KARINA LOPEZ

Experience

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  Community Hospice & Palliative Care

  Jul 2011 - Jun 2016

  Hospice Nurse

  Northeast Florida Community Hospice has six inpatient units throughout Jacksonville, FL. My home base was the AcostaRua center located on the westside of Jacksonville which is a 16-bed inpatient unit. Terminal patients are sent here when they are in an acute health crisis or actively dying. Tasks included:• Provided compassionate end-of-life care to patients. • Educated patient and family members about end of life, expectations, and available resources.• Collaboration with physicians to assure the patient is comfortable and pain-free.• Provided professional, spiritual, and emotional support to family and patients. Show less

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  UF Health Jacksonville

  Mar 2014 - Jan 2021

  Cardiovascular Intensive Care Nurse

  For seven years, UF Health of Jacksonville provided me with different opportunities to grow in my nursing profession. In 2014, I started on a Med-surge floor telemetry unit and after one year, I transitioned to a cardiac progressive unit. I did progressive care for one year in the coronary care unit (CCU) and within the same unit, I joined the intensive care fellowship. I specialized as a cardiac intensive care nurse for approximately five years. This unit is based on team building to care for patients with different cardiac diseases, or that undergo different cardiac procedures.Tasks included:• Assessments to evaluate the mental and physical status of all assigned patients. • Implementing, evaluating, and documenting all patient care interventions and responses. • Assessing patient/family learning needs, as well as, providing and documenting educational interventions. • Performing a variety of nursing skills including tracheostomy care, PICC/Central line care, foley catheter insertion, wound care, colostomy care, and administration of IV, IM, PO, SC, G-tube, and PR medications, TPN, tube feeding, and blood products.• Maintenance and start of a variety of drips, including moderate sedation, pressors, anticoagulants, insulin, paralytics, etc.• Recuperating patients after procedures such as catheterizations, pacemaker placement, and vascular procedures.• Assisting physicians with bedside procedures such as cardioversions, and TEEs by administering moderate sedation and recuperating patient post-procedure. • Care of intubated patients, Balloon pump, Impella, CRRT, Swan Ganz catheter, Arterial lines, Alsius, EV1000, and TVP. Show less

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  Chamberlain University

  Jan 2019 - now

  FNP Graduate Student

  Family Practice – Rosa Maytin, FNP-BC | American Care (Jacksonville, FL) 270 Hours Primary Care Home health | Tiffany Major, DNP, FNP-BC | My Choice HouseCalls, LLC. (Jacksonville, FL) 127 Hours Pediatrics – Robert Davenport-Ray, FNP-BC | Peds and Parents Family Care, LLC. (St. Marys, GA) In progress FNP Skills include:• Develop patient-centered treatment plans, based on evidence-based practice, current healthcare policies, and clinical practice guidelines. • Accurate documentation of the patient’s assessment findings, interventions, treatment plan, and evaluation. • Professional care of a variety of acute and chronic diseases including diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up, with excellent patient outcomes. • Patient-centered pathology education, test findings and interpretations, medication data and instructions, plan of care, and expectations. • Transparent collaboration with the interdisciplinary healthcare team, including specialty referrals, pharmacist, and administration. • Patient and family involvement in treatment options and treatment goals. • Treated and triaged complex and emergent conditions as necessary efficiently and cautiously. Show less

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  Krucial Staffing

  Jan 2021 - Apr 2021

  Intensive Care Nurse

  I had the honor to take a travel assignment to El Paso, Texas to help alleviate ICU nurse shortage disparities due to the COVID-19 pandemic at The Hospital of Providence- East Campus. The assigned hospital had a mixed ICU unit with medical, surgical, and cardiac patients. Task included:• Accurate assessment and documentation of patient care.• Properly manage and care for critically ill patients infected with COVID-19.• Collaborated with an interdisciplinary team of physicians, nurses, respiratory therapists, and administration to deliver quality patient care. • Achievement of a variety of nursing skills including tracheostomy care, PICC/Central line care, foley catheter insertion, wound care, colostomy care, and administration of IV, IM, PO, SC, G-tube, and PR medications, TPN, tube feeding, and blood products.• Bedside emergent intubations and advanced cardiac reanimation were performed.• Maintenance and titration of a variety of drips, including moderate sedation, pressors, anticoagulants, insulin, paralytics, etc. Show less