Kathryn Richardson, BSN, RN

Professional Summary:

I am a Registered Nurse that currently works at Jackson Surgery Center. I am ambitious, career-driven, and seeking a position as a nurse in a new area/field of expertise. I enjoy learning new trades and broadening my skills and knowledge in the medical field.

Work History:

Baptist Medical Center South, Montgomery, AL

Charge Nurse (Ortho and Med Surge) \ 06/2021-10/2021

• Trained new nurses in proper techniques, care standards, operational procedures and safety protocols.
• Supervising the nursing staff on the unit
• Addressing issues/ concerns of patients, family members, doctors, and other personnel
• Create on-coming staff split, checking crash cart, checking for narcotic discrepancies

Baptist Medical Center South, Montgomery, AL

Registered Staff Nurse \ 06/2020 - 10/2021

• Conferred with physicians to discuss diagnoses and devise well-coordinated treatment approaches
• Worked within interdisciplinary health care team to develop, implement and make adjustments to patient care plans, individualizing strategies and methods to improve health and meet recovery goals
• Gathered patient health data through interviews and observation, documenting data in electronic records
• Performed various nursing interventions such as wound dressing, vital sign monitoring and specimen collections
• Trained new nurses in proper techniques, care standards, operational procedures and safety protocols
• Administered medications via oral, IV and intramuscular injections and monitored responses

Jackson Surgery Center, Montgomery, AL

Circulating Operating Room Nurse \ 10/2021 - Current

• Responsible for retrieving patient from Pre-Op, positioning, assisting anesthesia and the CRNA with induction and intubation as well as any patient decline/crash, skin prep prior to incision, assuring safety regulations and protocols are followed, administering some drugs being required in the OR (local, packing, drops, etc.), and safely transporting the patient to PACU/recovery
• Responsible for the advocacy of the patient while the patient is actively under anesthesia and cannot advocate for themselves
• Charging the OR when the OR manager was out for any reason (assigning rooms, assuring the teams were given relief for lunch/bathroom, paperwork, asisst with turn over and over-all flow of the OR)
• Specializing in multiple areas of the OR, including ENT, GYN, Urology, Orthopedics, General, and Plastics. As well as working with children (age varies from 10 months onward.)

SKILLS:

• Medical supply management
• Creative problem solving
• Patient care oversight
• Preventative healthcare
• Attention to detail
• Medication Administration
• Critical thinking
• Intra-operative responsibilities
• Positioning, prepping, foley insertion, starting IVs, administering medications in the OR
• Responsible or consent and patient advocacy while patient is under anesthesia