Andrew Cole

• Advocate for patient safety and overall care in collaboration with other staff members to obtain holistic and effective care goals for the individual.
• Educating patients regarding treatments, care plans, medications. Providing a foundation of support for both patient and family to ensure involvement in patient care goals.
• The ability to manage critical situations as they arise and to make care based decisions as needed to ensure patient safety.
• Completing documentation in a timely and orderly manner.
• Providing effective and efficient use of time, equipment and supplies
• Becoming a resource for new employees on the unit.
• Worked as Charge Nurse and Preceptor for Med/Surg Oncology and Med/Surg COVID floor.
• Advised patients and caregivers of proper wound management, discharge plan objectives, safe medication use, and disease management.

• Employs a patient-first, holistic philosophy in rounding on every patient on the unit assigned to gather patient experience and initiate service recovery as needed. 
• Collaborating with staff and nursing leadership to create an environment that promotes teamwork to better support improved patient outcomes and more efficient service.
• Assesment of the quality of patient care provided on the unit through means of collaboration with patients, floor staff, and nursing leadership.
• Assisting staff as needed with admissions, discharges, assessments, and having a patient assingment to better support a high-quality and holistic patient experince.
• Assisting with staff scheduling to keep the unit efficent.
• Managing inventory of supplies and equiptment of the unit,
• Implementing courses of action regarding training and development, conflict resolution, employee performace evaluations, facility policy compliance, interviewing new staff, and implementing disciplinary action to better unit efficiency.
• Lead Charge Nurse for both Med/Surg Oncology floor and Med/Surg COVID floor.

Honorable Discharge