Adrian Campbell

I currently work at Mercy Hospital as a Registered Nurse in the Emergency Department where I was crosstrained to in June of 2024. Here I work with providers to assess patient using their vital signs and labs to help determine and deliver the care they will need. This includes drawing labs, administering medications, and triaging. When I first started working at Mercy I was working in the ICU. Here we perform ongoing assessments and medication administration that includes vasopressors, sedation medications and medications to treat dysrhythmias. We dealt with patients who were on ventilators, balloon pumps as well as continuous renal replacement therapy. In March of 2025, I moved down to the Emergency Department full time.

I came to Mercy Hospital as a travel nurse working for Aya Healthcare to work in their ICU during the Covid pandemic. My main position was a RN in the ICU but as a traveler, I also was required to float to various floors in the hospital depending on the staffing needs. This means I worked in ICU, cardiac telemetry units, medical and neurological floors and observation units, providing me with various experiences in nursing care with different patient populations.

This was my first RN position in a large hospital working with patients in an ICU that were quite sick. This ICU is a general ICU so we took care of patients that ranged from trauma patients, neurological patients that had strokes/neurological surgeries, multi-system organ failure and sepsis, as well as critical cardiac care patients and surgical patients requiring ICU level care. This includes ongoing assessments, medication administration to include vasopressors and sedation medications and ventilator support. I also had the opportunity to train with continuous renal replacement therapy patients as well as open heart surgery patients.

This was my first job after I obtained my RN license. This facility is a small, critical access hospital where I started working as a nurse in the ICU but often floated to med/surge. This ICU did not provide the same level of care and experience that I obtained while working at St. Cloud and Mercy Hospitals but I did get some experience with titrating drips and surgical patients.