Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Accomplishments
Affiliations
Certification
Yoga
Languages
Additional Information
Timeline
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Benny Bauer

PALM HARBOR,FL

Summary

I am a hardworking, determined, enthusiastic open-heart recovery nurse, fluent in English and Spanish. During my career I have obtained my BSN and currently awaiting CCRN exam (12/2022). I utilize my degree, along with my interpersonal skills, clinical practice expertise, and inquisitive thinking to benefit the field of nursing. I place value in providing my patients with the most scrupulous care possible. My standards for professional care are safety, integrity, humility, and compassion.

Overview

3
3
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

RN, CVICU

St. Joseph's Hospital And Medical Center
Tampa, FL
01.2021 - Current
  • Caring for patients in critical care setting.
  • Ability to recognize, alert physicians, and quickly apply intervention to EKG/hemodynamic abnormalities
  • Caring for fresh post-op CABGs, vascular surgeries, general surgeries, overdoses, and stroke, sepsis.
  • Act as a resource guide/mentor for other nurses and family members
  • Treated patients using pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatment modalities to address various disorders, diseases, and injuries.
  • Monitored and recorded patient condition, vital signs, recovery progress and medication side effects.
  • Administered medications, tracked dosages, and documented patient conditions.
  • Coordinated care with physicians/surgeons and other clinical staff to prepare for treatment, carry out interventions and enhance continuum of care to deliver comprehensive services.
  • Set up trays, supplies and sterile fields for procedures.
  • Developed and adapted individualized treatment plans according to patient recovery goals.
  • Performed blood and blood product transfusions and intravenous infusions to address patient symptoms or underlying causes.
  • Met training objectives by instructing new and prospective nursing staff in clinical skills and organizational procedures.
  • Delivered direct patient care, including stabilizing patients and identifying treatment options.
  • Administered scheduled medications and therapies

RN Staff Nurse

Bay Pines VA Hospital
St. Petersburg, FL
08.2012 - 01.2021

Cared for telemetry monitoring of patients cardiac rhythms.

• Utilized telemetry to monitor patients cardiac status.

• Monitored vital signs for critically ill patients using advanced technologies and equipment, including

telemetry monitors, mobility assist devices, and Electronic Medical Records

• Treated patients using pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatment modalities to address

various disorders, diseases and injuries.

• Recorded patients' medical history, vital statistics and test results in electronic medical records.

Listed all important information regarding patient health changes, medication side effects and

treatments for physician review.

• Administered medications, monitored edemas and took blood and other body fluid samples for diagnostic purposes.

Educated patients on health conditions and promoted better nutrition and holistic stress relief methods.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Nursing

University of South Florida
Tampa, FL
05.2022

Associate of Science - Nursing

Hillsborough Community College
Tampa, FL
06.2021

Skills

  • CVICU/Open Heart
  • Using Swan Gaze catheter to help assess/apply interventions to care
  • Skilled cardiac care/open heart nurse
  • Heart Failure
  • Bronchoscopy and Endoscopy
  • Vent management
  • Vasopressor support
  • Hemodynamics
  • Vascular care understanding
  • Invasive/non-invasive monitoring
  • Pain/Sedation management
  • Chest tube management
  • Telemetry- vast understanding of EKG readings
  • Electronic medical records
  • PYXIS medication administration
  • CERNER computer documentation
  • Vast experience with VA/VV ECMO
  • IV drug therapy management
  • Nursing staff leadership
  • Administering medicines
  • IV and venipuncture expert
  • Cerner
  • Flow sheet charting
  • Pacemaker management
  • Diabetes management
  • Tracheostomy care
  • Endotracheal Intubation
  • Patient Care Assessment
  • Treatment Preparation
  • Shock Symptom Identification
  • Clear Patient Communication
  • Task and Work Prioritization
  • Interpreting EKGs
  • Mentoring new nurses to unit
  • Effectively communicating with all members of the healthcare team, patient, and families

Accomplishments


  • Daisy award – 10/2022
  • Employee of the month - 01/2022

Affiliations

American Association of Critical Care Nurses- ACCN

Certification

  • AHA ACLS
  • AHA BLS - Basic Life Support

Yoga

I love being a CVICU nurse. Though I love my career, it is also one of the most stressful jobs there is. Once I became a CVICU nurse (especially during COVID) I needed to find balance and a way to handle the stress and challenges that arise every shift, and that is when I found Yoga. Yoga keeps me balanced, and keeps my mind clear- ready for whatever the next shift brings.

Languages

Spanish
Native or Bilingual

Additional Information


  • Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) VA/VV
  • Intra-aortic Balloon Pumps (IABP)
  • Ventricular Assist Devices (VADS)
  • Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy (CRRT) -Nextstage
  • Enteral Feeding Kangaroo pump
  • Feeding Tube with IRIS Technology- Dobhoff tube insertion
  • Impella
  • Swan-gaze Catheter- assisting with insertion/interpreting information


Timeline

RN, CVICU

St. Joseph's Hospital And Medical Center
01.2021 - Current

RN Staff Nurse

Bay Pines VA Hospital
08.2012 - 01.2021

Bachelor of Science - Nursing

University of South Florida

Associate of Science - Nursing

Hillsborough Community College
Benny Bauer