Experienced Critical Care Registered Nurse passionate about delivering customized and compassionate patient care in a collaborative format that promotes enhanced patient outcomes. Desiring to transition my admiration for medication, nursing, and individualized patient care into becoming a student within your institution's Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist program.
Community involvement: AMARA volunteer (foster care housing program)
Unit involvement: Charge nurse, rapid response member, UBC member, unit treasurer, journal club, preceptor, CAUTI, CLASBI, blood administration, provider notification, scanning compliance, and titration protocol task force member
Work History
Charge/Staff Registered Nurse, ICU, 03/2017 - Current Riverside Rehabilitation And Nursing Center – Riverside, MO,
Works within interdisciplinary health care team to develop, implement and make adjustments to patient care plans, individualizing strategies and methods to improve health and meet recovery goals.
Performs various nursing interventions such as but limited to wound care, vital sign monitoring, assessments, providing hygiene and ADL assistance, specimen collection, CAUTI prevention bundle, CLABSI prevention bundle, and fall prevention interventions.
Informs and educates patients and families of effective treatment options, plan of care, goals of treatments, and discharge and at-home care strategies that promote long-term outcomes.
Administers medications via oral, NG, OG, ETT, IV, rectal, PEG, SQ and IM injections and monitored response of interventions.
Provides guidance and mentorship while training new resident nurses, interns, and students in proper techniques, care standards, operational procedures, unit culture, policies, and safety protocols.
Updates patient charts to keep patient chart current, focusing on patient assessment, maintaining I&O's, titration of medications, and nursing interventions, while following ethical values and principles, and adhering to HIPAA medical record regulations to promote patients' privacy.
Effectively prioritize assignments, executing care based on each patient's relative condition and delegating tasks to available personnel to deliver safe and efficient care.
Certified in bedside sedation and coordinates and assists physicians to perform bedside procedures including but limited to intubations, chest tube placements, bronchoscopies, and central and arterial line placements.
Coordinates with providers and respiratory therapists to maintain airway management and safety, follows intubation and tracheostomy protocols, performs VAP prevention interventions, and follows SAT/SBT protocols.
Maintains respectful environment that honor patients' and families’ cultural and religious traditions and preferences.
Coordinates with chaplin and social work to facilitate patient/family involvement including plan of care, discharge planning, family in person/video conferences, and video chats.
Provides staffing assignments via collaboration with staffing, house supervisor, and other units to provide adequate and safe staffing metrics.
Follows isolation protocols maintaining patient, family, and staff education and safety.
Patient advocate that preserves human dignity, imparts empathy, promotes patient equality, and listens while providing a safe and non judgemental environment.
LPN, 03/2014 - 03/2017 Excela Health – Greensburg, PA,
Roomed patients and documented accurate and complete patient information to address patient reason for visit.
Supported physicians during examinations and scans, and assisted with diagnostic procedures.
Obtained biological specimens for ordered tests and prepared for laboratory transport.
Answered incoming phone calls from patients to provide basic assistance and triage medical concerns.
Completed X-RAY's, EKG's, and other procedures.
Medication administrations.
Ordered supplies.
Facilitated transfer of patient to higher level of care.
Pharmacy Technician, 09/2011 - 03/2014 Excela Health – Latrobe, PA,
Consulted with insurance company representatives to complete claims processing, resolve concerns and reconcile payments.
Collected prescription and medical information about prescriptions and medical conditions, obtaining medical history and allergies, and arranged consultations with pharmacists.
Calculated dosage, filled prescriptions and prepared prescription labels with absolute accuracy and compounded medications following standard procedures.
Ordered medicines daily to replenish stock and increase inventory in anticipation of need.
Collected co-payments or full payments from customers.
Processed over 300 prescriptions per day in busy pharmacy achieving decreased customer wait times and maintaining excellent customer satisfaction.
Processed incoming drug orders by checking deliveries against paperwork and updating computer system.
Restocked shelves.
Processed outdates.
Maintained clean working space.
Pharmacy Technician, 05/2005 - 09/2011 Rite Aide – City, STATE,
Consulted with insurance company representatives to complete claims processing, resolve concerns and reconcile payments.
Collected prescription and medical information about prescriptions and medical conditions, obtaining medical history and allergies, and arranged consultations with pharmacists.
Calculated dosage, filled prescriptions and prepared prescription labels with absolute accuracy and compounded medications following standard procedures.
Ordered medicines daily to replenish stock and increase inventory in anticipation of need.
Collected co-payments or full payments from customers.
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