Kelly Swearingen

• Utilized critical thinking skills to assess, plan and implement evidence-based patient care.
• Collaborated with interdisciplinary healthcare team to deliver optimal patient outcomes.
• Stabilized and transported neonates through 17 year old patients to higher level of care hospitals.
• Responsible for mixing and dosing medications per protocols.
• Responsible for keeping up with advanced skills (intubations, chest tubes, Umbilical lines etc)

Float RN in the NICU.

• Evaluated patient during admission, hospital stay and through discharge.
• Thorough assessments of NICU patients.
• Participated in daily rounds
• Provided education throughout admission and into discharge.
• IV starts and maintenance.
• Care of intubated neonates.
• Medication administration.

• Worked NICU, special care nursery, and post partum at Community North, East, and South.
• Assessments of normal newborn babies, NICU babies, and post partum mothers
• Medication administration to both neonates and post partum mothers.
• Education on newborn care and post partum care.
• Education to NICU parents throughout stay and at discharge.
• Attended deliveries.
• Admitted, transferred, and discharged patients
• IV starts and maintenance.
• Managed patients who where intubated with lines and various medication drips.

• Performed various nursing interventions such as wound dressing, vital sign monitoring, and specimen collection.
• Monitored patients' conditions and reported changes in physical presentation, appearance, and behavior to discuss treatment with physicians.
• Administered medications via oral, IV, and intramuscular injections and monitored responses.
• Effectively prioritized assignments, executing care based on each patient's relative condition and delegating tasks to available personnel deliver safe and efficient care.
• Worked within interdisciplinary health care team to develop, implement and make adjustments to patient care plans, individualizing strategies, and methods to improve health and meet recovery goals.
• Implemented medication and IV administration, catheter insertion, and airway management.
• Trained new nurses in proper techniques, care standards, operational procedures, and safety protocols.