Amanda Wizniak

• Coordinated care for patients receiving total joint replacements with multi-disciplinary team including physicians, nursing, rehab, care coordination, and home care
• Educated patients and team members on orthopedic pathways
• Coordinated care for hip fracture patients using the Hip Fracture Pathway
• Reviewed and interpreted data to identify areas of opportunity and improve patient outcomes.,

• Coordinated home health care and home infusion services for 2patients discharging from hospital to home.
• Assessed patients’ needs for safe discharge.
• Provided patient and staff education and guidance for appropriate home health services.
• Served as preceptor.

• May 2017 Provided nursing care and education to patients in home including: wound care, drain and foley management, medication management, post-operative care.
• Created care plans for patients and supervised LPN.
• Served as preceptor.

• Managed critical care patients in Level I Trauma Center and Stroke Center including patients with ICH, acute stroke, and acute trauma.
• Participated in end-of-life discussions, initiated comfort care, and provided medical support for organ donation.

• Served as assistant to Chief-of-Neurosurgery.
• Managed outpatient and OR schedules.
• Prepared and managed clinic with attending and prepared patients for surgery. Rounded with attending in hospital.
• Independent post-op visits, wound care, patient education.
• Coordinated emergent transfers and admissions.
• Collaborated with multidisciplinary team.

Surgical Intermediate Unit

Mary Washington Hospital, Fredericksburg, VA

Cardiac Surgery and Med/Surg Intermediate Unit Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA

Intermediate Medical Care Unit Onslow Memorial Hospital, Jacksonville, NC

Neurology Floor/Epilepsy Monitoring Unit/Stroke Stepdown New York Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia, New York, NY

• Cared for medically unstable patients including ventilator management, hemodynamic drips, and telemetry monitoring.
• Served in capacity of charge nurse and preceptor.