Julia Mitchell

• Assessed patient needs, prioritized treatment, maintained patient flows, collaborated with team members, and managed deescalation techniques
• Administered medications and treatments, monitoring patients for reactions and side effects.
• Adhered to infection control procedures to facilitate safe, clean patient environment
• Recorded patient condition, vital signs, recovery progress and medication side effects.
• Acted as patient advocate and implemented total patient care through team nursing process.
• Maintained thorough, accurate and confidential documentation in electronic medical records.
• Administered medications, tracked dosages and documented patient conditions.
• Trained and mentored new RNs on best practices, hospital policies and standards of care.
• Collected lab specimens, ordering and interpreting diagnostic tests and lab results.
• Oversaw patient admission and discharge processes to coordinate related paperwork.
• Created, implemented and evaluated patient care plans with medical team.
• Counseled patients and caregivers, providing emotional, psychological and spiritual support.
• Conducted intake assessments with patients and relatives to gather case history.

Travel contact at an Alcohol and drug addiction treatment center. Cared for patients in active withdrawal and rehab. Performed medication administration, nursing documentation, collaboration with team members and physicians, wound care, and provided education to patients.

• Explained policies, procedures and services to patients.
• Communicated with patients with compassion while keeping medical information private.
• Built work schedules and staff assignments, taking workload, space and equipment availability into consideration.
• Maintained communication and transparency with governing boards, department heads and medical staff.
• Recruited, hired and trained new medical and facility staff.
• Collaborated with multi-disciplinary staff to improve overall patient care and response times.
• Provided education to patients and their families regarding disease processes, treatments and medication side effects
• Supervised up to 5 other nurses
• Performed nursing interventions in patients home such as phlebotomy, wound care, medication administration, and catheter insertion

• Developed patient care plans, overall patient health assessments and evaluations.
• Actively participated in family and patient planning processes.
• Collaborated with physicians on patient medications, medical needs and performance.
• Incorporated appropriate nursing methods to create individualized care plans.
• Collaborated in consults, patient care plans development, patient monitoring and evaluations.
• Administered medications and treatment plans in accordance with physician orders.
• Trained other nurses on patient care and daily tasks, supporting growth and professional development.
• Collaborated with physicians during medical rounds, updated treatment plans and provided plan of care to patients and families.
• Participated in on-call rotations, delivering daily continuous quality care to patients.

• Utilized valuable communication skills to deliver information to family members regarding patient treatment
• Checked on patients regularly to track progress with at end of life at hospice inpatient unit
• Educated patients and their families on disease processes and end of life care
• Performed nursing interventions such as maintaining pain pumps, IV pumps, IV insertion, catheter insertion, medication administration, incontinence care, phlebotomy, and wound care

Provided care to patients at end of life in their home. Performed phlebotomy, wound care, ostomy care, catheters, education regarding disease processes, nurse assessments, vital signs, collaboration with families and team members, and documentation in EMR

Provided 1:1 care to patients on ventilators in their home. Duties included maintaining ventilator settings, suctioning, 02 administration, personal hygiene care, Making sure patients had necessary DME equipment, documentation, and collaboration with providers and patient families.

Provided care to residents in a skilled nursing facility. Duties included obtaining vital signs, wound care, medication administration, catheter insertion and care, personal hygiene care, phlebotomy, documentation, nurse assessments, education regarding medications and disease processes, and collaboration with providers, families, and team members.