Katie Craig
Montgomery
Summary
Experienced healthcare professional skilled in patient care, critical thinking, and communication. Strong focus on team collaboration and achieving optimal patient outcomes. Reliable and adaptable, ensuring efficient and compassionate care in dynamic environments. Equipped with expertise in medical procedures, patient assessments, and care coordination.
Observant Medical Surgical Registered Nurse offering 2-year background preparing and administering medications, providing bedside care and monitoring patient condition. As well as educating and mentoring new nurses and nursing students, evaluating their clinical competencies and helping them adapt to unit workflows.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Preschool Teacher
Evangel Christian Preschool
12.2019 - 08.2020
- Serve meals and snacks in accordance with nutritional guidelines.
- Provide a variety of materials and resources for children to explore, manipulate, and use, both in learning activities and in imaginative play.
- Prepare materials and classrooms for class activities.
- Establish and enforce rules for behavior and procedures for maintaining order.
- Meet with parents and guardians to discuss their children's progress and needs, determine their priorities for their children, and suggest ways that they can promote learning and development.
- Organize and label materials and display students' work in a manner appropriate for their ages and perceptual skills.
- Teach basic skills, such as color, shape, number and letter recognition, personal hygiene, and social skills.
- Attend to children's basic needs by feeding them, dressing them, and changing their diapers.
Student worker
Auburn University at Montgomery
08.2020 - 05.2024
- Pick up and drop off students at airport
- Answer office phones
- Take AUMs lab samples to the facility in Prattville
- Drive maintenance employees to out of town to pick up vehicles
- Use spreadsheets to document sports trips
- Communicate with my co-workers about things we need and what has and hasn't been done
- Facilitate and help set up events and host tables at events
- Assisted in administrative tasks, ensuring efficient office operations and support for faculty and staff.
- Managed scheduling and coordination of student appointments, enhancing accessibility to academic resources.
Animal/House Sitter
For family's homes
05.2021 - 05.2024
- Maintain and keep homes clean while family is away
- Keep a safe environment while family is away
- Feed, play, and care for animals at each home
Registered Nurse
Baptist Medical Center South- 6N
07.2024 - Current
- Monitored vital signs and reported changes to healthcare team, enhancing patient care effectiveness.
- Administered medications and treatments per physician orders, ensuring patient safety and compliance.
- Educated patients on health management and post-discharge instructions, improving recovery outcomes.
- Collaborated with multidisciplinary teams to develop and implement individualized care plans for diverse patient populations.
- Mentored junior nurses in clinical procedures and best practices, fostering professional development within the team.
- Advised patients and caregivers of proper wound management, discharge plan objectives, safe medication use, and disease management.
- Served as a preceptor for nursing students during their clinical rotations, providing valuable real-world experience and guidance to foster professional growth.
- Enhanced patient satisfaction by providing compassionate, holistic nursing care that addressed physical, emotional, and spiritual needs.
- Conducted thorough patient assessments to identify changes in condition, promptly notifying physicians and initiating appropriate interventions when necessary.
Education
Bachelor of Science in Nursing Degree -
Auburn University At Montgomery
Montgomery, AL05-2024
High school -
Evangel Christian Academy
Montgomery, AL01-2020
Skills
- Medication and IV administration
- Direct patient care
- Patient assessments
- Strong clinical judgment
- Leadership
- Patient and family advocacy
- Mentoring new nurses and nursing students
- Time management
- Wound care
Accomplishments
I have received two daisy award nominations from patients and their family members for clinical excellence and exceptional peer support during a period of high census.
I have on occasion acted as relief charge nurse on my 23 bed unit when the need has become available. I had to oversee shift operations, staff-to-patient assignments and seamless bed throughput.
Certification
I have achieved and maintained advanced certifications including Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), Advanced cardiopulmonary life support (ACLS), National institute of health stroke scale (NIHSS), and Wound care photography, serving as a critical unit resource for my floor.
Timeline
Registered Nurse
Baptist Medical Center South- 6N
07.2024 - Current
Animal/House Sitter
For family's homes
05.2021 - 05.2024
Student worker
Auburn University at Montgomery
08.2020 - 05.2024
Preschool Teacher
Evangel Christian Preschool
12.2019 - 08.2020
Bachelor of Science in Nursing Degree -
Auburn University At Montgomery
High school -
Evangel Christian Academy