Lilia Geshikter

• Perform Charge nurse duties as needed
• Provide direct patient care, stabilized patients, and determined next course of action.
• Administer medications via oral, IV, and intramuscular injections and monitored responses
• Monitor patient condition by interpreting and tracking EKG readings, identifying irregular telemetry readings and updating team members on changes in stability or acuity.
• Provide surgical wounds and pressure ulcers care, VAC treatment.
• Assisted with urostomy/colostomy/ileostomy management, and skin care procedures
• Collaborate with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions.
• Educate patients, families and caregivers on diagnosis and prognosis, treatment options, disease process, and management and lifestyle options.
• Train new nurses in proper techniques, care standards, operational procedures, and safety protocols.

• Organize and manage care of patients undergoing various therapies and procedures.
• Advocated for patients by communicating care preferences to practitioners, verifying interventions met treatment goals and identifying insurance coverage limitations.

• Monitored pre/post-op open-heart surgery patients.
• Telemetry Monitoring,
• Dressing Changes and Wound Care
• Provide postoperative care to patients with chest tubes, pacemakers.

Provided patient care on 7AS, 7AW; 2B and 4AS.

• Provided care for Pre and Post-surgical patients including daily monitoring, recording, and evaluating medical conditions, reporting untoward reactions of patients
• Prepared, calculate, and administer medications (PO, IV,IM, SL and SC)/ blood products
• Provided nutrition via Nasogastric tube/ Gastrostomy, Administered TPN via Central/Peripheral Lines
• Maintained sterile fields, assessed, and applied dressings on postsurgical wounds and pressure ulcers, VAC treatment.
• Assisted with urostomy/colostomy/ileostomy management, and skin care procedures