SARA FAIQ

• Provided compassionate inpatient hospital medicine services in a full-service 243-bed acute care medical and surgical hospital under the hospitalist services
• Managed and treated common health problems, as well as serious, chronic, and complex illnesses in adult and the elderly population serving residents of Reston and the growing Northern Virginia region
• Provided a broad range of medical services for which educationally prepared and competency maintained with on-going physician supervision and collaboration
• Arranged for patient admission with hospitalists, patient care team physicians, and specialists
• Performed physical examinations and recorded patient histories with dictation of the history and physical in the medical record
• Provided medical consult on various post-operative patients for post-op medical management and observation under hospitalist services
• Provided medical consult on inpatient acute rehab patients under hospitalist services
• Active and ongoing involvement in the quality improvement activities in the department of hospital medicine and with the inpatient acute rehab team
• Ordered diagnostic and therapeutic studies and/or treatments, and assisted in establishing diagnostic decision making
• Ordered medications as approved by the licensing boards
• Instructed and counseled patients regarding mental and physical health
• Referred patients to appropriate specialists, case management, and other medical or community resources
• Conversed with appropriate consultants to ensure patient management continuity and follow-ups

• Served as an admitting provider for patients to the hospital while collecting medical histories, conducting physical exams, ordering tests, assessing and diagnosing acute and chronic illnesses
• Executed patient care plan as necessary and communicated with patient and family as needed
• Provided safe therapeutic care to include assessment and overall management of critically ill patients in acute care setting
• Utilized evidence-based guidelines, standards, and protocols for delivery of care
• Developed a holistic care plan in collaboration with supervising nocturnists using the patient’s physiologic and psychosocial findings, while incorporating pertinent medical and laboratory data

● Provided emergency response medical services at the Dulles International Airport (IAD) in support of the Task Force for the Afghan refugees

● Conducted Covid-19 screening, registration, and testing of incoming passengers

● Administered Covid-19 nasal swab tests (Rapid and PCR) and interpreted on-site results

● Reported negative and positive cases based on established CDC protocols and reporting mandates

● Provided linguistic interpretation services for the refugees and the medical and the airport staff

● Cared for stable but critically ill patients requiring high degree of support on a 24-bed critical care unit

● Monitored patient vitals, intravenous drips, and EKG at bedside and central nursing station

● Provided care for vented and trached patients and assisted Respiratory Therapists with ventilator support/weaning

● Administered blood and/or blood product transfusions

Mentor and precept new nurses and nursing students by providing instructions, teaching, and close observation

● Cared for adult medical-surgical patients requiring telemetry monitoring on a 17-bed unit

● Completed documentation related to assessments, patient outcomes, and evaluations of interventions

● Assimilated lab data and test results, contacted the appropriate medical providers with abnormal results

● Interpreted electrocardiograms and notified the medical team of changes in patients’ conditions

● Worked with all members of the patient care team, including doctors, other nurses, and members of respiratory, occupational, and physical therapy