Pediatric Cardiac ICU Nurse Resume Example

San Salvador, El Salvador, May 2016

San Salvador, El Salvador, May 2015

Lima, Peru, February 2014

• PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Quality & Performance Improvement Projects Parent Discharge Survey for ICU, 2016 PCICU Parent Welcome Handbook, 2015 Improving Nursing Handoff 2013, 2014 Created a tool to help nurses with important details during shift-to-shift handoff report.
• Bugging out, 2015 Reduction in turnaround time for lab results sent to microbiology lab by creating a "shortcut" on pneumatic tube station.
• Secondary outcome: reduction in amount of supplies used while waiting for results.
• Improving Communication and Defining Nursing Roles During Cardiac Arrest Presentation/Education for New Graduate nurses to Cardiac PICU.

• Fellowship to create quality control and patient safety measures on individual clinical units.
• Project topic: reducing central line associated blood stream infections: utilizing IT services to recreate documentation guidelines.

• Program designed to give PCICU nurses the necessary tools to help synthesize bedside data and events to help make better clinical decisions at the bedside for continuing education credits.
• CHONY Shared Governance PCICU Unit Practice Council Chair, current position since 2014 Staff Advisory Council, member since creation January 2016 CHONY Flu Champion 2013 & 2014, 2015, 2016 Seasonal flu vaccinator for staff.
• Professional Conferences PCICS International Conference: Dec 2012, Dec 2015 Contemporary Forums Pediatric Critical Care Nursing Conference: Nov 2014 Current Concepts in Pediatric and Adult Congenital Cardiac Critical Care: Dec 2011, Mar 2013 Unit-based in-service/discussion series.
• Topics include: Sterile line access, nursing roles during cardiac arrest, CLABSI protocols, Managing the ventilated patient, VAP initiatives, The Oscillator, caring for patient with an open chest, and debriefing sessions regarding expired patients, cardiac output and cerebral saturation monitoring, pacemakers, injections, ZOLL defibrillator, nursing handoff SBAR, ICU neurological considerations after cardiopulmonary bypass.

• 10-week Student Nurse Internship Program in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit.

• Ambulance Volunteer/ "First Responder" (Israeli EMT).
• Licensed Israeli EMT.
• Skills: CPR, traumatic car accident treatment, bandaging wounds, casualty incident training in the event of a terrorist attack.