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CANDY STRIPER
Professional Summary
  • Strong 
  • Skilled
  • Proficient
  • patient advocate 
  • interdisciplinary team member
  • communicator
  • educator

Well equipped to

  • support my fellow nurses
  • empower my patients
  • assist my employer in saving money

   or best practice research 

Fast efficient with :

  • discharges
  • documentation
  • care planning.
  • Considered friendly and helpful to paitents,

   ancillary staff,family members and visitors. 

Skills

  • CPR/First Aid certified
  • ACLS
  • CCRN
  • CCRT
  • unit representative for  the hospital wide nurse practice council


  • Wound care certified
  • Compassionate
  • strong advocate
  • cochair/secretary for the CCU unit practice council
  • Flexible to work in other critical care areas when needed.
Work History
Candy striper, 05/1984 to 05/1985
Leonard Hospital – Troy N.Y.
  • Assisted patients with bathing, oral hygiene, grooming, feeding and elimination.
  • Maintained a clean, healthy and safe environment.
  • Assisted with patient transfer and ambulation.
  • Performed clerical duties, such as word processing, data entry, answering phones and filing.

Nurses Aide, 05/1985 to 05/1990
Highgate Manor – Troy n.y.
  • Responded appropriately to the physical, emotional and developmental needs of patients.
  • Assisted patients with bathing, oral hygiene, grooming, feeding and elimination.
  • Helped patients move in and out of beds, baths, wheelchairs and automobiles.
  • Maintained a clean, healthy and safe environment.
  • Assisted with patient transfer and ambulation.

Respiratory therapist, 09/1990 to 09/1992
Leonard Hospital – Troy N.Y.
  •  provided expert ventilatory care intubation pulmonary hygiene for the E.r. I.C.U. General medicine Floors.
  • Administered Incentive spirometry chest physiotherapy bronchodilator therapy
  • Performed arterial blood gasses
  • Maintained  laboratory equipment responsible for obtaining ABG results.
  • Developed care plans for asthma,pneumonia,respiratory failure, C.O.P.D

Respiratory therapist, 05/1994 to 10/1998
Saint Marys Hospital – Troy N.Y.

Administered treatment modalities to include:

  • small volume nebulizer, oxygen therapy,ventilator support,
  • CPAP,BiPAP, T-piece,IPPB 
  • Placement of arterial lines,intubation,
  • swan ganz monitoring,
  • Arterial and venous blood gas monitoring

Evaluate and treat medical conditions to include:

  • flail chest,pneumonia,croup, eppiglotitis,Asthma,emphysema
  • cor pulmonale,pneumothorax,seizure disorders,anaphylaxis
  • respiratory or cardiac failure.
Registered Respiratory therapist, 05/1992 to 04/2004
Saint Peters Hospital – Albany N.Y.
  • Administered treatment modalities to include:

      small volume nebulizer, oxygen therapy,ventilator support, CPAP,BiPAP, T-

     piece,IPPB,Placement of arterial lines,intubation,swan Ganz monitoring,

     Arterial and venous blood gas monitoring

  • Evaluate and treat medical conditions to include:

    flail chest,pneumonia,croup,epiglottitis,Asthma,emphysema,cor

    pulmonale,pneumothorax,seizure disorders,anaphylaxis,respiratory

    or cardiac failure.pneumonectomy Cancer.

  • Assist Pulmonologist with the placement of trach and peg at the bedside.
  • Assist perfusionist and anesthesiologist in O.R. with open heart surgery
  • Work with adult  pediatric and neonatal populations in all modalities.


RN and CCRN, 05/2004 to Current
Albany Medical center – Albany N.Y.

Trained to evaluate create plan of care treat educate and document care for the following conditions:

  • Cardio/Respiratory/Renal failure
  • thyroid Storm
  • cardiac arrhythmias
  • drug overdose
  • diabetic management
  • anaphylaxis
  • seizure
  • status epileptics
  • multi organ failure, heart failure, liver failure/cirrhosis
  • sepsis, shock, post and pre op coronary artery disease
  • transcatheter aortic valve replacement, mitral clipping
  • Fall prevention, Wound care and prevention. 

Proficient in utilizing the following machinery:

  • computers,office equipment,telephone ,monitoring and security systems
  • CRRT, Ventilators,CPAP,BiPAP, HFNC
  • LVAD, Impella, IABP, suction/chest tube
  • foley, NG/OG/Peg, Core track, jp, chest tubes and drains
  • Wound vacs.Swan-Ganz catheters, Arterial lines,Triple lumens
  • insertion of PIVs, placement of Foley. Hemodynamic monitoring.

Excellent in administering and titrating all medication

  • by IV, PO ,rectal, IM methods. This includes all pressors, milrinone, anticoagulants.

Education
Associate of Science: Respiratory Therapy, 1994
H.V.C.C. - Troy N.Y.
Associate of Science: Nursing, 2004
H.V.C.C. - Troy N.Y.
Future educational and professional goals
  • My present goal is to take a geriatric couple under my wing and guide them through their ever growing list of symptoms and medications . I am learning this path with my father and his wife. It is a complicated balance of educating correcting and guiding ; while preserving their dignity, respecting their choices and assuring their safety. 
  • My future starts with getting a  BSN. Finding a way to educate the community on cardiorespiratory health ,stroke and the concept of peritoneal dialysis.
  • I would like to do a research study to ascertain the selection criteria for who is and is not offered PD.  I would like to educate hospital cardiologists on the possibilities and safety of it. I'd like to try to make it a more common experience for cardiac patients who become too debilitated with regular hemodialysis. Perhaps be an integral part in deciding for patients who can be treated fewer times that three times a week.
  •  I plan to become certified to teach adult and pediatric CPR to the general public. 
  • In the long range after i retire i'd like to become a motivational speaker to encourage health care professionals with anecdotal stories and experiences that warm their hearts and make them feel good about their profession. I'd like to play a part in educating new nurses perhaps at the college or clinical site. Perhaps through computer education. Perhaps be a part in writing protocols for hospitals and colleges.  Perhaps working for JCAHO to ensure excellence in hospital environments, practices, documentation, treatment and utilization of hospital staff.
Future professional goals
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Resume Overview

Companies Worked For:

  • Leonard Hospital
  • Highgate Manor
  • Saint Marys Hospital
  • Saint Peters Hospital
  • Albany Medical center

School Attended

  • H.V.C.C.

Job Titles Held:

  • Candy striper
  • Nurses Aide
  • Respiratory therapist
  • Registered Respiratory therapist
  • RN and CCRN

Degrees

  • Associate of Science : Respiratory Therapy , 1994
    Associate of Science : Nursing , 2004

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