Charito Villafuerte

• Provide direct and indirect patient care. Provide patient education regarding skin care maintenance, sun protection, and disease prevention.
• Assist with dermatology surgical procedures, ensuring safe delivery of specimen to lab.
• Obtain skin scrapings, nail clippings, swabs, etc.
• Help the dermatologist maintain an intense workload and meet patients' expectations by preparing patients for examinations.
• Perform appropriate wound dressing and removal of sutures.
• Perform phototherapy with assistance of the CNS. Assist the CNS for treatments like C-PDT, Daylight PDT, PUVA, and patch testing.

Actively participated in continuing education activities related to dermatology nursing practices.

• Acted as a clinical resource to other nursing staff. Provide leadership support for new staff members.
• Provide direct patient care. Utilized critical thinking skills to identify problems or potential problems related to patient care.
• Responded to emergency situations with speed, expertise, and level-headed approaches to provide optimal care, support, and life-saving interventions.
• Acted as a ward in charge in the absence of Clinical Managers.

• Staff nurse in Surgical Unit, a Tertiary hospital.
• Prepare patients preoperatively and monitor patients postoperatively.
• Conducted patient education on medical treatments and procedures.
• Collaborated with interdisciplinary team members to develop plans of care for patients.
• Provided direct patient care including wound dressing, administering medication and IV therapy.

• Staff Nurse in a Secondary Hospital.
• Role was all around, from the emergency department, medical-surgical, and operating theatre.
• Direct patient care.. Managed multiple tasks simultaneously while maintaining quality standards of care.