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Work History
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Jessica Escalante, BSN, RN

Deer Park,TX

Summary

Highly skilled critical care charge nurse with 6 years of experience in providing exceptional and compassionate care to a wide variety of critically ill patients. Proficient in providing advance life support interventions and hemodynamic monitoring while collaborating effectively with multidisciplinary teams. Additionally, a meticulous preceptor to new graduate registered nurses providing mentorship, development, and support.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

MICU - Charge RN/ Registered Nurse

Memorial Hermann TMC
07.2021 - Current
  • Coordinate safe and outstanding care for a 2-3:1 Patient-Nurse ratio on a monitored unit while advocating for patient safety and rights
  • Oversee a 26-38 bed unit as the charge nurse while supporting staff by providing knowledge on hospital policies and protocols that are align with latest evidence-based practice
  • Recognize trends and respond appropriately during patient decline; remain calm while maintaining a sense of urgency and respond accordingly.
  • Preceptor to new graduate registered nurses and nurses with previous critical care experience aiding in integration to health care facility and educating in hospital wide policies.

MIMU - Charge RN/Registered Nurse

Memorial Hermann TMC
09.2019 - 07.2021
  • Coordinate exceptional and safe care for a 3-4: 1 Patient -Nurse ratio on a monitored unit while advocating for patient safety and rights
  • Oversee a 10-16 bed unit as the charge nurse by supporting staff and being a resource to help uphold hospital policies
  • Maintain a collaborative relationship among a variety of health care teams by building rapport to ensure top of the line care for patients
  • preceptor to new graduate registered nurses.
  • Employee of the month Oct 2020

Acute Care Registered Nurse

Memorial Hermann TMC
10.2017 - 09.2019
  • Coordinate exceptional care with a 4-6:1 Patient -Nurse ratio while advocating for patient safety rights
  • Administer chemotherapy to patients both on the oncology unit and throughout the hospital; monitor patient tolerance and reactions the the treatment while anticipating potential side effects and educating patients and families accordingly
  • Communicate with oncologists regarding adverse reactions; teach and guide primary nurses about chemotherapy management and precautions
  • Created and developed an evidence-based practice project through the New Graduate Residency Program.
  • Completed new graduate residency program in October 2018.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Nursing

Texas A&M International University
Laredo, TX
07.2017

Skills

  • Charge Nurse Experience
  • Preceptor Experience
  • Ultrasound IV Trained/Instructor
  • CRRT Trained
  • Port credentialed
  • EZ - IO Trained
  • Lucas Super User

Certification

  • Registered Nurse, Texas Board of Nursing, #929240, 05/01/25
  • Basic Life Support (BLS), American Heart Association, #255412549531, 08/01/26
  • Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS), American Heart Association, #235409331587, 08/01/25

Projects

Beacon 2024: Participated in a work group with other colleagues to complete Beacon application for 2024. 

MICU Champion: Participated in a work group to bring impactful change to MICU 2023 and was responsible for boosting morale in MICU by promoting team building events and activities.

Languages

  • English: speak, read, and write
  • Spanish: speak, read, and write

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

MICU - Charge RN/ Registered Nurse

Memorial Hermann TMC
07.2021 - Current

MIMU - Charge RN/Registered Nurse

Memorial Hermann TMC
09.2019 - 07.2021

Acute Care Registered Nurse

Memorial Hermann TMC
10.2017 - 09.2019

Bachelor of Science - Nursing

Texas A&M International University

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