Maria Rosario Medrano
Edmonton,AB
Summary
Dedicated healthcare professional with a focus on providing compassionate and effective patient care, seeking to contribute clinical skills and empathetic communication to improve patient outcomes in a collaborative environment.
Overview
1
1
year of professional experience
Work History
Student Practical Nurse
Westlock Healthcare Centre
Westlock, Alberta
11.2024 - 12.2024
- Provide individualized patient care in the medical-surgical unit, ensuring their physical and emotional needs are met.
- Provide bedside nursing care tailored to pre- and post-surgery patients, focusing on comfort, pain management, and personal needs during recovery.
- Regularly check and record vital signs (e.g., heart rate, blood pressure, oxygen saturation) and collaborate healthcare team for significant changes in patient condition.
- Prepare and administer medications accurately and adheres physician instructions and safety protocols.
- Assess wound status, change dressings, and utilize advanced wound care techniques such as wound vacuum-assisted closure (VAC) systems while maintaining sterile technique to promote healing and prevent infection.
- Provide reassurance to patients and their families and discharge instructions in a clear, empathetic manner to ensure understanding and compliance.
- Document patient assessments, interventions, and outcomes comprehensively and accurately within the EPIC Connect Care electronic health record system to ensure continuity of care
Student Practical Nurse
Westlock Healthcare Centre
Westlock, Alberta
04.2024 - 05.2024
- Provide essential support such as administering medications, checking vital signs (e.g., blood pressure, temperature, pulse), and helping residents with daily hygiene routines like bathing, grooming, and toileting.
- Ensure residents receive balanced meals and adequate fluids by monitoring dietary intake and addressing any concerns related to nutrition and intake preferences or orders.
- Collaborating with other healthcare professionals such RNs and HCA to ensure all residents receive the care they need.
- Spend quality time with residents by participating in activities, engaging in conversations, or taking walks to enhance their emotional well-being.
- Build trust with residents and their families by maintaining open, empathetic communication.
Education
Some College (No Degree) - Practical Nurse
Northern Lakes College
Slave Lake, AB06-2025
Health Care Aide
Academy of Learning Career College
Edmonton, AB12-2018
Skills
- Utilizes nursing process: assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation
- Collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to ensures comprehensive care
- Patient care, monitoring, observing and addressing changes in patients’ conditions
- Applying nursing knowledge, skills, judgement, evidence-based practices and critical thinking to assess patient’s needs
- Accepts responsibility for continuing competency by participating education programs, such as workshops on the latest infection control practices and integrates new techniques to enhance patient safety
- Adhere to ethical guidelines and institutional protocols
- Knowledgeable in basic nursing procedures such as IV insertions, catheter, wound dressings while maintaining sterile technique to minimize infection risk
- Manage multiple tasks efficiently
- Able to work with team to enhance patient outcomes
- Able to speak multiple language such as English, Tagalog, Chinese to improves communication with diverse patients
Timeline
Student Practical Nurse
Westlock Healthcare Centre
11.2024 - 12.2024
Student Practical Nurse
Westlock Healthcare Centre
04.2024 - 05.2024
Some College (No Degree) - Practical Nurse
Northern Lakes College
Health Care Aide
Academy of Learning Career College