Experience

Hoag Memorial Presbyterian Hospital, Newport Beach, CA. Provide care of babies in a 23-bed level III special care unit. Attend high-risk vaginal and cesarian deliveries to provide immediate care upon delivery. Respond to code neonate and stork throughout the hospital in an emergent manner. Managed care of micro preemies to newborns, requiring advanced life support, oxygenation support, feeding assistance, blood sugar monitoring, and more. Educate parents and caregivers on home care and after NICU stay. Work closely with team members, including parents/ caregivers, attendings, respiratory therapists, OT/PT, charge nurse, social workers, and more. Adhering to the policies and procedures, as well as the physicians’ orders.

Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, CA. Managed the care of babies in a busy 58-bed level IV special care unit in downtown Los Angeles. Closely monitor and manage care for micro preemie to 2 years of age. Management of babies requiring advanced life support, including high-frequency ventilator, conventional ventilator, nitric oxide, therapeutic hypothermia/ rewarming, advanced airway, and more. Provide evidence-based care for a variety of complex congenital or acquired conditions. Establish and maintain close relationships and communication between parents, caregivers, physicians, respiratory care, social workers, OT/PT, and the entire team. Follow and carry out physician orders while abiding by policy and procedures. Rated #2 NICU in the nation by US World News in 2021.

Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, CA. Provide age-appropriate care in PICU, NICCU, CTICU, CVAcute, and ED for adults, children, and babies in Level 1 trauma hospital. Maintain, monitor, and analyze various patient monitoring equipment. Follow unit and hospital policy, procedures, regulations, and standards of care. Intake, transfer patients, and discharge patients as needed. Apply critical thinking in all aspects of the nursing process in support of patients’ conditions.

Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, CA. Manage care for children aged 1 month to 22 years of age with various cancers, conditions, and diseases. 14-bed specialty care unit in a 495-bed, level 1 trauma hospital in downtown Los Angeles. Responsible for 75% of all Bone Marrow transplants in Los Angeles County. Administer Bone Marrow Transplant of either autologous or allogeneic. Administer various chemotherapy medications. Assess and closely monitor patients and notify the team of any changes. Educate patients and family members on the disease process, treatments, and plan of care. Follow and carry out studies and follow policy and procedures.

Pacific Alliance Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA. Manage care in busy medical/surgical unit of acutely ill patients with various health conditions. Assess and carefully monitor patients and alert physicians and the Rapid Responsive Team when conditions change. Complete intake and admission of new and transferred patients. Complete discharge and teaching of patients. Supervise and delegate to Licensed Vocational Nurses (LVN) and Nursing Assistants (NA). Maintain standards of care while following HIPPA and facilities policies and procedures.

Self Employed Private Nurse. Work with children with various complex medical conditions and needs. Provide various treatments, therapies, and monitoring (prescribed by their medical team of doctors), assisting in attending school and other community events. The focus and outcome goals were allowing the child to stay out of the hospital and still receive constant nursing services. Monitor and assess patient contact doctor with concerns or changes in baseline. Proficient skills working with G-tubes, implanted ports (access and de-accessing), medication administration, seizure precautions and management.

Pediatric Home Service, Roseville, MN. Work with children and young adults with various medical conditions and needs. Provide skilled nursing services that allow them to stay at home, attend school, attend other activities, and have the best quality of life and care. Several of my patients had respiratory conditions and were on a Trilogy ventilator. Confident with deep tracheostomy suctioning and tracheostomy care (cuffed and uncuffed), including removal and replacement in emergency or scheduled care. Provide care to patients with complex seizure disorders, which included seizure precautions, management, and interventions. I also possess experience with behavior modification, assessment, and prioritizing treatments and care. Proficient in trach changes, trach cares, ventilators, G/J-tube, deep trach suction, nebulizers, assessment, medication administration, insulin pump, and port access/removal.

Farmington Area Public School, Farmington, MN. Worked with children with developmental cognitive disabilities in a public school setting (DCD room and streamlined classes.) Provide nursing care for a wide range of patient conditions—strong ability to prioritize patients’ needs and care throughout a shift of up to eight children. Work in a collaborative team to provide the child with education and medical needs. Follow a specific chain of communication regarding the child/ parent/ teacher. Followed a team based on all the specialists each child attended. Proficient in prioritizing patients, G/J-tube, seizure management, and medication administration.

San Ignacio, Belize. Participated in an 11-day mission trip, providing medical attention and education to the local Belizean community through outreach clinics. Reached out to 5 villages and delivered medical care to over 400 people.

Fairview Clinic, Bloomington, MN. Personally administer over 50 IM injections of influenza vaccines to various patients seeking immunizations in a walk-in clinic. Worked in a team setting to assess, teach, and provide immunizations. Able to assist over 250 individuals receive their annual vaccines.

St. Francis Hospital, Shakopee, MN. Assist nurses and unit secretaries in admitting patients in a busy hospital. Provide reading material or other requested items for patients. Put together admission packets and other requested items. Assist in any other projects or needs.

Camp Heartland, Willow River, MN. Worked in a team to provide medical attention, medication administration, and intake of all staff and children in a one-week overnight camp. Camp Heartland works with children who are diagnosed with HIV/AIDS or living with someone who is.

• Medication administration (PO, IV, SQ, IM, NG, OG, G/J tube, OU)
• Chemotherapy administration
• Blood product administration
• Central line cares (UVC, UVA, Broviac, PICC)
• Assessments
• NG, OG, Repogle insertion and cares

• G/J tube cares
• Lab draws
• Colostomy cares
• Pre / ante / post surgical cares
• Cooling and rewarming
• Bedside surgery
• PIV insertion and cares

• Foley insertion and cares
• Advanced airway management
• Bili therapy lights
• PO feeding
• End of life care
• Compassionate extubation
• Newborn screens