Ashley Pounds, APRN, AGACNP-BC

• Improved patient outcomes by providing expert acute care nursing interventions and timely responses to critical situations.
• Enhanced interdisciplinary team collaboration through effective communication and coordination of patient care plans.
• Optimized patient recovery by developing targeted treatment strategies based on individual medical conditions and needs.
• Reduced hospital readmission rates with thorough discharge planning, patient education, and follow-up care.

• Perform and maintain responsibility for a 36-bed unit primarily within the charge nurse role.
• Actively involved with the opening of the Tactical Care COVID Unit.

AGACNP Student Clinical Experience

• Completed 180 clinical hours with the Colorectal Surgery Department.
• Completed 540 clinical hours with the Internal Medicine/Hospitalist Service.

Staff Nurse • 2015 – 2016

• Provided nursing care in correspondent with the physicians to the adult-gerontology population including cardiac, hospice, oncology and trauma patients.

Assignments:

• East Texas Medical Center • Tyler, TX – Cardiac Step-Down
• Medical Center of Plano • Plano, TX – Surgical Oncology Step-Down
• Parkland Memorial Hospital • Dallas, TX – Trauma

• Provided relationship-based care in a fast-paced step-down environment.