Carrie Nemeh

· Internal Medical Surgical float pool for both UCLA Ronald Reagan and UCLA Santa Monica hospitals, day shift.

· Demonstrated ability to work independently as well as collaboratively within a team environment.

· EMR: Epic

· Provides registry float nurse staffing for Telemetry level of care for adult population at USC Keck Hospital and Norris Cancer Center

· EMR: Cerner.

· Utilization review for inpatient admissions for members with commercial PPO product for medical necessity

· Apply clinical knowledge and Milliman Care Guidelines

· Assist in anticipating discharge needs and transitioning members to lower levels of care

· Uses multiple EMR modalities with participating hospitals.

· Agency resource for any of the five local Methodist facilities

· Medical Surgical to Intermediate level of care

· Provide crisis FEMA relief staffing in Texas on various floors ranging from Med Surg to Intermediate levels of care.

· Primarily COVID staffing

· Contracted 4 week temporary crisis contract at Ochsner Medical

· COVID RICU team nursing model caring for COVID patients on BiPAP. 2:1 ratio.

· Float to PCU Oncology unit once COVID overflow unit closed. 5:1 ratio.

· EP Unit 13 Week Night Contract: 4:1 ratio. Intermediate level of care. Monitor and assess patients post cardiac ablation or pacemaker placement. Monitor cardiac rhythms and arrhythmias.

· Telemetry 13 Week Contract Day & 13 Week Contract Night: 5-6:1 ratio. Designated stroke unit. Resource RN for LVN staff for team nursing model.

· Ortho and Bariatric 13 Week Day Contract: 7:1 ratio. Recover and monitor patients post joint replacement, ACDF, or bariatric surgery. Manage simultaneous admissions and discharges on a designated center of excellence for travel surgical patients from across the country. Staple, suture, and drain management and removal.

· Manage a 5-6:1 patient to nurse ratio on a shared general Telemetry and Oncology floor (41 beds on the floor with 27 designated telemetry) in a downtown metropolitan area

· Applies and utilizes nursing process, critical thinking skills and EBP to deliver safe nursing care and appropriate clinical education to patients with a variety of complications including renal, cardiac, endocrine, GI, respiratory, infectious disease, and neural/stroke

· Monitor cardiac rhythms and arrhythmias

· Flexible and regularly floats to the following units: Med Surg, I-ICU (PCU), CVTS (cardiac/intermediate telemetry), and Oncology