Team Leader Nursing Resume Example

Description:

Staff Nurse , Registered Professional Nurse (RN) who practices within scope of Nurse Practice Act to ensure delivery of comprehensive, high quality, individualized nursing care, based upon knowledge and experience, nursing process and leadership skills.

Essential Functions:

• Assesses each patient's biophysical, psychosocial, environment, spiritual, cultural, self-care, educational and discharge planning based on age and development status
• Develops and prioritizes an outcome directed plan of care to assigned patients and changes as necessary
• Performs clinical and technical aspects of care in accordance with established policies, procedures, standards of practice and within scope of State Nurse Practice. Documents care per established standards
• Evaluates effectiveness of nursing interventions
• Assess patient and family educational needs and ability to participate and learn to achieve patient plan of care through collaboration with other team members
• Reviews plan of care and consults with physician and other health care providers to adjust plan to assure optimum patient outcomes within scheduled time frame
• Utilizes caring behaviors of empathy , active listening and cultural sensitivity and supports patient dignity
• Provides patient/family education

• Ensured that all surgical instruments and sponges that were used in procedures were accounted for upon completion of operations
• Assessed patients prior to surgical procedures by asking questions and detailing medical histories
• Built relationships with pre- and post-surgical patients through compassionate approach and positive attitude
• Carried out nursing tasks safely to maintain high level of care that complied with organization's procedures and regulations
• Performed preoperative assessments on patients and evaluated overall health
• Kept optimal supply levels in treatment rooms, triage and other areas to meet typical patient loads
• Assisted surgeons with cutting of tissue, clamping and suturing during operational procedures
• Monitored surgical patients and delivered quality level of care before, during and after operations to promote positive outcomes
• Kept count of all surgical instruments and sponges used during operations and procedures