Jennifer Murray

• Precepted student nurses and oriented new hires, providing guidance and mentorship when teaching on hospital policies, emergency procedures and nursing best practices.
• Profoundly successful at managing critical patients.
  Implemented medication and IV administration, catheter insertion and airway management.
• Coordinated with physicians to perform bedside procedures such as intravenous injections, vascular line insertions and bronchoscopies.
• Assisted in diagnosis and treatment of conditions such as unstable angina, cardiomyopathy, coronary artery disease, and cardiac dysrhythmia.
• Administered nursing care to cardiac patients undergoing diagnostic, therapeutic or emergency services.
• Contributed to high-quality, cost-effective healthcare as key member of cardiac nursing team caring for up to 3 patients daily.
• Ventilator management, including withdrawal of care.

• Staff RN for first year.
  
• Promoted to Transition RN and performed in role until unit became COVID unit for hospital.
  
• Rejoined PCU/Covid unit team as staff RN and Charge RN until relocating to CHI hospitals in Bryan/College Station. Floated between Covid unit and ICU unit. Performed critical care duties. Covid unit accepted all Covid positive patient statuses ranging from severely critical patients to hospice patients.

Covid Unit Charge RN Duties

• Administered and coordinated outpatient IV therapies for Covid positive patient intakes from surrounding physician's office.
  
• Maintained records and educated nursing staff, patients, and patient families on required documentation and education for multiple medications administered for trial Covid treatments both inpatient and outpatient.
  
• Educated and assisted in implementing frequently changing Covid protocols.
  
• Orchestrated family visits for special circumstances for Covid patients.
  
• Coordinated new Covid safety procedures with all departments for completion of daily unit upkeep.
  
• Initiated and coordinated patient to family connections via telephone, face timing, or any other possible means for Covid patients while visitors were not allowed.patients and their families while visitors were not allowed.

• Performed RN Unit Supervisor duties when requested or in absence.
• Collected and maintained statistical data for quality improvement project reports aimed at improvement of timely and effective discharges of patients receiving cardiac interventional procedures for quality improvement reports utilized in monthly quality improvement meetings with Cardiologists, Medical Chief of Surgery, administrators, and unit leaders. Collaborated with leaders to create and implement interventional solutions to achieve hospital goals.
• Collaborated closely with administration, physicians, case managers, nursing staff, other transition RN's, and information technology department leader to improve quality of patient records documentation systems.
• Tasked with conducting routine restraint audits and worked with team to devise corrective actions for deficiencies.
• Audited charts, reviewed clinical documentation, and provided medical staff education to reach standards of care goals for maintaining and achieving nationally recognized accreditations for our hospital and surrounding sister hospitals.
• Contributed substantially to successful hospital JCAHO accreditation by working closely with CNO at providing clinical documentation accuracy audits and nursing staff education for both PCU and ICU.
• Utilized nursing information management strategies, approved online education tools and apps to educate patients/families on medications/treatments/lifestyle changes to reduce hospital readmission rates and facilitate reaching healthy milestones in disease processes.

• Similar RN ICU duties as performed at most recent ICU units in work history.

• Performed nursing care as LVN on Medical, Surgical, and IMC (ICU step down unit) until obtaining RN License in February 2014.
• Provided care as RN, BSN in ICU unit for remainder of employment at this hospital.