Brittany McPherson
Pittsburgh,PA
Summary
Qualified Registered Nurse with strong background in Medical-Surgical nursing. Adept at providing compassionate patient care and managing complex cases in fast-paced environments. Demonstrated expertise in wound care and post-operative recovery, leveraging critical thinking and teamwork to enhance patient outcomes.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Registered Nurse, Medical-Surgical Unit
Department of Veterans Affairs
10.2023 - Current
- Collaborated with interdisciplinary teams for optimal patient care, ensuring seamless communication between healthcare providers.
- Consistently maintained accurate documentation of patient assessments, interventions, and outcomes in accordance with regulatory requirements.
- Skillfully performed venipuncture, IV insertion, and catheterizations, ensuring proper technique and adherence to infection control standards.
- Provided health education to patients and families regarding discharge instructions and plans of care.
- Educated patients and families on medical-surgical procedures, therapeutic regimens, and pain management techniques.
- Managed complex wound care, including dressing changes, monitoring for signs of infection, and collaborating with wound care specialists as needed.
Professional Staff Nurse, BSN, Expert
UPMC Shadyside & UPMC St. Margaret
03.2021 - Current
- Full Time (36 hours +on-call responsibilities)
- Charge nurse for the hemodialysis unit- assigned assignments for the day and ensure efficient patient flow.
- Monitor patients during hemodialysis and ultrafiltration treatments in the dialysis unit and ICU’s.
- Monitor progress towards established goals for patient specific dialysis treatments.
- Assemble machines, cannulate/access patients to go on the dialysis machines, ensure that the machines are working properly prior to patients’ treatments, and de-access patients off the machine.
- Unit scheduler- creates the unit schedule and ensure there is adequate number of staff each day. Ensures there is on-call coverage every night and weekend.
- Audits emergency room patients to ensure that the patients are getting hemodialysis treatments in a proper timeframe.
- On Call nurse- responds to critical and emergent patients who need hemodialysis during afterhours for the unit.
Senior Professional Staff Nurse: Surgical Orthopedics
UPMC Shadyside
02.2016 - 03.2021
- Full time (36 hours/week)
- Monitor patients post-operatively after orthopedic surgery.
- Alert surgeons and residents if a patient is having a complication post-operatively.
- Prepared patients for surgery.
- Worked directly with physicians, physical therapists, and other ancillary departments to achieve positive patient outcomes.
- Precepted student nurses and oriented new hires, providing guidance and mentorship when teaching on hospital policies, emergency procedures and nursing best practices.
- Charge Nurse for unit on daylight and night shifts- responsible to make patient assignments for staff, resolve issues that may arise in the unit, collaborate with administration and other departments if patients become higher acuity.
- Full time (36 hours/week)
Education
Bachelor's Degree - Nursing
Carlow University
05.2018
Diploma - Nursing
UPMC Shadyside School of Nursing
10.2015
Skills
- Pre-and Post-operative care
- Compassionate care
- Clinical judgment
- Medication and IV administration
- Direct patient care
- Patient and family advocacy
- Compassionate and caring
- Accurate documentation
- Attention to detail
Certification
- PA Registered Nurse License: RN679882
- BLS Certified- American Heart Association
Timeline
Registered Nurse, Medical-Surgical Unit
Department of Veterans Affairs
10.2023 - Current
Professional Staff Nurse, BSN, Expert
UPMC Shadyside & UPMC St. Margaret
03.2021 - Current
Senior Professional Staff Nurse: Surgical Orthopedics
UPMC Shadyside
02.2016 - 03.2021
Diploma - Nursing
UPMC Shadyside School of Nursing
Bachelor's Degree - Nursing
Carlow University
Awards
Above and Beyond: Honorable Mention 2018- employee recognition program at UPMC. Patients and patient’s family members can send a submission about how a hospital personnel provided exceptional service during a hospitalization.
STAR Award for Department of Veteran Affairs- employee recognition program
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