Aashlie Boston
Garfield Heights,OH
Summary
Compassionate and dedicated Registered Nurse with 7+ years of experience delivering safe, effective, and patient-centered care in both cardiovascular surgical intensive care and perioperative units. Demonstrates meticulous physical assessments and documentation skills. Effectively educates and communicates with interdisciplinary teams, patients, families, staff, colleagues, and students.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Perioperative Registered Nurse
Hillcrest Hospital
07.2019 - Current
- Effectively provides pre-operative and post-operative care for patients across their lifespan
- Follows patients through all phases of care, to ensure quality and safety, and individualized care
- Assess, coordinates, and develop patients' individualized care plans per surgical procedure and discharge planning with interdisciplinary teams
- Prepare the patient and room with all necessary equipment and medical supplies to assist the anesthesia staff with procedures
- Prepare the patient and room with all necessary equipment and medical supplies to assist the surgical team with any postoperative issues
- Reports preoperative and postoperative issues in a timely manner to the appropriate healthcare provider and implements necessary interventions to manage or resolve them
- Manages and troubleshoots medical equipment and medical supplies within the perioperative unit to ensure patient safety and to optimize care
- Train, supervise, and mentor new staff members and students as a unit preceptor
- Serves as a pacu team leader to coordinate and delegate tasks to post-op nurses and support staff to deliver quality care and mitigate unexpected issues
- Provide pre-operative and post-operative care education to all patients and families
- Professionally respond to emergencies to provide optimal care, support, and life-saving interventions
- Utilize interpersonal relationship skills and knowledge to assist patients and families through perioperative care
- Educates patients and families per discharge planning and ensures a safe recovery via written instructions, handouts, one on one instructions, demonstration, and verbalizing understanding
- Effectively educated patients, families, staff, and students on managing medical equipment such as foleys, peripheral nerve blocks, PCA pumps, epidural pump, wound vacs, and JP drains
- Assists with collecting data on patient pain outcomes after surgical procedures.
Cardiovascular Intensive Care Registered Nurse
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
04.2017 - 07.2019
- Effectively provided compassionate and competent nursing care to critically ill patients experiencing cardiovascular surgical and or non-surgical conditions.
- Closely monitored and reported alarming changes in patient assessments to LIP and promptly intervened with proper nursing interventions
- Assessed and maintained central line catheters and arterial lines, such as swan-ganz catheters, internal jugular lines, subclavian lines, peripherally inserted central catheters, and dialysis catheters, while monitoring and reporting patient's hemodynamic changes, and discontinuing upon therapy completion
- Monitored and assessed chest tubes for outputs, drainage descriptions, and air leaks, and discontinue upon therapy completion
- Closely monitored, assessed, documented, and reported changes in condition per patients with medical devices and treatments such as urinary catheters, fecal management system, spinal drains, chest tubes, negative therapy pressure wound therapy, mechanical ventilation, continuous veno-venous hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis, patient controlled analgesia pump, and pacemakers
- Performed admissions, discharges, and transport of patients
- Fulfilled all charge nurse responsibilities
- Served as a primary patient advocate in collaboration with multidisciplinary teams to execute a specific care plan regarding patients' overall clinical status and assessment of procedures, treatments, and medications
- Effectively developed and maintained rapport with patients and families by providing safe nursing care, assessing proper educational needs, and providing emotional support and resources
- Assisted physicians at patients’ bedside with procedures such as central line and arterial line insertions, chest-tube insertions, intubations, bronchoscopies, and cardioversions
- Provided timely and effective CPR and executed essential life-saving interventions during cardiac arrests
- Compassionately cared for patients during their end of life.
Education
Bachelor of Science in Nursing -
Ohio University
Athens, OH08.2020
Associate of Applied Science in Nursing -
Cuyahoga Community College
Cleveland, OH12.2016
Bachelor of Science in Healthcare Administration, Business Administration -
The University of Toledo
Toledo, OH05.2013
Skills
- Verbal and Written Communication
- Education and Training
- Empathetic Listener and Persuasive Speaker
- Clinical Care and Documentation
- Quality Safety and Management
- Critical Thinker and Problem Solver
- Organization and Prioritization
- Accountable and Responsible
- Interpersonal Relationship Skills with Diverse Population
- Policy and Procedure Compliant
Certification
- Ohio Registered Nurse License, Current
- Basic Life Support (BLS), Current
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS), Current
- Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS), Current
Professionalmemberships
- Hillcrest Hospital, Mayfield Heights, OH, Positively Engaging People Chairperson, Coordinates and promotes personal and professional milestones of Perioperative department personnel in the service of team cohesion.
- Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc, Cleveland, OH, General Member, Co-develop and implement local outreach programs to help enhance the community's strengths and resources.
Timeline
Perioperative Registered Nurse
Hillcrest Hospital
07.2019 - Current
Cardiovascular Intensive Care Registered Nurse
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
04.2017 - 07.2019
Bachelor of Science in Nursing -
Ohio University
Associate of Applied Science in Nursing -
Cuyahoga Community College
Bachelor of Science in Healthcare Administration, Business Administration -
The University of Toledo
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