Emily E. Batten
Joshua,USA
Summary
Experienced healthcare professional skilled in patient care, critical thinking, and communication. Strong focus on team collaboration and achieving optimal patient outcomes. Reliable and adaptable, ensuring efficient and compassionate care in dynamic environments. Equipped with expertise in medical procedures, patient assessments, and care coordination.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Registered Nurse, Clinical Resource Team
Children’s Medical Center
04.2023 - Current
- Level 1 trauma, magnet recognized, teaching hospital
- Ensures patients are provided with age appropriate, culturally sensitive, and spiritually competent care
- Supports clinical staff to ensure safe staffing
- Became comfortable floating to many floors in the hospital: ER hold, GI, renal, oncology, pulmonary, neurology, cardiac, nephrology, trauma/surgery, inpatient therapy, and general pediatrics
- Accurately documents all elements of pediatric assessments, treatments, medications, and discharge instructions
- Skilled in IV therapy, including central line maintenance and dressing changes
- Provides education to family members on complex childcare, such as tracheostomy care, G-tube maintenance, and tube feeding administration and management
- Acts as SWAT nurse, responding to emergencies and all codes hospital wide, as well as assisting in conscious sedation for orthopedic limb setting, laceration repairs, and lumbar punctures
Registered Nurse, Pre/PACU/Same Day Surgery
Medical City Lewisville
01.2023 - 04.2023
- Travel RN
- Adapted quickly to a new environment while learning a new charting system
- Communicates with nurses on the floors to receive and/or give reports on ICU, med surg, and obstetric patients that have had or are having surgery
- Recognizes changes in patients’ conditions that indicate the need further intervention
- Evaluates patients’ pain levels after surgery and implements correct dosage of medication to alleviate discomfort
- Assumes care of pediatric through elderly adult patients in a critical setting
Registered Nurse, Outpatient Perioperative Services
Moffitt Cancer Center
10.2020 - 01.2023
- Magnet recognized, teaching hospital
- Ensured surgeon and anesthesiologists’ orders have been initiated and carried through, prior to and after surgery
- Documented patient information obtained from interviews and prepared patients for surgical procedures
- Immediately assumed care of patients post-operatively to monitor vital signs, airway patency including advanced airways, neurologic status, pain, and surgical sites including care of drains and wound vacs
- Gained extensive knowledge on pre- and post-operative care for the following categories of surgery: cutaneous, plastic (including flaps and grafts), breast (including reconstruction), thyroid, gynecologic, and genitourinary
- Guaranteed proper patient and family education prior to discharge
- Served as clinical lead/charge nurse of the entire pre-and post-op floor
Registered Nurse, Adult ICU Step Down Unit
Tampa General Hospital
09.2019 - 12.2020
- Level 1 trauma, magnet recognized, teaching hospital
- Assumed care of patients with severe developmental, physical, and neurological disabilities
- Served as preceptor for graduate nurses and experienced nurses transitioning to critical care
- Managed complex respiratory care of patients requiring tracheostomies and ventilator assistance
- Managed multiple IV drips such as insulin, nitroglycerin, diltiazem, milrinone, heparin, dilaudid, and fentanyl
- Assisted physicians with administering conscious sedation during bedside procedures like bronchoscopies, central line insertions, paracenteses, thoracenteses, wound vac exchanges
- Provided spiritual and emotional support for patients transferred to comfort and/or hospice care
Registered Nurse, Medical Surgical Gastroenterology Unit
Virginia Mason Medical Center
09.2018 - 08.2019
- Provided primary care for 4-6 medical surgical/ telemetry patients daily
- Performed assessments, administered medications, provided IV therapy, completed complex wound care, managed multiple drainage devices, tracked patients progress
- Notified and updated medical teams of any changes in patient condition and advocated for early interventions when needed
- Promoted to charge nurse after 6 months of experience while still caring for full patient assignments
- Utilized continuous telemetry for adequate monitoring and assessments of complex patient populations
Education
Bachelors of Science - Nursing
University of Tampa
Tampa, FL01.2018
Skills
- Medication and IV administration
- Direct patient care
- Patient assessments
- Documentation and charting
- Strong clinical judgment
- Patient education and counseling
- Patient and family advocacy
- Compassion and empathy
- Care planning
- Precepting
- Patient discharge
- Team coordination
Certification
- Texas Registered Nurse License #1064437, expires 2027-05
- BLS, American Heart Association, expires 2026-12
- PALS, American Heart Association, expires 2026-12
Leadership/Accolades
- Functioned as charge nurse on a med-surg floor while providing care for a full assignment of up to 6 patients
- Assumed role of clinical lead for a perioperative unit, including pre-op and PACU
- Twice nominated for the Daisy award
- Acted as a preceptor to new graduate nurses as well as experience nurses in a critical care environment
- Routinely chosen to care for high profile, celebrity, and political party patients
Timeline
Registered Nurse, Clinical Resource Team
Children’s Medical Center
04.2023 - Current
Registered Nurse, Pre/PACU/Same Day Surgery
Medical City Lewisville
01.2023 - 04.2023
Registered Nurse, Outpatient Perioperative Services
Moffitt Cancer Center
10.2020 - 01.2023
Registered Nurse, Adult ICU Step Down Unit
Tampa General Hospital
09.2019 - 12.2020
Registered Nurse, Medical Surgical Gastroenterology Unit
Virginia Mason Medical Center
09.2018 - 08.2019
Bachelors of Science - Nursing
University of Tampa
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