Clarissa Mahan
Ruskin,FL
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Registered Nurse
Vital Core Health Strategies
Tampa, FL
11.2025 - Current
- Maintain accurate, detailed reports and records.
- Administer medications to patients and monitor patients for reactions and side effects.
- Record patients’ medical information and vital signs.
- Monitor, record, and report symptoms or changes in patients’ condition.
- Consult and coordinate with healthcare team members to assess, plan, implement, or evaluate patient care plans.
- Modify patient treatment plans as indicated by patients’ responses and conditions.
- Monitor all aspects of patient care, including diet and physical activity.
- Prepare patients for and assist with examinations or treatments.
- Instruct individuals, families, or other groups on topics such as health education, disease prevention, and childbirth as well as develop health improvement programs.
- Order, interpret, and evaluate diagnostic tests to identify and assess patient’s condition.
- Additional duties as assigned by facility.
Registered Nurse, Emergency Department
HCA South Shore
Sun City Center, FL
02.2025 - Current
- Demonstrated strong clinical reasoning skills when assessing patients'' conditions, initiating appropriate interventions, and escalating concerns to physicians as needed.
- Collaborated with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions.
- Improved patient outcomes by consistently providing high-quality emergency care and implementing evidence-based nursing practices.
- Administered medications via oral, IV, and intramuscular injections and monitored responses.
- Administered emergency care to patients, utilizing advanced life support protocols and clinical judgment.
Emergency Room Technician
Bay Pines Veteran Affairs Hospital
Bay Pines , FL
08.2023 - 02.2025
- Performs clinical tasks using appropriate techniques such as 12 lead EKG's, phlebotomy procedures, peripheral intravenous insertion, foley catheter insertion and other within scope of practice tasks directed by the RN or Provider.
- Applies and removes wound dressings; applies and removes assistive/adaptive aids based upon patient progress; supervises patients on special observation status.
- Completed documentation for each patient encounter accurately and within established timeframes.
Transporter
James A. Haley Veteran Affairs Hospital
Tampa, FL
07.2022 - 08.2023
- Safe and timely transport of patients in wheelchairs, on a stretcher, or ambulatory and items supporting patient care to and from various locations within the Medical Center.
- Utilized proper body mechanics to transfer patients to wheelchairs and stretchers.
Emergency Medical Technician
American Medical Response
West Hartford, Connecticut
03.2018 - 03.2023
- Providing emergency and non-emergent medical care, such as managing hemorrhages, applying bandages to wounds, splinting extremities, tourniquet application, irrigating wounds, and obtaining vital signs.
- Suctioning patients as needed, utilizing triage skills, performing basic life support.
- Trained new EMTs on emergency response techniques and safety procedures.
- Enhanced patient care by efficiently assessing and addressing medical emergencies in high-pressure situations.
Education
Master of Science - Nursing Leadership
Troy University
Troy, Alabama, AL05-2027
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Herzing University
Tampa, FL12-2024
Bachelor of Arts - Interdisciplinary Studies
Southern Connecticut State University
New Haven, CT05-2021
Skills
- Advanced Life Support (ALS)
- Basic Life Support (BLS)
- Emergency Nursing Pediatric Course (ENPC)
- Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS)
- Trauma Nursing Core Course (TNCC)
Clinical Experience
- Acute and Intermediate Care- Winter Haven Hospital
- Critical Care- Bartow Hospital
- Behavioral Health- Peace River Center and Winter Haven Hospital
- Maternal and Pediatric Care- Bayfront Health Baby Place
Timeline
Registered Nurse
Vital Core Health Strategies
11.2025 - Current
Registered Nurse, Emergency Department
HCA South Shore
02.2025 - Current
Emergency Room Technician
Bay Pines Veteran Affairs Hospital
08.2023 - 02.2025
Transporter
James A. Haley Veteran Affairs Hospital
07.2022 - 08.2023
Emergency Medical Technician
American Medical Response
03.2018 - 03.2023
Bachelor of Arts - Interdisciplinary Studies
Southern Connecticut State University
Master of Science - Nursing Leadership
Troy University
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Herzing University