Hunter White

• Educated patients, families and caregivers on diagnosis and prognosis, treatment options, disease process and management and lifestyle options.
• Trained new nurses in proper techniques, care standards, operational procedures and safety protocols.
• Provided direct patient care, stabilized patients and determined next course of action.
• Responsibilities included management of vasopressors, ventilators, CRRT, cardiac and endocrine data interpretation, and interventions.
• Managed patients post operatively in operations to include Whipple procedure, GI surgery, and emergency surgery following specific traumas.

• Educated patients, families and caregivers on diagnosis and prognosis, treatment options, disease process and management and lifestyle options.
• Provide direct patient care including advanced assessments, recovering immediate post op open hearts to include CABG/valve replacement, VAD, heart/lung transplant, ECMO, IABP, and impella pumps.
• Responsibilities include management of chest tubes, pacemaker management, vasopressor management, ventilator management, CRRT, cardiac parameter interpretation and intervention.

• Educated patients, families and caregivers on diagnosis and prognosis, treatment options, disease process and management and lifestyle options.
• Managed and recovered immediate post op open hearts including CABG/valve replacement/septal defect repairs.
• Managed medical cardiac patients including acute MI, cardiac ischemia, CHF, Cath lab and post intervention patients, IABP, impella, ECMO, CRRT, ventilator management weaning and extubation, management of cardiac parameters, lab and data interpretation, and chest tube management.

Assisted in trauma cases including MVC, vehicle vs. pedestrian, stab wounds, gunshots, IV, CPR, lab draws, and obtaining blood product.