Christopher E. Durham
Gainesville,FL
Summary
Experienced healthcare professional with a strong background in patient care and medical procedures. Well-prepared for nursing roles. Committed to collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to achieve positive patient outcomes. Adaptable to the ever-changing healthcare landscape. Demonstrated expertise in patient assessment, care planning, and accurate medical documentation. Delivers with a compassionate approach.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
RN – Ambulatory Surgery
Laser and outpatient surgery center
01.2024 - Current
- Ambulatory Surgery is a full-performance level professional nurse position that provides direct and indirect perioperative patient and family-centered care
- The RN – Ambulatory Surgery independently makes assessments and provides care to meet the needs of assigned patients and families or an assigned patient population
- In addition, nurses at this level will provide leadership and act as a clinical resource for other unit staff
- The RN – Ambulatory Surgery develops resources to meet the identified educational needs of staff, the patient/family, students, and oneself
- The RN will identify unit quality assurance standards of care needs and conduct assigned portions of projects to ensure the maintenance of quality standards
- The RN – Ambulatory Surgery possesses the knowledge and skills required to provide care to patients and families of all age groups (neonate, pediatric, adolescent, adult, and geriatric)
Regional Lab Manager
Children's lung and asthma sleep specialist
09.2017 - 01.2024
- Bring together their managerial skills and knowledge of safety and lab procedures to ensure that laboratories operate smoothly
- Administrative duties generally include scheduling staff, reordering supplies, and maintaining security standards
- Planned and coordinated new development programs to meet deadlines within budget.
Traveling Polysomnographic Technologist
01.2016 - 08.2017
- Performs nocturnal polysomnogram tests on patients who suffer from sleeping problems
- Prepares patients for testing, including the proper fitting of the patient with equipment and electrodes
- Monitors and reports on patient’s progress as aligned by the facility
- Assists clinicians with sleep studies and research
- Coordinates sleep lab studies
- Submits detailed information to the required channels, and holds advanced field experience and skill
Polysomnographic Technologist
Neurohealth
07.2015 - 12.2016
- Responsibilities: Determining montage and display preference settings for AC and DC signals
- Troubleshooting to establish an interface between monitoring equipment and computer software
- Instructing technicians new to the field of sleep medicine on how to hook up equipment onto patients to monitor physiological signals; interpretation of variances in physiological signals and significance thereof; scoring of PSGs
- Instructing technicians in the use of computer software, and navigation throughout, after having self-taught
- Ensuring the safe and smooth function of lab by recognizing equipment and supply needs, establishing file tracking system, and continuously offering support to the technicians with regards to patient treatment, technical troubleshooting, scoring of Polysomnagram (PSG)
- Establishing and Implementing Protocols for CPAP, BiLevel and Oxygen treatment
- Establishing Departmental Policies and Procedures for the sleep laboratory
- PSGs: overnight diagnostic and treatment with CPAP, BiLevel or Oxygen and daytime MSLTs
- Scoring and analyzing of PSGs and MSLTs
Cryptologic Network Warfare Specialist
United States Army
02.2014 - 07.2015
- Responsibilities: Cryptologic Network Warfare Specialists perform initial cryptologic digital analysis to establish target identification and operational patterns; identifies, reports, and maintains intelligence information in support of Commander's Intelligence Requirements and uses technical references to analyze information
- Operates automated data processing (ADP) equipment for both remote and local collection, processing and reporting
- Performs initial cryptologic digital analysis to establish target identification and operational patterns
- Develops and maintains analytical and operational working aids and databases to support target collection, identification, and location
- Prepares technical products and time sensitive reports in support of Cryptologic Network Warfare operations
Sleep Technician Intern
01.2007 - 07.2009
- Responsibilities: Hooking and unhooking of patients in preparation for full polysomnography
- Monitoring physiological signals of up to two patients per night
- Troubleshooting: replacing broken wires, reestablishing a lost signal by re-referencing, use of filters or recalibrating; re-siting electrodes; adjusting mask fittings, use of chinstraps, calming the patient
- Establishing rapport with patients and their parents (Patients ages vary as well as their degrees of developmental delay)
Education
Bachelors -
Rasmussen College of Nursing
Ocala, Florida01.2023
Rasmussen College
Ocala, Florida01.2017
Florida A&M University
Tallahassee, Florida01.2011
Skills
- Basic life support
- Clinical judgment
- Compassion and empathy
- Discharge planning
- Quality improvement
- Geriatric care
- Health promotion
- Research utilization
- Community health
- Cultural history
- Advanced cardiac life support
- Medication and IV administration
- Direct patient care
- Patient assessment
- Team coordination
- Patient assessments
- Patient education and counseling
- Medication administration
- Strong clinical judgment
- Patient monitoring
- Patient care
- Physical assessments
- Staff supervision
- Nursing staff leadership
- Licensed RN
- Care planning
- Patient management
- Professional bedside manner
Certification
- Florida board nurse, 01/2024
- Registered Polysomnographic Technologist, 01/2016
- Combat Lifesaver, 01/2013
- Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation/ BLS, 01/2012
Professional Organizations
- Future Business Leaders of America, Vice President
- American Association for Sleep Medicine
- American Sleep and Breathing Academy
Timeline
RN – Ambulatory Surgery
Laser and outpatient surgery center
01.2024 - Current
Regional Lab Manager
Children's lung and asthma sleep specialist
09.2017 - 01.2024
Traveling Polysomnographic Technologist
01.2016 - 08.2017
Polysomnographic Technologist
Neurohealth
07.2015 - 12.2016
Cryptologic Network Warfare Specialist
United States Army
02.2014 - 07.2015
Sleep Technician Intern
01.2007 - 07.2009
Rasmussen College
Florida A&M University
Bachelors -
Rasmussen College of Nursing
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