Jessica Cnossen

• Administer preoperative assessments to ensure patient readiness and safety.
• Collaborate with surgical teams to optimize workflow and enhance patient outcomes.
• Educate patients on post-operative care to promote recovery and decrease complications.
• Monitor vital signs during procedures, ensuring immediate responses to changes in patient status.

• Manage patients recovering from surgical procedures.
• Monitor vital signs and levels of consciousness while evaluating patient airway, pain, nausea.
• Provide skilled, timely and level-headed emergency response to critically-ill patients.
• Provide assistance to anesthesiologists providing nerve blocks to patients.
• One of few employees willing and able to flex to multiple roles including IV team, surgical holding area, cardiovascular intake unit, and charge nurse.

• Collaborated with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions.
• Educated patients and answered questions about health condition, prognosis and treatment.

Cared for pre- and post-surgical pediatric and adult patients on volunteer hospital ship, utilizing a team approach with nurses, doctors, and translators.

• Monitored and assessed mother and newborn after delivery to ascertain proper healing and recovery.
• Educated new parents on how to properly care for infants by instructing parents on breastfeeding, bottle feeding, bathing, circumcision care.

• Cared for cardiology and surgical patients, focusing on caring for the patient as well as the patient's family.
• Coordinated with a variety of departments regarding patient care.