CHERYL B TAYLOR

• Provides specialized and comprehensive nursing care to a wide variety of donors/patients undergoing therapeutic apheresis and phlebotomy procedures
• Operates and monitors the performance of highly specialized medical equipment used in the care of patients undergoing therapeutic apheresis procedures and donors undergoing platelet apheresis collection procedures

• Served as the lead charge nurse in the hemodialysis unit
• Ensured the safe, efficient and cost effective operation of the NNMC hemodialysis unit
• Provided and arranged for training of new personnel and students
• As coordinator of the anemia clinic, instructed patients and families about Epogen as well as monitoring results

• Planned and implemented the care of dialysis patients
• Rotated team leader duties whichincluded planning and directing the overall work assignments of available personnel based onpatient census and acuity

• Coordinated scheduling of dialysis patients in ICU/CCU/SICU and Inpatients with assignedstaff
• Prioritized care to meet patient needs on all shifts
• Coordinated on call schedules

• Directed and supervised hemodialysis technicians in the care of ESRD patients in accordancewith the unit's administrative policies

• Assigned duties and coordinated dialysis treatments
• Ensured hemodialysis techniciansimplemented prescribed plan of care.

• Consulted and coordinated with health care team members to assess, plan and implement aplan of care for patients in a critical care setting

• Consulted and coordinated with health care team members to assess, plan and implement aplan of care for patients in a critical care setting.

Consulted and coordinated with health team members to assess, plan and implement a plan of care for patients on an endocrine unit.

• Supervised and coordinated the nursing care of patients on a medical oncology unit