Christine Martin
Fort Myers
Summary
Experienced nursing professional with a strong background in clinical knowledge, interpersonal skills, and technical abilities. Proficient in EMR charting, medication administration, and interdisciplinary collaboration to ensure optimal patient care and support. Quality focused and efficiency driven leader dedicated to delivering high quality healthcare services.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Pediatric Emergency Room Nurse
Golisano Children's Hospital of Southwest Florida
07.2021 - Current
- Participated in evidence-based practice project implementation, nursing competency development and nursing simulation activities.
- Performed triage on incoming patients and determined severity of injuries and illnesses.
- Educated family members and caregivers on patient care instructions.
- Documented treatments delivered, medications and IVs administered, discharge instructions, and follow-up care.
- Evaluated patient histories, complaints, and current symptoms.
- Charge nurse and nurse leader
- Actively involved in education committee
- Experience using Belmont Rapid infuser and Ranger warmer
- Quickly responded to situations impacting safety and security to unit, actualizing crisis prevention interventions to control and de-escalate situations.
- Monitored patient reactions after administering medications and IV therapies.
- Trained new nurses in proper techniques, care standards, procedures, and safety protocols.
Pediatric Emergency Department
Advocate Children’s Hospital
03.2018 - 07.2021
- Experience triaging patients using ESI scale
- Experience as a charge nurse for the unit
- Certified and experienced in accessing ports, cap changes, and dressing changes
- Experience with running MTP (massive transfusion protocol)
- Comfortable using THERMACOR massive transfuser, push pull, and pressure bag
- Participation in full and mock codes
- Starting IVs, obtaining labs, administering IV medications
- Familiar with conscious sedation procedures, medications, and monitoring
- Comfortable assessing patients in triage and administering interventions
- Using trauma assessments and AVPU
- Starting respiratory nebs treatments
- Administering Epi, steroids, and Benadryl for severe allergic reactions
- Experience using TXA to stop bleeds
- Member of Advocate Children’s Sepsis team, in addition to working with compliance, and attending monthly meetings
- Familiar with pelvic binders and chest tubes
- Comfortable operating the Zoll defibrillator and AED
- Placing ultrasound guided IVs
- Adaptable and proficient in learning new concepts quickly and efficiently.
Pediatric RN (Acute & Chronic Illness)
La Rabida Children’s Hospital
08.2016 - 07.2018
- Provided total patient care for 3-4 patients per shift
- Provided wound care on patients with multiple pressure ulcers, severe burns, and skin breakdown
- Experience with sterile technique and placing a straight catheter
- Participation in multiple mock and full code situations and debriefings
- Experience admitting, discharging, and transferring patients
- Placing IVs and transfusing packed RBCs
- Experience with PCAs and sickle cell pain crisis
- Familiar with Alaris IV pump and buretrol tubing
- Provided direct patient care, stabilized patients, and determined next course of action.
- Caring for trach/vent patient, changing trach tubes weekly, and trach ties daily
- Suctioning trachs, inline and open; using portable suction machines
- Familiar with the LTV 1150 and LTV 1200, and Trilogy 100 ventilators
- Using emergency equipment such as Ambu bags, extra trachs, oxygen, and suctioning equipment when needed
- Placing NG tubes, checking placement, and running feeds
- Familiar with G-tube care, removing/attaching the extension, cleaning the site, and delivering medications and feeds with the Kangaroo pump
- Experienced with central line and PICC line dressing changes and cap changes, in addition to saline, hepin, vancomycin, and ethanol locking lines
- Drawing labs from a central line, blood cultures, RVPs, and urine cultures
- Familiar with Dr. Brown bottles for PO feeds
- Provide comfort to the families of these ill children, in addition to providing patient and family teaching opportunities
- Comfortable with the administration of medication in various routes, and implementing both pharmacological and non-pharmacological pain management techniques
- Familiar with seizure precautions, and implementing the needed medications and observations
- Comfortable taking vitals, monitoring I’s and O’s, and assisting with other ADLs
- Experience with taking patients on trips to other hospitals to have procedures done, via shuttle or ambulance, and if a trach/vent patient, then also accompanied by a respiratory therapist
- Checking and running TPN and lipids
- Routinely administering vaccines
- Familiar with accu-chek, and testing blood glucose levels, and administering insulin on a sliding scale
- Collaborated with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Resurrection University (formerly West Suburban College of Nursing)
Chicago, IL12.2015
Bachelor of Science - undefined
Saint Marys College
Notre Dame, IN05.2012
Skills
- Patient stabilization
- Cardiac monitoring
- Emergency triage
- Medical equipment operation
- IV insertion and management
- Vitals monitoring
- ENPC and TNCC
- Pediatric advanced life support (PALS)
- Advanced cardiovascular life support (ACLS)
- Pediatric emergency assessment, recognition and stabilization
- Multitasking Abilities
- Time management abilities
Accomplishments
- Lead team of 10 staff members, as charge nurse, on night shift during past hurricanes on team A.
Certification
- Nursing License -first obtained February 2016-active through April 2027
- Certified Pediatric Nurse (CPN), -first obtained October 2017-current
- Certified Pediatric Emergency Room Nurse (CPEN) - first obtained September 2024-current
- PALS - recertified March 2024
- ACLS - recertified March 2024
- TNCC - recertified October 2024
- ENPC - recertified October 2024
Languages
English
Native or Bilingual
Italian
Limited Working
Timeline
Pediatric Emergency Room Nurse
Golisano Children's Hospital of Southwest Florida
07.2021 - Current
Pediatric Emergency Department
Advocate Children’s Hospital
03.2018 - 07.2021
Pediatric RN (Acute & Chronic Illness)
La Rabida Children’s Hospital
08.2016 - 07.2018
Bachelor of Science - undefined
Saint Marys College
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Resurrection University (formerly West Suburban College of Nursing)
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