AMANDA BERUMEN

• Teach Critical Care Nursing to Associate Degree Nursing students across lecture, clinical, and laboratory settings.
• Coordinate course activities and facilitate integration of critical care theory with hands-on clinical application.
• Develop and facilitate learning experiences that strengthen clinical judgment, prioritization, assessment, and management of acutely and critically ill patients.
• Provide clinical and laboratory instruction focused on safe, evidence-based nursing practice and development of essential nursing competencies.
• Assess student performance and provide timely feedback to support clinical growth, competency development, and progression within the nursing program.

• Provide emergency nursing care in a high-volume adult Level I Trauma Center within an academic medical center, caring for patients with complex medical, surgical, traumatic, neurological, cardiovascular, and behavioral health emergencies.
• Perform comprehensive patient assessments, identify changes in clinical status, prioritize competing needs, and coordinate multidisciplinary plans of care.
• Care for critically ill and injured patients requiring rapid intervention, continuous monitoring, blood product administration, procedural sedation, and complex clinical decision-making.
• Collaborate with physicians, advanced practice providers, pharmacists, respiratory therapists, social workers, and other interdisciplinary team members to coordinate timely and safe patient care.
• Serve as a clinical resource for colleagues in emergency nursing, trauma, stroke, sepsis recognition and management, and patient safety.
• Participate in quality assurance and nursing quality activities addressing sepsis screening, skin integrity, abnormal vital signs, and other patient-safety priorities.
• Contribute to audits involving trauma, stroke, restraint use, blood administration, falls, and related quality and safety measures.
• Participate in unit-based education and peer learning activities, including Opportunities for Practice Learning (OPL), supporting clinical updates and evidence-based nursing practice.

• Provided emergency nursing care in a high-acuity acute care setting.
• Performed comprehensive assessments, prioritized care, administered medications and treatments, and monitored patients for changes in clinical condition.
• Collaborated with interdisciplinary team members to provide safe, timely, patient-centered emergency care.

• Provided emergency nursing care while supporting high-volume COVID-19 vaccination operations.
• Served as Charge Nurse and Medication Nurse within the vaccination clinic, supporting safe and efficient delivery of large-scale immunization services.
• Calculated and prepared medication and vaccine quantities to support thousands of vaccinations per day while minimizing waste and maintaining appropriate inventory.
• Supported required county and state reporting and documentation processes.
• Provided patient education and adapted nursing practice to evolving public health guidance and operational requirements.

• Provided emergency nursing care in a rural community hospital serving patients with a broad range of acute and emergent conditions.
• Completed an ENA-based New Graduate Nurse Residency Program supporting transition to independent emergency nursing practice.
• Performed patient assessment, triage, medication administration, treatment, reassessment, and coordination of interdisciplinary care.
• Participated in unit education, professional development, and quality improvement activities supporting safe, evidence-based emergency nursing practice.

Graduated with Distinction

Graduated Cum Laude