Amanda Barnes
Jasper,TN
Summary
Healthcare professional with strong background in patient care and medical support. Known for collaborative work with medical teams to deliver high-quality care and adapt to evolving patient needs. Expertise in patient assessment and medication administration, along with compassionate care and reliability.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
Work History
Registered Nurse, Medical-Surgical Unit
Trustaff Traveling Nursing
01.2025 - Current
- I provide comprehensive patient care in a fast-paced medical-surgical unit, including monitoring vital signs, administering medication, and performing routine assessments.
- Collaborated with interdisciplinary teams for optimal patient care, ensuring seamless communication between healthcare providers.
- Consistently maintained accurate documentation of patient assessments, interventions, and outcomes in accordance with regulatory requirements.
- Skillfully performed venipuncture, IV insertion, and catheterizations, ensuring proper technique and adherence to infection control standards.
- Provided health education to patients and families regarding discharge instructions and plans of care.
- Developed strong rapport with patients and families through active listening, empathy, and clear communication during challenging situations.
- Demonstrated flexibility in managing multiple priorities concurrently during high-stress periods while maintaining a calm demeanor.
- Managed caseload of patients six simultaneously by providing bedside care, treatments, IV therapy, and wound care.
- Managed patients' pain by implementing pharmacological and non-pharmacological pain management interventions.
- Effectively managed acute pain symptoms by administering medications as prescribed while monitoring for potential side effects.
- Assisted in the development of unit-specific protocols for common medical-surgical procedures, improving efficiency and standardizing practice across the team.
- Provided skilled, timely and level-headed emergency response to critically-ill patients.
Registered Nurse
NHC Sequatchie
05.2024 - Current
- Duties include being at work on time with a positive attitude
- Assess residents daily and note any changes
- Ensure Resident safety and monitor for behaviors
- Provide Residents with the correct medication and monitor for side effects that may occur
- Notify MD or NP as necessary
- Assist with residents as needed and supervise CNAs
- Detail document on residents' ADLs and skin assessments
- Ensure that orders are taken off and implemented daily
- Start IV’s when needed
- Hospice care for patients to maintain comfort in facility and contact Hospice nurse with any changes or death of a patient
- Ensured patients are ready and have proper paperwork for follow up appointments
- Performed accurate documentation of patient assessments, interventions, and outcomes in compliance with regulatory standards.
- Administered medications via oral, IV, and intramuscular injections and monitored responses.
Charge Nurse
Signature Healthcare of South Pittsburg
08.2023 - 03.2024
- Charge Nurse for the lockdown dementia unit and skilled floor
- Duties include being at work on time with a positive attitude
- Assess residents daily and note any changes
- Ensure Resident safety and monitor for behaviors
- Provide Residents with the correct medication and monitor for side effects that may occur
- Notify MD or NP as necessary
- Assist with residents as needed and supervise CNAs
- Detail document on residents' ADLs and skin assessments
- Ensure that orders are taken off and implemented daily
- As well as many other responsibilities
- Start IV’s when needed
- Hospice care for patients to maintain comfort in facility and contact Hospice nurse with any changes or death of a patient
- Ensured patients are ready and have proper paperwork for follow up appointments
Charge Nurse
Unity Medical Center
08.2022 - 07.2023
- Charge Nurse on night shift takes responsibility of all patients as well as staff
- I do rounds making sure the patients have what they need
- Check IV site and tubing to make sure it is in date and IV site is clean dry and intact
- Chart check every patient’s chart making sure no orders have been missed
- I help my staff with patient care, start IV’s when needed, get fluids and antibiotics going
- Make fast decisions when needed
- Monitor all patients for decline
- I do physical assessments on admission
- Put orders in computer, communicate with MD
- Check telemetry strips and put them in the charts
- Promoted a safe working environment by adhering to infection control policies and regularly reviewing safety protocols.
- Draw labs every morning and check results
- Collaborated with other healthcare professionals to provide quality patient care.
- Contact MD with change of condition
- Coordinated nursing care on unit through staff assignments, assisting and rounding with physicians, monitoring patient orders, and communicating with ancillary departments.
- Supervised and managed daily scheduling, tasking, and administration.
- Conducted daily shift briefs to inform staff of changes in patient care assignments.
- Collaborated with interdisciplinary healthcare teams to develop and implement individualized care plans for patients.
- Provided skilled, timely and level-headed emergency response to critically-ill patients.
- Monitored patient reactions after administering medications and IV therapies.
Nurse
TrustPoint Mental Health Hospital
01.2022 - 07.2022
- Duties are admission and discharge, supervising techs on the floor, and administering medication
- Assessing psychiatric issues and notified MDs of change
- Usually, taking care of those patients with a psychiatric diagnosis but are too sick to go to the general population
- I work with patients that are going through active withdrawals
- I have experience with COW’s assessment and CIWA assessment
- Able to notice an escalation in behavior and try to defuse the situation before it gets to the point of violence or restraints
- I have experience with patients who have been in Motor Vehicle accidents and are there just for physical therapy and those who have had strokes
- I can make decisions quickly and make the necessary changes when required
- I am a charge Nurse and have excellent communication skills
- I have started IVs when needed as well as drawn labs
- Experience working with acutely psychotic patients
Nurse
Vanderbilt Hospital
01.2022 - 03.2022
- Duties were interpreting basic arrhythmias on a patient with telemetry monitors and giving medication timely, Starting IVs, and drawing blood for labs
- I took care of heparin drips on the floor, making sure labs were drawn on time and the drips adjusted according to level
- Did wound care per doctors’ orders per shift and as needed
- I Communicated effectively with providers when needed—worked with patients on the Hospice Floor on ventilators or high-flow oxygen
- Took care of active Covid positive patients and used precautions accordingly
- Helped patients get ready for dialysis or other procedures
- I Assisted Physicians with placing Dobhoff tubes when needed—experienced with peg tubes and feedings
- Assessed labs frequently for any changes and notified MD immediately of the change
- Replaced electrolytes per protocol
Charge Nurse
Signature Health Care of South Pittsburg
10.2018 - 01.2022
- Duties include being at work on time with a positive attitude
- Assess residents daily and note any changes
- Ensure Resident safety and monitor for behaviors
- Provide Residents with the correct medication and monitor for side effects that may occur
- Notify MD or NP as necessary
- Assist with residents as needed and supervise CNAs
- Detail document on residents' ADLs and skin assessments
- Ensure that orders are taken off and implemented daily
- As well as many other responsibilities
Assistant Director of Nursing
Signature Healthcare at South Pittsburg
04.2020 - 12.2021
- Duties include managing a 165-bed Skilled nursing facility and overseeing RN's, LPN's, CNA's and more
- Supervising staff to make sure that all required tasks are completed promptly
- Problem-solve, when needed, make hard and fast decisions
- Take calls twice weekly also be available by phone 24/7
- Speak with family and residents regarding their care and expectations and do whatever is needed
- Hang TPN in the facility and start IVs when required
- Communicate with MD and NPs
- Run required reports daily
- Completed reporting to the health dept on Covid numbers and report numbers to the government as well
- Administer vaccines and covid testing weekly
- Performed rounds to observe care and interview staff, residents, and families.
- Participated in management team meetings to discuss resident status, census changes, and resident complaints or concerns.
- Managed nursing schedules and budgets, streamlining processes for cost savings while maintaining high-quality patient care.
- Collaborated with staff, management, and external groups to coordinate patient care.
- Promoted a culture of teamwork by encouraging open communication among staff members and facilitating collaboration across departments.
- Optimized staffing levels to maintain an appropriate nurse-to-patient ratio, promoting quality of care without exceeding budget constraints.
- Developed comprehensive care plans for patients, ensuring optimal health outcomes and patient satisfaction.
- Developed positive employee relations, incentives, and recognition programs to promote teamwork and mutual respect.
- Monitored and evaluated nursing staff performance, providing feedback and guidance to support standards of care.
- Built and maintained positive working relationships with physicians and staff to support seamless healthcare operations.
Staff Nurse
Mountain View Treatment Center
06.2018 - 09.2018
- Duties included taking care of patients with mental illness
- Monitor mood and behaviors along with assessing for suicidal and homicidal ideations
- Provide a safe and calm environment
- Listened to patients' concerns and offer redirection skills
- Provide group activities on relieving stress and many other skills to help them cope with their daily lives outside of the treatment center
- Worked closely with the Psychiatrist to ensure the medications were adequate for the patient
- Detail documentation on patient's behavior daily and update care plans as goals were met and added new goals as needed
Staff Nurse
Erlanger Hospital
02.2015 - 06.2018
- Duties are taking care of critical patients administering medications, assessing patients continuously
- Administer IV and oral medications as well as blood or other blood products when indicated
- Draw labs when needed
- Help with one-on-one patient care
- Notify MD if patient condition changes or for critical results
- Replace electrolytes when needed
- Supervise LPNs on the floor
- When needed, take charge of the 30-patient unit—getting patients ready for surgery and resuming care when coming back from surgery—monitor patients with chest tubes, Bipap, and vapotherm
- Provide life saving measures to patients, including CPR, and administering medications during the code
Nurse
Mountain View Treatment Center/Parkridge West Hospital
01.2012 - 01.2015
- Duties are to check off new physician orders and implement them
- Give the correct medication to the right patient by scanning the patient's band than the medication
- I use a pyxis to pull medication from and use Meditech 6.0 system to scan and give medication
- Care for the client that is undergoing withdrawal to medicines or Alcohol
- Also, care for the client who has attempted suicide or threatened to do so
- Some other patients get off their psych medication and need a rehab facility to get their medication controlled again
- I Can problem-solve and redirect clients when required
- After obtaining my RN, I went to the Med-Surg floor at Grandview Medical Center, now Parkridge West taking care of acute patients
- I have good time management, delegation, and prioritization skills
- I have experience hanging IV medication, starting IVs
- I take care of patients on Telemetry
- Prepare patient for surgery and continuing care after surgery
- Have experience with NG tubes and peg tubes feeding, and more
- Have experience with computer charting on the Meditech 6 program and 5.6, implement care plans, and revising as needed
- Communicate with the MD concerning critical labs when another action is necessary
- I can recognize the change of condition and when to call MD for further interventions
- I have experience with patients that are on continuous bladder irrigation after surgery as well
- I have administered blood per MD orders
- I have experience drawing blood from PICC lines
- I have experience taking care of patients in the ICU with insulin drips, Cardizem drips, and patients on Bipap machines
- I currently also have experience as a charge nurse; I have several other duties making sure admissions are complete, taking care of any problems that may arise while in charge
- I check the crash carts to make sure all equipment is there and in working order
- I supervise other nurses and patient care techs to ensure that patients are getting the highest quality of care
Floor Nurse
Life Care Center of Red Bank
08.2010 - 01.2012
- Pass medications, in charge of skin assessments on assigned days
- Supervise CNAs with patient care
- Assist with patient care and transfer when needed
- Observe CNAs with patient hygiene care and shower to make sure they are done correctly, safely, and promptly
- Care for patients who came directly from the hospital with hip and knee injuries or replacements and residents who have undergone heart surgery
- Also, care for patients with numerous other illnesses that only require short-term stay rehab
- Work with patients that are on contact isolation and airborne isolation
- When needed, educate patients and families to work closely with the rehab staff to ensure the best care is given to the patients
- I am educated on computer charting in the Software program
- I am IV certified and have started numerous IVs and administered IV medications
- Work closely with the Physicians to maintain an excellent level of care to my patients
- Monitor patients closely to notice any significant change that needs to be addressed
- Participate in Care Plan Meetings with patients and families to discuss their goals and answer any medical questions the family may have
- I administer wound care when needed
- Make appointments when necessary and many other responsibilities
Nurse
The Bridge at South Pittsburg
01.2010 - 08.2010
- Pass medication, in charge of making sure skin assessments are completed on all residents each week
- Draw blood for lab work, do admission paperwork and assessments
- Paper charting completed incident reports electronically when needed
- Supervise CNA's and restorative staff
- Contact MD if needed
- Make phone calls to the pharmacy and copy orders to MAR and many more responsibilities
Education
master’s degree -
Family Nurse Practitioner program
12.2026
BSN to MSN/FNP fast track program -
Chamberlain University
03.2025
Bachelorette of Science - Nursing
Chamberlain University
03.2023
Associate Degree in Nursing - Applied Science For Registered Nursing
Chattanooga State Community College
Chattanooga, TN05.2013
Diploma - Practical Nursing
Chattanooga State Technical Community College
12.2009
High School Honors Diploma -
Marion County High School
Jasper, TN05.2000
Skills
- Excellent documentation skills
- Highly detail-oriented
- Willingness to take and follow directions
- Positive and caring personality
- Excellent time management and prioritization skills
- Direct patient care
- Medication and IV administration
- Medication administration
- Nursing staff leadership
- Blood transfusion administration
- End-of-life care
- Medication reconciliation
Personal Information
Title: RN BSN
Timeline
Registered Nurse, Medical-Surgical Unit
Trustaff Traveling Nursing
01.2025 - Current
Registered Nurse
NHC Sequatchie
05.2024 - Current
Charge Nurse
Signature Healthcare of South Pittsburg
08.2023 - 03.2024
Charge Nurse
Unity Medical Center
08.2022 - 07.2023
Nurse
TrustPoint Mental Health Hospital
01.2022 - 07.2022
Nurse
Vanderbilt Hospital
01.2022 - 03.2022
Assistant Director of Nursing
Signature Healthcare at South Pittsburg
04.2020 - 12.2021
Charge Nurse
Signature Health Care of South Pittsburg
10.2018 - 01.2022
Staff Nurse
Mountain View Treatment Center
06.2018 - 09.2018
Staff Nurse
Erlanger Hospital
02.2015 - 06.2018
Nurse
Mountain View Treatment Center/Parkridge West Hospital
01.2012 - 01.2015
Floor Nurse
Life Care Center of Red Bank
08.2010 - 01.2012
Nurse
The Bridge at South Pittsburg
01.2010 - 08.2010
BSN to MSN/FNP fast track program -
Chamberlain University
Bachelorette of Science - Nursing
Chamberlain University
Diploma - Practical Nursing
Chattanooga State Technical Community College
High School Honors Diploma -
Marion County High School
master’s degree -
Family Nurse Practitioner program
Associate Degree in Nursing - Applied Science For Registered Nursing
Chattanooga State Community College
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