Cherrish Morgan

• Fostered staff development and competency through supervision, coaching, training, and team building with over 100 members
• Prepared staffing assignments and coordinated bed placement of all incoming admits while prioritizing nurses’ ability and maintaining assigned census
• Prepared staffing assignments and maintained ongoing documentation of staff call-offs, low census, and on-call hours
• Communicated patient's condition, laboratory results, diagnostic studies, medication needs, and discharge planning with ancillary team members.

• Performed as clinical resource nurse and preceptor 75% of time to promote and maintain quality patient care, manage nursing operations, assist in teaching nursing staff, and enforce procedures, policies, practices, and standards of facility
• Patient-Specific education regarding care plan, medications, and discharge planning, educated patients, families, and caregivers on diagnosis and prognosis, treatment options, disease process, and lifestyle management
• Served as preceptor educating new staff on proper techniques, standards of care, and operational procedures.

• Performed full range of professional psychiatric nursing services including assessing, planning, administering, and evaluating patient care primarily geared towards mentally ill adolescents and adults
• Educated patients, families, and caregivers on diagnosis and prognosis, treatment options, disease process, and lifestyle management
• Provided daily clinical direction to assigned Mental Health Workers and other paraprofessional staff
• Documented and reported patient progress, interactions, medical concerns, and intervention on unit of 24 patients

Estimated date of completion November 15, 2022

Nurse Active unencumbered MSL