Jessica Humphries

• Administer chemotherapy and immunotherapy treatments, ensuring patient comfort and safety throughout procedures.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to develop comprehensive care plans tailored to individual patient needs.
• Educate patients and families on treatment processes, side effects, and self-care strategies post-therapy.
• Monitored vital signs and assessed patient conditions, promptly reporting changes to physicians for timely intervention.
• Educate patients, families and caregivers on diagnosis and prognosis, treatment options, disease process, and management and lifestyle options.

• Care Manager for 36 bed oncology unit. Coordinated care between physicians, nurses, nurse techs and other ancillary staff. Ensure labs and imaging results are followed up with and reported to physicians. Work closely with social worker to ensure patients are discharge with appropriate home services and coordinate patient placement. Hold staff accountable according to policies and procedures.
• Unit captain for HAPI (Hospital Acquired Pressure Injury) committee. Led and participated in hospital wide monthly skin prevalence assessments and delivered feedback to hospital administration and unit staff.
• Unit Based Practice Council Chair. Held monthly meetings for unit based practice committee and attended monthly house wide practice council meetings. Work with team members to develop process improvement initiatives on the oncology unit.
• Mentored staff in critical thinking and trouble shooting.
• Rounded with physicians to coordinate care between physicians and direct nursing staff.

Clinical Mentor of 30 bed oncology unit and mentor to 40+ staff.

• Oriented new staff members, responsible for staff competencies, precept new graduate nurses and new employees to the oncology unit.
• Responsible for staff education. Produced monthly newsletter with different topics and dispersed to staff on the unit.
• Coordinated monthly lunch and learns with oncologists to have physicians teach the staff about different disease processes and oncologic emergencies.
• Developed a class lecture to go along with the online ONS Chemotherapy/Biotherapy course and taught the class to nurses who are new to administering chemotherapy.

• Charge RN
• First RN at Baylor All Saints Medical Center to submit and complete ASPIRE research project. Reviewed Neutropenia Policy and revised based on current evidence based practice.
• Collaboratively work with physicians, social work, case manager, and other nurses to develop positive patient outcomes.
• Member of staffing committee to develop and assess different staffing needs on the units and how best to accommodate.
• Oriented new staff
• Precepted graduate nurses

• Graduate Nurse to Registered Nurse
• Administered comprehensive patient assessments to develop individualized care plans.
• Educated patients and families on treatment plans, medications, and disease management strategies.
• Administered medications according to physicians orders.