Katie Coleman, RN
Summary
Highly skilled, dedicated, and driven personable Neuro-Trauma ICU Charge Nurse with 10 years of experience specializing in Neuro-Trauma Critical Care. Certified Critical Care Registered Nurse (CCRN) and Certified Stroke Registered Nurse (SCRN) committed to delivering high quality care and improving patient outcomes through effective team collaboration and leadership. Known for reliable leadership while fostering a supportive environment and managing unit flow for a 16-bed ICU to ensure the highest standards of safety and care.
Pursuing a new role that presents professional challenges and leverages skills to drive impactful contributions and foster professional growth.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
RN, PACU (PRN)
Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Southlake
10.2025 - Current
- Provided timely interventions to address airway management complications such as respiratory depression or obstruction in post-operative patients.
- Provide emotional support to patients and their families during the recovery process, easing anxiety related to surgery outcomes.
- Enhanced patient safety during transfers to other units by providing handoff communication that accurately conveyed critical information about the patient''s condition, potential risks, and ongoing treatment plans.
- Assess and identify individual patient educational needs, removing barriers to learning to ensure thorough education on discharge instructions and follow-up appointments.
- Educated family members and caregivers on patient care instructions.
Clinical Team Lead, Neuro-Trauma ICU
Methodist Mansfield Medical Center
01.2024 - Current
- Primary Charge Nurse for a 16-bed Neuro-Trauma Critical Care Unit, coordinating staffing, patient acuity, and interdisciplinary care delivery.
- Responds to Level 1 Trauma activations in ED to provide real-time leadership and clinical support.
- Responds to all in-house Code Strokes to assess patient, collaborating with neurology, to facilitate timely and high-quality care as well as providing TNK administration when indicated.
- Reduce errors in patient documentation by conducting regular audits and providing training to the clinical team members.
- Evaluates staff performance regularly, providing constructive feedback for ongoing professional development and growth.
- Ensures compliance through diligent monitoring of clinical processes and staff adherence to guidelines.
- Developed and implemented a multidisciplinary rounding tool that is utilized daily during trauma rounds to facilitate effective collaboration among multidisciplinary teams and resulting in improved patient outcomes.
- Contributes during rounds with interdisciplinary team members to review patient plan of care, concerns and recommendations.
- Conducts quality assurance evaluations through chart audits to identify areas for improvement, resulting in higher standards of care across the board.
- Streamlines unit operations by effectively managing staff assignments and schedules.
- Initiated and chaired a Unit-Based Council on newly formed Neuro-Trauma Critical Care Unit.
- Collaboratively designed a hospital-approved, closed-unit and visitation policy that is focused on staff and patient safety.
- Facility trained CRRT, charge nurse, preceptor, skills validator.
Neuro Trauma ICU Staff RN
Methodist Mansfield Medical Center
08.2022 - 01.2024
- Managed care for complex trauma, surgical, and neuro patients utilizing, advanced hemodynamic monitoring systems, rapid blood transfuser, EVD & ICP monitoring systems
- Performed various nursing interventions such as wound dressing, vital sign monitoring, and specimen collection.
- Precepted student nurses and oriented new hires, providing guidance and mentorship when teaching on hospital policies, procedures, and nursing best practices.
- Identified patient care requirements by establishing personal rapport with patients and families.
- Work within interdisciplinary teams to develop, implement and make adjustments to patient care plans, individualizing strategies, and methods to improve health and meet recovery goals.
- Facility trained CRRT, charge nurse, and preceptor.
ICU RN
Various Travel RN Agencies
07.2020 - 08.2022
- Provide nursing care to critically ill patients. Adapted easily to new facility protocols, paired with split-second decision-making skills ensuring continuity in care.
- Collaborated with interdisciplinary teams to develop comprehensive treatment plans for complex patients with multiple comorbidities.
- Utilized critical thinking skills to prioritize nursing interventions based on patient acuity level and individual needs.
- Provided support for patient families during difficult medical decisions or end-of-life care, serving as a liaison between the healthcare team and loved ones.
- Traveled to mostly Level I and II trauma centers floating to COVID ICU, MICU, Surgical-Trauma, and Neuro ICU's.
- Facility trained at several hospital systems on CRRT
- Charge nurse for SICU and MICU at facility in New Orleans. Trained new grad staff nurses contributing to a positive work environment and high quality of patient care.
- While in the thick of the Delta Wave of COVID, trained step-down units to care for critically ill patients on ventilators and vasoactive drips. Also while at this facility, was handpicked to go alone to critical assess and rural sister facilities to assess and triage patients requiring higher level of care. This included explaining course of care, code status, impending end of life care versus life support. Then prioritized and triaged these patients, assisting provider in intubation and lining of patients. Provided care for patient, titrating critical drips and performed frequent checks on ventilators and made necessary adjustments to preserve optimal patient conditions and then arranged for helicopter to transport patients back to main sister facility.
- Facilitated patient transfers between different levels of care, ensuring continuity of services and minimizing disruptions in treatment plans.
Neuro-Trauma ICU RN
Medical City Arlington
10.2017 - 12.2020
- Delivered high-level of care to diverse populations of complex surgical, trauma, and neuro patients while collaborating with interdisciplinary teams to develop comprehensive treatment plans for patients with multiple comorbidities.
- Skillfully managed challenging patient situations using de-escalation techniques, crisis intervention strategies, and therapeutic communication skills.
- Served as a preceptor for nursing students during their clinical rotations, providing valuable real-world experience and guidance to foster professional growth.
- Facilitated therapeutic communication, conflict resolution and crisis intervention by redirecting negative behaviors and helping patients regain or improve coping abilities.
- Backup charge nurse of 24-bed unit, code/RRT/trauma responder
- CRRT, Impella, and Balloon pump trained by facility
- UBC and Shared Governance chair member
RN
Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital
06.2016 - 10.2017
- Deliver high-quality and compassionate care by bedside reporting, employing the use of SBAR communication with multidisciplinary team members, hourly rounding, utilizing therapeutic communication, and properly planning care in coordination with the Nursing Process. Utilize professional judgement to consistently prioritize patient care.
- Mentor, precept student nurses, new staff members, as well as Versant Preceptor for Graduate Nurses through Versant RN Program
- Member of Shared Governance as Unit Based Council Co-chair, as well as multiple other councils throughout the organization.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Nursing Science
Western Governors University
Salt Lake City, UT04-2025
Associate of Science - Nursing
Tarrant County College
Fort Worth, TX05-2016
Skills
- CCRN
- SCRN
- BLS
- ASLS
- PALS
- TNCC
- TCAR
- NIHSS
Accomplishments
- Initiated and chaired Unit Based Council for newly formed Neuro-Trauma ICU
- Collaboratively designed a hospital-approved, closed unit and visitation policy that focuses on staff and patient safety.
- Designed and implemented a multidisciplinary rounding tool now used daily in trauma rounds to facilitate structured review of patient plans of care, team concerns, and recommendations.
Timeline
RN, PACU (PRN)
Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Southlake
10.2025 - Current
Clinical Team Lead, Neuro-Trauma ICU
Methodist Mansfield Medical Center
01.2024 - Current
Neuro Trauma ICU Staff RN
Methodist Mansfield Medical Center
08.2022 - 01.2024
ICU RN
Various Travel RN Agencies
07.2020 - 08.2022
Neuro-Trauma ICU RN
Medical City Arlington
10.2017 - 12.2020
RN
Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital
06.2016 - 10.2017
Bachelor of Science - Nursing Science
Western Governors University
Associate of Science - Nursing
Tarrant County College