Experience

Shepherd's Care Foundation

• Canada
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Registered Nurse

  • May 2020 - Present

  Day Charge Nurse Day Charge Nurse



Alberta Health Services

• Canada
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 700 & Above Employee

• • May 2019 - May 2020

  - Work collaboratively with the patient, family, registered nurses, nurse practitioner, neurologists, and social worker.- Counsel, and advocate for the patients seen in the MS (Multiple Sclerosis) Outpatient Clinic.- Manage insurance applications and patient teaching- Experience working with Connect Care (electronic charting, scheduling, lab work and imaging orders, and referral coordination)- Experience with eClinician, Netcare, Outlook, and Word- Multi-tasking: assisting neurologists with lumbar punctures, running clinic, and following up with patients outside the clinic via MyChart/MyAHSConnect email and telephone encounters. Show less

• • Feb 2018 - Oct 2019

  - Provide care for patients suffering from a wide range of neurological disorders, such as strokes, brain tumours, epilepsy, meningitis, encephalitis, Myasthenia Gravis, Guillain Barre Syndrome, Parkinson's Disease, Multiple Sclerosis, and suffered brain or spinal cord injuries. - Help patients recover behavioural, cognitive, and physical abilities.Infectious disease management, including hepatitis, meningitis, influenza, shingles, and Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease. - Provide pre-operative and post-operative care. - Perform skills and procedures with JP, hemovac, and lumbar drains, halo rings and vests, cervical spine precautions, tracheostomies, and sutures, staples, and dressing care. - Provide specific discharge teaching, catered toward each unique patient and their family. Show less

• • Sep 2017 - Feb 2018

  - Implement team nursing in a 32-bed acute care unit. Each team consists of 1 RN, 1 LPN, and 1 HCA. Together we share a 16- patient load. - Focused assessments and treatments for patients with acute, chronic, and palliative conditions such as heart, kidney, and liver failure, diabetic ketoacidosis, pneumonia, influenza, stroke, cancer, multiple sclerosis, and neutropenia. - Provide competent skills in IV initiation, subcutaneous butterfly insertion, PICC dressing changes, medication and blood administration, and nasogastric, ostomy, and foley catheter care. Show less