FELICIA MCKINNEY

• Monitored critical patients, interpreting telemetry, hemodynamics, and laboratory trends for timely intervention.
• Administered vasoactive drips, sedation, and complex medication regimens while maintaining ICU protocol compliance.
• Coordinated interdisciplinary care plans with physicians, respiratory therapy, and pharmacy for unstable patient needs.
• Assessed changes in patient condition, escalating concerns and initiating rapid-response interventions when indicated.

• Perform care for critically ill patients, providing treatment according to their diagnosis and abnormalities
• Monitored patient condition by interpreting and tracking EKG readings, identifying irregular telemetry readings and updating team members on changes in stability or acuity.
• Organized and managed care of patients undergoing various therapies and procedures.
• Educated patients, families and caregivers on diagnosis and prognosis, treatment options, disease process, and management and lifestyle options.
• Perform in the role of charge nurse and also precept new nurses, students, or new hires in proper techniques, care standards, operational procedures, and safety protocols.

Pre-operative assessments, pre-admission testing, post operative anesthesia care.

• Streamlined the discharge process for PACU patients, ensuring thorough education on home care instructions and follow-up appointments.
• Provided timely interventions to address airway management complications such as respiratory depression or obstruction in post-operative patients.
• Enhanced patient recovery by providing comprehensive post-anesthesia care and monitoring vital signs.
• Provided emotional support to patients and their families during the recovery process, easing anxiety related to surgery outcomes.

Critical Care, Renal Dialysis, Nurse Extern

• Direct management of staff including skill management, human resource relations, staff recruitment, staff scheduling and payroll.
• In the know of all medical related practices and outcomes of the department.
• Oversee multidisciplinary rounds, department huddles, staff meetings, and unit based council.
• Monitor expenditures to mitigate risk of unit overages.
• Ensures that staff and department remains compliant in healthcare and organizational standards of practice.
• Aim towards positive patient care experiences and outcomes.
• Daily reports to hire leadership team in the organization.
• Develop and report bi-weekly quality and safety metrics and charters.
• Successfully report and demonstrate unit compliance to surveyors for public health and DNV audits.
• Collaborate with other leaders and staff in the organization to implement projects to expand scope of engagement.

• Intensive Care Unit
• Perform the duties of professional registered nurse in contracted hospital setting
• Delivering care and treatment consistent with individual treatment plans for patients

• Support Gift of Hope’s mission, vision, and values; adhere to its policies and procedures in carrying out the responsibilities of this position
• Rotate 12 or more hour on-call responsibilities with team members to respond to organ referrals throughout Gift of Hope’s Service area
• Conduct accurate, effective early on-site evaluations of potential organ donors
• Review hospital charts and current records of potential donors
• Assess medical status and determine organ donor potential per Gift of Hope criteria in conjunction with the AOC and/or Gift of Hope Medical Director
• Document findings and follow-up plans in hospital charts; communicate same to hospital staff while on site
• Communicate pertinent information with Donor Resource Center, and Medical Director (when necessary)
• Conduct on-site/phone assessments of potential donors for medical eligibility/suitability
• Ask potential organ donor families to authorize organ and/or tissue donation; meet organization’s minimum authorization rate
• Facilitate donation of donors in first person registry; guide family to help them understand the donation process
• Perform physical assessment of potential donors
• Perform minor surgical cut-downs in order to obtain lymph nodes for tissue typing on brain dead donors
• Perform arterial and central line placement on brain dead donors
• Maintain patient charts according to current policies and procedures; identify, document, and communicate essential clinical information to associated Gift of Hope staff, transplant center staff, and managing physicians and administrators
• Coordinate medical management of potential donors to assure appropriate hemodynamic status
• Coordinate the distribution of organs for transplantation from deceased organ donors; package and label organs for transplant
• Participate in departmental quality assurance initiatives
• Participate in training and mentoring new ORC staff and associated department’s staff as assigned

• Intensive Care Unit (Medical, Cardiac, Surgical) Give holistic care for critically ill patients, providing treatment according to their diagnosis and abnormalities
• Demonstrate the proper use of equipment, knowledge of medicines and wound care
• Delegate in emergency situations, codes, rapid responses, and trouble shooting in these situations
• Analyze and interpret EKG monitoring and charting assessment, intervention, and evaluation on patients
• Receive and interpret orders from physicians
• Perform as charge nurse and or preceptor to lower level nurses or new hires
• Train as super-user for new equipment
• Give thorough report to other nurses/or nurse supervisor

• Perform the duties of professional registered nurse in contracted hospital setting
• Delivering care and treatment consistent with individual treatment plans for patients