Kar Yen Lee-Drago

February 2024- July 2024

• Float nurse for ER, Trauma, Medicine, and General Surgery

August 2024- January 2024

• ER

January 2025- present

• General Surgery

• Advocated for patients' needs and preferences with healthcare providers, fostering patient-centered care.
• Conducted regular patient assessments to identify changes in health status, enabling timely interventions.
• Demonstrated excellent technical skills in wound dressing changes, IV therapy administration, catheter insertion, and other routine nursing procedures.
• Collaborated with an interdisciplinary healthcare and social service provider team to address patients' needs through effective intervention and care planning.
• Administered controlled narcotics, inserted IVs, and performed catheterizations.
• Promoted a culture of teamwork through active participation in unit meetings, performance improvement initiatives, and collaborative problem-solving efforts.
• completed admissions, appointments, transfers, and discharges.

• Company Overview: Multi-Organ Transplant Unit, Toronto, ON
• Facilitated care to new organ transplant recipients, living organ donors, pre-transplant liver patients, and transplant recipients readmitted with various transplant-related health issues
• Facilitated urgent surgical work-up for listed patients called for immediate organ transplant surgery
• Identify abnormal or unusual patient responses/ labs and consults with the team; provide interventions of care for highly complex patients
• Demonstrated leadership skills with evidence of strong organizational and decision-making skills

• Company Overview: Nursing Resource Team, Toronto, ON
• Trained to float on various units including but not limited to Telemetry, Cardiovascular Surgery, Covid outbreak unit, General Internal Medicine, and Multi-Organ Transplant
• Demonstrated interpersonal, communication, teamwork, and conflict management skills
• Demonstrated ability to be flexible and adapt positively to constantly different clinical environments, patient populations, and situations