BARBARA BRANDON, BSN, RN
Leland,NC
Summary
Highly motivated, organized, dedicated and compassionate nurse leader with an extraordinary level of professional accountability, and strong interpersonal skills; who is looking to expand upon nursing leadership experience.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Assistant Nurse Manager
New Hanover Regional Medical Center
Wilmington, NC
04.2021 - Current
- Responsible for daily operations of 43-bed inpatient surgical trauma unit, ensuring that policies, practices, procedures, and standards are followed in providing care
- Manages daily patient throughput to ensure safe and appropriate placement of patients.
- Assists with providing input for development of departmental budgets
- Performed real-time chart audits for patients ensuring accuracy and completeness of information while capitalizing on opportunities for process improvement.
- Created work schedules for multiple shifts to confirm complete floor coverage.
- Manage bi-weekly payroll that ensures on-time and accurate payment of all staff
- Ensures education is provided to staff as needed, assists in tracking adherence to all mandatory education and assists with staff development
- Developed departmental goals and objectives to improve satisfactory rating with patients.
- Supervised, directed and motivated high-quality performance from nursing staff.
- Investigated and independently resolved complaints from staff, physicians and patients by leveraging clinical judgment and unit management expertise.
Registered Nurse Clinical Coordinator, Mother/Baby
New Hanover Regional Medical Center
Wilmington, NC
07.2012 - 04.2021
- Implement new policies and educate staff on changes.
- Identified nurses' and staff training needs and devised training programs to close gaps.
- Facilitate hiring of qualified Mother/Baby personnel by interview applicants and making recommendations for employment.
- Fostered excellence by example by "setting pace" and being hands on mentor to clinical staff.
- Motivated and supervised 70 Registered Nurses and Nursing Assistants in delivering quality patient care.
- Sought opportunities to improve patient care, outcomes and nursing staff performance.
- Coordinated and consulted with 5-member health care team to plan, implement and assess both mother and infant care plans.
- Administered performance evaluations and probationary reviews to assess nursing personnel.
- Quickly responded to situations impacting safety and security to unit, actualizing crisis prevention interventions to control and de-escalate situations.
Staff Nurse, Mother-Baby Unit
New Hanover Regional Medical Center
Wilmington, NC
10.2009 - 07.2012
- Monitored and assessed mother and newborn after delivery to ascertain proper healing and recovery.
- Educated new parents on how to properly care for infants by instructing parents on bottle feeding, bathing, circumcision care and breastfeeding.
- Assisted mothers in establishing breastfeeding relationships with infants through skin to skin contact and rooming in.
- Directed patient care by initiating and following through with plan of care, continuing care and discharge instructions.
- Identified learning needs of patients and families and responded with advocacy and health education.
- Precepted student nurses and oriented new hires, providing guidance and mentorship when teaching on hospital policies, emergency procedures and nursing best practices.
- Collected blood, tissue and other laboratory specimens and prepared for lab testing.
- Administered medications via oral, IV and intramuscular injections and monitored responses.
Registered Staff Nurse, Medical-Surgical
New Hanover Regional Medical Center
Wilmington, NC
08.2008 - 10.2009
- Collaborated daily with physicians and other healthcare team members to ensure optimal patient care is provided
- Apply effective and exceptional communication techniques to assess and provided patient education regarding medications, procedures, treatments, and discharges
- Optimally utilize nursing process to assess, plan and implement patient care.
- Effectively prioritized 6-7 patient assignments, executing care based on each patient's relative condition and delegating tasks to available personnel deliver safe and efficient care.
- Verified patients had information necessary for ongoing care, providing guidance on diagnoses, management of medications and prevention methods.
- 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.
- Administered medications via oral, IV and intramuscular injections and monitored responses.
- Performed various nursing interventions such as wound dressing, vital sign monitoring and specimen collection.
- Assessed medical status of patients pre- and post-operation by checking vital parameters and supervising food intake.
- Reported patients' status and delegated nurse assignments to achieve optimal outcomes.
- Promoted patient independence by teaching self-care skills.
- Precepted student nurses and oriented new hires, providing guidance and mentorship when teaching on hospital policies, emergency procedures and nursing best practices.
Education
Master of Science - Healthcare Administration
Capella University
Minneapolis, MN01.2023
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Capella University
Minneapolis, MN10.2020
Associate of Science - Nursing
Community College of Rhode Island
Warwick, RI05.2008
Skills
- Conflict Management
- Quality Assurance
- Direct and Indirect Patient Care
- Staff Supervision
- Employee Performance Evaluations
- Clinical Staff Management
- Staff Leadership
- Multitasking and Organization
- Creative Thinking
Certification
Basic Life Support (BLS)
Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP)
Preceptor Course Completion
Behavior Based Interviewing for Leaders Completion
Timeline
Assistant Nurse Manager
New Hanover Regional Medical Center
04.2021 - Current
Registered Nurse Clinical Coordinator, Mother/Baby
New Hanover Regional Medical Center
07.2012 - 04.2021
Staff Nurse, Mother-Baby Unit
New Hanover Regional Medical Center
10.2009 - 07.2012
Registered Staff Nurse, Medical-Surgical
New Hanover Regional Medical Center
08.2008 - 10.2009
Master of Science - Healthcare Administration
Capella University
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Capella University
Associate of Science - Nursing
Community College of Rhode Island
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