Brandy Kari

• Responded promptly to workplace incidents, providing immediate care and coordinating appropriate follow-up treatment when necessary.
• Reduced workplace injuries by providing ongoing training on proper lifting techniques and ergonomics.
• Fostered a supportive environment by actively listening to employee concerns and addressing issues related to workplace stressors or barriers to wellness.
• Streamlined the employee onboarding process by developing comprehensive health screening protocols and immunization requirements.
• Supported employees in maintaining compliance with OSHA regulations through regular trainings and educational materials.
• Maintained accurate records of employee health data, ensuring confidentiality and adherence to HIPAA guidelines.
• Managed workers'' compensation claims efficiently, facilitating timely return-to-work plans for affected employees.
• Administered medical testing and vision and hearing screening to identify risks to health and improve well-being among staff.
• Participated in evidence-based practice project implementation, nursing competency development and nursing simulation activities.
• Evaluated clinical competencies of staff members, identifying areas for improvement and providing targeted training solutions.
• Served as a clinical mentor, offering guidance and support to new hires during their onboarding process.
• Facilitated continuing education events for healthcare professionals, fostering a culture of lifelong learning within the organization.
• Maintained regulatory compliance by ensuring adherence to industry standards and guidelines in all educational activities.

• Teach childbirth class monthly
• Teach pregnant women and families with infants and young children about health during pregnancy, after delivery, child and infant care.
• Assist with limited obstetric ultrasound
• Offer pro-life pregnancy counseling and/ or adoption counseling
• Update medical policies and procedure
• Document in electronic medical record
• Active Board Member of Life Outreach Center

• Administer medications via oral, IV and intramuscular injections and monitored responses.
• Effectively prioritize assignments, executing care based on each patient's relative condition and delegating tasks to available personnel deliver safe and efficient care.
• Updated patient charts with data such as medications to keep records current and support accurate treatments.
• Ensure that operative and informed consents are signed and correct.
• Answer patient and family questions and ensure patient comfort.
• Work with patients prior to surgery to complete paperwork and help answer questions or calm fears about surgery. Prepare patients for surgery and assess risks per pre-op protocol, such as inserting IV, administering pre-op medications, perform infection prevention measures, record home medications, past medical history and communicate with anesthesia and surgeons.
• Monitor vital signs and other measurements of progress, meeting discharge criteria
• Monitor patients for condition changes, reporting any changes to physician.
• log all findings in patient files
• Monitor a patient's condition during and after surgery, including Post Anesthesia Recovery room.
• Administer IV therapy to patients over all age ranges including IV biologic's and antibody therapy, antibiotic therapy, as well as other long-term IV medication therapy
• Access Mediports and PICC lines and draw labs/flush them.
• Care for all age ranges from 9 months to geriatric surgical patients and infusion patients
• Prepare endoscopy patients for their procedure, document in patient record during colonoscopies and EGD's, as well as care for patients post endoscopy and Monitored anesthesia sedation. Assess readiness to be discharged following IV anesthesia.

• Educated patients and families on illnesses, medications and treatment plans.
• Accurately documented treatment, medications and IVs administered, discharge instructions and follow-up care.
• ICU RN for approximately 20 years working with Central Venous Catheters, arterial lines, intubated/sedated patients on ventilators, vasoactive drugs, chest tubes, inserted nasogastric tubes, Foley catheters, monitored wound drains and wound vacs, managed active alcohol withdrawal patients, etc. Cared for all age ranges of patients from pediatric to geriatric. Documented all care in electronic and paper medical record.
• OB nurse for approximately 3 years as labor and delivery nurse. Cared for healthy and critically ill neonates.
• Med-surg nurse caring for inpatients of all age ranges and a multitude of physical ailments following hospital protocols and documentation in electronic medical record and paper record of all assessments and vital signs.
• Collaborated with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions.

Managed critically ill patients in a 12 bed Med-Surg ICU.