Katelyn Early
Brick
Summary
Professional nurse with strong expertise in trauma care, adept in rapid assessment and critical decision-making. Skilled in patient stabilization, advanced life support, and emergency care procedures. Strong focus on team collaboration and effective communication, ensuring optimal patient outcomes in high-pressure environments. Known for reliability and adaptability in dynamic clinical settings.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Clinical Donation Specialist
New Jersey Sharing Network
07.2024 - Current
- Family support: Providing education, emotional support, and guidance to families during the donation process
- Clinical management: Managing the medical care of potential organ donors to maintain organ viability until recovery.
- Referral assessment: Responding to hospital referrals and evaluating potential donors for medical suitability.
- Coordination: Working with hospital staff, transplant centers, and surgical teams to coordinate the logistics of organ recovery.
- Allocation: Allocating organs according to established policies, such as those from the United Network for Organ Sharing
Registered Nurse
Jersey Shore University Medical Center
05.2015 - Current
- Provide patient care to a wide variety of single and multi-system traumas involving diverse patient needs, ages, cultures, and severity of presenting symptoms.
- Skills include the ability to respond with decisiveness and clarity to an unexpected event by assessing, intervening, and stabilizing patients where there is minimal information provided.
- Proficient in the use of Trauma Admitting Area equipment
- Ability to communicate effectively with fellow team members while meeting job expectations in high pressure environments
Registered Nurse
Jersey Shore University Medical Center
09.2010 - 05.2015
- Provide complex care to post operative patients and trauma patients
- Work with a multidisciplinary team to facilitate recovery for critically ill patients
- Proficient in the use of STICU equipment
- Leaderships skills include and not limited to, charge nurse of SICU, primary and secondary RN for TAA, ICU response for codes and rapid responses
Registered Nurse
Jersey Shore University Medical Center
10.2008 - 09.2010
- Provided nursing care to the post-operative cardio-thoracic patients.
- Help facilitate recovery and prevent post-operative complications.
Patient Care Technician
JFK Medical Center
12.2007 - 08.2008
- Assisted health care team in delivering overall patient care
Education
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
University of Scranton
Scranton, PA05.2008
Skills
- Trauma nursing core course
- Advanced cardiac life support
- Pediatric advanced life support
- CPR certification
- IV insertion
- Critical Care Nursing Certification
Affiliations
American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (12/31/2012)
Certification
- Registered Nurse (NJ) – 7/2008
- CCRN – Since 12/2012
- TNCC, ATCN, BLS, ACLS, PALS
OTHER EXPERIENCES:
- Teaching Assistant
- JFK Medical Center - Pediatric Rehabilitation, Edison, NJ
- Facilitate growth and development in preschool children with Autism.
Timeline
Clinical Donation Specialist
New Jersey Sharing Network
07.2024 - Current
Registered Nurse
Jersey Shore University Medical Center
05.2015 - Current
Registered Nurse
Jersey Shore University Medical Center
09.2010 - 05.2015
Registered Nurse
Jersey Shore University Medical Center
10.2008 - 09.2010
Patient Care Technician
JFK Medical Center
12.2007 - 08.2008
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
University of Scranton