Shannon Kirleis
Jarrell,TX
Summary
Experienced with patient care, critical thinking, and effective communication. Utilizes medical knowledge to support patient recovery and manage complex conditions. Strong understanding of healthcare protocols and compassionate care delivery.
Overview
2027
2027
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Registered Nurse
Baylor Scott and White Continuing Care Hospital
Temple, TX
08.2022 - 04.2023
- Maintain accurate, detailed reports and records.
- Administer medications to patients and monitor patients for reactions or side effects.
- Record patients' medical information and vital signs.
- Monitor, record, and report symptoms or changes in patients' conditions.
- Consult and coordinate with healthcare team members to assess, plan, implement, or evaluate patient care plans.
- Modify patient treatment plans as indicated by patients' responses and conditions.
- Monitor all aspects of patient care, including diet and physical activity.
- Direct or supervise less-skilled nursing or healthcare personnel or supervise a particular unit.
- Prepare patients for and assist with examinations or treatments.
- Instruct individuals, families, or other groups on topics such as health education, disease prevention, or childbirth and develop health improvement programs.
- Assess the needs of individuals, families, or communities, including assessment of individuals' home or work environments, to identify potential health or safety problems.
- Prepare rooms, sterile instruments, equipment, or supplies and ensure that stock of supplies is maintained.
- Refer students or patients to specialized health resources or community agencies furnishing assistance.
- Consult with institutions or associations regarding issues or concerns relevant to the practice and profession of nursing.
- Inform physician of patient's condition during anesthesia.
- Administer local, inhalation, intravenous, or other anesthetics.
- Provide health care, first aid, immunizations, or assistance in convalescence or rehabilitation in locations such as schools, hospitals, or industry.
- Hand items to surgeons during operations.
- Observe nurses and visit patients to ensure proper nursing care.
- Conduct specified laboratory tests.
- Direct or coordinate infection control programs, advising or consulting with specified personnel about necessary precautions.
- Engage in research activities related to nursing.
- Prescribe or recommend drugs, medical devices, or other forms of treatment, such as physical therapy, inhalation therapy, or related therapeutic procedures.
- Order, interpret, and evaluate diagnostic tests to identify and assess patient's condition.
- Perform physical examinations, make tentative diagnoses, and treat patients en route to hospitals or at disaster site triage centers.
- Perform administrative or managerial functions, such as taking responsibility for a unit's staff, budget, planning, or long-range goals.
- Provide or arrange for training or instruction of auxiliary personnel or students.
- Work with individuals, groups, or families to plan or implement programs designed to improve the overall health of communities.
Registered Nurse
Fairbanks Memorial Hospital (Denali Center)
Fairbanks, AK
08.2017 - 12.2022
- Administered anesthetic agents and supportive treatments to patients undergoing surgery and other medical procedures.
- Promoted better health practices, taught and performed research in one or more phases of the field of nursing.
- Performed professional nursing duties in the care of surgical patients following extensive and complex surgery and other patients whose critical conditions warranted intensive care: Such as acute myocardial infarction; immediate post-operative thoracic, abdominal, neurosurgical, orthopedic and head surgery.
- Observed and assessed patient's clinical conditions; recognized, identified and interpreted serious situations and immediately decided proper action, such as, calling the physician and taking preplanned emergency measures.
- In emergency situations when a physician was not present or immediately available, I initiated appropriate measures, such as, taking resuscitative measures in cases of cardiac and respiratory arrest.
RN Team Lead Med Surge
St. David's North Austin Medical Center
Austin, TX
2023 - Current
- Lead nursing team in delivering high-quality patient care in fast-paced environment.
- Implemented evidence-based practices to enhance patient outcomes and operational efficiency.
- Coordinated interdisciplinary collaboration to optimize care delivery and resource utilization.
- Mentores junior nursing staff, fostering professional development and improving team dynamics.
- Analyze workflow processes to identify areas for improvement and streamline operations.
- Manages staffing schedules for optimal coverage, reducing overtime expenses while maintaining high-quality patient care standards.
Registered Nurse
Tanana Chiefs Health Center
Fairbanks, AK
05.2019 - 02.2022
- Provided administrative and clinical support to the medical staff of Chief Andrew Isaac Health Center throughout the clinic within multiple specialties to include but not limited to: Primary care, urgent care, orthopedics, OB/GYN, pediatrics, internal medicine, Covid-19 team.
- Screened and tested Covid -19 presumptive patients.
- Greeted patients in waiting area, escorts them throughout their entire clinic experience.
- Obtained brief history and performs screening questions in accordance to clinic policy and documents in the E.H.R.
- Functioned as a scribe during the clinician encounter and prepares notes for medical provider for review and signature.
- Took orders from clinician on obtaining diagnostic testing to include labs, imaging, and other necessary tests.
- Carried out orders from licensed medical personnel.
- Prepared patients for examinations and diagnostic procedures according to clinic procedures such as recording temperatures, pulse rate, blood pressure and responses to standardized medical history questions.
- Report all observed patient concerns and changes in condition to a licensed staff member.
- Performed Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) Waived Lab tests such as urine dipstick, HGB, HCT, finger stick, glucose, hemoccult, HCG and reports results to the appropriate personnel.
- Performed patient phlebotomies in accordance with clinic procedures and clinician orders after specialized training.
- Performed specialty skills such as suture removal, straight catheterization and injections (IM, Subq and intradermal).
- Monitor and clean assigned patient examination rooms, lab areas, procedure rooms and other unit areas and unit equipment to include reporting outdated supplies, stock levels and restock set levels of items and necessary equipment repairs.
- Answer telephones, forwards telephone messages and under the direction of licensed staff schedules appointments, procedures and diagnostic tests.
- Assisted in routine clerical functions such as filing of medical information in patient's records, locating and compiling department charts, obtaining medical records from other providers and entering charges for billing purposes.
- Attend and complete mandatory in-services including infection control, safety, CPR, equipment usage and procedures according to hospital and department policies.
- Apply leads and monitors for diagnostic procedures such as EKG and ultrasound scan under the supervision of licensed personnel.
- Assist family education by providing educational material and general health information to patients and family members.
- Prints patient wellness handouts at the end of each patient experience.
- Village travel
LPN
Fairbanks Memorial Hospital (Denali Center)
Fairbanks, AK
06.2017 - 01.2020
- Administered anesthetic agents and supportive treatments to patients undergoing surgery and other medical procedures.
- Promoted better health practices, taught and performed research in one or more phases of the field of nursing.
- Performed professional nursing duties in the care of surgical patients following extensive and complex surgery and other patients whose critical conditions warranted intensive care: Such as acute myocardial infarction; immediate post-operative thoracic, abdominal, neurosurgical, orthopedic and head surgery.
- Observed and assessed patient's clinical conditions; recognized, identified and interpreted serious situations and immediately decided proper action, such as, calling the physician and taking preplanned emergency measures.
- In emergency situations when a physician was not present or immediately available, I initiated appropriate measures, such as , taking resuscitative measures in cases of cardiac and respiratory arrest.
- Administered prescribed medication and provided wound care as ordered.
School Nurse
Fairbanks North Star Borough School District
Fairbanks, AK
08.2017 - 05.2019
- Ensured compliance with procedures, protocols, and other instructions provided by the coordinator of health services.
- Provided nursing care and physical screening to students; assessed students and implemented first aid measures for students as needed.
- Assumed responsibility for appropriate assessment, planning, intervention, evaluation, management, and referral activities for students.
- Counseled students with concerning problems such as pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases and substance abuse.
- Implemented and recorded required screening programs; notified parents when further medical evaluation was indicated.
- Established and updated health and immunization records.
- Prepared and maintained student clinic records and prepared required reports.
- Administered daily and PRN (as needed) medications and nursing care procedures.
- Initiated emergency procedures for students and staff as needed.
- Developed Individual Health Care Plans and 504 Plans for students on a case by case basis.
Hospice Nurse
JCMH Homecare and Hospice
Altus, OK
06.2015 - 03.2017
- Assess patient home care needs including physical emotional and spiritual.
- Assist patients and family members with concern and compassion.
- Assume case management responsibility and provide direct care as outlined in the Interdisciplinary Plan of Care.
- Performed ongoing evaluations and assessments to revise initial plan of care as the needs of the patient changed.
- Reviewed authorized coordinated and supervised contracted vendors to meet the needs of patients.
- Attended patient care conferences regularly.
- Participated in on-call rotations and provided care and services after hours.
- Coordinated community resources and programs that aided with patients and family members as applicable.
- Collaborated with other hospice personnel in the direct care of shared patients to ensure all providers were up-to-date in-patient plan of care.
Charge Nurse
Grace Village Retirement and Rehab
Winona Lake, IN
01.2013 - 04.2015
- Monitor, record, and report symptoms or changes in patients' conditions.
- Maintain accurate, detailed reports and records.
- Order, interpret, and evaluate diagnostic tests to identify and assess patient's condition.
- Modify patient treatment plans as indicated by patients' responses conditions.
- Administer local, inhalation, intravenous, or other anesthetics.
- Direct or supervise less-skilled nursing or healthcare personnel or supervise a particular unit.
- Consult and coordinate with health care team members to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate patient care plans.
- Monitor all aspects of patient care, including diet and physical activity.
- Performed administrative or managerial functions, such as taking responsibility for a unit's staff, budget, planning, or long-range goals.
Travel Nurse
ATC
Albion, IN
01.2012 - 04.2015
- Provide basic patient care or treatments, such as taking temperatures or blood pressures, dressing wounds, treating bedsores, giving enemas or douches, rubbing with alcohol, massaging, or performing catheterizations.
- Observe patients, charting and reporting changes in patients' conditions, such as adverse reactions to medication or treatment, and taking any necessary action.
- Supervise nurses' aides or assistants.
- Administer prescribed medications or start intravenous fluids.
- Explain medical instructions to patients or family members.
- Supervise and monitor unit nursing staff.
Patient Care Tech
Kosciusko Community Hospital
Warsaw, IN
01.2010 - 01.2014
- Measured and recorded patients' vital signs, such as height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, pulse, lab testing, and respiration, documenting, and assisting with their needs, removing iv's, doing enemas, removing catheters, and answering call lights.
- I have knowledge of application and use of cardiac-monitoring equipment, including reading and interpreting the oscilloscopic display.
- I have knowledge of ventilation equipment and its use and management for patients who had experienced respiratory distress or collapse.
- I have knowledge of normal and abnormal responses to spinal, general and local anesthetics.
Admissions Registered Nurse
Georgetown Behavioral Health Institute
Georgetown, TX
03.2025 - Current
- Conducts patient assessments to determine admission eligibility and care needs.
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to develop individualized care plans.
- Monitor and document vital signs and behavioral changes in patients.
- Educate patients and families on treatment options and discharge procedures.
- Ensure accurate documentation of patient information, maintaining confidentiality and compliance with HIPAA regulations.
- Mentor and train new staff members resulting in improved performance and teamwork within the admissions department.
Education
Associate's Degree - Nursing (ASN)
Brown Mackie College
Fort Wayne, IN10-2014
Technical or Occupational Certificate - Practical Nursing
Brown Mackie College
Fort Wayne, IN01-2011
Associate's Degree - Medical Assistant
Ivy Tech
Warsaw, IN01-2009
Skills
- Medication and IV administration
- Medication administration
- Direct patient care
- Patient assessments
- Documentation and charting
- Patient assessment
- Strong clinical judgment
- Patient education and counseling
- IV setup
- Patient management
- Care plan development
- Nursing staff leadership
- Medication distribution
- Lab result interpretation
- Patient discharge
- Emergency response
- Maintaining privacy
Certification
RN, State of Texas (Compact) - 1089109
BLS - AHA
ACLS - AHA
Timeline
Admissions Registered Nurse
Georgetown Behavioral Health Institute
03.2025 - Current
Registered Nurse
Baylor Scott and White Continuing Care Hospital
08.2022 - 04.2023
Registered Nurse
Tanana Chiefs Health Center
05.2019 - 02.2022
Registered Nurse
Fairbanks Memorial Hospital (Denali Center)
08.2017 - 12.2022
School Nurse
Fairbanks North Star Borough School District
08.2017 - 05.2019
LPN
Fairbanks Memorial Hospital (Denali Center)
06.2017 - 01.2020
Hospice Nurse
JCMH Homecare and Hospice
06.2015 - 03.2017
Charge Nurse
Grace Village Retirement and Rehab
01.2013 - 04.2015
Travel Nurse
ATC
01.2012 - 04.2015
Patient Care Tech
Kosciusko Community Hospital
01.2010 - 01.2014
Technical or Occupational Certificate - Practical Nursing
Brown Mackie College
Associate's Degree - Medical Assistant
Ivy Tech
RN Team Lead Med Surge
St. David's North Austin Medical Center
2023 - Current
Associate's Degree - Nursing (ASN)
Brown Mackie College