Grace Grott

Key Responsibilities

• Perform comprehensive preoperative assessments, including medication reconciliation, surgical consent verification, and evaluation of anesthesia risk factors.
• Provide patient education related to surgical procedures, NPO guidelines, anesthesia expectations, and post-op care.
• Monitor patients recovering from general, regional, or local anesthesia, assessing airway, pain level, neurologic status, hemodynamics, and wound integrity.
• Administer medications including analgesics, antiemetics, and emergency drugs per protocol.
• Rapidly identify and respond to post-anesthesia complications such as respiratory distress, hypotension, or emergence delirium.
• Coordinate with anesthesia providers, surgeons, and OR staff to ensure continuity and safety across the perioperative spectrum.
• Deliver age-appropriate care across diverse patient populations including pediatric, adult, and geriatric patients.
• Provide emotional support and discharge teaching to patients and families, ensuring comprehension of post-op instructions and follow-up care.

Key Skills

• IV insertion
• Airway and pain management
• Sedation recovery monitoring
• Cross-functional communication with surgical teams
• ACLS/PALS protocols and emergency response
• HST Case Coordination

Achievements

• Recognized for exceptional ability to coordinate and streamline workflows across the perioperative spectrum. Successfully facilitate communication and task delegation among RN's, surgeons, anesthesia providers, and support staff to enhance patient throughput, reduce delays, and maintain safe, efficient care delivery. Demonstrate strong leadership, adaptability and situational awareness in managing overlapping responsibilities and prioritizing critical needs across departments

Achievements

Implemented new charting process, achieving notable improvements in patient and operational outcomes.

• Standardized workflows to alleviate confusion for rotating and per diem staff.
• Facilitated better communication and coordination within teams by streamlining operations.

• Delivered high-quality patient care in cath lab, promoting optimal recovery and minimizing complications through vigilant monitoring.
• Conducted thorough assessments and data analyses to guide personalized care strategies and measurable improvements.
• Collaborated with multidisciplinary teams to establish cohesive care plans, enhancing overall patient recovery outcomes.
• Evaluated patient responses to sedation, adjusting dosages to maintain safety and reduce recovery durations.
• Maintained accurate documentation of sedation levels and vital signs, ensuring adherence to physician orders and quality standards.

• Applied extensive nursing expertise in management of patient care elements from admission to discharge, delivering emergency interventions when needed.
• Monitored and recorded patient condition, vital signs, recovery progress and medication side effects.
• Developed care plans with effective nursing measures to improve patient outcomes, both mentally and physically.
• Coordinated care with physicians and other clinical staff to prepare for treatment, carry out interventions and enhance continuum of care.
• Administered oral, intramuscular and IV medications to patients and monitored responses.
• Educated patients and families on treatment strategies and at-home care.

• Performed comprehensive patient assessments to identify patient needs, devise individualized plans of care, modify care solutions and ensure patients' comfort, satisfaction, outcomes, and rights.
• Cared for up to six post-operative in-patients.
• Close monitoring of post-operative vital signs, including pain with appropriate intervention as needed.
• Collaborated with multidisciplinary healthcare professionals to administer therapies and maintain continuum of care.
• Educated patients and families on diseases, medical and surgical procedures, medication regimens, pain, self-management, and infection prevention.

• Prioritized patient care assignments based on patient acuity, responding to unanticipated interruptions while delegating care to achieve optimal, safe and effective outcomes.
• Care and treatment of patients with broad range of diagnoses including sepsis, renal failure, diabetic ketoacidosis, pulmonary embolism, post-open heart, pneumonia, acute respiratory distress syndrome, congestive heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, STEMI/NSTEMI (pre/post cath lab patients with/without intervention), TIA/stroke/post TPA, hypertensive crisis, cardiac arrhythmias, and more.
• Administration of complex medications including titration of vasoactive drips.
• Ability to critically think and intervene when appropriate
• Managed all facets of telemetry
• Assessed patients, documented observations and interventions and reviewed patient outcomes
• Maintained thorough, accurate and confidential documentation in electronic medical records.

Management Role:

• Oversaw employee workflow, created schedules, ensured educational requirements maintained.
• Maintained well functioning unit through effective communication, employee involvement, weekly/monthly audits to workflow and inventory with summarized report submission.
• Frequently communicated with physicians and hospital management to provide accurate and effective care to patients.

Patient care role:

• Cared for both chronic ESRD and acute renal failure patients requiring hemodialysis and/or continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) to sustain life in the in-patient/ICU setting.
• Continually monitored patient vitals and hemodynamic status.
• Accessed/de-accessed hemodialysis catheters, arteriovenous fistulas, and grafts per policy in sterile fashion.
• Administered medications related to ESRD.
• Knowledge and skills related to dialysis equipment.
• Educated patients on care and management of ESRD including adjusting to daily life, nutrition, fluid balance, and health.

• Ensured quality patient care from admission to discharge through direct supervision of patients and patient care technicians.
• Conducted patient assessments and diagnostic tests to provide physician with important patient health information used to create focused treatment plans and manage ongoing care.
• Monitored patient status during treatment and reported variances and adverse reactions to care teams.
• Coordinated care with physicians and other clinical staff to prepare for treatment, carry out interventions and enhance continuum of care to deliver comprehensive services.
• Collected and analyzed patient data before, during and after treatments and documented all information in patient medical records.
• Administered oral, IV and intra-muscular medications and monitored patient reactions.
• Advocated for patient needs with interdisciplinary team and implemented outlined treatment plans.
• Stocked clinical workstations with necessary supplies.

• Fostered a compassionate care environment, ensuring residents' emotional and physical needs were met, leading to enhanced satisfaction and well-being.
• Implemented care plans tailored to individual needs, promoting recovery and resulting in noticeable improvements in patient health outcomes.
• Analyzed patient data to identify trends, enabling proactive interventions that reduced emergency incidents and improved overall care efficiency.
• Coordinated with multidisciplinary teams to optimize resource allocation, ensuring timely interventions and strengthening patient care continuity.
• Developed training programs for staff on best practices, enhancing team skills and contributing to marked gains in care quality and compliance.
• Led the implementation of individualized care plans, achieving measurable improvements in patient recovery rates and overall satisfaction.