Critical Care RN with 13 years of experience in medical, surgical, cardiovascular, neuro, and burn/trauma ICUs. Thrives as a team leader and mentor. Excels in crisis situations requiring critical decision-making and acute nursing skills. Strong interpersonal and communication skills. Highly organized with exceptional capacity to multitask safely and efficiently. Always striving to challenge myself personally and professionally with new experiences, skills and roles/responsibilities. Currently work as a staff RN/charge RN/resource RN/critical response team RN at Dell Seton Medical Center at The University of Texas. I am also going into my final year as an AGACNP student at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center.
Level 1 Trauma Center and teaching facility. Function as a staff RN, charge RN, resource/resuscitation RN, and occasionally as critical response RN in the surgical/trauma/burn ICU
Level 1 Trauma Center and teaching facility. Internal travel position in the surgical/trauma/burn ICU
Travel position through Aureus Medical Group. Worked in float pool, which included general/trauma ICU, COVID ICU, PCU, tele, and medical surgical units
Level 1 Trauma Center and teaching facility. Functioned as a staff RN, charge RN, resource/resuscitation RN, and occasionally critical response team RN in the surgical/trauma/burn ICU
Travel position through Randstad Healthcare. Level 1 Trauma Center and teaching facility. Worked in the Meduflex Critical Care float pool but spent majority of this assignment in the CVICU. Occasionally required to float to other ICUs including neuro-surgical, medical-surgical, medical, surgical trauma, and other various step-down units as needed.
Travel position through Randstad Healthcare. Functioned as an RN in a blended general ICU/PCU.
Travel position through Randstad Healthcare. Functioned as a float RN for the medical-surgical, surgical care, PCU, and ICU. Also frequently worked as a hospital float, which consisted of helping out the staff of all the units as needed with various tasks and performing admission documentation as needed for patients coming from ER.
Functioned as a staff RN and charge RN in a general blended ICU/PCU
Functioned as a staff RN in a cardiovascular recovery unit recovering fresh open heart procedures, including coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) and valve repairs/replacements. Monitored and managed patients after heart catheterizations and pacemaker placements. Frequently managed Swan-Ganz catheters and intra-aortic balloon pumps.
Accepted into selective 16-week Critical Care Residency program in the Medical and Medical-Surgical ICU, which consisted of a combination of critical care classroom/skills lab lessons and preceptor-led clinical practicums. Following preceptorship, functioned as a staff RN where I received hands-on experience with a wide range of complicated and high acuity patients with various medical, surgical, cardiac and neuro diagnoses. Eventually became a charge RN.
Direct patient care
Charge nurse
Hospital-wide critical response team
Resuscitation nurse role, which includes responding to trauma pages in the ER and going to the OR with trauma patients requiring mass transfusion protocol via Belmont rapid infuser
Ventilator care/support
CVVHD/CRRT
Advanced burn care training
Invasive and non-invasive hemodynamic monitoring including telemetry, EKG interpretation, arterial lines, Swan-Ganz catheters, Vigileo, and ICP/EVD monitoring
Intra-aortic balloon pump care/management
IV insertion/phlebotomy with and without ultrasound IV guidance
Prone/rotoprone therapy
Therapeutic hypothermia
Administration/titration of critical care medications/drips
Education resource for nursing staff as preceptor and for patients and families
Licensed Registered Nurse- TX RN Compact License
American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification
American Heart Association Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) Certification
National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) Certification
Trauma Care After Resuscitation (TCAR)