Years of healthcare experience
Erik Johansen
Registered Nurse
Oakley,CA
Summary
Adaptable CCT-RN with experienced proficiencies in emergency practices, as well as a broad understanding of the prehospital, intra-hospital, and critical care environments. Successful in leadership capacities and passionate about continued development and mastery as a clinician and as a part of the healthcare team.
Overview
8
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4
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Years of RN experience
Work History
Lead CCT RN
Royal Ambulance
03.2023 - Current
- Assisted with the development of new policies and protocols within the critical care transport team, resulting in improved safety protocols and overall effectiveness of operations.
- Provided constructive review of charting practices and positive reinforcement of evidenced based medicine for CCT-RN staff, focusing on aortic and neurologic emergencies.
Critical Care Transport Nurse
Royal Ambulance
08.2022 - Current
- Worked within a team environment to provide care to critically ill patients, ranging from routine care to time sensitive and life threatening emergencies.
- Transported emergent, ill or injured patients to tertiary centers while optimizing care in the transport environment in conjunction with sending and receiving healthcare teams.
- Broad spectrum of experience in different specialties within the transport environment, including but not limited to: aortic and cardiac emergencies, neurologic emergencies, pediatric and adult trauma, burns, MCS, and ECMO.
Registered Nurse, Emergency Department
St Rose Hospital
08.2021 - 01.2023
- Demonstrated strong clinical reasoning skills when assessing patients' conditions, initiating appropriate interventions, and escalating concerns to physicians as needed.
- Improved patient outcomes by consistently providing high-quality emergency care and implementing evidence-based nursing practices.
- Facilitated patient treatment and flow at a STEMI-receiving facility and proficient and experienced in ACLS and PALS implementation.
- Demonstrated team oriented leadership skills as a charge nurse in the emergency setting, optimizing patient disposition and department flow.
EMT / Lead Field Training Officer
Royal Ambulance
04.2017 - 08.2021
- Facilitated timely patient transfers to and from facilities for medical care in the capacity of an EMT-B in BLS and CCT environments.
- Standardized and supervised training procedures for new EMTs in the prehospital environment.
Education
Associate of Science - Nursing
Chabot College
Hayward, CA05.2021
Associate of Arts - French As A Foreign Language
Chabot College
Hayward, CA04.2018
Skills
- Adaptability
- Clinical judgment
- Critical thinking
- Empathetic
- Coachable
- High level of autonomy
- Emotional awareness
- Patient and family advocacy
- Emergency triage
- Team building
Accomplishments
- Launched CCT unit capability out of Daly City station, organizing supply chain, unit assets and equipment, and personnel training to expand CCT services for Royal Ambulance.
- Organized and implemented the creation of the "first response bag" - a pack designed to address the front line needs of any acuity patient from bedside to ambulance.
- Featured as a guest clinician in the podcast "Rapid Response RN: Pediatric Empyema," a clinical review of pediatric emergency care and sepsis treatment guidelines, as well as fluid overload and re-expansion pulmonary edema.
Certification
- Registered Nurse
- ACLS - Advanced Cardiac Life Support
- PALS - Pediatric Advanced Life Support
- BLS - Basic Life Support
- Neonatal Resuscitation - Advanced Provider
- NIH Stroke Certification
Continuing Education & Clinical Development
- Southern California Emergency Care Conference (attended 2023-2024)
- SCECC Advanced Procedures Human Cadaver Lab (attended 2023-2024)
- Rapid Response Academy: A nursing community and education resource for holistic and patient-centered emergency management (member since 2023)
Timeline
Lead CCT RN
Royal Ambulance
03.2023 - Current
Critical Care Transport Nurse
Royal Ambulance
08.2022 - Current
Registered Nurse, Emergency Department
St Rose Hospital
08.2021 - 01.2023
EMT / Lead Field Training Officer
Royal Ambulance
04.2017 - 08.2021
- Registered Nurse
- ACLS - Advanced Cardiac Life Support
- PALS - Pediatric Advanced Life Support
- BLS - Basic Life Support
- Neonatal Resuscitation - Advanced Provider
- NIH Stroke Certification
Associate of Science - Nursing
Chabot College
Associate of Arts - French As A Foreign Language
Chabot College
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