Tara Mendoza

Emergency Readiness.

• Being ready to respond and equipped to deal with a medical emergency.
• Quickly assessing patient needs.
• Treating critical injuries, allergic reactions, and trauma.
• Performing minor medical operations.
• Cleaning wounds.
• Drawing blood.
• Maintaining emergency room care standards. Maintain Code Cart and all training with Registered Nurses to ensure 4 minute in plant response times with Security Department.
• IV therapy as needed.
• Identify and treat cardiac events and initiate EMS services and safe transfers.

• Prepared essays, reports and other documents detailing experiences for personal reference and classroom credit.
• Pursued all opportunities for learning by attending procedures, treatments and examinations.
• Entertained and conversed with patients to keep patients mentally healthy and alert.
• Collaborated with Local Physicians- healthcare staff to promote safety during care and respond to individualized needs and activities.
• Provided Home Care, wound care, IV therapy, assessment and monitoring COVID, chronic health problems.
• Draw labs
• I&D Wound care
• Prescribe medications for acute care treatment.

• Prescribed appropriate pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic treatment modalities to support health and comfort of patients.
• Providing medication assisted follow up care to patients enrolled at CleanSlate Centers.
• Administering Naltrexone (Vivitrol) injections.
• Choosing the appropriate medication assisted therapy regimen for a given patient.
• Reviewing new protocols and suggesting amendments/changes when requested.
• Assisting in training of new/prospective employees as requested by Clinical Educators.
• Completing all clinical notes by the end of the workday.
• Reviewing complex clinical cases and other extenuating circumstances with the site physician leader or Chief Medical Officer as appropriate.