Hillary Lansdowne

• Collaborated with physicians and interdisciplinary teams to devise and manage individualized plans of care.
• Educated patients and families on treatment, expected outcomes and discharge instructions, serving as advisory resource to patients and families to facilitate recovery.
• Documented all aspects of care following facility and Medicare standards, creating accurate patient records of all interactions and interventions to sustain continuity of care.
• Sought opportunities to improve patient care, outcomes and nursing staff performance.
• Interacted effectively with department managers to promptly correct problems and improve services.
• Evaluated nursing staff's performance and developed education programs and professional development opportunities to improve individual and team competencies, clinical knowledge and delivery of care.
• Counseled families to improve communication.
• Supported patient self-advocacy within family relationships and during treatment plans.
• Supervised professional and paraprofessional nursing staff and delegated tasks to maintain continuum of care.
• Responded to behavioral and medical crises codes.
• Advocated for patients' physical, psychosocial, developmental, spiritual and emotional needs during planning.
• Motivated nursing staff to pursue advanced training and collaborated with unit leaders to identify skill needs.
• Initiated care plan and actualized appropriate interventions and treatment.
• Oversaw admissions and discharges and scheduling of nursing staff.
• Performed head-to-toe physical assessments, prioritizing treatment and delegating assignments to maintain patient flows.
• Conducted rounds with physicians, advising physicians on patients' conditions and assisting in coordinating diagnostic testing and follow up appointments to achieve optimal patient outcomes.

• Charge Nurse
• Management of critical care medication and IV drips
• Management of high demand oxygen devices, along with trach cares
• Post-op care required for post CABG patients
• Provision of line, drain, and airway management in critical care setting
• Stroke assessment and cares
• DKA management
• Management of withdrawal symptoms and seizures
• Safe and effective communication with MD about patient concerns and abnormal trends in patient status
• Timely action when receiving new orders.

• Charge nurse on the medical unit as of May 2020
• Continuously assess patients for changes in condition (assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating care of patients)
• Notify doctor of any concerning changes in patients' health
• Actively engage in holistic approaches to improve patient care
• Administer medications safely to patients
• Assess patient for any negative reactions related to medications
• Excellent IV placement skills
• Monitor lab values closely, and notify doctor of any labs that are not within safe limits for the patient
• Use critical thinking skills to make improvements in patients' health
• Attend to patient needs in a timely manner
• Openly communicate with patients about the plan of care for each shift, and answer any questions that they might have appropriately
• Educate patients on how to care for themselves at time of discharge; educate patients on their disease processes and diagnoses appropriately within nursing scope of practice
• Communicate efficiently with hospital staff to improve patient satisfaction, patient safety and to help obtain patients' optimal health.
• 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.

Develop plan of care with patient in goals of therapy and treatment, during their stay at rehabilitation hospital. Safe patient transfers, proper body mechanics and use of assistive devices. Tube feeding management. Parkinson's and stroke rehab programs.

• Prepare patients for surgery, monitor baseline vital signs, and collect patient histories
• Collaborate with doctors with initiating orders, and following MD orders before and after surgery
• Post operative management, monitor surgical sites for bleeding, monitor post operative vital signs, initiate emergency measures as needed, taking out oral airways, extubate patients, monitor for signs and symptoms of anesthesia reactions, malignant hypothermia, and narcotic over dose
• Assist with GI endoscopies, biopsy collections, and cleaning GI scopes, pathology requisitions
• Infection audits with implementation measures to follow the infection, and find the source of infection
• Assisted with Joint Commission preparation and chart audits.