Amber Bowe
Rocky Mount,VA
Summary
Dedicated healthcare professional with a strong background in patient care, medical support, and staff supervision. Recognized for fostering collaborative relationships with medical teams to ensure high-quality care while adeptly adapting to the evolving needs of patients. Proven expertise in patient assessment and staff oversight, complemented by a commitment to compassionate care and unwavering reliability. Passionate about enhancing patient outcomes through effective teamwork and innovative solutions in a dynamic healthcare environment.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
RN - Nurse faculty
ECPI university
Roanoke, VA
08.2024 - Current
- Encouraged and supported students in learning to provide nursing care while using evidence based practice.
- Created patient assignments every week for each student.
- Assisted students with conflict resolution.
- Lead pre and post conference huddles.
- Monitored the progress of each student and provided a formal evaluation at midterm and upon completion of the clinical.
- Remain current with trends, techniques, and advances in technology that are applicable to the program and actively participate in professional development
- Be knowledgeable of and maintain target retention and attendance performance in the classroom
- Maintain professional development plan, teaching eligibility forms, and current licensure documentation
- Participate in the faculty development process to enhance knowledge, skills, and abilities in learner-centered instruction
- Provide an engaging learning environment by hands-on activities and with open and timely communication
- Refer students with questions regarding financial aid, academics, attendance, and personal issues or concerns to the appropriate departments
- Working PRN for them since August 2024 – there currently
RN ADON
Saber Rocky Mount Health and Rehab
Rocky Mount, VA
10.2023 - 02.2024
- Take responsibility for clinical supervision in the nursing department to ensure high standards of care are being delivered by established policies and procedures and federal and state regulations.
- Support the Director of Nursing and will assume functions of the Director of Nursing in his/her absence.
- Assist the nurse managers in decisions regarding nursing care.
- Function as Infection Control Practitioner, QA, and restorative lead of the facility.
- Helps coordinate educational offerings for the nursing department.
- Participate in Medicare and Insurance assessments, completing worksheets and evaluating conditions and cover ability.
- Participate in staff oversight including interviewing and hiring, as well as evaluations and discipline of staff.
- Rounding on staff to help where needed
- Audit charts for areas of improvement or missed opportunities
- Meet with interdisciplinary team to discuss residents
- Handle issues that arise
- I was diagnosed with POTS and put out of work until they figured out the problem. I am not on medicine and no issues since
RN - Nurse faculty
ECPI university
Roanoke, VA
03.2023 - 10.2023
- Encouraged and supported students in learning to provide nursing care while using evidence based practice.
- Created patient assignments every week for each student.
- Assisted students with conflict resolution.
- Lead pre and post conference huddles.
- Monitored the progress of each student and provided a formal evaluation at midterm and upon completion of the clinical.
- Remain current with trends, techniques, and advances in technology that are applicable to the program and actively participate in professional development
- Be knowledgeable of and maintain target retention and attendance performance in the classroom
- Maintain professional development plan, teaching eligibility forms, and current licensure documentation
- Participate in the faculty development process to enhance knowledge, skills, and abilities in learner-centered instruction
- Provide an engaging learning environment by hands-on activities and with open and timely communication
- Refer students with questions regarding financial aid, academics, attendance, and personal issues or concerns to the appropriate departments
- Provide an engaging learning environment and facilitate hands-on activities in which students with differing learning modalities may attain success
- Participate in institutional assessment
- Clinical Coordinator
- Make visits to clinical sites
- Handle clinical issues for clinical sites, instructors, and students
- Make guidelines for clinical instructors to use during clinicals
- Came up with tools to evaluate current practices to see where improvement could be made
- Make instructional packets for students to use during clinical
- Set up clinical rotations
- Ensure instructors and students are properly prepared for clinicals
- Make sure students are getting hands on experience that allows them to learn, critically think, etc
RN - Clinical Nursing Supervisor
Cumberland Internal Medicine
Vineland, NJ
07.2021 - 07.2022
- This practice had 5 physicians and a nurse practitioner. They had 2 offices. They were a primary care and an infectious disease practice – I over saw all everything
- Over-see Clinical Staff
- Over-see front desk staff when needed
- Handle clinical issues that arise
- Handle staffing and patient complaints/issues
- Over see work flow and change things up to ensure fastest/ most efficient work flow
- Over see MA/LPN education
- Transition of Care Management
- Reach out to patients, get them in for appointments, make sure they understood discharge and have everything they need
- Keep up to date spread sheets
- Clinical paperwork – ALL FORMS
- Coordinate with home infusion/ out patient infusion to ensure patients get labs and infusions
- Metrics: Quality for Horizon and Aetna
- Chronic Care management- I initiated this program from ground up for practice: Located appropriate patients, reach out program, signed them up, made care plans tailored to each patient, made monthly out reaches to patients, billed at end of month, and kept tracking spread sheet for each patient for each physician/practitioner.
- Monitor Huddles – taylor to office needs
- Making the clinical book – of all procedures
- Over see optum in office assessments
- Over see Innovalon in office assessments
- Order clinical supplies
- Order and over see vaccines
- Run clinical reports
- Co-run biweekly staff meetings
- Audit Medical Staff
- Complete Death Certs
- Clinical schedule
- Wound care
- Line dressing changes and education
- Patient education
- Setup meetings with hospitals/ other practices
- Checked physician notes for proper ICD 10 codes and added when needed
- Worked as Operations amanger for a few months until i hired one for the office
RN – Emergency Department
Washington Township
Washington Township
03.2020 - 11.2020
- Triage patients
- Admissions/ Discharges/ Transfers/education
- Medication Administration as per physicians order by any route ordered
- Carry out physician’s orders
- Education patients on procedures, medications, plan of care, and give frequent updates about status of labs/ test results etc.
- Documentation/ care plan
- Maintain patient safety and family safety
- Oversee ER techs
- Think critically about patient situation
- Administer CPR and ACLS medications during codes
- Advocate for patient and family
- Collaborate with other health care professionals
- Perform multiple tasks such as placing IVs, NG tubes, foley caths, straight cath, place heart monitor on, perform ekgs, drawing labs and blood cultures, wound care, trach care, conscious sedation, etc
- Advocate for patient and family
- Collaborate with other health care professionals
RN - Nurse faculty ECP/ Clinical coordinator
ECPI university
Roanoke, VA
10.2018 - 10.2019
- Encouraged and supported students in learning to provide nursing care while using evidence based practice.
- Created patient assignments every week for each student.
- Assisted students with conflict resolution.
- Lead pre and post conference huddles.
- Monitored the progress of each student and provided a formal evaluation at midterm and upon completion of the clinical.
- Remain current with trends, techniques, and advances in technology that are applicable to the program and actively participate in professional development
- Be knowledgeable of and maintain target retention and attendance performance in the classroom
- Maintain professional development plan, teaching eligibility forms, and current licensure documentation
- Participate in the faculty development process to enhance knowledge, skills, and abilities in learner-centered instruction
- Provide an engaging learning environment by hands-on activities and with open and timely communication
- Refer students with questions regarding financial aid, academics, attendance, and personal issues or concerns to the appropriate departments
- Provide an engaging learning environment and facilitate hands-on activities in which students with differing learning modalities may attain success
- Participate in institutional assessment
- Clinical Coordinator
- Make visits to clinical sites
- Handle clinical issues for clinical sites, instructors, and students
- Make guidelines for clinical instructors to use during clinicals
- Came up with tools to evaluate current practices to see where improvement could be made
- Make instructional packets for students to use during clinical
- Set up clinical rotations
- Ensure instructors and students are properly prepared for clinicals
- Make sure students are getting hands on experience that allows them to learn, critically think, etc
RN - Medical/ Surgical ICU
South Jersey Hospital- Vineland
Vineland, NJ
09.2016 - 04.2017
- Admissions and transfer to and from ICU
- Conduct full head to toe assessment, assessing over all patients condition
- Closely observe and record patient vitals
- Plan and implementing patient care and care plans
- Ensure proper function of ventilators, bi-paps, transvenous pacers, wound-vacs, and other mechanical devices.
- Administering medications as per physicians order, including titrating of drips (insulin, vasopressors, antihypertensives, sedatives, and more)
- Order diagnostic testing and follow protocol sets (example: sepsis protocol)
- Critical think and respond quickly in life-saving situations; provide life support
- Respond to codes and rapid response calls on the floor
- Collaborate with other healthcare providers and advocate for my patients and their families
- Assist physicians in bedside procedures
- Educate patient and families
RN – Emergency Department
Washington Township
Washington Township
06.2015 - 09.2016
- Triage patients
- Admissions/ Discharges/ Transfers/education
- Medication Administration as per physicians order by any route ordered
- Carry out physician’s orders
- Education patient on procedures, medications, plan of care, and give frequent updates about status of labs/ test results etc.
- Documentation/ care plan
- Maintain patient safety and family safety
- Oversee ER techs
- Think critically about patient situation
- Administer CPR and ACLS medications during codes
- Advocate for patient and family
- Collaborate with other health care professionals
- Perform multiple tasks such as placing IVs, NG tubes, foley caths, straight cath, place heart monitor on, perform ekgs, drawing labs and blood cultures, wound care, trach care, conscious sedation, etc
- Originally hired as an admissions nurse but transitioned into ER nurse
RN – Risk Manager
Blackwood
Blackwood, NJ
03.2016 - 07.2016
- Classify, Evaluate, and monitor risks and potential risks
- Conduct detailed risk assessments by analyzing documents, statistics, reports, and trends
- Implement strategies to minimize risks and exposure to risks
- Carry out audits and assessments
- Implement inventions to help prevent risks and minimize risks
- Run fall and incident accident meetings
- Maintain safety of all residents and safe
- Oversee unit managers, ADONs, LPNs, RNs, CNAs, and other staff members
- Educate all staff on resident safety and prevention of incidents including falls, skin tears, bruises, abuse, altercations, elopements, wounds, and other risks and incidents
- Create and or update care plans that are specific for each resident and the risks specific to that resident
- Collaborate with many other health care professionals for residents’ wellbeing
- Investigate all incidents and write up reports/ summaries including interventions that were put in place along with plans of preventing incident from occurring again
- Advocate for my residents and their families
- Talk with the state when they came for evaluations
RN - Medical/ Surgical
Inspira South Jersey Hospital- Vineland
Vineland, NJ
10.2013 - 03.2016
- Admissions/ Discharges/ Transfers
- Medication Administration as per physicians order
- Carry out physician's orders
- Education patient on procedures, medications, and plan of care
- Documentation/ care plan
- Maintain patient safety
- Oversee Nurse's aides
- Think critically about patients situation
- Administer CPR/ Help with Codes on floor
- Advocate for patient and family
- Collaborate with other health care professionals
- React quickly in Emergency situations
- Wound Care
- Job responsibility
RN - Child/ adolescent mental health
South Jersey Hospital- Bridgeton
Bridgeton, NJ
10.2012 - 10.2013
- Admissions
- Discharges
- Medication Administration
- Documentation
- Maintain patient safety
- Oversee CLC's and mental health techs
- Take vitals
- Create and run therapeutic groups
- Make care plans
- Collaborate with other health care professionals
- React quickly in Emergency situations
- Job responsibility
RN Supervisor
Woodbury Mews
Woodbury, NJ
08.2012 - 12.2012
- Admissions
- Pronouncing the dead
- Oversee all nursing documentation
- Supervise all nursing responsibilities of the LPNs and CNAs
- Administer Medications as per physician's order
- Take vital signs
- Maintain safety/ comfort of patients
- Monthly Assessments
- Quarterly pain and fall assessments
- Advocate for my patients
- Breathing and wound treatments
- Job responsibility
LPN
Millville Chiropractic Center
Millville, NJ
09.2010 - 01.2011
Education
Bachelor of Science -
Bachelor of Science - Registered Nurse
Cumberland County College
Vineland, NJ05-2012
No Degree - Licensed Practical Nursing
Cumberland County College
Vineland, NJ08-2010
Skills
- Patient assessments
- Documentation and charting
- Strong clinical judgment
- Patient education and counseling
- Infection control measures
- Care planning
- Patient management
- Care plan development
- Nursing staff leadership
- Team coordination
- EMR systems
- Emergency response
- Chronic disease management
- Staff supervision
- Case management
- Medical records management
Certification
- RN - Licensed in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, & Virginia
- BSN
- MSN/ FNP – not completed has 4.0 decided I didn’t want to do FNP
- Currently looking into online MSN in administration programs
Timeline
RN - Nurse faculty
ECPI university
08.2024 - Current
RN ADON
Saber Rocky Mount Health and Rehab
10.2023 - 02.2024
RN - Nurse faculty
ECPI university
03.2023 - 10.2023
RN - Clinical Nursing Supervisor
Cumberland Internal Medicine
07.2021 - 07.2022
RN – Emergency Department
Washington Township
03.2020 - 11.2020
RN - Nurse faculty ECP/ Clinical coordinator
ECPI university
10.2018 - 10.2019
RN - Medical/ Surgical ICU
South Jersey Hospital- Vineland
09.2016 - 04.2017
RN – Risk Manager
Blackwood
03.2016 - 07.2016
RN – Emergency Department
Washington Township
06.2015 - 09.2016
RN - Medical/ Surgical
Inspira South Jersey Hospital- Vineland
10.2013 - 03.2016
RN - Child/ adolescent mental health
South Jersey Hospital- Bridgeton
10.2012 - 10.2013
RN Supervisor
Woodbury Mews
08.2012 - 12.2012
LPN
Millville Chiropractic Center
09.2010 - 01.2011
Bachelor of Science -
Bachelor of Science - Registered Nurse
Cumberland County College
No Degree - Licensed Practical Nursing
Cumberland County College
Awards and Honors
Honors Society in high school, Dean's List September 2009, Dean's List at Wilmington University Fall 2012 & Spring 2013, Walden University 4.0 - Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society