Bedside Progressive Care Nurse Resume Example
I am currently a Progressive Care nurse with over 8+ years of experience in a clinical setting. I am an enthusiastic nurse eager to contribute to team success through hard work and attention to detail. I have experience, care, and extensive knowledge to help improve the lives of our patients through compassion, empathy, safety and teamwork. I have a background in nursing leadership as a supervisor of a medical-surgical-telemetry unit with a reputation of effectively managing not only our three medical-surgical units. Having a background in leadership has taught me how to effectively drive operational budget financials and save costs. I have been recognized for staff development that led to high performing teams. I am a preceptor to new graduate nurses and effectively promote teamwork, work closely together with our physicians and other interdisciplinary teams to promote the safest and best care possible to our patients. I am a certified language interpreter for our organization and have excellent time management and organizational skills. I have a great reputation for resolving problems and improving patient satisfaction. I have contributed on our Quality Council Committees to improve staff and patient processes by closely looking at evidence-based practices, morale, and productivity. My target job is to utilize my leadership abilities and show these skills as a Director of Nursing of a unit or a facility. I will continue to coach nursing staff and drive quality improvements to its fullest potential.
- Supervised team of 20+ staff members.
- Used Microsoft Excel to develop inventory tracking spreadsheets.
- Helped to collaborate our 'Quiet at Night' order set with physician for our units
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Georgetown Behavioral Health Institute – Georgetown , TX
- Devotes special emphasis to punctuality
- Work to maintain outstanding attendance record
- Consistently arriving to work ready to start immediately
- Thoroughly manage intravenous drips, chest tubes, JP drains, NG tubes, wound vacs while completing all necessary documentation in our electronic system
- Updating family and patients on plan of care
- Maintaining open communication with nocturnal physicians when they admit patients
- Report to charge of any patient changes
- Maintain professionalism and exemplify teamwork and leadership
- Delegate and educate our nursing assistants on the importance of why we complete certain tasks/processes
- Educate our patients and family and provide written handouts on procedures, new medications, in their language
- Developed team communications and information for Quality Council meetings
Lee Health – City , STATE
- Maintain effective communication with staff and upper management to ensure patient safety as number one priority
- Manage daily assignments and staff
- Collaboration in hiring process
- Ordered supplies to maintain effective inventory levels
- Kept facility in compliance with HIPAA, OSHA and other applicable guidelines
- Trained, evaluated and coached clinical staff to improve performance
- Sustained quality standards by performing routine audits and upholding internal and organizational best practices
- Leveraged feedback and process improvement opportunities to create safer and healthier environment and increase patient satisfaction
- Directed nursing activities for two departments with total of forty-bed combined with twenty-five + employees under direct par, providing guidance to nurses to deliver outstanding care and optimal patient satisfaction
- Partnered with physicians, social workers, activity therapists, nutritionists and case managers to develop and implement individualized care plans and documented all patient interactions and interventions in electronic charting systems. Worked closely together with nocturnal physicians to develop a 'Quiet at Night' order set to minimize interruptions in patient care at night
- Collaborated with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions
- Reported findings to quality departments after conducting routine restraint audits and worked with team to devise corrective actions for deficiencies
- Worked closely with upper leadership and house supervisor to manage effective performance for staff and patient acuity
- Improved patient satisfaction scores by modifying our weaknesses and increasing our scores by over 10% quarterly in accordance with HCHAP compliance
Lee Health – City , STATE
- Safe delivery and documentation of patient care through the nursing process
- Utilize critical thinking/management/problem solving and differentiation of urgency
- Coordinating/ directing nursing care for patients based on established clinical nursing practice standards
- Responsible for staff assignments
- Educated patients on health maintenance/disease prevention
- Performed telemetry monitoring of patients cardiac rhythms, properly recording all data
- Performed routine wound care and dressing changes on schedule
- Updated/advocated care plans to patients and families
- Prioritized urgent and non-urgent patient needs calmly and effectively
- Managed Jackson Pratt drains and chest tubes, NG, G and peg tubes
- Effectively addressed rapid response situations by strategically organizing and delegating tasks
Lee Health – City , STATE
- CNA duties and responsibilities
- Safe patient care/transfer
- Effective communication with patient and their families to promote safety as number one priority
- Maintained comfort and safety of each patient through careful monitoring and knowledge application
- Monitored each patient to meet appropriate care and document status changes and reported to RN
- Built rapport with patients and members of patients' support systems
- Reviewed daily assignment lists and associated charts
- Managed an assignment of over fifteen patients per shift
University of Central Florida - City, State
- Coursework in Nursing In Leadership and Management Track
- Expected graduation date: Spring 2021
Florida SouthWestern State College - City, State
- Graduated with 3.9 GPA
Florida SouthWestern State College - City, State
The English Honor Society awarded me the duty elected member certification entitling me to all of the rights and privileges appertaining to its membership.
Certified language interpreter for Lee Health System
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School Attended
- University of Central Florida
- Florida SouthWestern State College
Job Titles Held:
- Bedside Progressive Care Nurse
- Registered Nurse Supervisor
- Charge Nurse/Bedside Nurse
- Student Nurse/Certified Nursing Assistant Student
Degrees
- Master of Science : Nursing Administration , Expected in 2021
Bachelor of Science : Nursing , 08/2016
Associate of Science : Nursing , 05/2011
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