SAU/PACU Nurse Resume Example

• Function very independently as a resource nurse to the entire hospital, including but not limited to, ED, ICU, PACU, and telemetry floors.
• Responsibilities include responding to all codes in the hospital, including stroke codes, where the SWAT nurse functions as the lead RN, assistance when ED is on pre-divert, back-up nurse for PACU, starting IVs in the whole hospital, monitoring critical patients for Radiology procedures, and perform most conscious sedation procedures in the ED and Radiology.

• Worked in Colorectal Clinic which included conscious sedation for colorectal procedures and assisting colorectal surgeon with intra-procedural nursing skills such as biopsies, polypectomies, and endoscopic tattooing.
• Worked in vascular clinic as Vascular Surgery Coordinator, meeting with patients prior to surgery going over pre-op instructions, education, and plan of care through surgery, post-op process, and follow-up.
  

• Functioned as a pre-op, PACU, and conscious sedation nurse, working with adult and pediatric patients in a same day surgery setting comprised of a variety of specialties including Orthopedics, Ophthalmology, ENT, Plastics, GI/Endoscopy procedures, Interventional Pain Management and Podiatry.
• Also, filled in, when needed, as a circulating RN in OR podiatry Cases and conscious sedation nurse for interventional pain cases.
• Responsibilities as a Pre-Op Nurse included interpreting and carrying out physicians' orders, obtaining and evaluating lab values, EKG, and X-Ray reports, assessment and documentation of patient's medical histories, including allergies, medications, and other assessment parameters, obtain consents, starting IV's, pre-op phone calls, and assisting anesthesia with peripheral nerve blocks under conscious sedation.
• Responsibilities as a PACU nurse included immediate post-op airway management, pain management, monitoring vital signs, interpreting and reporting abnormal variances to anesthesia when indicated, and providing post-operative discharge instructions to patients and families.

• University of Missouri Hospitals & Clinics1/2006-9/2008

Columbia, MO

• North Memorial Hospital8/2005-12/2005

Robbinsdale, MN

• St. Rose Dominican Hospital1/2005-8/2005

Henderson, NV

• Castle Medical Center1/2004-12/2004

Kailua, HI

• St. Rose Dominican Hospital8/2003-12/2003

Henderson, NV

• Responsible for patient care in a highly acute environment providing care for adult patients after coronary artery bypass surgery, valve surgery, and other heart and lung surgeries.
• Act as patient advocate; assess patient status and notify physicians of clinical changes.
• Direct interaction with families keeping informed on patient status and a lot of patient teaching post-operatively.

• Worked in Colorectal Clinic which included conscious sedation for colorectal procedures and assisting colorectal surgeon with intra-procedural nursing skills such as biopsies, polypectomies, and endoscopic tattooing.
• Worked in vascular clinic as Vascular Surgery Coordinator, meeting with patients prior to surgery going over pre-op instructions, education, and plan of care through surgery, post-op process, and follow-up.

• UCSD Medical Center