Angela O’Dell, MSN, RN, APRN

Mount Carmel Health System Inc., Registered Nurse 11/2009 to 12/2012

• Collaborated with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions.
• Managed patients on a variety of units and settings ranging from neurology, cardiology, respiratory, gastrointestinal, renal, orthopedics, palliative, PACU, and team nursing in ICU and ED settings.
• Leveraged feedback and processed improvement opportunities to create safer and healthier environment and increase patient satisfaction.
• Observed and documented patient factors such as diets, physical activity levels and behaviors to understand conditions and effectively modify treatment plans.
• Trained new nurses in proper techniques, care standards, operational procedures, and safety protocols.
• Provided direct patient care, stabilized patients, and determined next course of action.
• Administered medications and treatment to patients and monitored responses while working with healthcare teams to adjust care plans.
• Educated patients, families and caregivers on diagnosis and prognosis, treatment options, disease process, and management and lifestyle options.
• Administered medications via oral, IV, and intramuscular injections and monitored responses.
• Evaluated healthcare needs, goals for treatment, and available resources of each patient and connected to optimal providers and care.
• Managed care from admission to discharge.
• Facilitated therapeutic communication, conflict resolution and crisis intervention by redirecting negative behaviors and helping patients regain or improve coping abilities.