Claudine Albear-Nolan
Encinitas
Summary
Professional healthcare provider skilled in post-anesthesia care and cardiac telemetry care, proficient in patient monitoring, pain management, and emergency response. Adept at collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to ensure optimal patient outcomes. Reliable and adaptable to changing clinical environments, with strong communication and critical thinking skills. Focused on delivering high-quality care and achieving excellent patient satisfaction.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
PACU/Pre-OP Nurse
UCSD Center for Surgery Encinitas
Encinitas, CA
03.2022 - Current
- Provide comprehensive post-anesthesia care to patients following surgical procedures, ensuring a safe and effective recovery period.
- Assess patient conditions post-surgery, monitoring vital signs, pain levels, and response to anesthesia; adept in using advanced monitoring equipment.
- Administer medications, including pain management, and adjust dosages as necessary based on patient response and doctor’s orders.
- Actively involved in emergency responses, demonstrating proficiency in CPR, ACLS, and PALS.
- Resource Nurse responsible for providing charge duties to PACU nurses
- Employee Health Nurse responsible for vaccinating staff and physicians with FLU/TB shots, fit testing for N-95 masks, maintaining all clinical staff credentials ensuring required documentation is up to date, and scheduling required education for BLS/ACLS/PALS
- Physician and Nursing Peer Review reporting. Responsible for collecting data to allow physicians to review similar cases resulting in compliance and reappointment to the facility
Physician Business Development Representative
Tampa General Hospital
Tampa, FL
03.2012 - 08.2020
- Provided outreach and promotion for level 1 trauma center and teaching hospital of various service lines to community physicians in 12 county radius
- Provided support to credentialed specialists and surgeons to facilitate lines of communication with referring providers and hospital management
- Worked on various projects such as primary care practice acquisitions, physician onboarding, medical conferences, CME events, CIN, and community health education conferences
- Worked with marketing team to create new business collateral and maintained hospital wide brand standards and guidelines
- Maintained a database of referring providers
- Utilized Marketware, Crimson and Salesforce PRM/CRM to document and track office visits, luncheons, network connections and initiatives
- Assisted with the development and implementation of a satellite clinic for heart and liver transplant programs
- Report annual service line results to senior management using internal and external data analytics
Staff Nurse/Charge Nurse/Preceptor
Tampa General Hospital
Tampa, FL
01.2007 - 11.2012
- One and half years working in Chest Pain Observation Unit. Floated to Orthopedic and Stepdown units as needed.
- Four years in Acute-Care Cardiac Telemetry Unit
- Provided care to adult and geriatric patients utilizing processes of planning, implementation and evaluation.
- Proficient in using Epic EMR
- Charge nurse and precepted new grads
- Educate patients and families on health management and post-discharge instructions.
- Administer medications and monitor patient responses to ensure optimal care delivery.
- Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams to develop and implement individualized care plans.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
University of South Florida
Tampa, FLSkills
- Adaptability
- Effective Communication
- Analytical
- Detail Oriented
- IV insertion
- Problem Solving
- Empathetic
- Fluent in Conversational Spanish
Accomplishments
- Achieved 98% compliance in staff flu vaccine coverage as the employee health nurse through effectively educating staff on the benefits of protecting themselves, patients, and the community and administering vaccines.
- Supervised team of 5 staff members while acting as lead in PACU setting.
- Completed certification in Spanish II for Medical Professionals to help to translate for patients and physicians.
- Implemented fall risk assessment screening tool
Certification
- American Society of PeriAnesthesia Nurses
- BLS certified
- ACLS certified
- PALS certified
- Reiki certified
LANGUAGES
English
Spanish
Timeline
PACU/Pre-OP Nurse
UCSD Center for Surgery Encinitas
03.2022 - Current
Physician Business Development Representative
Tampa General Hospital
03.2012 - 08.2020
Staff Nurse/Charge Nurse/Preceptor
Tampa General Hospital
01.2007 - 11.2012
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
University of South Florida