Charge Nurse, IMCU
Methodist Hospital Stone Oak
San Antonio, TX
06.2016 - Current
- Educated patients and families on treatment, expected outcomes and discharge instructions, serving as advisory resource to patients and families to facilitate recovery.
- Oversaw admissions and discharges and scheduling of nursing staff.
- Sought opportunities to improve patient care, outcomes and nursing staff performance.
- Evaluated nursing staff's performance and developed education programs and professional development opportunities to improve individual and team competencies, clinical knowledge and delivery of care.
- Interacted effectively with department managers to promptly correct problems and improve services.
- Collaborated with physicians and interdisciplinary teams to devise and manage individualized plans of care.
- Reviewed charts weekly to complete quality control checks.
- Educated patients and caregivers of various available external resources to support wound management, disease management and medication administration.
- Documented medications administered, treatments and patient procedures performed in appropriate records according to privacy requirements.
- Supervised patient admissions and discharges from hospital to home care, rehabilitative facility or self-care.
- Administered medications and treatments to patients as ordered by physician, maintaining accountability for accurate narcotic count at end of each shift.
- Monitored nursing care, patient assessment processes and treatment implementations.
- Coordinated nursing care on unit through staff assignments, assisting and rounding with physicians, monitoring patient orders and communicating with ancillary departments.
- Cared for patients' wounds and changed dressings.
- Managed JP drains and chest, nasogastric, G and peg tubes.
- Trained new nurses in proper techniques, care standards, operational procedures and safety protocols.
- Performed emergency medical procedures such as BLS, ACLS and other condition stabilizing interventions.
- Monitored hemodynamic variances to identify signs of life-threatening complications.
- Worked with patients diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), asthma, congestive heart failure (CHF), cerebrovascular accidents (CVA), diabetes or sepsis to asses needs and determine best options for care.
- Directed patient care activities, guided and trained RNs, LPNs and residential advisors during shift.
