KELLY KROPOG

• Collaborated with physicians to coordinate optimal patient care outcomes.
• Developed strategies for disease prevention and health promotion in the community setting.
• Prescribe pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic treatments-monitor effectiveness.
• Assessed patient health conditions and developed individualized care plans.
• Provided comprehensive physical examinations, including ordering appropriate diagnostic tests.
• Counseled patients on lifestyle modifications to improve their overall health.

●Assess, diagnose, and manage benign and malignant breast care. Manage patients undergoing cancer treatment for breast cancer.
● Manage patients pre and post-surgery
● Higher Risk Program-manage all surveillance and treatment for women with higher risk for breast cancer
● Prescribe pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic treatments-monitor effectiveness
● Promote health and wellness focused on breast care

• Circulating Nurse, Level 2 Trauma Hospital
• Maintained sterility of operating room
• Educated family on expectations before and after surgery
• Maintained quality and safety measures through Joint Commission initiatives

• 14 bed unit specializing in treatment and rehabilitation for patients with traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, and major multiple traumas
• Maintained 24-hour responsibility by providing leadership and management of the RTU to promote quality nursing care
• Objective is to provide a working environment promoting autonomy amongst the nursing workforce through establishing a unit council
• Managed all quality initiatives
• Managed all human resources of the unit including employee satisfaction, retention, and performance

• Responsible for maintaining proper staffing related to census and patient acuity while assisting with daily operations of the unit
• Monitored ICU quality measures daily
• Initiated safe and cost-effective practices
• Assisted in payroll and scheduling
• Successfully passed multiple Joint Commission surveys

• Recovered patients that underwent coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) in addition to carotid endarterectomies, thoracotomies, and stent placements
• Successfully managed this critical adult population with intensive cardiac drug therapies, expertise with the Swan-Ganz catheter, Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy (CRRT), mechanical ventilation and advanced life support
• Active member and Chair of Quality committee for two years

• Neurological Intensive Care Unit that specialized in neurologically impaired adult patients including stroke, craniotomies, ventriculostomies and ICP monitoring
• Performed patient education and managed quality initiatives