Nurse Practioner

• Aug 2022 - Present

Stand Alone Emergeny Room

• Apr 2022 - Aug 2022

- Excellent assessment skills enabling effective patient care and timely treatment. - Prioritize and assess patients in a critical environment. - Communicate effectively with providers and other team members to provide safe care. - Maintain critical skills including IV drip management, medication administration, stroke and STMI protocol, IV insertion, and splinting. - Excellent assessment skills enabling effective patient care and timely treatment. - Prioritize and assess patients in a critical environment. - Communicate effectively with providers and other team members to provide safe care. - Maintain critical skills including IV drip management, medication administration, stroke and STMI protocol, IV insertion, and splinting.

Infusion Nurse

• Aug 2021 - Apr 2022

- Administer and monitor patients with medical conditions requiring infusion therapy. - Maintain a 98% 1st time IV and Port access rate. - Ensure patients insurances and medication assistance programs are up to date for infusion. Contact insurance companies and assistance programs to maintain patient eligibility. - Discuss treatment options and medication availability with referring providers. - Work with inhouse Nurse Practitioners to maintain a 100% safety rate. - Administer and monitor patients with medical conditions requiring infusion therapy. - Maintain a 98% 1st time IV and Port access rate. - Ensure patients insurances and medication assistance programs are up to date for infusion. Contact insurance companies and assistance programs to maintain patient eligibility. - Discuss treatment options and medication availability with referring providers. - Work with inhouse Nurse Practitioners to maintain a 100% safety rate.

Stand Alone Emergency Room Director and RN

• Aug 2019 - Feb 2021

- Responsible for all Emergency Room functions including payroll, marketing, staff retention, hiring/termination, staff education, staff schedule, process implementation and improvement, facility contracts, front desk operations and facility maintenance. - Oversee infection control compliance, certifications for COLA and CLIA and State Inspection preparation and compliance. - Created and implemented a Mid-level program to assist with increased patient volume which increased our ER response time. - Created and implemented a process to streamline a 130% patient increase due to COIVD. - Increased patient safety by purchasing and implement central monitoring in every patient room. - Maintain ER skills by working 2 days a week on the floor. Provided care to people across the lifespan with different conditions from infants, children, pregnant women, and the elderly. - Administered critical IV medications such as Cardizem, Dopamine, Insulin, Nitroglycerin, and Adenosine. - Independently maintained safe and effective care to patients with different acuity levels in a time-restricted and demanding environment including stroke, heart attack, pulmonary embolism and complex lacerations. Show less

Post Anesthesia Care Nurse

• Jul 2017 - Aug 2019

Rotates through Preparation and Hold, Post Anesthesia Recovery and Same Day Surgery departments while providing care to approximately 500 patients per year with a 100% safety rating. Created, implemented and managed new staff orientation. Preceped, managed, and orients new nurses to all 3 PACU sections. Selected to recover pediatric, new trauma and acutely sick patients on a regular basis. Rotates through Preparation and Hold, Post Anesthesia Recovery and Same Day Surgery departments while providing care to approximately 500 patients per year with a 100% safety rating. Created, implemented and managed new staff orientation. Preceped, managed, and orients new nurses to all 3 PACU sections. Selected to recover pediatric, new trauma and acutely sick patients on a regular basis.

Surgical/Trauma Critical Care Registered Nurse

• Jun 2014 - Oct 2016

Provides advanced specialized nursing care to approximatley 450 critically ill adults and pediatric populations per year. Provide high quality patient care with an emphasis on teamwork and positive patient outcomes. Designated to a leadership role as Charge Nurse for 10 staff members and 10 patients, with a 100% safety record. Provides conscious sedation, surgery recovery and an integral member of the hospitals Code Blue team. Teaches and precepts new Critical Care Registered Nurses, LPNs, and LPN students. Successfully precepted 2 new Critical Care Registered Nurses from novice to facilitating their ability to provide safe and effective patient care on their own. Part of a hospital wide committee to improve documentation practices,with 4 team members below me. Show less

Medical Critical Care Registered Nurse

• Jan 2013 - Jun 2014

Provided advanced specialized nursing care to critically ill adult population with multiple co-morbidities in acute medical distress. Nursing care provided for approximately 450 patients per year. Was appointed as unit Charge Nurse for 12 nurses and 15 patients per day with a 100% safety record.Performed conscious sedation for the critically ill patient during procedures. Worked closely with Anesthesiologists and Providers to maintain patient safety throughout the procedure. Successfully precepted 1 novice critical care nurses to a competent practicing nurse with the ability to provide safe and effective nursing care. Continuously precepts LPNs and Army Medic students. Taught time management and basic skills required in the critical care setting. Show less

Wounded Warrior/Neurology/VIP Medical Surgical Registered Nurse

• Aug 2011 - Jan 2013

Advised staff on Periphery Inserted Central Catheters (PICCs). Continuously educated and monitored 55 staff members caring for PICCs, which contributed to the hospitals over all low PICC infection rate of 2%. Created schedule for 55 staff members while balancing staff vacation, training, deployments and personal conflicts. Staff received schedule in a timely manner 100% of the time. Initiated a floor wide morale week involving approximately 150 staff members during the integration of a duel service hospital. Initiative was recognized by the Chief Medical Officer. Created and published family and patient pamphlet for orientation to unit. Pamphlet assisted family members and patients become comfortable with the rules and practices of the floor. Show less

Wounded Warrior Medical Surgical Registered Nurse

• Dec 2010 - Aug 2011

Successfully precepted new LPNs to familiarize them with nursing practice and hospital policy. Assisted with preparation for The Joint Commission Audits by tracking staff competency folders. Compliance with folders contributed to the hospitals over all excellent rating from The Joint Commission.