Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Certification
Military Experience: Hospital Corpsman (E-5) United States Navy
Affiliations
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Cameron Alexander

Colorado Springs,United States

Summary

Ambitious, versatile, knowledgeable, and compassionate Registered Nurse with experience as paramedic, educator, and veteran Navy Corpsman with over twelve years of professional healthcare experience. Independent, reliable, diligent, and flexible professional with superb public health knowledge and emergency medical/critical care skills. Entrepreneurial co-owner of a small business designed to promote community health and safety. Skilled healthcare provider and educator with a passion for delivering quality, evidence-based, patient-and-family-centered care

Overview

5
5
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Charge Nurse, ICU

Heart of the Rockies Medical Center
Salida , CO
11.2023 - Current
  • Performed daily assessments of all ICU patients, provided intensive monitoring, evaluated patients' response to treatments, and developed individualized plans of care.

Pediatric Registered Nurse - Emergency Room

Children's Hospital Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora
Colorado Springs, CO
08.2023 - Current
  • Pediatric Emergency Nurse at Children's Hospital Colorado - Colorado Springs campus, providing urgent medical care to children and adolescents in critical or emergency situations, administering treatments, conducting assessments, and ensuring compassionate support, psycho-social care, and health education for young patients and their families during times of medical crisis.
  • Unit-level preceptor and junior nurse scientist within facility.

Owner/Health & Safety Instructor

JPC Health & Safety Training, LLC
Colorado Springs, CO
11.2020 - Current
  • Led startup and opening of business, and provided business development, creation of operational procedures, and workflow planning while providing for day-to-day workflow. Promoted business through social media and website design, as well as engaged in corporate partnerships between other businesses and community organizations.
  • Teaches community courses such as Adult and Pediatric Advanced and Basic Life Support classes, Trauma and Stroke Courses, Colorado CNA and QMAP, Wilderness Courses, and Lifeguarding Courses. Additionally, enhances public safety prevention with community CPR, stop-the-bleed, car seat inspections, child safety education, fire prevention, and water safety by teaching swim lessons.

Paramedic Field Training Officer

AMR
Colorado Springs, CO
01.2020 - Current
  • Responds to a wide variety of calls, such as medical emergencies, car crashes, and disasters, in a busy rural-urban 911 system with regionally progressive guidelines to provide advanced life support care.

Registered Nurse

Swedish Medical Center
Englewood, CO
03.2021 - 09.2023
  • Emergency Room Registered Nurse at a busy level-One Trauma Center, dedicated burn center, comprehensive stroke referral center, and cardiac center of excellence.
  • Cross-trained to provide support in burn-trauma, cardiac, and pediatric ICU care, float team on an as-needed basis.

Education

Associate of Science - Nursing

Pueblo Community College
Pueblo, CO
12-2021

Bachelor of Science - Health Sciences

Purdue University Global
Davenport, IA
01-2017

Master of Science - Pediatric Nurse Practitioner

Walden University
Minneapolis, MN

Bachelor of Science - Biochemistry

University of Colorado At Colorado Springs
Colorado Springs, CO

Skills

  • Communication and Critical Thinking
  • Over twelve years of healthcare experience in various environments
  • EMS Skills and Critical Care Management
  • Standards / Procedures Compliance
  • Flexible and Dependable
  • Teaching, tutoring and team building
  • Science, Health, and Wellness expertise
  • Familiarity with disease management/injury prevention programs
  • Crisis Intervention and problem resolution
  • MS Office, EMR systems, SPSS, Arduino IDE
  • Continuous Quality Improvement
  • Experience working with community members, leaders, and the public
  • Adaptability, Stamina and Compassion

Certification

Licenses & Certs:

  • Registered Nurse and Licensed Paramedic
  • Professional Certifications: CEN, CCHC, CPST
  • Instructor level certs: ALCS, PALS, PHTLS, BLS, TCCC, EMR, CNA, QMAP, WFA, Lifeguard, First Aid/CPR
  • current provider level certs: ACLS-EP, ATCN/ATLS, NIHSS, NRP, NIMS, AWLS, ASLS, AMLS

Military Experience: Hospital Corpsman (E-5) United States Navy

2nd Medical Battalion, 2nd Marine Logistics Group

  • Senior enlisted leader and manager for two Aid Stations simultaneously. Maintains Quality Assurance, discipline and welfare with 8 provider staff and accountable for $27,00,000 worth of medical equipment. Supervise immunization program providing over 20,000 vaccines. Provides preventive medical services and inspections in austere environment. Lead Instructor for TCCC/CLS, plans day-to-day training schedule and manages training requirements.
  • Emergency Room Technician / Liaison - Directed over 200 non-emergent patients to receive primary care with respective care providers. Provided care to trauma, cardiac arrest, advanced life support, combative and heat-stroke patients. Preformed laceration repair, FAST Exam and advanced procedures to include chest-tubes. Additionally, preformed assessments, EKGs, IVs, X-rays, splints, medication administration and other procedures as directed. Documented over 2,000 hours of cardiac telementary monitoring without discrepancy.
  • Flight Medic (en-route care provider) - Provided all emergency medical care and blood transfusing for patients en-route to higher echelons of care via aerial transport direct from hostile environment. Coordinator for Walking Whole Blood Bank program in deployed setting.

Naval Hospital Camp Lejeune

  • Muti-Service (Adult and Peds Med-Surg) Floor - Provided all inpatient nursing services including assessment, monitoring, activities of daily living, medication administration, rehabilitation, management of drains/lines (NG, OG, PEG, HD, JP, PICC, paracentesis, ext), wound care and post-operative care to patients of all ages along side nursing team. Cross-trained in L&D, OR and ICU.
  • Outpatient Clinic - Provides routine sick call care for patients in military treatment facilities including vital signs, History & Physical, women's health, x-rays, hearing conservation audiograms, eye exams/lens selection, breathing treatments, referrals and treatment plans. Preforms minor surgical procedures (laceration repair, I&D, toenail removal, biopsy and cryo-therapy) under indirect physician supervision. Laboratory procedures to include specimen collection, phlebotomy, equipment calibration and point-of-care testing.

Affiliations

Over 1,000 logged hours of volunteer work with various community organizations including:

  • Colorado Volunteer Mobilizer COVID-19 contract tracer and vaccinator lead
  • Volunteer Camp Cabin Nurse/Counselor for medically fragile kids at Roundup River Ranch
  • American Red Cross disaster health services and youth medical mentorship program
  • Volunteer Firefighter/EMT with Onslow County volunteer fire departments
  • Division IV, Youth Soccer Coach, for two years with Camp Lejeune Youth Sports

Timeline

Charge Nurse, ICU

Heart of the Rockies Medical Center
11.2023 - Current

Pediatric Registered Nurse - Emergency Room

Children's Hospital Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora
08.2023 - Current

Registered Nurse

Swedish Medical Center
03.2021 - 09.2023

Owner/Health & Safety Instructor

JPC Health & Safety Training, LLC
11.2020 - Current

Paramedic Field Training Officer

AMR
01.2020 - Current

Associate of Science - Nursing

Pueblo Community College

Bachelor of Science - Health Sciences

Purdue University Global

Master of Science - Pediatric Nurse Practitioner

Walden University

Bachelor of Science - Biochemistry

University of Colorado At Colorado Springs
Cameron Alexander