Kasie Widener

• Managed nursing staff schedules to ensure optimal coverage during peak hours and reduced overtime costs.
• Reviewed clinical documentation to asses standards and quality of care.
• Streamlined communication between departments for improved patient flow and satisfaction.
• Resolve conflicts among team members promptly and effectively, maintaining a harmonious work environment.
• Provided emergency response during shifts and when on-call.
• Maintained accurate records of employee performance evaluations, certifications, licenses, continuing education requirements, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards.

• Supervise nursing staff, ensuring safe and accurate patient care according to established plans.
• Manage departmental flow by timely room turnover and assisting primary nurses with patient care.
• Reported incidents to management and healthcare providers to maintain compliance and safety.
• Conduct PIV ultrasound-guided IV placements for patients with difficult access sites.
• Triage patients, assigning ESI and acuity levels for efficient routing to necessary destinations.
• Administer medications and treatments as prescribed by physicians to ensure proper care.
• Deliver compassionate, individualized care, enhancing overall patient satisfaction.
• Ensure adherence to best practices in patient care through continuous staff supervision.

• Facilitated staffing solutions for rural emergency departments, addressing critical shortages.
• Specialized in vascular access procedures, including PICC and midline placements via ultrasound guidance.
• Stabilized patients and coordinated safe transportation to higher acuity facilities.
• Managed all transfer documentation, ensuring accurate contacts and necessary signatures were secured.

RN Charge nurse over Emergency Department and Medical Surgical unit:

• Managing Emergency Department as charge RN overseeing LVN duties such as medical surgical patient care.
• Overseeing the deliver of patient care, ensuring it meets standards and patient needs.
• Resolving incidents and communicating/escalating issues appropriately following the chain of command.
• Notifying provider of patient arrival and chief complaint/condition.
• Obtaining/collecting appropriate ordered labs, starting IV's monitoring tele monitor and vitals when necessary.
• Administering ordered medications

• RN Home health nurse: Contact and schedule home health visits with patients.
• Provide wound care, change dressings, add ordered medications or wraps to patient needed areas.
• Obtain vitals and document appropriate assessments and progress of wound
• Administer medications IV and PO
• Report back to main office of any changes in condition or needs for home medical equipment/devices

• Medical Surgical Nurse 6-7 patient assignments
• Assess patients and document assessments appropriately
• Administer medications as ordered
• Change wound vacs and assist in wound care
• Collect ordered scheduled labs
• Collaborate with appropriate teams to provide best care and follow Plan of Care.

• RN weekend supervisor for Borger Healthcare Acute care Center 37 beds
• Take on call shifts and weekends
• Cover DON hours when DON out of office
• Assign nursing rolls to LVN's
• Assign rolls to CNA's
• Supervise nurses providing care to patients
• Assist ADON in scheduling nurses
• Administer medications and blood products that LVN's could not administer.
• Give verbal and written warnings and write ups as needed.
• Cover nursing shifts when needed
• Administer medications and document nursing assessments
• Contact patient providers accordingly with patient updates or changes in condition
• Provide wound care to patients

• Observe nurses and visit patients to ensure proper nursing care.
• Monitor, record, and report symptoms or changes in patients' conditions.
• Instruct individuals, families, or other groups on topics such as health education, disease prevention, or childbirth and develop health improvement programs.
• Record patients' medical information and vital signs.
• Direct or supervise less-skilled nursing or healthcare personnel or supervise a particular unit.
• Modify patient treatment plans as indicated by patients' responses and conditions.

• Assemble and use equipment, such as catheters, tracheotomy tubes, or oxygen suppliers.
• Administer prescribed medications or start intravenous fluids, noting times and amounts on patients' charts.
• Supervise nurses' aides or assistants.
• Measure and record patients' vital signs, such as height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, pulse, and respiration.
• Provide medical treatment or personal care to patients in private home settings, such as cooking, keeping rooms orderly, seeing that patients are comfortable and in good spirits, or instructing family members in simple nursing tasks.
• Collect samples, such as blood, urine, or sputum from patients, and perform routine laboratory tests on samples.
• Wash and dress bodies of deceased persons.
• Help patients with bathing, dressing, maintaining personal hygiene, moving in bed, or standing and walking.
• Make appointments, keep records, or perform other clerical duties in doctors' offices or clinics.