Kelly Fitzsimmons

- Performed various direct patient care functions including triage, EKGs, wound care, orthoglass splinting, phlebotomy, specimen collection, point of care lab testing and resulting, aid with ADLs, along with other duties.

- Coordinating urgent tasks and assessing critical results shared directly with rotating Emergency Medicine Physicians.

- Functioned as a graduate nurse on a medical surgical unit, performing patient assessment and care planning under Registered Nurses' guidance before NCLEX exam.

- Ensured comprehensive patient care by supporting a multidisciplinary transplant team of surgeons, hepatologists, infectious disease physicians, and social workers.

- Managed Organ Transplant database records via OTTR for liver transplant candidates.

- Supported the Chief of Spine Surgery with administrative tasks, in addition to meeting directly with pre-operative patients to plan and schedule orthopedic spinal surgeries and obtain their prior authorizations.