Registered Nurse with over 30 years of experience as a staff nurse, travel nurse, and Case Manager to include Utilization Review. Proven problem solver with strong organizational skills and multitasking. A true team player adapting easily to new situations and environments. Seeking a new and challenging Travel RN Case Management position.
SSM St. Anthony Hospital, Midwest City OK 05/2024 - 07/2024 Med-Surg Unit
Newton-Welesley Hospital, Newton MA 1/2024 - 4/2024 Float all Units
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick NJ 11/23 - 1/24
Chesapeake Regional Medical Center, Chesapeake VA 9/2023 - 11/2023
Tucson Medical Center, Tucson AZ 5/2023 - 8/2023
Ochsner Medical Center, New Orleans LA 2/23 - 5/23
physical needs, social and family status, functionality, health risks, and discharge planning needs.
• Active member of Multidisciplinary team, participating in rounds, interjecting ideas and proposals to current treatment plan.
• Builds rapport with patient and family by being their advocate, keeping them informed of their progression of care and discharge plan, showing compassion during difficult decisions, being supportive, honest, available, and transparent.
• Using critical thinking skills to develop, implement and evaluate individualized patient care plans. • Utilization Review: Performs admission and concurrent reviews to determine if patient meets criteria for current level of care.
• Initiates and monitors referral process of patients for transition of care at discharge.
• Evaluated healthcare needs, goals for treatment and available resources of each patient and connected to optimal providers and care.
• Prepared patient for Surgery. Obtained consents, assessed patient's understanding of procedure.
• Provided teaching of surgical procedure and Surgery department process
• Advocated for and strived to protect health, safety and rights of patient.
•Administered different therapies and medications in line with physician orders, always following hospital policy and procedures
• Evaluated patient histories, complaints and current symptoms
Performed continuous monitoring of immediate postoperative patients. This includes airway evaluation and management, pain evaluation and management, and management of patient's overall condition while following hospital protocols, policies and physician's orders. Patient population includes adults, inpatient and outpatients.
• Cerner EMR charting
Administered medications via oral, IV, and intramuscular injections and monitored responses.
1/11/2016 – 04/09/16, Cape Cod Hospital, PACU, Hyannis MA
6/26/2015 – 01/02/2016 University of Arkansas Medical Sciences Hospital. PACU Little Rock AR Cerner Charting
More Job history available upon request.