Working Experience:

Humber River Hospital

Year-long Student Clinical Consolidation- Intensive Care Unit. Sept - Apr 2025

  • Assessing patient’s condition, planning and implementing patient care plans.

  • Responding to life-saving situations, using nursing standards and protocols for treatment.

  • Administer IV medications, sedation, and pain management protocols.

  • Monitor the efficacy of treatment and patients’ responses.

  • Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, including physicians, nurses, respiratory therapists, and registered dieticians.

  • Management of invasive and non-invasive ventilators.

  • Hemodynamic monitoring and management of arterial lines and central venous catheters.

  • Administrating critical care pharmacological treatments such as vasoactive drugs and sedation protocols.

  • ECG and cardiac monitoring and interpretation.

  • Providing education and support to patient families.

  • Acting as a patient advocate.

Mackenzie Cortellucci Vaughan

Registered Practical Nurse- Mother & Baby Unit. 2022- Present

  • Assessed maternal and newborn postpartum status and documented observations.

  • Encouraged maternal-infant bonding and family interactions.

  • Administered medications and appropriate treatments via oral, intravenous, and intramuscular injections.

  • Monitored the efficacy of treatment and patients’ responses.

  • Provided phototherapy treatment to babies with hyperbilirubinemia and educated parents regarding treatment protocols and outcomes.

  • Collected newborn blood samples to determine hyperbilirubinemia, hypoglycemia, and routine newborn screenings.

  • Advocated for patients’ needs with the interdisciplinary healthcare team.

  • Provided patient teaching regarding post-partum and newborn care.

  • Facilitated breastfeeding support on a daily basis.

  • Demonstrated newborn care to first-time parents, which includes, but is not limited to, feeding techniques for bottle-fed babies and breastfed babies, performed first baths, swaddling techniques, diaper changes, newborn sleeping positioning, and recognition of baby’s feeding cues.

  • Scheduled newborn follow-up visits when needed.

  • Discharged patients.

Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital

Registered Practical Nurse- Nephrology Unit. February 2022 to August 2022

  • Performed direct patient care, including assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating care.

  • Coordinated care focused on patient transition through the continuum of care.

  • Provided patient and family education and support.

  • Applied nursing process to acute medical patients with complex renal and stroke issues, including end-stage renal disease, peritoneal dialysis, acute stroke, and TIAs.

Mackenzie Health Hospital Cortellucci Vaughan Hospital

Clinical Extern Nursing- Mother and Child Program. Oct 2021- April 2022

  • Performed intentional/purposeful rounding.

  • Maintained intravenous lines (IVs) and performed IV’s assessments.

  • Assessed vital signs for newborn and adult populations.

  • Assisted with activities of daily living, feeding, bathing, repositioning, and transportation.

  • Performed patient safety checks.

  • Experienced in the operating room (OR), maintaining aseptic technique and acting as a runner.

  • Experienced in postpartum and NICU, providing therapeutic communication to new parents, bathing and feeding newborns.

Mackenzie Health Hospital Richmond Hill, ON

Clinical Consolidation- Surgical Inpatient Unit. Sep 2020- Dec 2020

  • Experienced with patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) pumps.

  • Experienced with total parenteral nutrition (TPN).

  • Able to provide pre-operative and post-operative patient care.

  • Experienced with aseptic techniques, complex wound care, ostomy care, foley catheter insertion, and management of continued bladder irrigation (CBI).

  • Experienced with medication administration.

  • Experienced with post-operative pain management.

  • Experiences with subcutaneous and intramuscular injections.

  • Vital signs, head to toe, and relevant focussed assessments for clients from infancy to adulthood.

  • Precautions and monitoring for seizures, pain, input and output, falls, entanglement, family safety, pressure injuries, and thrombosis.

  • Epic documentation.

Soldier’s Memorial Hospital Orillia, ON

Medical Laboratory Technician - Student Placement. Dec 2019- Feb 2020

  • Performed phlebotomy procedures, including STATs and Timed collection samples.

  • Experienced performing newborn screenings, including NICU patients.

  • Experienced in specimen collection and handling.

  • Knowledge of laboratory administrative and clerical functions, including the accession of samples, patient record keeping, and processing future-testing paperwork.

  • Prepared and scheduled samples for transportation to outside laboratories.

  • Able to perform Electrocardiograms (ECGs).

  • Experienced working in the Microbiology department.

  • Experienced working in the Histology department.

Halton Fertility and Women’s Health Center. Oakville, ON

Medical Office Administrator. Jan 2018-Dec 2018

  • Chaperoned Male Gynecologists during routine fertility, obstetric and gynecological appointments.

  • Assisted physicians in handling instruments and processing samples during colposcopies, insertions, and removals of IUDs, vaginal swab collections, Papanicolaou, uterine pipelle biopsies, cervical punch biopsies, and collection of cytology samples.

  • Assisted physicians during routine obstetric appointments, performing vital signs, glucose testing and monitoring, and protein urine tests.

  • Assisted physician during routine fertility follow-ups and input of folliculometry data into patients’ charts.

  • Medical transcription of patients’ visits into patients’ charts.

  • Performed sterilization of medical instruments.

  • Booked, cancelled, and rescheduled appointments.

  • Proficient in ordering office medical supplies.

  • Organized pick-up of medical samples/specimens to be collected by Life Labs/hospital carriers on a daily basis.

Memberships:

  • Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario (RNAO) - 2024-Present.

  • College of Nurses of Ontario (CNO) 2022- Present.

  • Canadian Association of Perinatal and Women’s Health Nurses (CAPWHN) 2023- Present.

Skills:

  • Effective decision-making, problem-solving, and organizational skills.

  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both oral and written.

  • Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office.

  • Advanced knowledge of medical terminology.

  • Ability to handle emergency situations with professionalism and effectiveness.

  • Reliable, flexible, and able to work as part of a multidisciplinary team.

  • Commitment to professional development.

  • Spanish (Fluent).

Awards and Recognitions:

  • George Brown College Dean’s List 2020-2021.