CHRIS A HILLIARD
Baton Rouge,LA
Summary
Skilled nursing professional with more than 15 years of experience and passion for providing highest quality of behavioral and medical care. Compassionate and empathetic advocate for patients and families. Skillfully assesses health status, develops diagnoses and manages care for patients with acute and chronic concerns. Experienced in structured and unstructured environments, smoothly coordinating multiple activities and competing priorities.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
Work History
Staff Registered Nurse
St. James Behavioral Hospital
10.2022 - Current
- Perform various nursing interventions such as wound dressing, vital sign monitoring, and specimen collection.
- Monitor patients' conditions and reported changes in physical presentation, appearance, and behavior to discuss treatment with physicians.
- Administer medications via oral and intramuscular injections and monitored responses.
- Work within interdisciplinary health care team to develop, implement and make adjustments to patient care plans, individualizing strategies, and methods to improve health and meet recovery goals.
- Identified patient care requirements by establishing personal rapport with patients and families.
- Manage elements of patient care from admission to discharge or transfer to other units.
- Update patient charts with data such as medications to keep records current and support accurate treatments.
- Gather patient health data through interviews and observation, documenting data in electronic records.
- Effectively prioritized assignments, executing care based on each patient's relative condition and delegating tasks to available personnel deliver safe and efficient care.
Charge Registered Nurse
RI International
04.2021 - Current
- Supervised nursing services for designated shift including patient assignments and safety in facility
- Assists leadership with assuring delivery of nursing care meets licensing regulations and accreditation standards
- Maintain medical and nursing supplies and equipment and monitors safety and effectiveness of equipment
- Ensure completion of designated assessments of all individuals brought to facility, develops plans and recovery solutions in partnership with individuals
- Provide treatment and makes disposition and referrals in consultation with the team
- Supervised and/or provided nursing treatment and monitoring
- Administers medication as required by protocol
- Initiates and/or ensures appropriate response to all medical emergencies in accordance with medical protocol and policy
- Complete clinical documentation as required
- Understands and adheres to RI International compliance standards as they appear in the Code of Conduct and Conflict of Interest Policies
- Keep abreast of all federal and state regulations and laws and all RI International policies as they presently exist and as they change or are modified
- Performs other related duties assigned
- Coordinates services with various public and private community health, mental health and social service agencies to ensure appropriate services for individuals
- Conduct assessments and treatment plans
- Supervise and/or provide nursing treatment and monitoring, such as diabetes and blood pressure
- Administers medication as required by protocol
- Respond to crisis calls for assessment and pertinent intervention as needed
- Completes clinical documentation as required
- Trained new nurses in proper techniques, care standards, operational procedures, and safety protocols.
- Coordinated nursing care on unit through staff assignments, assisting and rounding with physicians, monitoring patient orders, and communicating with ancillary departments.
- Perform staff scheduling as needed
- Currently PRN status
Charge Registered Nurse
Memorial Hermann Northwest Hospital
04.2019 - 04.2021
- Trained new nurses in proper techniques, care standards, operational procedures, and safety protocols.
- Coordinated nursing care on unit through staff assignments, assisting and rounding with physicians, monitoring patient orders, and communicating with ancillary departments.
- Collaborated with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions.
- Documented information in patients' electronic medical record, relaying information to clinicians and care providers to facilitate continuity of care.
- Conducted daily shift briefs to inform staff of changes in patient care assignments.
- Collaborated with other healthcare professionals to provide quality patient care.
- Administered medications and treatments to patients as ordered by physician, maintaining accountability for accurate narcotic count at end of each shift.
Perioperative Registered Nurse, Staff RN
Aya Healthcare
03.2018 - 03.2019
- Admitted, assessed and prepared ambulatory care patients for surgery in accordance with surgery center policies and individual patient needs.
- Planned, executed, directed and evaluated nursing care given to surgical patient through perioperative experience to promote highest quality and patient safety.
- Supplied education regarding nutrition, medication, pain and wound management and expected response to operative or invasive procedure and assessed knowledge level of patient or designated support person.
- Assisted with or initiated emergency measures for sudden adverse development in patients with cardiac arrest, respiratory distress and shock.
- Administered medications via oral, IV, and intramuscular injections and monitored responses.
- Monitored patients' conditions and reported changes in physical presentation, appearance, and behavior to discuss treatment with physicians.
- Trained new nurses in proper techniques, care standards, operational procedures, and safety protocols.
- Worked within interdisciplinary health care team to develop, implement and make adjustments to patient care plans, individualizing strategies, and methods to improve health and meet recovery goals.
- Identified patient care requirements by establishing personal rapport with patients and families.
- Updated patient charts with data such as medications to keep records current and support accurate treatments.
- Directed patient care by initiating and following through with plan of care, continuing care, and discharge instructions.
- Precepted student nurses and oriented new hires, providing guidance and mentorship when teaching on hospital policies, emergency procedures, and nursing best practices.
- Verified patients had information necessary for ongoing care, providing guidance on diagnoses, management of medications, and prevention methods.
Public Health Nurse IV
City of Houston
04.2017 - 03.2018
- Provide home visits to pregnant women and their families
- Assist women and their families in establishing goals and outcomes by providing education support and referral resources to assist them in attaining their targeted goal
- Adhere to the nursing process and the Nurse Family Partnership (NFP) model
- Participate in community coalition, promote public awareness of NFP, while maintaining community relationships to support client referrals
- Consult and collaborate with professionals involved in providing services to women and families
- Participates in quality improvement efforts and actively engage in professional development
- Assessed and responded to individual and community health education needs.
- Conducted needs assessments to determine which materials and services were warranted for each individual case.
Education
Master of Science - Nursing, Emphasis in Public Health
Grand Canyon University
Phoenix, AZ05.2016
Master of Science - Education
Grand Canyon University
Phoenix, AZ08.2024
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
The University of Texas At Arlington
Arlington2012
Associate of Science -
Los Angeles, Trade Technical College
Los Angeles, CA12.2006
Skills
- Manage Cases
- Inter-Disciplinary Collaboration
- Accurate Documentation
- Medication Side Effect Knowledge
- Treatment Plan Modification
- EPIC EMR
- Psychiatric Evaluation
- Withdrawal Symptoms
- Intakes and Discharges
- Microsoft Office
- Patient Education
Timeline
Staff Registered Nurse
St. James Behavioral Hospital
10.2022 - Current
Charge Registered Nurse
RI International
04.2021 - Current
Charge Registered Nurse
Memorial Hermann Northwest Hospital
04.2019 - 04.2021
Perioperative Registered Nurse, Staff RN
Aya Healthcare
03.2018 - 03.2019
Public Health Nurse IV
City of Houston
04.2017 - 03.2018
Master of Science - Nursing, Emphasis in Public Health
Grand Canyon University
Master of Science - Education
Grand Canyon University
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
The University of Texas At Arlington
Associate of Science -
Los Angeles, Trade Technical College
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