Brynne Gustavson
Mckinney
Summary
Seasoned nursing professional with 17 years of experience in multiple healthcare settings offering proven clinical knowledge, natural interpersonal strengths and technical abilities. Knowledgeable about EMR charting, medication administration and interdisciplinary collaboration focused on optimizing patient care and support. Quality-focused and efficiency-driven leader.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Long Term Insurance Assessment RN
Illumifin
04.2025 - Current
- Educated patients, families and caregivers on diagnosis and prognosis, treatment options, disease process, and management and lifestyle options.
- Advised patients and caregivers of proper wound management, discharge plan objectives, safe medication use, and disease management.
- Observed and documented patient factors such as diets, physical activity levels, and behaviors to understand conditions and effectively modify treatment plans.
- Conveyed treatment options, diagnosis information and home care techniques to patients and caregivers to continue care consistency.
Operating Room Charge Nurse
Medical City Frisco
01.2024 - 03.2024
- Overseeing the day-to-day transitions of the operating room, including 13 ORs.
- Ensuring staff adhere to the protocols and procedures of the workplace
- Acting as a liaison between doctors and nurses and coordinating patient flow from other hospital units into the OR
- Creating and evaluating staffing plans and schedules
- Monitoring the availability of equipment, instruments, and supplies
- Facilitating surgery assignments and staffing requirements throughout the day
Travel OR Circulator
Aya Healthcare at Medical City Frisco
01.2022 - 12.2023
- Job Description- same as previous.
OR Circulator
Christus Trinity Mother Frances Hospital
10.2020 - 11.2021
- Providing circulator role duties such as preoperative assessments, reviewing labs, medications, and history & physical information, recording vital signs, inserting IVs, and administering medications prior to arrival to OR.
- Documenting and recording all activities in the OR in EMR records and hand offs to PACU/ICU nursing staff.
- Assisting anesthesia with intubation and any needs that may arise before, during, and after surgery.
- Prepping and positioning patient in preparation for surgery.
- Assisting scrub tech with any needs prior to, during, and after surgery; including administering medications to the sterile field, gathering supplies, and occasionally scrubbing in to the surgery to assist with general needs of the surgeon.
- Preparing specimens for pathology, communicating with patient’s family during and after surgery
- Preparing the patient for transfer to PACU or ICU after surgery and assisting anesthesia as needed with extubation, etc.
- Surgery specialties included General surgery, GYN, Ortho, Ortho trauma, Plastics, Ophthalmology, Vascular, Urology, General Trauma and Spine.
RN Case Manager
Encompass Home Health
05.2020 - 12.2020
- Daily in home nursing visits to patients all over east Texas.
- Providing care such as general head to toe assessments, vital signs, IV antibiotics administration, central line care, lab draws, foley catheter care, PEG tube care, wound care, and PCP telehealth visit assistance.
- Providing teaching on mitigation techniques for diabetes, strokes, heart failure, COPD, wounds, medications, pain, HTN, etc.
- Daily electronic documentation of data for Oasis.
Hospitalist RN
Sound Physicians at Christus Trinity Mother Frances Hospital
08.2014 - 05.2020
- Working in partnership with multiple Sound Hospitalist physicians to improve performance.
- Collaborating on HCAHPS, LOS, Readmissions, discharge planning/barriers, hospital relationships, and improving patient care overall.
- Involved in multiple hospital committees, meetings, Interdisciplinary rounds, etc.
- Working closely with all hospital staff in relation to the patients my physicians are assigned to.
- Survey patients real time for positive/negative feedback on the physicians caring for them to improve patient experience.
- Give occasional presentations at team meetings or hospital based meetings for performance review and education purposes.
- Educated on multiple different insurance requirements, class statusing, discharge planning, referrals, etc.
RN Case Manager
Christus Trinity Mother Frances Hospital
11.2019 - 03.2020
- Educated patients and caregivers on healthcare protocols and processes.
- Managed support services and fostered communication among social workers, therapists, hospital staff, and patients.
- Managed patients recovering from medical or surgical procedures.
- Led teams in driving successful patient outcomes by prioritizing standard of care and best practices.
- Implemented care plans for patient treatment after assessing physician medical regimens.
- Educated family members and caregivers on patient care instructions.
Nurse Manager
Eagle Hospital Physicians
05.2012 - 07.2014
- Working alongside Hospitalist Physicians within the hospital
- Rounding with them daily
- Communicating with ancillary departments, nurses, & other physicians to facilitate Hospitalist workflow and patient throughput.
- Helping to identify barriers to discharge and collaborate with hospital case managers and social workers to develop discharge plans.
- Identifying patients’ PCP and sending them pertinent admission and discharge information to their offices.
- Establishing new PCPs for patients that do not have one in place.
- Performing initial discharge planning assessments on patients and sending referrals as needed through ECIN (the universal referral system).
- Identifying the patient’s need for HHC, acute rehab, SNF, or DME, and ensuring the correct orders have been written for the discharge.
- Compiling a daily list of actual discharges and their times for the day, as well as potential discharges for the next day to ensure all disciplines involved with the patient are informed of the discharge plan.
Hospitalist RN
Trinity Mother Frances Hospitalist Group
12.2008 - 05.2012
- Working alongside the Hospitalist Physicians within the hospital.
- Rounding on a specific doctor’s patients daily.
- Documentation on progress notes with vital signs, labs/radiology, intake & output, medications, oxygen saturations, diagnoses/problem list.
- Performing assessments on new admissions and pre-populating the patient’s medical history, medications, etc., onto an H&P form to prepare it for the doctor.
- Helping to complete the appropriate discharge orders and information needed for the patient.
- Communicating with all employees of the hospital involved in our patient’s care and answering a pager for floor nurses with questions or requests of their patients.
Telemetry, Med-Surg RN
Trinity Mother Frances Hospital
12.2007 - 12.2008
- Cardiac nurse on the Telemetry floor.
- Float Pool Nurse to Med-Surg units.
- Provided direct patient care, stabilized patients, and determined next course of action.
- Medication administration, bedside monitoring, blood administration, catheter care, dressing changes, family/patient education, injections, and IV therapy.
- Experienced with STEMI, NSTEMI, pre & post cath, AICD implant, acute chest pain, cardiac arrest, and general med-surg patients.
Education
Associate Degree of Nursing -
Tyler Junior College
Tyler, TX12.2007
Bachelor’s Degree of Nursing - undefined
Western Governor’s University
12.2025
Skills
- Phone communication
- Inpatient Clinical experience in Med-Surg, Cardiac, Float Pool
- IV infusions
- Microsoft Powerpoint, Excel, Word
- Patient evaluation/intervention, discharge planning
- Computerized charting
- EPIC/Meditech EMR utilization
- In & Out-patient care
- Medical Terminology
- BLS/ACLS certified
Fields of Experience Include
- Inpatient Cardiac/Med-Surg Units
- Home Health
- Case management/Discharge Planning
- Hospitalist/Hospital Liaison
- Operating room
- Charge nurse/leadership role
- Insurance Assessments
Certification
- BLS- AHA ecard code: 265411835382. 2025-05-21 to 2025-05-27
- ACLS-AHA ecard code: 245404099177. 2023-12-08 to 2025-12-25
Timeline
Long Term Insurance Assessment RN
Illumifin
04.2025 - Current
Operating Room Charge Nurse
Medical City Frisco
01.2024 - 03.2024
Travel OR Circulator
Aya Healthcare at Medical City Frisco
01.2022 - 12.2023
OR Circulator
Christus Trinity Mother Frances Hospital
10.2020 - 11.2021
RN Case Manager
Encompass Home Health
05.2020 - 12.2020
RN Case Manager
Christus Trinity Mother Frances Hospital
11.2019 - 03.2020
Hospitalist RN
Sound Physicians at Christus Trinity Mother Frances Hospital
08.2014 - 05.2020
Nurse Manager
Eagle Hospital Physicians
05.2012 - 07.2014
Hospitalist RN
Trinity Mother Frances Hospitalist Group
12.2008 - 05.2012
Telemetry, Med-Surg RN
Trinity Mother Frances Hospital
12.2007 - 12.2008
Bachelor’s Degree of Nursing - undefined
Western Governor’s University
Associate Degree of Nursing -
Tyler Junior College
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