Bryan Curtis
Registered Nurse
East Nassau,NY
Summary
Retired USAF Veteran bringing over twenty-five years of education, coaching, and training experience, coupled with nine years nursing experience spanning cardiac care, corporate health and safety, VA long-term care, and home infusion nursing. Dedicated professional helping patients and professionals achieve their best health.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
10
10
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Home Therapies RN and Patient Educator
Fresenius Kidney Care
04.2024 - Current
- Reinforced patient education for safe PD exchanges at home, instilling strong infection control discipline.
- Facilitated individualized care plans for 22 patients, tailored to each patient's unique situation, optimizing clinical outcomes and quality of life.
- Identified large negative drain volume for patient leading to expedient surgical consult for repair of herniation.
- Collaborated with interdisciplinary team for wholistic care plans, resulting in reduced infection rates, improved nutrition, improved independence and quality of life for ESRD patients.
- Monitored daily PD treatment values along with monthly lab results, coordinating with interdisciplinary team, including patient, to adjust treatments for optimum fluid electrolyte balance and toxin clearance.
- Conducted home safety assessments, providing expertise to improve home infection control, safety needs, emergency and disaster preparedness, and ensure appropriate supply storage areas, improving patient treatment compliance.
Home Infusion Registered Nurse
Infusion Ventures
1 2023 - 03.2024
- Collaborated with administrative and pharmacy staff to plan refill scheduling and deliveries of medications.
- Instructed patients and caregivers in standard care, developed and revised individual plans of care and implemented physician orders.
- Educated patients regarding disease process, response to prescribed IV medications, signs and symptoms of adverse reactions, and infection control for PIV and Port infusion sites, zero PIV/Port infections.
- Observed and documented status changes, patient concerns, infusion reactions, and drew specimens for lab work coordinating with patient pharmacy and physician ensuring effective modification to treatment plans.
- Delivered high quality home infusion care, with excellence, safety and patient satisfaction across diverse patient populations, 98% positive patient satisfaction responses.
- Offered constructive documentation input during organizational adaptation of new EMR system to ensure accurate capture of critical documentation across multiple IV medication services, improved reporting and efficiency.
Assistant Nurse Manager
Albany Stratton VA Medical Center
01.2022 - 12.2022
- Supervised 9 RNs performing monthly chart audits for 34 patients ensuring accuracy and completeness of information while capitalizing on opportunities for process improvement.
- Developed departmental goals and objectives to improve patient satisfaction ratings, while maintaining high quality, evidence-based care.
- Supervised, directed and motivated high-quality performance from nursing, CNA, and Medical Support staff.
- Performed weekly and monthly chart audits for patients, coordinating with appropriate members of the interdisciplinary team for addenda where required, ensuring accuracy and completeness of information while capitalizing on opportunities for process improvement.
- Oriented incoming staff in care documentation, standards, procedures, safety protocols, and approach techniques.
- Communicated changing unit needs with members of medical staff and department heads during weekly update meetings, ensuring safe staffing and resident medical attention for health status changes.
- Created rotating schedule to ensure new and refresher training is up to date with beginning and trained staff.
- Coordinated and implemented in-service educational programs targeting safety and infection prevention across frequent procedure practices and lesser utilized procedures.
- Developed strategy to target nursing and patient satisfaction issues, improve response and patient care quality and suggest actionable improvements to promote hospital-wide quality and safety initiatives.
- Fostered improvement in staff development, personnel training and standards of patient care.
- Reviewed unit and hospital-wide work-flow staffing and suggested adjusted coverage to compensate for changing conditions to improve staffing shortages.
- Coached staff seeking career development to become LPNs and RNs, fostering development of three new RNs and one LPN.
Evening Charge Nurse
Albany Stratton Veterans Administration Hospital
03.2019 - 04.2022
- Maintained electronic health records, recording changes and updating documentation to honor resident driven healthcare goals.
- Implemented effective plan of care consistently, with fiscal stewardship focusing on resident-centered outcomes, utilizing available resources.
- Collaborated with physician and other health care professionals within interdisciplinary team to develop individualized plan of care in accordance with resident's goals of care.
- Supervised and delegated tasks to Med-Nurses and Nursing Assistants to assist with delivery of 5-star resident care.
- Initiated, monitored, and discontinued blood and antibiotic infusions for residents with unique requirements to remain on unit.
- Quickly responded to situations impacting safety and security to residents, executing behavioral interventions to control and de-escalate situations.
- Identified critical clinical changes ensuring rapid response for lifesaving medical treatment for sepsis, bilateral pulmonary emboli, GI bleed, CHF exacerbation with four different residents.
- Provided ongoing assessment of psychological, cardiovascular, neurologic, pulmonary, cognitive, and musculoskeletal function, coordinating with interdisciplinary team to maintain maximum independence and function for each resident.
- Assessed changing mental health needs, working with multidisciplinary team to initiate, manage and modify individualized care plans.
- Facilitated ongoing staff-development, educating on safe-patient handling, behavioral intervention, CAUTI prevention, and equipment implementation.
- Provided ongoing monitoring and coordination of end-of-life comfort care to ensure peaceful, dignified, and comfortable passing of imminently terminal residents.
- Developed and documented formal military processional ceremony to ensure deceased Veterans receive consistent, orderly, military-style ceremony when escorted from unit upon expiration.
- Collaborated with supervision and staff quickly resolving staffing and administrative problems, maintaining open communication, contributing to high team morale, effervescence, cohesion, and fewer shift call-outs.
Director of Clinical Services
Adirondack Health And Wellness
12.2017 - 12.2018
- Coached and trained newly hired employees so that each understood job responsibilities and requirements of positions.
- Represented organization at all community events, answering questions, providing details and giving informative presentations.
- Monitored, analyzed and corrected staff performance and worked with Resource and Credentialing Nurse to raise standards of practice.
- Educated over 1000 individuals across Northeastern US on effective First Aid and CPR implementation and Bloodborne Pathogen safety, per American Heart Association guidelines, with 100% excellent instructor rating.
- Provided BLS recertification training to 75+ healthcare professionals, including MD, DPT, DDS, and RN licensees.
- Coordinated biometric screening services to 50 organizations across New York State and Vermont, educating more than 1500 individuals on their personal blood pressure, cholesterol, and blood sugar values and strategies for improvement.
- Oversaw vaccination clinics for more than 100 businesses across New York and Vermont, training 12 RNs, ensuring vaccination of nearly 10,000 individuals.
RNII Acute Care Med/Cardiology
Saint Peter's Hospital
07.2015 - 01.2018
- Communicated with physicians, pathology, laboratory, and interdisciplinary healthcare professionals to convey optimal treatments.
- Coordinated cardiac care to cases with multiple comorbidities including COPD, ortho, diabetes, psychiatry, neurological, renal, prenatal; ensuring communication and collaboration of interdisciplinary team for optimum patient-centered outcomes, 98% positive patient feedback.
- Managed care pre-procedure to discharge of patients requiring heart catheterization and stenting, including consents, establishing healthcare proxy and advanced directives, and pre-/post-surgical monitoring and education.
- Mentored incoming RNs rooting them in safe, efficient, evidence-based care and organization policy and protocol.
- Unit representative for hospital-wide fall committee, collaborated to implement toileting program successfully reducing patient falls.
- Unit Wound-vac expert, educated by KCI-wound vac, managed wound vac dressing changes and trouble-shooting, resource for RNs across all shifts.
- One of 4 Unit "go to" persons for challenging IV insertions
Lab Assistant: Nursing & Anatomy and Physiology
Utica College
06.2012 - 05.2015
- Established support to nursing simulations, enhanced assessment training of 75+ student nurses.
- Oversaw care and operation of $80k simulation mannequins, ensuring near-realistic nursing scenarios for student nurses to exercise clinical practice and nursing judgement.
- Instructed over 1000 hours to 300 health sciences students, lauded “best TA” by students and supervisor.
Information Analyst
United States Air Force
04.2003 - 04.2011
- Training team supervisor of eight instructors responsible for educating 600 Airmen to be their USAF unit experts in country, resource, military, threat and target analysis.
- Supervised team of three analysts managing initial and continuation threat and capabilities training for 110 aircrew tasked with operation of over twenty $200 million aircraft in combat.
- Instructed 1500+ personnel on regional security and cultural concerns, ensuring protection of over $500 million in personnel and assets.
- Led Emergency Management Program for 1100-member organization, overseeing logistical, procedural implementation, and education of emergency response teams.
- Managed new curriculum development of targeting and threat analysis instruction, including three intensive simulation scenarios, while supervising instruction of 90 students in old curriculum, ensured seamless transition with zero interruption in schoolhouse throughput.
- Hand-picked to train six-man analyst team supporting new regional transport unit employing 300 personnel, supporting troops over 120-mile radius.
- Engaged with regional and base leadership and security officials ensuring force protection, earning accolades for Middle East regional best practices.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Utica College
Utica, NY 01.2012 - 05.2015
Associate of Arts - Instructor of Technology And Military Science
Community College of The Air Force
Montgomery, AL 08.2008 - 04.2009
Associate of Arts - Communications Applications Technology
Community College of The Air Force
Montgomery, AL 04.2007 - 04.2008
Bachelor of Science - Secondary Education - Science
SUNY Oneonta
Oneonta, NY 08.1992 - 05.1997
Skills
EMR/EHR auditing
Accomplishments
-First Ever perfect score, zero findings, 2019 Long-Term Care Survey
-Unit Spotlight Award for Excellence on the CLC
-Three-time Daisy Award nominee for excellence in patient-centered care and nursing practice
-Twice awarded Elite Instructor for excellence in education
-Received Supervisor of the Year Award, Air Force Achievement Medal, Middle East Regional Best Practice Security Award
Timeline
Home Therapies RN and Patient Educator
Fresenius Kidney Care
04.2024 - Current
Assistant Nurse Manager
Albany Stratton VA Medical Center
01.2022 - 12.2022
Evening Charge Nurse
Albany Stratton Veterans Administration Hospital
03.2019 - 04.2022
Director of Clinical Services
Adirondack Health And Wellness
12.2017 - 12.2018
RNII Acute Care Med/Cardiology
Saint Peter's Hospital
07.2015 - 01.2018
Lab Assistant: Nursing & Anatomy and Physiology
Utica College
06.2012 - 05.2015
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Utica College
01.2012 - 05.2015
Associate of Arts - Instructor of Technology And Military Science
Community College of The Air Force
08.2008 - 04.2009
Associate of Arts - Communications Applications Technology
Community College of The Air Force
04.2007 - 04.2008
Information Analyst
United States Air Force
04.2003 - 04.2011
Bachelor of Science - Secondary Education - Science
SUNY Oneonta
08.1992 - 05.1997
Home Infusion Registered Nurse
Infusion Ventures
1 2023 - 03.2024
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