Christine Lehman

• Supplemental staffing in the emergency departments of various facilities throughout Washington, DC, and Baltimore, MD.

• Maintained accurate records of all assessments, treatments, medications administered, and other pertinent information related to patient's care.
• Provided patient care according to established standards and protocols.
• Responded quickly to life-threatening situations utilizing advanced emergency skills.
• Collaborated with interdisciplinary team members to ensure quality patient care outcomes were achieved.
• Educated patients and families about health maintenance and disease prevention.
• Cared for patients experiencing acute traumas, including cardiac arrests, strokes and gunshot wounds.
• Triaged and treated high-volume caseload in busy emergency room setting.

• Care and assessment of pediatric and adult home health patients.
• venipuncture
• IV insertion.
• Infusion of parenteral medications.
• Supplemental staffing at Northern Virginia facilities.

Duties: ACLS registered nurse escort for a variety of patients traveling on commercial and private air from various foreign and domestic locations to the US, Canada, and occasionally Japan; Pre-flight assessment and determination of patient's stability for travel; Coordinating/troubleshooting medical and logistical issues before, during, and after flight; One-to-one monitoring of patient in flight, with emergency intervention when necessary.

Duties: Follow up on inpatient and outpatient insurance claims; Monitoring of cases/potential medical transports in foreign and domestic locations; Interpretation/explanation of medical data to non-medical office staff.

• pediatric and adult home healthcare

• Staff nurse in emergency department, med/surg, behavioral health, and drug rehabilitation in various facilities throughout New York City.

Staff RN in Oncology

• caring for patients with gynecological cancers.
• Administration and monitoring of patients receiving chemotherapy agents.
• Addressing the psychosocial needs of terminally ill patients and their families

Staff RN in Medical/Surgical Areas.

• caring for a wide variety of medical and surgical patients
• care of cardiac patients on telemetry
• caring for post PTCA patients
• care of patients on mechanical ventilators
• charge nurse responsibilities

Staff RN in adult and pediatric emergency departments.

• care of patients in acute situations, triage and charge nurse responsibilities