Harriette Efua Kesse (BSN, RN, CMSRN)

• Exhibit professionalism and leadership to peers by participating in professional activities and continuing education
• Provide guidance, make unit report, patient assignments and audits
• Communicate with inter-professional teams on patients condition changes and updates.
• Trained new nurses in proper techniques, care standards, operational procedures, and safety protocols.
• Coordinated nursing care on unit through staff assignments, assisting and rounding with physicians, monitoring patient orders, and communicating with ancillary departments.
• Conducted daily shift briefs to inform staff of changes in patient care assignments.
• Optimized patient satisfaction through timely response to concerns and effective communication among staff members.

• Utilized critical thinking skills to prioritize nursing interventions based on patients'' acuity levels and individual needs.
• Administer medications and treatments, monitoring patients for reactions and side effects
• Adhere to infection control procedures to facilitate safe, clean patient environment
• Evaluate patients recognized and addressed complications and coordinated treatment with other members of critical care team
• Maintain thorough, accurate and confidential documentation in electronic medical records
• Act as patient advocate and implemented total patient care through team nursing process
• Record patient condition, vital signs, recovery progress and medication side effects
• Monitor and manage various treatment and care interventions
• Advocate for patients by supporting and respecting basic rights, values and beliefs
• Update charts throughout shifts with current, accurate information to maintain strict record keeping standards
• Provide patient and family health education focusing on self-management, prevention and wellness
• Assess and prepare patients for procedures, performing initial and ongoing patient assessments
• Collect lab specimens, ordering and interpreting diagnostic tests and lab results
• Oversee patient admission and discharge processes to coordinate related paperwork
• Maintain personal and team compliance with medication administration standards and patient care best practices
• Create, implement and evaluate patient care plans with medical team
• Collaborate with Doctors to plan post-treatment home care and prevent return hospitalization
• Monitor patients after surgery, answer questions and provide home care strategies
• Specialized in nursing care for patients requiring continuous and comprehensive observation and acute trauma patients with multitudes of injuries
• Counsel patients and caregivers, providing emotional, psychological and spiritual support.

• Perform appropriate treatments as ordered by physician in an accurate and timely manner
• Developed strong rapport with patients and families by demonstrating empathy, active listening skills, and cultural sensitivity during interactions.
• Promoted patient safety by conducting thorough assessments, identifying potential risks, and implementing appropriate interventions.
• Perform therapeutic nursing interventions as established by individualized plan of care for the adult patient and his or her family
• Provide individualized patient/family education customized to the adult or elderly patient and his/her family
• Document patient assessment findings, physical/psychosocial responses to nursing intervention and progress towards problem resolution

• Adhered to infection control procedures to facilitate safe, clean patient environment such as hand washing, wearing gloves and observing standard precautions in caring for my patients
• Conducted thorough patient assessments to identify changes in condition, promptly notifying physicians and initiating appropriate interventions when necessary.
• Maintained thorough, accurate and confidential documentation in electronic medical records
• Developed an individualized plan of care for my patients
• Educate patients on their health conditions to become knowledgeable health consumers.

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