Araceli Collado, RN

About

Araceli Collado is a registered adult nurse and clinical reviewer with professional experience in infectious diseases, intensive care, and cardiac nursing. Her clinical career spans frontline healthcare environments in Gibraltar and the United Kingdom, including infectious diseases wards, intensive care units, and specialist cardiac services.

She currently works as an Infectious Diseases Nurse with the Gibraltar Health Authority, where she provides specialised care to patients with a broad range of infectious and communicable diseases. Her practice is centred on infection prevention and control, patient assessment, isolation procedures, antimicrobial resistance awareness, clinical monitoring, and patient and family education.

Before joining the Gibraltar Health Authority, Araceli worked for more than four years at North Manchester General Hospital. She spent three years as an Intensive Care Nurse, caring for critically ill patients who required mechanical ventilation, dialysis, advanced haemodynamic monitoring, and rapid emergency intervention. She previously worked as a Cardiac Nurse, providing care to patients with acute and chronic cardiovascular conditions.

Role as a Clinical Reviewer

As a clinical reviewer for NurseOnShift, Araceli applies her frontline nursing experience to the review of nursing and healthcare education content. Her work focuses on ensuring that published information is clinically accurate, evidence-based, clearly communicated, and relevant to current nursing practice.

She reviews content from the perspective of an experienced practising nurse, helping identify information that may be unclear, incomplete, outdated, or inconsistent with patient-safety principles. Her clinical background in infectious diseases, critical care, and cardiac nursing supports the review of educational articles, clinical guides, NCLEX-style questions, patient scenarios, and answer rationales covering a wide range of nursing topics.

Professional Profiles & Verification

• Nursing & Midwifery Council (UK) — nurse register lookup

Clinical Experience

Education & Professional Training

Certificate in Professional Studies in Critical Care
Manchester NHS Foundation Trust · January 2022 – July 2023

Specialist professional studies in critical care, strengthening knowledge of complex patient assessment, mechanical ventilation, haemodynamic monitoring, emergency management, and advanced critical care nursing.

Bachelor of Science with Honours in Adult Nursing (First-Class Honours)
Manchester Metropolitan University · September 2016 – September 2019

Undergraduate nursing education providing the academic and clinical foundation required to practise as an adult nurse across acute, critical care, cardiac, and infectious disease settings.

Clinical Skills & Professional Competencies

• Infectious diseases nursing and infection prevention and control
• Isolation and transmission-based precautions
• Antimicrobial resistance
• Critical care nursing, mechanical ventilation, and haemodynamic monitoring
• Dialysis and renal replacement therapy
• Emergency management and escalation of clinical deterioration
• Cardiac nursing, cardiovascular disease management, and ECG interpretation
• Basic Life Support and Immediate Life Support
• Risk assessment, multidisciplinary teamwork, and patient and family education

Areas of Clinical & Editorial Expertise

• Infectious diseases
• Infection control
• Critical care
• Mechanical ventilation
• Cardiac nursing
• Patient safety
• NCLEX content
• Clinical review

Editorial & Review Philosophy