Kathleen Lynch

• Extensive experience treating patients with a wide variety of illnesses and injuries resulting in paralysis or life altering debility
• Provide education to patients and their families to teach them skills needed to have optimal quality of life after their injury or illness
• Collaborate with other members of health care to develop measures to reduce the number of patient falls, nosocomial infections and hospital acquired pressure injuries
• Communicate daily with doctors, case managers and other members of the health care team to develop and maintain care plans to provide excellent inpatient care and ensure safe home discharge
• Preceptor for new RN's/LPN's
• Charge RN for 24 bed inpatient nursing unit
• Participated in Professional Nursing Council
• Attend and provide input for weekly interdisciplinary team meetings and patient discharge preparedness meetings
• 2022 Nightingale Award for Nursing Excellence nominee
• 2021 RIM Nurse of the Year nominee
• Monitor vital signs and lab values and report abnormalities to physician

• Performed various treatment and care interventions in a very high stress trauma center including medical, cardiac, pediatric and resuscitation modules
• Performed triage, prioritizing treatment of incoming patients based on acuity level
• Educated families about their loved ones' conditions and provided emotional support

• Provided comprehensive nursing care to post-surgical and critically ill patients in a ICU setting

Provided care in Surgical Intensive Care Unit including trauma, medical and cardiac patients