AHEART (Adult HEalth Rotation Team) RN Resume Example

600 Gresham Drive

Norfolk, VA 23507

Hours per week: 36

Salary: 26.25 USD Per Hour

Level I Trauma Center with 563 inpatient beds

Magnet recognized

One to eight patient load assignments

Role involves rotating to nine different medical surgical units and expands to include a growing number of intermediate care units available for rotation options after one year within the program.

Responsibilities include efficient multitasking and prioritization while providing safe and effective direct patient care in an acute care setting.

Administer medications and perform treatment interventions to patients and monitor responses while working with the interdisciplinary care team to adjust plans of care.

Patient care skills utilized:

• Skilled nursing head-to-toe assessments
• Focused nursing assessments
• Obtain and interpret orthostatic vital signs
• Perform manual blood pressure checks
• Obtain and interpret vital signs for necessary interventions
• Manage glucose levels with insulin
• Perform neurological assessments
• Perform neurovascular assessments
• Assess mental status
• Assess patient's physical mobility
• Assess for nutritional risk factors
• Oral, IV, subcutaneous, and intramuscular medication administration
• Chemotherapy administration
• Narcan administration
• Epidural management
• Initiating and maintaining IV access
• Manage PCA medications
• Manage IV drip medications including blood products, albumin, Furosemide, Bumetadine, TPN, Cardizem, Heparin, Nitrogycerin, Epinepherine, and Amiodarone
• Manage central lines including PICC, mediport, subclavian, intrajugular, and femoral lines
• Manage midline catheters
• Perform central line dressing changes
• Access and de-access mediports
• Obtain blood specimens from central lines
• Phlebotomy
• Interpret lab values and appropriate interventions based on facility protocols
• Collection of lab specimen (urine, stool, sputum, drain fluids)
• Perform ECGs
• Interpret telemetry rhythms
• Initiate foley catheters
• Remove foley catheters
• Monitor urinary output with foley catheter discontinuation
• Manage continuous bladder irrigation
• Initiate fecal management systems
• Manage ileostomies and colostomies
• Maintain surgical drains including wound vac, JP drain, Bili drain, Penrose drain, Blake drain, and Hemovac
• Perform wound dressing changes
• Perform peritoneal dialysis
• Monitor chest tubes
• Remove sutures
• Initiate nasogastric tubes
• Administer tube feeding
• Manage gastric tubes
• Monitor gastric residuals
• Monitor CIWA protocol and interventions
• Initiate and maintain physical restraints
• Manage external hardware including traction
• Participate in cardiac arrest interventions
• Perform end of life and hospice interventions
• Manage tracheostomies
• Perform tracheal suctioning
• Administer Oxygen and assess for additional O2 needs
• Maintain BiPAP and CPAP use
• Assess for signs of a stroke
• Perform chest pain protocol interventions
• Assess appropriate indications to notify a physician of health status change in a patient
• Perform admission screenings
• Provide discharge teaching
• Develop care plans
• Perform patient and family education
• Delegate patient care interventions appropriately to members of the interdisciplinary care team
• Collaborate with the interdisciplinary care team
• Prioritize patient care needs

Patient populations cared for:

• Asthma
• Cancer
• Covid19 (coronavirus)
• Chronic or acute bronchitis
• Tuberculosis
• Pneumonia
• Influenza
• Pleural effusions
• Pneumothorax
• Pulmonary hypertension
• Respiratory failure
• Tracheostomy and laryngectomy
• Atelectasis
• Aspiration
• Detoxification
• Sepsis
• Stroke
• Gun shot wound
• Stabbing
• Congestive heart failure
• Pulmonary embolism
• Coronary artery disease
• Peripheral vascular disease
• Atrial fibrillation
• Ventricular tachycardia
• Atrial flutter
• Fistula
• Cholecystitis
• Pancreatitis
• Cellulitis
• Amputation
• Gastrointestinal bleeding
• Diabetic ketoacidosis
• Hernia repair
• Bowel perforation
• Colostomy or ileostomy placement
• Fibromyalgia management
• Dementia
• Mental health disorders
• Seizures
• Failure to thrive
• Urinary tract infection
• Chronic kidney disease and failure
• Spinal surgeries
• Bariatric surgery
• Burn management
• Immunocompromised
• Clostridium difficile infection
• Bacteremia infections
• Allergic reaction management
• Liver failure
• Organ transplant
• Osteoarthritis
• HIV
• Hospice

Supervisor: Shannon White (757-816-2816)

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