Experience

Medical City Arlington

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Registered Nurse (Post Partum, Nursery, Gynecology)

  • Apr 2006 - Present

  − Unit supervisor from April 2006 – June 2007.− Fill in as charge nurse when unit supervisor not available.− Staff Nurse on Post Partum floor: Assess patients, administer medications, assist with breastfeeding, provide mother/newborn teaching, take vital signs, assist with sitz baths, monitor intake and output, incision care, routine post partum care, and assist doctors with blood patches.− Provided couplet care – cared for mothers and their newborns and provided routine care and teaching.− Provided newborn care – assessments, vital signs, feedings, changings, assist pediatrician during circumcision, transcutaneous bill checks, serum bill checks, baths.− Float to gynecological surgery/overflow post partum – care for post hysterectomy patients, care for moms with fetal demise, and care for post partum moms.− Chart using Centricity and Meditech. Show less

• Registered Nurse (Med-Surg, Orthopedics, Neurology)

  • Apr 2005 - Apr 2006

  − Charge nurse from April 2006 – June 2007.− Staff nurse on Med-Surg/Orthopedics/Neurology floor.− Wound Care Team Representative for unit.− Safety Officer for Unit.− Member of Bariatric team – cared for bariatric patients, attending training for caring for bariatric patients.− Member of Magnet Committee – worked with helping hospital to achieve magnet status.− Member of Peer Review Committee.− Charted using Meditech.

• Graduate Nurse (Pediatrics, Gynecology)

  • Jun 2004 - Apr 2005

  ̶ Completed Nurse Internship program on pediatrics/gynecological surgery floor. Also, as part of program, rotated to NICU, nursery, post part, and day surgery.̶ Worked with graduate nurse alongside an RN to help transition into the RN role.̶ Charted using Meditech

• Patient Care Assistant (Med-Surg)

  • Jun 2003 - May 2004

  − Performed duties such as taking vital signs, assisting with ADLs, checking blood sugars, d/c’ing foleys and IVs, dressing changes, monitoring and recording intake and output, and assisting the nurse with anything else she needed help with.− Attended externship classes and learned about nurse and non-nurse related roles on different floors− Charted using Meditech− Floated to rehab, post partum, and pediatrics