Brittany Longosz

• Manage over 100 employees (70nurses, 25 techs and 8 leaders) across a 27-bed intermediate ICU unit.
• Fostered improvement in staff development, personnel training, and standards of patient care.
• Interacted effectively with department managers to promptly correct problems and improve services.
• Introduced initiatives based on staff education, infection control audits, safe medication administration, fall rates and joint commission disease specific certifications to achieve unit and facility goals.
• Administered performance evaluations and probationary reviews to assess nursing personnel.

• Oversee daily operations of a 27 bed intermediate ICU. Helping facilitate admissions/discharges, working with interdisciplinary teams to provide excellent patient care
• Evaluated 25 staff members annually
• Established and maintained effective communication with staff, physicians and community organizations to promote high quality patient care.

• Collaborated with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions.
• Administered medications via oral, IV, and intramuscular injections and monitored responses.
• Administered medications and treatment to patients and monitored responses while working with healthcare teams to adjust care plans.

• Collaborated with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions.
• Administered medications via oral, IV, and intramuscular injections and monitored responses.
• Administered medications and treatment to patients and monitored responses while working with healthcare teams to adjust care plans.

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• Oversaw interview process, hiring, and daily operations of a college intern program in Nicaragua
• Created job descriptions for each team member
• Organized bible studies and mentor programs for college interns

• Recorded vital signs and intake and output of patients and documented information
• Monitored patient vital signs and reported any changes to nursing staff..
• Assisted with activities of daily living by helping patients with bathing, changing clothes, eating, and daily hygiene tasks.