tests
• Family support: Developed relationships based on trust and honesty with family/friends of patients and provided updates to ensure loved ones felt reassured, sharing advice regarding self-care and patient welfare
• Compliance: Confident with health and safety protocols and infection control, adhering to robust guidelines to secure patient and colleague wellbeing
• Assessments: Conducted thorough assessments of admissions/discharges, ensuring care plans were implemented and the patient care lifecycle promoted positive healthcare yet mitigate risk/ safeguarding concerns.

· Renders Intensive Nursing Care to patients according to their individual needs utilizing the nursing process or scientific problem approach.

· Assess patient’s condition continuously through the use of the monitor, ventilator and other needs.

· Inserting and giving feeds and medication through nasogastric tube if indicated as ordered by the physician.

· Assisted in resuscitating patients.

· Performs standard precautions in proper handling of infectious drainage and secretions.

· Initiated Nursing interventions when medical or surgical complications arise.

· Handled wounds, mechanical ventilation and performing suctioning and other assistive devices aseptically.

· Carried out post-mortem care.

· Prepared and administered vaccination to well babies.

· Prepared patients for laboratory and radiological test.

· Admitted patients for consultation, assisted the doctor for each and every procedure.

· Gives nebulization to pediatric patients.

· Renders sponge bath to patients with fever.

· Monitored laboratory values, identified the expected and unexpected responses to treatment and document accordingly.

· In -charge in monthly monitoring of vaccines and their expiration.

· Prepared instrument and assisted in performing circumcision aseptically.

· Informed consent related to diagnostic and for treatment procedure.

· Assisted physician in performing Endoscopy procedure.

· Assessed and prepared the client before and after endoscopy procedure and monitored for complication related to test procedures.

· Observed aseptic technique in handling and proper care of endoscope instrument before and after use.

· Able to insert IV infusion when necessary.

· Gives proper instruction to client whenever they have procedures, laboratory, radiological and other test.

· Safely administers injections, oral medications, oxygen therapy, nebulization, ECG, Adult vaccination, and other prescribed therapies.

· Informed consent related to diagnostic and for treatment procedure.

· Assisted physician in performing Endoscopy procedure.

· Assessed and prepared the client before and after endoscopy procedure and monitored for complication related to test procedures.

· Observed aseptic technique in handling and proper care of endoscope instrument before and after use.

· Able to insert IV infusion when necessary.

· Gives proper instruction to client whenever they have procedures, laboratory, radiological and other test.

· Safely administers injections, oral medications, oxygen therapy, nebulization, ECG, Adult vaccination, and other prescribed therapies.