Barbara Leach
Registered Nurse
Roscoe,IL
Summary
Hardworking Registered Nurse with success providing individualized patient care. Committed to delivering best-in-class patient care through effective education and counseling. Proven leadership focused on increasing and enhancing patient care and satisfaction. Streamline safety protocols for comprehensive patient care. Seasoned nursing professional offering proven clinical knowledge, natural interpersonal strengths and technical abilities. Knowledgeable about, medication administration and interdisciplinary collaboration focused on optimizing patient care and support. Quality-focused and efficiency-driven leader.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
Work History
RN Floor Nurse
UW-Rockford,IL
06.2001 - 06.2022
- Collaborated with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions.
- 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.
- 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.
- Managed care from admission to discharge.
- Implemented medication and IV administration, catheter insertion, and airway management.
- Updated patient charts with data such as medications to keep records current and support accurate treatments.
Education
Associate of Applied Science - Nursing
Rock Valley College
Rockford, IL06.2001
Skills
- Shared Governance
- Direct Patient Care
- Patient Discharging
- IV Drug Therapy Management
- Disease Management
- Seizure Management
- Patient Monitoring
- Pain Management
- Stroke Management
- Cardiac Monitoring
Accomplishments
Researched, developed, implemented the Opiate Withdrawal Protocol.
2018 Rockford Register Star wrote an article in the newspaper on the Opiate Withdrawal Protocol
2018 American Nurse Today in the June 2018 vol 13 wrote an article about the development of the Opiate Withdrawal Protocol that I had developed.
Timeline
RN Floor Nurse
UW-Rockford,IL
06.2001 - 06.2022
Associate of Applied Science - Nursing
Rock Valley College
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