Lilia Ximena Bonilla Saenz
Ottawa
Summary
Experienced with critical care and patient management in ICU settings. Utilizes advanced life support techniques and critical thinking to ensure patient stability. Strong understanding of patient assessment and emergency response protocols.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Registered Nurse - Cardiology Unit
University of Ottawa Heart Institute
02.2023 - Current
- Take care of all structural heart procedure recoveries
- Performed and analyzed 12 derivations of ECG
- Administer medications
- Participate in the admission, transfer, referral, or discharge of the patient, according to institutional policies
- Monitor patients' radial or femoral puncture area after cardiac catheterization to identify complications
- Identify arrhythmias
Personal Support Worker
Assurance Homecare
10.2017 - 01.2023
Registered Nurse - Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Program
Hospital Carlos Holmes Trujillo
10.2016 - 05.2017
- Create and apply instruments and tools to monitor and evaluate medical staff, according to the responsibilities and technical criteria that allow self-control
- Lead the training, information, and orientation processes of the entity's services to nurses, patients, family, and community
- Comply with the specific protection goals, early detection, and diseases of public health interest according to the established goals in the contracts
- Monitor the mandatory notification process of events of public health importance in accordance with the established procedure
- Follow up on mandatory notification cases according to the epidemiological surveillance protocol
- Design evaluation, monitoring, and control reports according to the patient safety program
- Making an improvement plan, according to the findings in the evaluation of the program or service
- Follow the improvement plans formulated as established
Registered Nurse ICU
Clinica Nuestra
03.2015 - 10.2016
- Participate in cardiopulmonary cerebral resuscitation (CPR) maneuvers
- Evaluate the patient's immediate response to treatment, such as medications and mechanical support
- Identify hemodynamic alterations
- Interpret data and make clinical decisions based on hemodynamic monitoring data
- Prepare patients for cardiac catheterization
- Interacting in the implantation of a transitory pacemaker
Registered Nurse ICU
Clinica Amiga - Comfandi
09.2012 - 03.2015
- Supervise and evaluate hemodynamic monitoring, application of scales, fluid balance monitoring, and other variables required to provide safe patient care and adequate and timely registration
- Insertion of peripheral venous and jugular external accesses according to institutional policy
- Perform and execute all assigned nursing procedures (arterial line insertion, gastric tube insertion, Swan Ganz catheter monitoring assembly, hourly thermodynamic monitoring, dressing changes, and transfusion of blood components, among others), according to institutional policies
- Manage chest drains and other pleural drains (preparation and connection)
- Medication administration: antibiotics, sedatives, and analgesics according to medical orders
- Management of nasopharyngeal and endotracheal secretions
Registered Nurse, ICU
Fundación Valle Del Lili
06.2009 - 03.2012
- Management of continuous Renal replacement therapies
- Intensive care management of heart, liver, tracheal and renal transplantation
- Management of induced hypothermia (Critic cool)
- Assisting in the insertion and removal of invasive hemodynamic lines
- Assembling, handling, and interpretation of the intra-aortic counter pulsation balloon pump console waves
- Preparing, assembling, and managing renal replacement therapies
- Deep peripheral vein canalization, peripheral insertion central catheter implantation (PICC LINE)
Education
Legal and Ethical Issues in Nursing -
St Francis Xavier University
Antigonish, Nova Scotia08.2022
English program for academic purposes -
Algonquin College
Ottawa, Ontario08.2022
Occupational Specific Language Training for health sciences -
Fanshawe College
London, Ontario03.2022
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Santiago De Cali University
Cali, Colombia08.2008
Skills
- Knowledge in Critical care
- Cardiac post-operative care
- Complex health conditions
- Capable of working efficiently in both an independent and team-oriented environment
Languages
English
Native or Bilingual
Spanish
Native or Bilingual
French
Elementary
Timeline
Registered Nurse - Cardiology Unit
University of Ottawa Heart Institute
02.2023 - Current
Personal Support Worker
Assurance Homecare
10.2017 - 01.2023
Registered Nurse - Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Program
Hospital Carlos Holmes Trujillo
10.2016 - 05.2017
Registered Nurse ICU
Clinica Nuestra
03.2015 - 10.2016
Registered Nurse ICU
Clinica Amiga - Comfandi
09.2012 - 03.2015
Registered Nurse, ICU
Fundación Valle Del Lili
06.2009 - 03.2012
English program for academic purposes -
Algonquin College
Occupational Specific Language Training for health sciences -
Fanshawe College
Legal and Ethical Issues in Nursing -
St Francis Xavier University
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Santiago De Cali University
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