Urvish Shukla

• Managed all inquiries through telephone, email, or text from Cases, Complete investigations of assigned cases and prepare reports for population health status information.
• Experienced in providing leadership by monitoring ongoing cases of COVID-19 through surveillance, offering expert advice and consultation to patients to support control of diseases of public health significance, with a focus on COVID-19 response on signs and symptoms, possible exposures, transmission, high-risk contacts, and routine protocol.
• Acquired sufficient knowledge to manage VOC cases, educate the public about the difference between COVID-19 and VOC and their possible effects, and support any inquiries related to COVID-19 or VOC.
• Extensive experience working and managing different case scenarios, including traveler, immune compromised, abnormal test results, probable cases, community and LRC or work exposure, health care worker, and many more, has fostered my knowledge on managing different situations and making appropriate transfers to different teams.
• Understanding of the procedure manual and contents, including the source of exposures, the period of acquisition, the period of communicability, self-isolation, and viral load, and sustain the ability to guide others related to case management, COVID-19 investigation, and contact tracing (various job profiles) activities. I also provide ongoing consultation, direction, and guidance to some of my colleagues as they relate to case management, contact follow-up, and outbreak management.
• Extensive experience in managing complex COVID-19and other respiratory and enteric outbreaks in long-term care homes and retirement homes.
• Developed and implemented communication plans, policies, and procedures, and provided support to staff learning for the Vaccine Preventable Diseases Program.

Educated patients, families, and caregivers on diagnosis and prognosis, treatment options, disease process, and management and lifestyle options.

• Updated patient charts with data such as medications to keep records current and support accurate treatments.
• Evaluated healthcare needs, goals for treatment, and available resources of each patient and connected them to optimal providers and care.
• Collected blood, tissue, and other laboratory specimens and prepared them for lab testing.
• Monitored patient condition by interpreting and tracking EKG readings, identifying irregular telemetry readings, and updating team members on changes in stability or acuity.
• Provided exceptional care to high-acute patients needing complex care such as ventilator management, extensive wound care, and rehabilitation.

• Assisted with resuscitation, CPR, and emergency airway procedures.
• 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 treatments to patients and monitored responses while working with healthcare teams to adjust care plans.
• Trained new nurses in proper techniques, care standards, operational procedures, and safety protocols.

• Collaborated with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions.
• Assisted with resuscitation, CPR, and emergency airway procedures.
• Administered medications and treatments to patients and monitored responses while working with healthcare teams to adjust care plans.
• Monitored patients' comfort and safety during examinations and tests to alert physicians of abnormalities and changes in patient response.
• Provided direct patient care, stabilized patients, and determined the next course of action.
• Managed care from admission to discharge.
• Provided exceptional care to high-acute patients needing complex care such as ventilator management, extensive wound care, and rehabilitation.
• Assisted doctors with examinations of patients by taking vital signs and drawing blood.