Carolyn Luke
Wooster
Summary
- Registered Nurse Over 40 years of experience providing optimal care to emergency and ambulatory patients.
- Exceptional capacity to multi-task: manage numerous, often competing priorities with ease and provide superior patient care.
- Administrative experience including admissions, assessment, treatment, and education for a wide range of patients.
- Recognized as an excellent nurse leader, care provider and patient advocate.
- Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills; superior accuracy in patient history, charting, and other documentation.
- Superior IV skills
- Education and presentations provided by Power Point, Word and Excel.
- Over 15 years experience in Epic, providing input for screen changes, education to employees as a super user and listening to feedback from staff to update and improve the computer documentation.
Overview
37
37
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
RN Staff Nurse
Cleveland Clinic Akron General
05.2020 - Current
- Administered medications via oral, IV, and intramuscular injections and monitored responses.
- Performed various nursing interventions such as wound dressing, vital sign monitoring, and specimen collection.
- Monitored patients' conditions and reported changes in physical presentation, appearance, and behavior to discuss treatment with physicians.
- Educated patients, families and caregivers on diagnosis and prognosis, treatment options, disease process, and management and lifestyle options.
- Implemented medication and IV administration, catheter insertion, and airway management.
- Directed patient care by initiating and following through with plan of care, continuing care, and discharge instructions.
- Documented treatments delivered, medications and IVs administered, discharge instructions, and follow-up care.
- Educated family members and caregivers on patient care instructions.
RN
Cleveland Clinic Medina Hospital
11.2009 - 11.2019
- Delivered high level of quality care to diverse populations while overseeing patient admission and triaging based on acuity and appropriate department admission.
- Educated family members and caregivers on patient care instructions.
- Documented treatments delivered, medications and IVs administered, discharge instructions, and follow-up care.
- Provided skilled, timely and level-headed emergency response to critically-ill patients.
Clinical Instructor
Wayne County Schools Career Center
02.2016 - 06.2019
- Cleveland Clinic Medina Hospital
- 11/02/09 to present Clinical RN in Emergency DepartmentExperienced and compassionate care provided throughout the lifespan for patients presenting with acute illness and injuries in the emergency department. Emergency nursing experience includes patients with congestive heart failure, acute myocardial infarction, drug overdose, massive trauma and respiratory failure. Voluntarily educates emergency department staff using evidence based practice and emergency nursing specific
RN Interventional Radiology
Metro Health Medical Center
04.2010 - 07.2017
- RN provides nursing care for patients having interventional and diagnostic radiology procedures. Nursing care includes pre-procedure, intra procedure and post procedure monitoring of patients having radiology procedures. Nursing care provided for patients of all ages in a PACU setting.
Unit Educator Emergency Department
Mercy Medical Center
06.2008 - 08.2009
- Unit Educator responsible for providing mandatory yearly competencies by setting up multiple skills stations on a quarterly basis. Maintained accurate employee records documenting mandatory education and unit based competencies using Excel. Applied for and obtained CEU’s from ONA for elective and mandatory education modules. Education provided to staff via lectures, handouts and power point presentations.
Emergency Staff Nurse and Education Coordinator Level I Trauma Center
MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland OH
07.2005 - 05.2008
- RN responsible for the emergency nursing care for adult and pediatric patients presenting with trauma, chest pain, respiratory failure and illnesses, drug overdoses, acute alcohol ingestion, gastrointestinal bleeds and many other acute medical/surgical problems. Assessed and recorded patient information. Prepared patients for surgical and radiological procedures initiated and maintained intravenous therapy. Provided staff education through in-services, posters and skills stations. Implemented and coordinated ongoing staff
Registered Nurse OR PACU Ambulatory Care Staff RN
Pomerene Hospital
02.2003 - 07.2005
- Responsible for providing nursing care to patient’s perioperatively. Provided patient and family education both pre-operatively and post operatively. Provided staff education on evidence based practice and post surgical updates.
Coordinator for Level I Trauma Center Charge RN
Summa Health System
01.2000 - 01.2003
- Coordinated patient flow by enhancing throughput by assisting with admissions and discharges. Resource RN for and staff with excellent leadership skills. Arbitrate conflict resolution with positive outcome. Assisted in codes, traumas and stroke care, and filled in or relieved staff on duty for trauma’s or breaks as needed. Coordinated staffing on a day to day basis.
Staff RN ED, PACU, Ambulatory Care and Endoscopy Level III ED, staff and charge RN
Wooster Community Hospital
01.1989 - 01.2000
Education
Bachelor of Science - Nursing, BSN
University of Akron
05.2002
Diploma - undefined
NH Hospital School of Nursing
06.1978
Skills
- Emergency care
- Wound care management
- Patient care
- Medication and IV administration
- Epic EMR software
- Vaccine administration
- Clinical judgment
- Patient education
Certification
- Certifications:: ACLS – Provider- PALS – Provider
- NREMT-PProficiencies: ER, PACU, Ambulatory Care, Providing patient and staff education via multiple media formats
Timeline
RN Staff Nurse
Cleveland Clinic Akron General
05.2020 - Current
Clinical Instructor
Wayne County Schools Career Center
02.2016 - 06.2019
RN Interventional Radiology
Metro Health Medical Center
04.2010 - 07.2017
RN
Cleveland Clinic Medina Hospital
11.2009 - 11.2019
Unit Educator Emergency Department
Mercy Medical Center
06.2008 - 08.2009
Emergency Staff Nurse and Education Coordinator Level I Trauma Center
MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland OH
07.2005 - 05.2008
Registered Nurse OR PACU Ambulatory Care Staff RN
Pomerene Hospital
02.2003 - 07.2005
Coordinator for Level I Trauma Center Charge RN
Summa Health System
01.2000 - 01.2003
Staff RN ED, PACU, Ambulatory Care and Endoscopy Level III ED, staff and charge RN
Wooster Community Hospital
01.1989 - 01.2000
Diploma - undefined
NH Hospital School of Nursing
Bachelor of Science - Nursing, BSN
University of Akron