Kelly Woodring-Brown
Las Vegas,NV
Summary
Registered nurse with leadership experience, self-driven, and hardworking qualities, bringing evidence-based practise and passionate patient care. Adaptable to new working environments, resilient to stressful situations, strong attention to details, vast clinical knowledge, and adept in managing medication and developing patient plan of care.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
Work History
Nurse Navigator/Infection Preventionist
UNLV Health
10.2023 - Current
- Scheduled appointments, educational meetings and follow-ups for patients and family members.
- Built partnerships with local agencies and groups to assist with patient care, support or educational needs.
- Coordinated appropriate and efficient delivery of healthcare services to promote optimal outcomes by assessing and matching unmet needs with support services.
- Identify and mitigate unnecessary infection risks through regular reviews, procedural assessments, and training.
- Assists in writing policies to improve success of infection control measures in departments.
- Set clear policies to improve success of infection control measures in departments
Registered Nurse Supervisor/Infection Preventionist
UNLV Health
05.2023 - 10.2023
- Identify and mitigate unnecessary infection risks through regular reviews, procedural assessments, and training.
- Assists in writing policies to improve success of infection control measures in departments
- Continue to train new medical assistants and ancillary staff in proper techniques, care standards, operational procedures, safety protocols, plan schedules, coach, assist in daily assignments and supervise.
- Educated patients, families and caregivers on diagnosis and prognosis, treatment options, disease process, and management and lifestyle options.
RN Supervisor
UNLV Health
09.2022 - 05.2023
- Participated in nursing simulation activities, evidence-based practice project implementation and competency development to further staff education.
- Plan schedules for medical assistants, coach, assist and supervise members of the staff.
- Managed infection control and critical incidents and made procedural changes and improvements.
- Assisted in writing policy and procedures for UNLV Health practice plan.
- Trained new medical assistants in proper techniques, care standards, operational procedures and safety protocols.
- Onboarded new employees through orientation meetings and training sessions before deployment to different departments
- Recruited, hired and trained all staff, providing direct supervision, ongoing staff development and continuing education to employees
Charge Registered Nurse
Summerlin Hospital
10.2021 - 08.2022
- Coordinated nursing care on unit through staff assignments, assisting and rounding with physicians, monitoring patient orders and communicating with ancillary departments.
- Supervised and managed daily scheduling, tasking and administration.
- Documented information in patients' electronic medical records, relaying information to clinicians and care providers to facilitate continuity of care.
- Trained new nurses in proper techniques, care standards, operational procedures, and safety protocols
- Coordinated nursing care on unit through staff assignments, assisting and rounding with physicians, monitoring patient orders, and communicating with ancillary departments
Registered Nurse
Summerlin Hospital
02.2018 - 10.2021
- Provide direct medical and surgical care to patients with and without COVID-19.
- Educated patients, families and caregivers on diagnosis and prognosis.
- Trained new nurses in proper techniques, care standards, operational procedures and safety protocols.
- Administered medications and treatment to patients and monitored responses while working with healthcare teams to adjust care plans
- Administered medications via oral, IV, and intramuscular injections and monitored responses
- Collaborated with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions
Registered Nurse
NaphCare
10.2017 - 02.2018
- Patient intake, physical and mental health assessments and restraint assessments, assisting with codes and monitoring drug and alcohol detoxification.
- Secured controlled narcotics and distributed medication on schedule to meet patient needs and minimize misuse opportunities.
- Updated patient charts with data such as medications to keep records current and support accurate treatments
- Conferred with physicians to discuss diagnoses and devise well-coordinated treatment approaches
Licensed Practical Nurse
NaphCare
11.2008 - 10.2017
- Medication administration, treatments and wound care administration, vital signs, monitoring drug detoxification, blood glucose testing and administering insulin.
- Delivered updates in patient status to charge nurse, recording changes in medical records.
- Managed patient care through closely monitoring respiration, blood pressure, and blood glucose levels
- Monitored, tracked, and conveyed important patient information to healthcare staff to help optimize treatment planning and care delivery
Education
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Nevada State College At Henderson
Henderson, NV12.2020
Associate Of Applied Science - Nursing
College of Southern Nevada
Las Vegas, NV05.2017
Certificate Of Completion - Nursing
College of Southern Nevada
Las Vegas, NV05.2008
Skills
- Operational Standards
- Nurse Scheduling
- Process Evaluation
- Resource Assignments
- IV insertion and IV medications
- PCA Monitoring
- Medication Side Effect Knowledge
- PICC Line, Blood Draw and Sample Collection
- Patient Health Information Access
- Infection Control Procedures
- Psychiatric Disorders Management
- Staffing Requirements
- EMR Systems
- Nursing Assignments
- Nursing Staff Management
- Dressing Changes and Suture Removal
- Nurse and student Precepting
- Unit Cohesiveness
- Process Improvement
Timeline
Nurse Navigator/Infection Preventionist
UNLV Health
10.2023 - Current
Registered Nurse Supervisor/Infection Preventionist
UNLV Health
05.2023 - 10.2023
RN Supervisor
UNLV Health
09.2022 - 05.2023
Charge Registered Nurse
Summerlin Hospital
10.2021 - 08.2022
Registered Nurse
Summerlin Hospital
02.2018 - 10.2021
Registered Nurse
NaphCare
10.2017 - 02.2018
Licensed Practical Nurse
NaphCare
11.2008 - 10.2017
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Nevada State College At Henderson
Associate Of Applied Science - Nursing
College of Southern Nevada
Certificate Of Completion - Nursing
College of Southern Nevada
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