Charge Registered Nurse—Pain Management Resume Example
Dependable charge nurse with 23 years experience treating patients and coordinating care with other healthcare staff. Proven history of leveraging critical thinking, analysis and medical knowledge to deliver exceptional care in high-pressure environments. Multi-tasker capable of prioritizing clinical and operational tasks in fast-paced medical setting.
Medical Surgical Board-Certified Registered Nurse with experience in Telementry, Pain Management, Emergency department and Medical surgical nursing. Focused on continuously advancing expertise in patient care while driving innovation.
- Build rapport with the patient and family members to deliver exceptional care.
- Train new nurses in proper techniques, care standards, operational procedures and safety protocols to optimize performance and safety.
- Maximize team performance by monitoring nursing care, including patient assessment processes and treatment implementations.
- Educate patients and answered questions about health condition, prognosis and treatment.
- Strengthen unit care standards and policies with focus on patient safety and dignity.
- Perform patient assessments and adjust care plans accordingly.
- Collaborate with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions.
- Monitor patient condition, including interpreting and tracking EKG readings, identifying irregular telemetry readings and updating team members on changes in stability or acuity.
- Accurately document all elements of nursing assessment, including treatment, medications and IVs administered, discharge instructions and follow-up care.
- Responsible for all staffing schedules, changing staffing needs and ordering all supplies.
- Collaborate with physician to inform him of any consults and gather the information needed.
- Follow up phone calls to patients who had procedures in the Pain Center to check on their condition.
- Resolve any conflict or issue with patient and their treatment.
- Policy development and Data entry
- Patient education to include lifestyle choices and safety at home.
- Educated patients and family members on at home care options to reduce the chances of symptom reoccurrence.
- Prepared patients for surgery, educating patients and family members on surgical procedures such as spinal cord stimulators, all types if spinal steroid injections, augmentations and vertebral plasty, and radio frequency ablations.
- Collaborated with interdisciplinary healthcare personnel to meet patients' personal, physical, psychological and cognitive needs.
- Maintained great communication with patient and family to ensure all educational needs have been meet.
- Scheduled all follow appointments
- Admission and discharge of procedural patients
- Monitored patient condition, including interpreting and tracking EKG readings, identifying irregular telemetry readings and updating team members on changes in stability or acuity.
- Administered medications and treatment to patients and monitored responses while working with healthcare teams to adjust care plans.
- Delivered outstanding care to patients with various diagnoses and managed care from treatment initiation through to completion.
- Reviewed post-operative orders and continuously monitored patients' post-operative vitals, set up PCA and fluids and oriented patients to unit to achieve optimal outcomes.
- Conveyed treatment options, diagnosis information and home care techniques to patients and caregivers to continue care consistency.
- Delivered medications via oral, IV and intramuscular injections, monitoring responses to catch and address new concerns.
- Accurately documented all elements of nursing assessment, including treatment, medications and IVs administered, discharge instructions and follow-up care.
- Goal oriented, team player
- Solid track record of resolving patient, staff and physician complaints quickly and efficiently
- Vast understanding of patient assessment and interpretation
- Able to work in a fast paced environment with high efficient and independently while multitasking
- EKG interpretation
- Intravenous therapy
- Insulin medication assistance
- Patient Care
- Patient and family advocacy
- EMR
- Spinal Cord Stimulators
- IV Therapy
- Post-Anesthesia Care
- Pain clinics
- Precepting
ACLS
BLS
STARR Trained
Board Certified Medical Surgical
COMMITTES:
-Nursing Staffing Counsel
-Unit Leadership Counsel
-Retention and Recruitment
-Magnet and Resiliency
-Professional Develpoment
-Infection Control Committee
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Resume Overview
School Attended
- Elmhurst College
Job Titles Held:
- Charge Registered Nurse—Pain Management
- Registered Nurse—Pain Management
- Registered Nurse—telemetry/med-surg
Degrees
- Bachelor of Science : Nursing
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