Compassionate Nurse Supervisor known for high productivity and efficient task completion. Skilled in patient care management, staff training, and healthcare administration. Excel in leadership, communication, and problem-solving to improve patient outcomes and team performance. Committed to fostering supportive environments that enhance staff morale, company culture, and patient care quality.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Nurse Supervisor
Rehabilitation Hospital of Atlanta
06.2024 - Current
Serve as a supervisor and mentor to a team of 25 RNs, LPNs, and CNAs, ensuring adherence to facility policies, procedures, and state/federal regulations.
Manage shift operations, including staffing and resource allocation based on patient acuity and census, to ensure optimal patient care and team efficiency.
Conduct annual performance evaluations, provided monthly and as needed feedback and coaching, and participated in disciplinary actions when necessary.
Coordinate interdisciplinary teams (Physicians, pharmacist, Case Managers, Physical Therapists, Occupational Therapists, Speech Therapists, etc.) to ensure a holistic and coordinated approach to patient care plans.
Conducted regular chart audits to maintain quality assurance and ensure all documentation was accurate and compliant with regulatory guidelines (company enforced, HIPAA, state/federal regulations).
Facilitate team meetings and in-service training sessions on various medical topics, highlighting falls, and new procedures to ensure continuous staff development and competency.
Serve as a liaison between clinical staff, patients, families, and administrative personnel to resolve problems and ensure effective communication across all levels.
Oversee and ensure accuracy in the delivery of specialized nursing care to patients with complex conditions, including, but not limited to those needing IV therapy, wound care (e.g., wound vacuum changes), tracheostomy care, or LVAD.
Respond to and lead medical emergencies, demonstrating strong critical thinking and decision-making skills under pressure.
Nurse Case Manager
Compassus Hospice
01.2024 - 03.2025
Develop, implement, and alter as needed, individualized care plans for patients and their loved ones through end-of-life process.
Provide, while also teaching and encouraging families to provide direct nursing care, and manage patient symptoms and medications through end-of-life care.
Provide emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to patients and families.
Act as a liaison between patients, families, and the healthcare team, and coordinate with other professionals, such as physicians, social workers, chaplain, pharmacist, and aides.
Manage a patient census of 15-20 patients, documented all care and assessments thoroughly.
Ensure all patient’s followed compliance with Medicare guidelines through weekly assessments and data collection.
Emergency Department Travel Registered Nurse
Emory University Hospital Midtown
10.2022 - 11.2023
Provide care to critical patients in a 70 bed, city located, highly populated emergency room.
Perform medical procedures, such as EKG, venipuncture, cardiac monitoring and interpreting, taking vital signs, urinalysis, POC testing, or administering medications.
Assist on life saving cardiac arrest teams as well as provided nursing care for time sensitive health conditions such stroke, and STEMI alerts.
Apply knowledge in prompt patient condition assessment on patient arrival at the ER during initial phases of acute illness and providing prompt while efficient triage care.
Emergency Department Registered Nurse
WellStar Atlanta Medical Center
06.2021 - 10.2022
Provide care to critical patients in a Level 1 Trauma designated emergency department and teaching hospital.
Collaborate with various ER professionals to ensure effective patient care highlighting in diagnostic tools such as lumbar punctures, EEG, CT, MRI, and Xray.
Care of ICU and floor patients through extended hold periods using multiple medication drips.
Monitor ER patients, including alerting physicians or charge nurses to changes in patient status, communicating with patients and their family members in a variety of traumatic situations.
Assist in traumatic lifesaving procedures such as chest tube insertion, art line placement and set up, central line placement, pelvic binder placement.
Emergency Department Nurse Resident
WellStar Atlanta Medical Center
06.2020 - 06.2021
Participated in assignments, learning activities, and classes involved in ER residency program.
Completed and won, evidence-based practice improvement project, across all WellStar Residency programs at the time.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Georgia Baptist College of Nursing
Atlanta, GA
05.2020
Skills
Patient rapid assessments
Pain and symptom management
Trauma care
Wound care
Emotional support
Effective communication
IV management
Medication administration
Basic/advanced life support (BLS/ACLS/PALS)
Providing education
Rehabilitation techniques
Leadership
Team management
Conflict resolution
Performance
Time management
Electronic health records (EHR) in Epic and Cerner
Program Specialist at Atlanta VA Medical Center ; RR&D Center for Visual Neurocognitive RehabilitationProgram Specialist at Atlanta VA Medical Center ; RR&D Center for Visual Neurocognitive Rehabilitation