Jessica Bazemore
Toledo,OH
Summary
Compassionate Charge Nurse offers 8 years of patient care and advocacy within cardiac stepdown and covid units. Highly skilled in charting, managing patient intake and discharges as well as direct patient care. Well-versed in promoting policies and protocols to achieve core measures. Demonstrated success in cultivating strong patient rapport to drive outcome goals. Quality-focused and efficiency-driven leader.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
Clinical Lead RN
Mercy Health St Vincent's
Toledo, Ohio
03.2018 - Current
- Responsible for day to day operations of a 26 bed cardiac step-down unit at a level 1 trauma center
- Coordinated nursing care on unit through staff assignments, assisting and rounding with physicians, monitoring patient orders and communicating with ancillary departments.
- Supervised and managed daily scheduling, tasking and administration.
- Collaborated with various healthcare professionals to determine specific and individualized care plan based on goals and long-term health.
- Collaborated with multidisciplinary team to evaluate patient data and determine patient care plans.
- Demonstrated knowledge of technical procedures and proper equipment use.
- Stayed current with health system initiatives and incorporated evidence-based practice and research into care routine.
- Monitored patients, evaluated results and recommended further courses of treatment to quickly improve patient outcomes.
RN Staff Nurse
Mercy St. Vincent Medical Center
Toledo, OH
10.2013 - 03.2018
- Administered medications via oral, IV and intramuscular injections and monitored responses.
- Effectively prioritized assignments, executing care based on each patient's relative condition and delegating tasks to available personnel deliver safe and efficient care.
- Worked within interdisciplinary health care team to develop, implement and make adjustments to patient care plans, individualizing strategies and methods to improve health and meet recovery goals.
- Updated patient charts with data such as medications to keep records current and support accurate treatments.
- Trained new nurses in proper techniques, care standards, operational procedures and safety protocols.
- Minimized hospital stays with recovery-centered approaches, reducing average in-patient stay length.
- Monitored patients' conditions and reported changes in physical presentation, appearance and behavior to discuss treatment with physicians.
- Performed various nursing interventions such as wound dressing, vital sign monitoring and specimen collection.
Education
Associate of Science - Nursing
Mercy College of Ohio
Toledo, OH05.2013
Skills
- Staff education and training
- Patient care standards
- EMR/EHR
- Direct Patient Care
- Patient Management
- Process evaluation
Timeline
Clinical Lead RN
Mercy Health St Vincent's
03.2018 - Current
RN Staff Nurse
Mercy St. Vincent Medical Center
10.2013 - 03.2018
Associate of Science - Nursing
Mercy College of Ohio
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