Dynamic Emergency Room Registered Nurse at Halifax Health, delivers exceptional patient care in a high pressure fast pace environment, while giving compassion and strong focus on teamwork and reliability.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Emergency Room Registered Nurse
Halifax Health
Daytona Beach/Deltona, Florida
06.2014 - Current
Fostering exceptional care to all age patients in a high pressure, fast-paced environment, using critical care skills to stabilize our patients.
Establishing a calm demeanor under pressure, plus providing quick judgment in life-saving events, while managing multiple patients efficiently.
Collaborating together with physicians and team members using strong communication skills leading to implementing positive patient treatments and outcomes.
Administering medications through oral, IV, IM therapies and monitoring patients throughout their stay with accurate vitals signs and assessments.
Assisting physicians with numerous complex invasive procedures examples of intubations, central and atrial line insertions, chest tubes, reductions under conscious sedation, lumber punctures, I&Ds, cardiac treatments, providing critical care IV medications, etc., plus ensuring patient safety and continuous monitoring.
Providing intensive care to trauma level patients.
Deescalating situations in a calm manner with therapeutic communication, active listening, being respectful and fostering open posture, usually resulting to a win-win positive outcome every encounter.
Providing a positive energy teamwork environment.
Evaluating patients medical histories, home medications, current symptoms, plus always providing open-ended questions to patients and families promoting a personally caring relationship.
Delivering exceptional, high quality, and equal care to all. Fostering safety and following protocols to all patients regarding medical errors, fall risks, isolation precautions, and hospital policies.
Triaging and prioritizing in a quick efficient manner, ordering protocols allowing for a speedy patient experience, also facilitating a clean working well stocked environment.
Educating all patients and family members continuously throughout their stay plus providing accurate and efficient communication on discharge.
CDU/ISC Registered Nurse
Halifax Health
Daytona Beach, Florida
01.2014 - 09.2015
Providing fast pace and high multitasking patient care in a timely manner. In CDU, the goal is to admit patients in a timely manner with a 24-48 hour window of stay. Allowing for labs, radiology, consults, plus other procedures to be managed, performed and results given upon patients discharge.
Provided care to chest pain center and overflow med-surg patients as well.
In ISC, promoting and performing critical care to patients with mostly trauma and neuro complications, which usually required surgical interventions.
While working in these units, I also helped in the emergency room.
Nursing Administration/HUB
Halifax Health
Daytona Beach, Florida
10.2011 - 01.2014
Proven to learn quickly plus adapt to new situations.
Ability to collaborate in a team environment, positive mindset and being well-liked.
Skilled at working independently.
Responsible for bed placement and throughput in the hospital, transfer center and working under EMTAL, centralized staffing and providing staffing throughout the hospital,
Communication to all physicians, charge nurses, and management from our facility plus to other facilities.
Fostering quality of care and safety for all patients.