Kelly Wilson
Rockford,IL
Summary
Compassionate and highly skilled Registered Nurse licensed in Illinois and Florida with extensive trauma and emergency care experience in a Level 1 Trauma Center. Proven ability to lead multidisciplinary teams, precept new nurses, and manage high-pressure situations. Seeking to leverage strong clinical and leadership skills to contribute to exceptional patient outcomes.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Relief Charge Nurse
OSF Saint Anthony Medical Center
Rockford, IL
10.2024 - Current
- Serve as Relief Charge Nurse approximately 2–5 times per month overseeing 10–14 nursing staff in a busy 36-bed Emergency Department with 2 designated trauma rooms.
- Assign nursing staff based on acuity, patient volume, and skill mix to ensure safer staffing ratios.
- Oversee trauma activations, stroke/STEMI alerts, and mass casualty protocols
- Facilitate patient flow, reduce wait times, and manage overcrowding effectively.
- Ensure compliance with hospital policies, joint commission standards, and regulatory requirements.
Trauma Nurse & Emergency Department Nurse
OSF Saint Anthony Medical Center
Rockford, IL
03.2022 - Current
- Delivered trauma support and emergency nursing care in a Level 1 Trauma Center, handling initial trauma assessments, stabilization, medication administration, and monitoring.
- Manage high-acuity assignments (4:1 ratio) in trauma and critical care settings
- Respond to stroke and STEMI activations, reducing door-to-treatment times
- Participate in trauma activations, managing multi-system injuries, GSWs, MVAs, and critical medical emergencies
- Initiate IV/IO access, administer blood products, titrate vasoactive drips, and manage advanced airway equipment.
- Lead resuscitation efforts during codes and rapid response events.
- Preceptor for Emergency Department nurses for 3 years, mentoring and training new staff to ensure quality clinical practice.
- Provide trauma nursing care for critically ill and injured patients, supporting trauma teams during emergent situations.
- Coordinate care with EMS during trauma handoff
- Perform primary and secondary trauma assessments in collaboration with trauma surgeons and emergency physicians.
- Collaborate with physicians, pharmacists, and multidisciplinary teams to deliver optimal patient care.
- Trauma preceptor for 1.5 years, specializing in advanced trauma nursing education and skills development.
- Maintain detailed documentation and ensure compliance with Joint Commission standards.
- Participated actively in Trauma Committee, Pharmacy Committee, and Fetal Demise Committee to improve patient care protocols and safety standards.
Pharmacy Technician
Walgreens
Rockford, IL
08.2020 - 03.2022
- Communicated with patient to collect information about prescriptions and medical conditions or arrange consultations with pharmacist.
- Consulted with insurance company representatives to complete claims processing, resolve concerns, and reconcile payments.
- Restocked automated medication dispensing equipment
- Counted and labeled prescriptions with correct item and quantity
- Helped pharmacist clear problematic prescriptions and address customer questions to keep pharmacy efficient.
- Maintained proper drug storage procedures, registries, and records for controlled drugs.
- Performed various pharmacy operational activities with strong commitment to accuracy, efficiency and service quality.
Operator
General Mills
Belvidere, IL
07.2006 - 04.2018
- Detected work-piece defects and machine malfunctions, maintaining machines to prevent future issues.
- Read and understood blueprints, product specifications and tooling instructions to plan correct operational sequences and prevent materials waste.
- Maintained assigned equipment and performed daily inspections to increase equipment lifetimes and cut costs.
- Lubricated parts and performed minor maintenance to improve machine function.
- Set up machines for various jobs to maintain high-quality manufacturing and waste reduction.
- Documented daily production data and submitted accurate time logs to keep management up to date, using MQIS.
- Kept detailed records of production data and completed products, updated daily logs and submitted activity reports.
- Inspected final products for quality concerns or to identify issues with equipment setup and calibration.
- Maintained correct temperature, levels and pressures on process systems and equipment.
- Removed and replaced tools and dyes to complete various tasks.
- Received and correctly processed both written and verbal instructions, prints and work orders.
- Accomplished tasks according to schedule and helped struggling team members.
- Put completed products into packages and moved to staging locations.
- Practiced safe lockout-tagout procedures to prevent injury to personnel during maintenance procedures.
- Cleaned and lubricated equipment on regular schedules to maintain life of machinery and achieve consistent operations.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Nursing (BSN)
Rockford University
Rockford, IL05-2021
Skills
- Rapid Triage
- Ventilator & hemodynamic monitoring
- Sepsis bundle management
- Trauma patient assessment, stabilization, and resuscitation
- Multidisciplinary team coordination and communication
- Precepting and staff education in emergency and trauma care
- Staff scheduling and resource allocation
- Conflict resolution
- Patient safety & risk management
- Crisis management and critical thinking in fast-paced environment
- Electronic Medical Records (EMR) proficiency
- Detail-oriented with strong organizational and time management skills
Affiliations
- Trauma Committee Member
- Pharmacy Committee Member
- Fetal Demise Committee Member
Certification
- Registered Nurse (RN), Illinois, License 041522836
- Registered Nurse (RN), Florida, License RN9707559
- Basic Life Support (BLS)
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)
- Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS)
- Trauma Nurse Core Course (TNCC)
- Emergency Nursing Pediatric Course (ENPC)
- Trauma Nurse Specialist (TNS)
- NIH Stroke Certification
Timeline
Relief Charge Nurse
OSF Saint Anthony Medical Center
10.2024 - Current
Trauma Nurse & Emergency Department Nurse
OSF Saint Anthony Medical Center
03.2022 - Current
Pharmacy Technician
Walgreens
08.2020 - 03.2022
Operator
General Mills
07.2006 - 04.2018
Bachelor of Science - Nursing (BSN)
Rockford University