Kayla Marcotte
Rehoboth,MA
Summary
Dedicated and compassionate Registered Nurse with extensive experience in direct patient care. Expertise in maintaining composure under pressure while effectively managing challenging patients and high-stress situations. Strong ability to foster trusting relationships with patients and families through empathetic communication and a respectful approach, ensuring a supportive healthcare experience. Committed to delivering high-quality care and advocating for patient needs to promote optimal health outcomes.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Vascular Access IV Therapy RN
South Shore Hospital
South Weymouth, MA
04.2023 - 09.2025
- Ensure appropriate IV placement and PIV insertion.
- Compliance with safety measures and INS standards.
- Strong clinical judgement and the ability to assess and troubleshoot vascular access challenges.
- Triaging a high-volume of vascular access consults, responding to Rapid Response and Codes to assess and establish PIV access.
- Care and maintenance of central lines, port-a-cath access, routine rounding and dressing changes, restore patency and function in occluded central line catheters. Removal of non-tunneled central line catheters per physician order.
- Collaborating with the interdisciplinary team, including nursing, physicians, first call providers, pharmacy, etc., to coordinate care across multiple services.
- Interacts with patients and families in a caring, compassionate, and professional manner.
Registered Nurse, Telemetry/Medical Surgical unit
Morton Hospital
Taunton, MA
05.2021 - 01.2023
- Closely monitor patients and observe cardiac rhythms.
- Identify signs of cardiac rhythm changes and identify arrhythmias.
- Educate patients and their families on disease prevention, reporting symptoms, and lifestyle changes.
- Conduct thorough assessments based on individualized care plans and prioritize interventions based on the needs of the patient.
- Float experience – Emergency Department, Medical Surgical Unit, Substance Abuse Detox Unit, Telemetry, Behavioral Heath.
- Exceptional IV experience with insertion, maintenance, and basic and cardiac infusions.
Registered Nurse, Medical Surgical unit
Saint Annes Hospital
Fall River, MA
10.2020 - 04.2021
- Observe patients and utilize nursing interventions to expedite healing and recovery after surgery.
- Pain control management.
- Educate patients and caregivers on diagnosis, treatment, disease process, and self-management.
- Provide comprehensive instruction on discharge plans to sustain continuity of care upon discharge and establish recovery goals.
Phlebotomy Technician II
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Boston, MA
09.2015 - 10.2020
- Performs safe and efficient venipuncture in a fast-paced outpatient lab servicing 300+ patients per day.
- Floats among five outpatient labs within BWH.
- Assists in teaching students and new employees. EPIC trained.
Nursing Assistant, Cardiac telemetry unit
Norwood Hospital
Norwood, MA
08.2019 - 06.2020
- Performs timely recognition and immediate communication to RN of changes in baseline vitals, rhythms, abnormal rhythms of cardiac patients.
- Responds to rapid responses and codes to obtain vitals, EKG, and appropriate emergent tasks.
- Meditech trained.
- Received Above and Beyond Award from Norwood Hospital April 2020.
Education
Nursing
Massachusetts College of Pharmacy And Health Sciences
Boston, MA05.2020
Skills
- Clinical judgement
- Discharge planning
- Quality improvement
- Adult and Geriatric care
- Health promotion
- Direct patient care
- Patient assessment
- Team coordination
- Strong clinical judgment
- Patient monitoring
- Infection control measures
- Professional bedside manner
- Patient evaluation
- High level of autonomy
- Complex Problem-solving
- Patient and family advocacy
- EMR systems
- Emergency care
- IV setup and maintenance
- Palliative care awareness
- Maintaining privacy
- Medical records management
- Chart updating
- Medication and IV administration
- Physical assessments
- Taking vitals
- EMR / EHR
- Central line management
- Compassionate care
Certification
Basic Life Support CPR and AED
Expires 03/27
License
Registered Nurse License
Issued 09/05/2020
RN2343065
Timeline
Vascular Access IV Therapy RN
South Shore Hospital
04.2023 - 09.2025
Registered Nurse, Telemetry/Medical Surgical unit
Morton Hospital
05.2021 - 01.2023
Registered Nurse, Medical Surgical unit
Saint Annes Hospital
10.2020 - 04.2021
Nursing Assistant, Cardiac telemetry unit
Norwood Hospital
08.2019 - 06.2020
Phlebotomy Technician II
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
09.2015 - 10.2020
Nursing
Massachusetts College of Pharmacy And Health Sciences