JESSICA SEYMOUR

TRAUMA/ GENERAL SURGERY/ MICU ( 400 hours)

• Performed comprehensive histories and physical examinations for acutely ill adult and geriatric patients admitted to trauma surgery, emergency general surgery, transplant, and critical care services.
• Synthesized subjective findings, physical examination data, laboratory results, and diagnostic imaging to formulate prioritized differential diagnoses and evidence-based treatment plans.
• Presented patients during multidisciplinary rounds while collaborating with attending physicians, fellows, residents, pharmacists, therapists, nurses, and consulting specialties.
• Evaluated and interpreted laboratory trends, ECGs, chest radiographs, CT imaging, MRI, ultrasound, and microbiology data to guide clinical decision-making.
• Managed patients with traumatic injuries, postoperative complications, sepsis, respiratory failure, gastrointestinal emergencies, acute kidney injury, and complex multisystem disease.
• Participated in bedside procedures, rapid response evaluations, discharge planning, and transitions of care.
• Counseled patients and families regarding diagnoses, treatment options, medications, postoperative expectations, and follow-up care.
• Documented comprehensive provider notes utilizing Epic while maintaining evidence-based clinical documentation standards.

MICU/SICU ( 200 hours)

• Managed medically complex veterans with acute and chronic medical conditions in an interdisciplinary academic practice environment.
• Conducted comprehensive patient assessments and developed differential diagnoses utilizing current evidence-based guidelines.
• Interpreted diagnostic studies including laboratory data, ECGs, imaging, microbiology results, and specialty consultation recommendations.
• Developed individualized management plans while collaborating with physicians, pharmacists, case management, rehabilitation services, and nursing staff.
• Evaluated patient response to treatment and modified plans of care based on clinical progression.
• Educated patients and caregivers regarding disease management, medications, lifestyle modifications, and discharge planning.
• Strengthened clinical decision-making through management of cardiovascular, pulmonary, infectious disease, renal, endocrine, and postoperative patients.

• Provide care for patients undergoing complex cardiovascular and vascular procedures.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary procedural teams caring for critically ill patients requiring emergent interventions.
• Apply advanced assessment and hemodynamic monitoring to support safe procedural outcomes.

• Delivered high-quality care across multiple intensive care and procedural environments.
• Adapted rapidly to diverse patient populations while collaborating with multidisciplinary teams caring for critically ill adults.

• Led undergraduate nursing students through adult medical-surgical clinical rotations in acute care settings.