Alyssa Braithwaite, BSN, RN

HARBOR UCLA (LA, CALIFORNIA)

01/2021-03/2021, BELLEVUE HOSPITAL (MANHATTAN, NY)07/2021-08/2021, MLK COMMUNITY HOSPITAL (LA, CALIFORNIA) 12/2021-03/2022

• Provide critical care to a diverse population of surgical, medical, trauma, and neurological COVID patients utilizing intricate and diverse modalities.
• Competent in care of patients requiring mechanical ventilation, tracheostomies, continuous renal replacement therapy, hemodialysis, chest tubes, central lines, arterial lines, intracranial pressure monitoring, extra-ventricular drains, and rapid transfusion.
• Initiate, titrate, and wean vasopressors, vasodilators, inotropes, antiarrhythmics, paralytics, sedatives, narcotics, anticoagulants, and insulin based on patient status.
• Utilize arterial blood gas values, venous lab draws, and patient status as a means of guiding patient care. Able to interpret arterial blood gas values to guide and wean mechanical ventilation and oxygenation. Serve as member of prone positioning team to optimize respiratory support.
• Assist physicians with emergent bedside procedures to include endotracheal intubation, chest tube insertion, arterial line insertion, and central line insertion.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary team in order to provide safe, evidence-based nursing care.
• Harbor UCLA (LA, California) 01/2021-03/2021
• Bellevue Hospital (Manhattan, NY) 07/2021-08/2021
• MLK Community Hospital (LA, California) 12/2021-03/2022

• Managed critically ill patients in the medical-surgical intensive care unit, which often entails managing ventilators and meticulously titrating vasopressors, inotropes, sedatives, and other vasoactive medications.
• Assist with invasive bedside procedures such as placement of arterial lines, central lines, and emergency intubations.
• Quickly adapted to new protocols to care for up to 5 vented, sedated and paralyzed COVID-19 patients.
• Manage specialized devices such as CVVHD, Artic Sun, EVD, and massive blood transfusions protocol.
• Active member of unit council, assisting in opening emergency ICU units for overflow of Covid patients, presented new medication protocols to staff nurses.

• Astutely monitor and identify potential detrimental cardiac rhythms while titrating vasoactive drips.
• Serve as primary patient advocate during interdisciplinary rounds.
• Serve as preceptor for new graduate and experienced nurses.
• Care for mechanically ventilated patients and assist with various bedside procedures to include arterial lines, lumbar punctures, and emergent intubations.
• Serve as chairperson of unit council displaying presentation on pressure injuries during hospital grand rounds.