Frances McCurdy

• Worked 8 bed Neuro/Trauma/Surgical/Polytrauma ICU. Worked during the COVID-19 Pandemic and PACU recovery.
• Collaborated with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions.
• Administered medications via oral, IV, and intramuscular injections and monitored responses.
• Administered medications and treatment to patients and monitored responses while working with healthcare teams to adjust care plans.
• Educated patients, families and caregivers on diagnosis and prognosis, treatment options, disease process, and management and lifestyle options.
• Provided direct patient care, stabilized patients, and determined next course of action.
• Managed care from admission to discharge.
• Trained new nurses in proper techniques, care standards, operational procedures, and safety protocols.
• Implemented medication and IV administration, catheter insertion, and airway management.
• Updated patient charts with data such as medications to keep records current and support accurate treatments.
• Advocated for patients by communicating care preferences to practitioners, verifying interventions met treatment goals and identifying insurance coverage limitations.
• Organized and managed care of patients undergoing various therapies and procedures.
• Evaluated healthcare needs, goals for treatment, and available resources of each patient and connected to optimal providers and care.
• Conferred with physicians to discuss diagnoses and devise well-coordinated treatment approaches.

• Planned, organized and positioned equipment and supplies for use in emergency conditions before, during and after transport.
• Assumed responsibility as the sole medical provided of care for Federal detainees with stable, unstable, and complex medical conditions.
• Communicated with patients, explaining nursing tasks being performed in effort to maintain calm.
• Documented appropriate and accurate information for assessment and treatment during stabilization and transport.
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Worked in 30 bed ICU setting caring for patients of high acuity health diagnosis. Specialties to include, Neuro ICU, Surgical ICU, Medical ICU, Cardiovascular ICU.

Functioned as a Staff nurse on Multiple different Nursing floors to include Medical Surgical and Specials unit, Oncology unit, Special Amenities floor, Neuro ICU.