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Professional Summary
Experienced nursing professional bringing demonstrated clinical expertise, leadership skills and technical knowledge. Proficient in updating charts, monitoring medications and working with multidisciplinary teams to optimize patient care. Self-motivated, organized, and efficient offering 30 years of clinical background in pediatric and neonatal intensive care settings in organizations of varied size and type. Quality-driven with strong interpersonal abilities. Reliable, flexible, supportive, and patient-focused with a strong dedication to improving patient outcomes and patient satisfaction through teamwork and evidenced-based care.
Skills
Patient management and monitoring
Ventilator care and management
IV and venipuncture certified
Neonatal ICU procedures
Medication and IV administration
Family and patient support
Nursing Care Plan Development
Patient education
Staff Development and Precepting
Patient Satisfaction and Process Improvement
Professional Experience
Registered Nurse, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, 06/2001 to Current Amita Health – Frankfort, IN,
Charge nurse of 27-bed neonatal intensive care unit responsible for assisting the management team in coordinating unit activity, daily patient assignments and clinical care delivery to ensure patient safety and satisfaction.
Provides high-quality, high-acuity care to critically ill neonates aged 23 weeks gestation to 1 year with diagnoses including prematurity, respiratory distress, cardiac malformation, neurologic dysfunction, congenital anomalies, and multi-system organ failure.
Monitors and manages various treatment and care interventions including multiple modes of continuous positive airway pressure and mechanical ventilation, inhaled nitric-oxide, therapeutic hypothermia, neonatal nutrition, fluid and electrolyte balance, and medication administration.
Communicates changes in patient status to the multi-disciplinary care team to provide immediate and appropriate care interventions.
Educates families regarding infant status and provide emotional support.
Provides families with individualized discharge teaching and instruction to ensure patient and family safety and satisfaction.
Participates in the development of new staff as a nurse preceptor and mentor.
Provides learning experiences for new staff under the direction of the clinical nurse educator.
Active participant in the Golden Hour Initiative Committee to optimize quality patient outcomes for the extremely premature infant.
Chairperson of the unit-based practice council responsible for leading unit projects to ensure quality care delivery to patients and families.
Register Nurse, 03/2000 to 05/2001 American Red Cross – Memphis, TN,
Managed high-level medical and surgical nursing care of pediatric patients with a wide range of diagnoses including all varieties of cardiac dysfunction (medical and surgical), cancers, orthopedic surgery, respiratory disorders, neurological disorders, and multi-system organ failure.
Supported patients through recovery from procedures such as bypass, angioplasty, pacemaker placement, repair of complex congenital heart disease, orthopedic surgeries, and tumor removal.
Followed up on diagnostic tests to verify completion and obtain results for treatment planning.
Communicated and collaborated with multi-disciplinary team members to ensure quality, safe, individualized patient care.
Explained patient conditions, procedures and treatment protocols to patients and families.
Carried out comprehensive care focused on patient needs and goals.
Clinical Registered Nurse, 04/1993 to 05/2001 Maine Health – Waterboro, ME,
Provided clinical nursing care to high-acuity patients aged 22 weeks to 1 year in a 55-bed Level III neonatal intensive care unit.
Served as fill-in charge nurse coordinating daily unit operations, patient assignments, and delegation of duties to ancillary staff members.
Responsible for stabilization and transport of critically ill neonates as a member of the neonatal intensive care transport team.
Collaborated with physicians and staff in other disciplines to ensure safe, quality, effective care delivery.
Served as a preceptor and mentor to new staff members.
Clinical Registered Nurse, 05/1991 to 03/1993 Maine Health – Waldoboro, ME,
Delivered exceptional care to neonatal ICU patients in a large academic teaching hospital's Level III NICU setting.
Evaluated patient clinical condition, vital signs and laboratory data to assess needs and provide both routine and emergency interventions.
Coordinated care with multiple disciplines to ensure quality care delivery to patients and families.
Participated in the stabilization and transport of critically ill neonates as a member of the NICU transport team.
Utilized valuable communication skills to deliver information to family members regarding patient treatment, care and medical options.
Formulated individualized care plans for neonatal intensive care patients, reviewing on daily basis to determine effectiveness.
Education
Master of Science: Nursing Leadership And Management, Expected in 05/2022 Capella University - Minneapolis, MN GPA:
Bachelor of Science: Nursing, Expected in 12/2011 Drexel University - Philadelphia, PA GPA:
Associate of Science: Nursing, Expected in 05/1991 Hinds Community College - Raymond, MS GPA:
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