Katherine Shaw
Sykesville
Summary
Professional nurse with strong background in clinical care, skilled in patient assessment, treatment planning, and medical documentation. Known for effective collaboration with healthcare teams, ensuring optimal patient outcomes. Adept at adapting to changing healthcare needs, providing consistent, high-quality care. Reliable and results-driven, with focus on delivering patient-centric solutions.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Clinical Nurse
AMSURG
10.2022 - Current
- Leadership Roles: Preceptor for newly hired nurses, Superuser for Dialogue Health Messaging System
- Responsibilities include but are not limited to, the assessment and evaluation of patients presenting for GI procedures, performing a detailed medical history review, ensuring patient safety, providing culturally competent care, establishing intravascular access, monitoring vital signs, communicating with team members and outside providers, providing post-anesthesia care, educating patients and families, maintaining ACLS and BLS certification
Access Nurse
Gilchrist Hospice Care
02.2020 - 07.2022
- Leadership Roles: Preceptor for newly hired nurses
- Responsibilities included assessment and evaluation of patients with terminal illnesses, evaluation for patient Medicare hospice eligibility based on clinical presentation and thorough medical history review, concise communication with interdisciplinary team members, education and communication with patients and their families, and maintaining current pharmacological knowledge of end-of-life comfort medications
Clinical Nurse II
University of Maryland Baltimore Washington Medical Center
08.2016 - 06.2020
- Leadership Roles: Preceptor for newly hired nurses, Superuser for Prismaflex Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy (CRRT)
- Involved in educating and implementing a new multidisciplinary rounds tool for nurses to present their patient cases during rounds to improve communication of patient care, treatment plans, and discharge planning
- Responsibilities included assessing and treating critically ill patients, managing patients with multiple co-morbidities and complex diseases, communicating with physicians and other members of the multidisciplinary team, communicating with patients and families, and providing them with education and resources
- Participates in unit and hospital-wide committees, including the Stroke Champion and Morale Committee
Staff Nurse, EPIC Support Pool
Johns Hopkins Hospital Intrastaff
06.2016 - 07.2016
- Served JHH East Baltimore Campus while implementing the electronic medical health Record EPIC
- Responsibilities included assisting and educating nurses and providers with learning the new system, helping troubleshoot problems, communicating any issues to the control center, and communicating with nurses in various units, working in all levels of care
Clinical Nurse II
University of Maryland Medical Center
10.2011 - 06.2016
- Leadership Roles: Oriented to Charge Nurse role, served as an EPIC super user and nurse preceptor
- Involved in unit-based committees (Quality and Safety Committee, Falls Committee) to improve patient outcomes, responsible for the education of peers as EPIC super user, and TIGR on-demand video patient education project
- Responsibilities included providing safe and effective care to patients and their families by participating in interdisciplinary team rounds, creating specific patient-centered care plans, and efficiently managing critical patients with co-morbidities
- Effectively collaborate and communicate with interdisciplinary team members and provide education to patients and families
- Titration of high-risk medications, management of ventilators, dialysis machines, and intra-aortic balloon pumps, and monitoring patient response to interventions
Anesthesia Technician
The University of Maryland Medical Center
10.2009 - 10.2011
- Leadership Roles: Precepting new technicians
- Responsibilities included assisting anesthesiologists and CRNAs with induction, intubation, and insertion of IV lines for patients undergoing elective and emergent surgical procedures
- Responsible for setting up and breaking down anesthesia equipment
- Maintaining anesthesia equipment with routine maintenance and checks
- Served as an assistant to anesthesia providers
Education
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Stevenson University
Baltimore County, MD05.2024
Associate Degree - Nursing
Howard Community College
Columbia, MD06.2011
Skills
- Competent in Utilizing EHR Technologies
- Clear Verbal and Written Communication
- Expertise in patient education and discharge planning
- Thrives in Fast-Paced Environments
- Intravascular Catheter Insertion
- Patient Hemodynamic Assessment
- Family education
- Nurse training
- Critical thinking
- Detail-Oriented Approach
- Interdisciplinary collaboration
- Patient care delivery
Certification
- Registered Nurse (RN), R196596, Maryland
- Basic Life Support (BLS) Certified, American Heart Association
- Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) Certified, American Heart Association
Affiliations
American Nurses Association (ANA), 2011
Personal Information
Title: RN, BSN
Timeline
Clinical Nurse
AMSURG
10.2022 - Current
Access Nurse
Gilchrist Hospice Care
02.2020 - 07.2022
Clinical Nurse II
University of Maryland Baltimore Washington Medical Center
08.2016 - 06.2020
Staff Nurse, EPIC Support Pool
Johns Hopkins Hospital Intrastaff
06.2016 - 07.2016
Clinical Nurse II
University of Maryland Medical Center
10.2011 - 06.2016
Anesthesia Technician
The University of Maryland Medical Center
10.2009 - 10.2011
- Registered Nurse (RN), R196596, Maryland
- Basic Life Support (BLS) Certified, American Heart Association
- Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) Certified, American Heart Association
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Stevenson University
Associate Degree - Nursing
Howard Community College
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