Hannah Sage

Patient bedside care for assigned patient group. Responsible for assessing and monitoring observation and Inpatients. Expert at acute changes and reporting. Teaching and preparing patient for procedures. I served as night time Charge Nurse during this time

All Patient care assessments and duties for staff nurse. This unit was adjacent to ICU. Many times I transferred critical patients to ICU. We recovered open heart surgery patients. This was a bedside monitoring hospital with continuous vital monitoring and telemetry. Levophed and tykosyn were medications worked with to name a few. Each day the nurse and hospitalist would round together with each other.

Care for acute Rehab and Long term patients.

Bedside nursing duties include-monitoring patient for acute changes, reporting changes to providers, delegating tasks to PCT. Documentation of focus assessments, acute changes, neuro assessment, withdraw assessment, bedside swallowing assessments. Our unit cares for Heart disease, Kidney failure, Respiratory failure, Covid, Liver disease, Acute Stroke, End of life, IV infusions such as IV antibiotics, TPN, blood products, IV hydration

Bedside skills being currently used- wound/skin assessments, starting IVs, NGT placement, keeping high fall risk patients safe, implementing and following providers orders.

Travel Home Health setting. Home IV and port starts with specialty infusion and injections.

Care for unstable patients related to respiratory failure and cardiac complications caused by Covid virus. Many of my patients ended up on Ventilators. My ICU nurse role included bedside assist with intubation, setting up all things related to arterial lines, central Venous catheters, Mauhker placement. Many procedures took place at bedside. Learning critical care medications such as norepinephrine, versed, fentanyl, precedex to name a few. ICU nurses work side by side with RT, PT/OT, and pharmacy. Daily rounding on patients included the entire department to formal present our patients in group setting.

Also my time spent in the ICU I trained the incoming techs. Both in person class and hands-on approach was used in teaching new ICU techs.

Focus on admission and discharges for the unit. Providing patient and family education. I work well with the staff both nurse and non license to help run our day. I do a lot of bed assignments communicating with the supervisor all while staying professional. There are many times coordinating with the Case managers and secretary to follow through and making patient room assignments and Plan of care goals. The Charge Nurse is responsible for environmental rounding, fall audits, responding to emergencies, Assisting LPNs, chart checks, safety huddle with on-coming shift. Overall, I provide a positive influence for the shift.