Katrina

• Medical-Surgical 2 and Critical Care nursing instructor responsible for overseeing didactic and skills labs and providing active, engaged learning environment for diverse student population.
• As curriculum coordinator, responsibilities include creating course outlines, learning objectives, exams, and blueprints, and ensuring alignment of courses to institutional and programmatic accreditation standards. Lead curriculum meetings with other faculty and assist with curricular needs.

Provide high-quality, specialized care to critically ill patients in hospitals across various locations.

• Increased patient safety through diligent monitoring of vital signs, administering medications accurately, and promptly addressing any concerns.
• Complex medical condition management collaboratively with providers, such as DKA, Myxedema, traumatic splenectomy, cardiac events, and septic shock
• Developed strong rapport with patients from diverse backgrounds by demonstrating empathy, cultural sensitivity, and respectfulness.

Provide specialized nursing care to patients undergoing cardiac catheterization procedures outside of traditional hospital settings.

Close collaboration with cardiologists to assist in various diagnostic and interventional cardiac procedures, including angioplasty, stent placement, and electrophysiology studies.

• Prepare patients for procedures, administer conscious sedation, monitor vital signs, and provide post-procedure care and patient education.
• Ensure adherence to safety protocols, maintain sterile fields, and assist in the documentation of procedures and patient outcomes.
• Attention to detail and work efficiently in a fast-paced environment

• Provide high-quality, specialized care to critically ill patients
• Increased patient safety through diligent monitoring of vital signs, administering medications accurately, and promptly addressing any concerns.
• Complex medical condition management collaboratively with providers, such as acute CVA, SCI, DKA, transplants, oncological emergencies, cardiac events, acute kidney injury, and septic shock
• Developed strong rapport with patients from diverse backgrounds by demonstrating empathy, cultural sensitivity, and respectfulness.