Edlawit Meheret, BSN, RN
Dallas
Summary
Dedicated and compassionate Registered Nurse (RN) with progressive career history in direct patient care, triage and care coordination in fast-paced environment. Proven to remain calm under pressure and skillfully handle difficult patients and high-stress situations. Consistently developing strong relationships with patients and families through empathetic communication, respectful attitude, and excellent customer service.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
surgical Neuro Progressive Care Unit Registered Nurse
Parkland Memorial Hospital
10.2023 - Current
- Assessing patients' needs, developing care plans, and monitoring patients for signs of improvement or decline
- Advocating for patients and their families
- Assisting doctors with monitoring and with bedside procedures performed in the progressive care unit
- Primary admitting patients with: stroke, general neurology, neurosurgery, emergency surgery, trauma surgery, general surgery, and ENT/Airway watch.
- Advised patients and caregivers of proper wound management, discharge plan objectives, safe medication use, and disease management.
Medical ICU Patient Care Technician
Texas Health Presbyterian Dallas
05.2022 - 09.2023
- Promptly communicating patient status changes
- Keeping patient's environment clean and maintain a safe environment
- Properly donning on and off personal protective equipment
- Incorporating cultural/religious needs and beliefs into delivery of care
- Safely transferring and positioning patients
Medical Intensive Unit floor
Medical City Arlington
- 11.2022
- 70 hours total
- Practiced SBAR patient handoff reports
- Assisted nurses in multiple critical care settings with ventilator, pressure monitors and catheters
- Educated patients on medication use and side effects
- Assessed and monitored patient status
- Participated in end of life care
Education
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Chamberlain University
Irving, TX09.2023
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San Francisco State University
San Francisco, CA12.2019
Skills
- Medication Administration
- Nursing Assessment
- Vital Signs Monitoring
- Precepting
- Compassionate
- Sanitation
- Clinical judgment
- EPIC
- Pyxis
- EMR
- Lab result interpretation
- Culturally sensitive
Certification
- American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS)
- Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS)
LANGUAGES
English
Amharic
Tigrinya
Timeline
surgical Neuro Progressive Care Unit Registered Nurse
Parkland Memorial Hospital
10.2023 - Current
Medical ICU Patient Care Technician
Texas Health Presbyterian Dallas
05.2022 - 09.2023
Medical Intensive Unit floor
Medical City Arlington
- 11.2022
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San Francisco State University
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Chamberlain University