Adept at managing critical care for congenital heart disease patients at Texas Children's, I excel in titrating vasoactive medications and leveraging expert knowledge in cardiac devices. Demonstrated leadership as a charge nurse and senior preceptor, I embody compassionate care and exceptional educational mentorship, significantly enhancing patient outcomes and staff proficiency.
Provided continuous monitoring of and high quality compassionate care to critically ill neonates, children, and adults with congenital heart disease in both the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit and Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Unit.
Charge nurse managing patient flow, scheduling, conflict resolution, and acted as a liason among various multidisciplinary teams.
Preceptor responsible for providing exceptional education, training, and guidance to new employees.
Senior preceptor providing expert guidance to newer preceptors and their orientees.
Nursing Instructor responsible for the development of educational materials and instruction for fellow staff.
Served on various unit based committees.
Expert knowledge and experience managing patients with cardiac devices such as VA/VV ECMO, HeartMate3, Berlin Heart, Impella and other critical care equipment such as ventilators, oscillatory ventilators, CRRT, peritoneal dialysis, pleural/mediastinal chest tubes, external/internal pacemakers, intracardiac lines
Expert proficiency managing and interpreting intensive care monitoring equipment such as standard physiological monitors, capnography, 12-lead ECG, cardiac output monitors (PICCO, hemosphere), NIRS
Managed and titrated vasoactive medications to meet the physiologic needs of the patient(s)
Assisted providers with bedside patient procedures and interventions such as placement of central venous lines, arterial lines, chest tubes, ecmo cannulation, intubation, emergency sternotomy
Highly proficient at placing intravenous lines with and without ultrasound