Highly motivated Critical Care Registered Nurse with three years experience at Northside Hospital Duluth providing comprehensive care for high-acuity patients requiring mechanical ventilation, vasoactive infusions, CRRT, and invasive hemodynamic monitoring. Trusted to serve as Charge Nurse, Titration Superuser, Rapid Response Team Member, Resource/Transport Nurse, and Preceptor while maintaining CCRN certification. Passionate about clinical excellence, leadership, and advancing my critical care expertise through nurse anesthesia education.
Overview
1
1
Certification
3
3
years of professional experience
Work History
Critical Care Registered Nurse
Northside Hospital Duluth ICU/IMCU
07.2023 - Current
Provide comprehensive care for high acuity medical ICU patients requiring mechanical ventilation, vasopressors, CRRT, invasive hemodynamic monitoring, and management of critical illness
Selected as a Titration Superuser to educate staff on safe administration and titration of vasoactive, sedative, analgesic, and paralytic infusions.
Collaborate with physicians during high-acuity bedside procedures including intubation, central line placement, lumbar punctures, arterial line placement, chest tube placement, and bronchoscopy.
Precept 8+ nursing students, Nursing externs, and Nursing residents while providing clinical education, mentorship, and support in the development of critical care nursing skills.
Serve as Charge Nurse for the ICU and Progressive Care Unit (32 beds), coordinating staffing, patient assignments, transfers, and daily clinical operations.
Provide bedside leadership during high-acuity patient care situations, mentoring and supporting emergency response throughout the unit.
Support hospital wide staffing needs by serving as Charge Nurse on the Medical-Surgical Telemetry and Medical-Surgical Units.
Participate in quality improvement initiatives focused on reducing occurrence of hospital acquired pressure injuries, falls, CAUTIs, and CLABSIs through audits, staff education, and process improvement.
Respond to Rapid Response and Code Blue activations throughout the hospital, providing advanced assessment, stabilization, and ACLS based intervention for acutely deteriorating patients.
Support bedside nurses in clinical decision-making by interpreting changes in patient condition, escalation of care, and promoting effective interdisciplinary communication.
Coordinate safe transport of critically ill patients while providing bedside clinical support for unstable ICU and Stepdown patients requiring escalation of care.
Provide at-the-elbow assistance for documentation and management of titratable vasoactive, sedative, analgesic, and paralytic infusions.
Leadership
Rapid Response Team
Resource/Transport Nurse
Education
Bachelors of Science - Nursing
University of South Alabama
01-2023
Highschool - undefined
Saint Pius X Catholic
01-2018
Skills
Critical Care Nursing
Mechanical Ventilation
Hemodynamic Monitoring
CRRT
Titration of Vasoactive, Sedative, Paralytic, and Analgesic Drips
Rapid Response
Preceptor and Staff Education
ICU Charge Nurse
Multidisciplinary collaboration
Accomplishments
Daisy Award Nominee
Employee of the Month (July 2026)
Participant in ICU Unit Council
Member AACN
Certification
NIH Certified: Expires 2027
BLS CPR Certified: Current
ACLS Certified: Current
Registered Professional Nurse: Expires January 2027