Hortencia Torres

• Collaborated with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions.
• Administered medications via oral, IV, and intramuscular injections for moderate sedation, and monitored responses.
• Administered medications and treatment to patients and monitored responses while working with healthcare teams to adjust care plans.
• Educated patients, families and caregivers on diagnosis and prognosis, treatment options, disease process, and management and lifestyle options.

• Currently work Per Diem in the Emergency Department.
• Collaborated with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions.
• Administered medications via oral, IV, and intramuscular injections and monitored responses.
• Administered medications and treatment to patients and monitored responses while working with healthcare teams to adjust care plans.
• Educated patients, families and caregivers on diagnosis and prognosis, treatment options, disease process, and management and lifestyle options.
• Provided direct patient care, stabilized patients, and determined next course of action.

• Managed care from admission to discharge.
• Trained new nurses in proper techniques, care standards, operational procedures, and safety protocols.
• Implemented medication and IV administration, catheter insertion, and airway management.
• Evaluated healthcare needs, goals for treatment, and available resources of each patient and connected to optimal providers and care.

*Worked four years in the Charge Nurse position managing a 24 bed unit.

• Oversaw delivery of care for patients on medical-surgical unit, providing direct care, delegating nursing assignments and supervising team comprised of nurses, LPNs, technicians, and unit clerks.
• Responsible for primary care and medication management of patients with Pneumonia, Sepsis, Stroke, Renal failure, etc. Performed all tasks with a patient-centered focus while seeking opportunities for improvement of processes and treatments. Provided education to patients on disease process and medications, coping skills, and community resources.

Recorded patient's medical history, vital statistics, and test results in medical records. Assisted in minor procedures such as cervical/endometrial biopsies, Colposcopies, Dilation and Curettage while in the OB/GYN department. Floated to all out patient areas of the hospital such as Internal Medicine, Urgent Care, Surgical walk-in, Nephrology, Cardiology, Oncology, and Asthma Clinic.