Amire Edwards

• Provided didactic and clinical instructions to orient new nurses and potential student nurses to achieve training outcomes.
• Conducted patient assessments, recorded vitals, and analyzed records and charts to define care requirements.
• Monitored patients' respiratory status and ventilator operation and made adjustments to promote stabilization.
• Delivered age-appropriate medical care for adult and geriatric ICU patients; ratio 1:2.
• Managed neuro devices such as EVD and subdural drains.
• Managed vasopressors to critically ill patients

• Monitored patients' respiratory status and ventilator operation and made adjustments to promote stabilization.

•Recorded patients' medical status and treatment details in electronic charts to accurately document medical care.

•Delivered age-appropriate medical care for adult and geriatric ICU

patients.

•Explained health care issues and ramifications to patients and families to promote informed medical care choices.

• Sedation and paralytics titrations, EVD and codman placement and monitoring, BIPAP and High Flow monitoring, chest tube management, Stabilizing gun shot traumas, traumatic ground level falls, proning, temperature management post cardiac arrest etc..

• Nuero awareness, DKA protocol, ICP management, Treated patients with strokes, head traumas, intracranial hemorrhage, comas, etc.
• Set up monitoring of invasive and non-invasive hemodynamic monitoring,
• Administered medications via oral, IV and intramuscular injections

and monitored responses.

• Effectively prioritized assignments, executing care based on each

patient's relative condition and delegating tasks to available

• Monitored patients' respiratory status and ventilator operation and

made adjustments to promote stabilization.

• Recorded patients' medical status and treatment details in

electronic charts to accurately document medical care.

• Delivered age-appropriate medical care for adult and geriatric ICU

patients.

• Explained health care issues and ramifications to patients and

families to promote informed medical care choices.

• Conscious sedation, vasopressor titrations, Paralytics and sedation, critical intubations, monitoring chest tubes and assist in proning etc

• Monitored patients' respiratory status and ventilator operation
• Delivered age-appropriate medical care within neuro and medical critical care units; ratio 1:2.
• Observed patients' vital signs and administered physician-prescribed medications and treatments.
• Recorded patients' medical status and treatment details in electronic charts to accurately document medical care.

• Conscious sedation, Vasopressor titrations, Paralytics and sedation, Critical intubations

• Managed COVID-19 patients primarily

• Explained health care issues and ramifications to patients and families to promote informed medical care choices.
• Recognized life-threatening arrhythmias and means of treatment for patients in cardiac monitors, caring for A-lines, monitoring Swan-Ganz catheters, drawing ABG's and other labs, interpreting and reporting results for proper medical management.
• Manage patients' pain relief and sedation by providing pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions, monitoring patients' reactions, modifying as needed.
• Managed post op patients CABGs, TVAR, valve replacements, heart transplants, heart failure etc, baloon pumps, CRRT..

• Enhanced ICU team efficiency by providing continuous education on best nursing practices and protocols.
• Worked within interdisciplinary health care team to develop,implement and make adjustments to patient care plans,individualizing strategies and methods to improve health and meet recovery goals.
• Updated patient charts with data such as medications to keep records current and support accurate treatments.
• Rapid response team
• Titrating drips and knowing the drips required for a Pt’s specific condition
• Interpreting labs, understanding critical results and acting accordingly
• Noticing a change in a patient’s LOC and acting accordingly
• Managing CRRT, Balloon pump, post op Cabgs, x-laps, kidney transplants, etc..