HALEY SHAW
Southaven,MS
Summary
Experienced operating room registered nurse with a strong background in cardiac, vascular, endovascular, and thoracic surgery. Skilled in hybrid and robot procedures, dedicated to delivering exceptional patient care. Proficient in EPIC and Cerner charting systems, ensuring accurate documentation and maintaining aseptic techniques to uphold the highest standards of infection control. Committed to providing personalized care to each patient, striving to contribute to a positive surgical experience for all individuals under my care.
Overview
2
2
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Travel CTOR RN
Ascension St. Thomas West Nashville
09.2024 - 11.2024
- Ensure that all materials needed for the assigned surgery are ready and available when the surgeon needs it
- Research all pertinent information on the patient coming into the operating room
- Communicate relevant information regarding the patient in hopes of said patient receiving the best care possible
- Assist in preparing the sterile field for surgery
- Assess the patient in pre-op by asking the required questions and answering any questions the patients or patients family members having regarding the procedure
- Positioning and prepping patients for surgery
- Completing a timeout in a thorough fashion reiterating the correct patient, correct surgery, correct site and any other information deemed relevant to the patient and procedure including labs, allergies, and positioning
- Chart in CERNER throughout the case
- Assess the sterile field and verifying that everyone's needs are met
- Scrub in using aseptic technique to assist with holding the heart during pump cases and to assist the team with closing counts
- Prepare the patient to leave the OR and transporting to recovery
- Bedside hand-off to PACU or phone hand-off to ICU
- Close out the chart, returning any blood products that were not used during the case and turning in all paperwork for each individual case
- Return to OR and assisting with cleaning up and turning the room over for any following cases
- Other duties include but are not limited to restocking supply cabinets, assisting in other procedures when available, picking up and dropping off blood or blood products for others when available, providing breaks and lunch breaks to other nurses when available
- Communicate with departments such as lab, blood bank, pathology, radiology, SSI, SPD, and any other department that needs to be contacted for any reason regarding a case or my department
- Complete any required continued education assignments given by the facility
- Compliance with the rules and regulations as well as training and certifications
CVOR RN
Baptist Memorial Hospital Memphis
10.2022 - 08.2024
- Ensure that all materials needed for the assigned surgery are ready and available when the surgeon needs it
- Research all pertinent information on the patient coming into the operating room
- Communicate relevant information regarding the patient in hopes of said patient receiving the best care possible
- Assist in preparing the sterile field for surgery
- Assess the patient in pre-op by asking the required questions and answering any questions the patients or patients family members having regarding the procedure
- Assist anesthesia with intubation
- Positioning and prepping patients for surgery
- Completing a timeout in a thorough fashion reiterating the correct patient, correct surgery, correct site and any other information deemed relevant to the patient and procedure including labs, allergies, and positioning
- Charting in EPIC throughout the case
- Assess the sterile field and verifying that everyone's needs are met
- Prepare the patient to leave the OR and transporting to recovery
- Bedside hand-off to PACU or phone hand-off to ICU
- Close out the chart, returning any blood products that were not used during the case and turning in all paperwork for each individual case
- Return to OR and assisting with cleaning up and turning the room over for any following cases
- Other duties include but are not limited to restocking supply cabinets, assisting in other procedures when available, precepting new orientees in the OR, picking up and dropping off blood or blood products for others when available, providing breaks and lunch breaks to other nurses when available, floating to General Surgery or Ortho/Neuro Surgery departments when needed
- Communicate with departments such as lab, blood bank, pathology, radiology, SSI, SPD, and any other department that needs to be contacted for any reason regarding a case or my department
- Complete any required continued education assignments given by the facility
- Compliance with the rules and regulations as well as training and certifications
- Teach nursing school students whom clinically rotate through CVOR
- Train and mentor orientees on basic OR structure and more in depth surgical knowledge to those assigned to CVOR
Education
Associate of Science - Nursing
Community College of Rhode Island
Newport, RI08.2022
Bachelor of Arts - Broadcast Journalism
Mississippi State University
Starkville12.2014
High School Diploma with Special Honors -
Independence High School
Coldwater, MS05.2010
Skills
- Ability to Work in a Team
- Nursing
- Sterile Techniques
- Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS)
- Operating Room (OR)
- Surgery
- Cardiovascular Surgery
- Thoracic Surgery
- Hybrid Surgery
- Robotic Surgery
- Basic Life Support BLS
- Heart Transplants
- Left Ventricular Assist Device
- Heartmate 3
- ECMO
- Impella Removal and Insertion
- Vascular Surgery
- Basic Life Support (BLS)
- Clinical judgment
- Compassion and empathy
- Precepting
Certification
- Basic Life Support, Memphis, Scheduled for recertification
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support, July 2024-July 2026
- Nursing License, Mississippi, Dec. 2024-Dec. 2026
Timeline
Travel CTOR RN
Ascension St. Thomas West Nashville
09.2024 - 11.2024
CVOR RN
Baptist Memorial Hospital Memphis
10.2022 - 08.2024
- Basic Life Support, Memphis, Scheduled for recertification
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support, July 2024-July 2026
- Nursing License, Mississippi, Dec. 2024-Dec. 2026
Associate of Science - Nursing
Community College of Rhode Island
Bachelor of Arts - Broadcast Journalism
Mississippi State University
High School Diploma with Special Honors -
Independence High School
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