Ivan Dankanich, RN, BSN, CCRN
Summary
Highly passionate critical care registered nurse with a strong history of providing excellent and compassionate care in complex patient scenarios, who is looking to advance their education by becoming a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist in order to provide exceptional care in the field of anesthesia. Serves as a bedside nurse, rapid response nurse, preceptor, and pain resource nurse who is regarded by colleagues as ambitious, intelligent, team oriented, detail oriented and composed under pressure.
Overview
2
2
years of professional experience
Work History
Registered Nurse, Intensive Care Unit
Sarasota Memorial Hospital
02.2024 - Current
- Delivered bedside care in a 22-bed high acuity intensive care unit which managed medical, surgical, cardiovascular, and neurologically critically ill patients with complex multisystem disease processes.
- Extensive experience managing vasoactive, sedative, analgesic, and paralytic medication infusions in critically ill and hemodynamically unstable patients.
- Proficiently cared for and managed patients who required advanced critical care therapies such as CRRT, Impella, IABP, mechanical ventilation, arterial lines, and invasive hemodynamic monitoring.
- Served as Code Blue and Rapid Response Nurse, responsible for stabilization and management of critically deteriorating patients throughout the hospital.
- Unit preceptor and mentor, responsible for precepting new graduate and newly hired nurses, providing clinical guidance, education, and support.
- Pain Resource Nurse, served as the hospital’s pain management resource and clinical leader, collaborated with interdisciplinary team to optimize pain control, educating staff on effective pain management plans.
- Unit Practice Council Member, contributed to unit-based quality improvement initiatives, evidence-based practice discussions, and patient safety efforts.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
State College of Florida
Associate of Science - Nursing
State College of Florida
Professional Services
Summer Camp Nurse Volunteer– Summer 2025 & 2026
- Provided nursing care and health supervision to children and adult staff participating in VBS and summer camp programs. Assisted in management of chronic medical conditions, medication administration, and first aid when needed.
Leadership Roles
Rapid Response/Code Blue Nurse - Sarasota Memorial Health Care System, Spring 2026 – Present
Nurse Preceptor - Sarasota Memorial Health Care System, Spring 2026 – Present
Pain Resource Nurse - Sarasota Memorial Health Care Systems, Spring 2026-Present
Unit Practice Council Member - Sarasota Memorial Health Care Systems, Summer 2024-Present
Memberships
- American Association of Critical Care Nurses (AACN)
- American Association of Nurse Anesthesiology (AANA)
Timeline
Registered Nurse, Intensive Care Unit
Sarasota Memorial Hospital
02.2024 - Current
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
State College of Florida
Associate of Science - Nursing
State College of Florida