Elizabeth Hutchinson

• Assess patient presenting medical conditions and clearly communicate diagnosis and treatment plans to patients and family.
• Facilitate patient referrals to specialists to determine best course of action for patient.
• Monitor patient condition and progress, ordering appropriate laboratory tests.
• Prescribe medications or treatments based on patient medical assessments.
• Attend to unit emergency, assess patient clinical condition and formulate appropriate treatment plans based upon patient's clinical status.
• Identify patient and family needs for community resources and refer to appropriate healthcare providers.

Clinical Nurse level III on a 40-bed acute care medical-telemetry unit with 5:1 nurse-patient ratio

• Provide competent, interdisciplinary care with physicians, nursing team and support staff
• Assess and provide wound care recommendations as appointed unit skin care champion and consistently maintained core measures above unit benchmark
• Developed the on-boarding process of training newly hired Registered Nurse
• Achieve departmental goals and objectives by instituting new processes and standards for in-patient care
• Accurately documents all elements of nursing assessment, treatments, medications, discharge instructions and follow-up care
• Covid prepared nurse

Worked on a telemetry unit with a 7:1 nurse-patient ratio.

• Assessed patients in active intoxication withdrawal and provided interventions to manage physical and psychological withdrawal symptoms
• Managed care for patients with multiple chronic diagnoses including COPD, Diabetes, and CHF
• Closely monitored patients following invasive procedures such as drains, ORIF and chest tube placement