Hi, I’m
Keya Stanford, RN, BSN
Atlanta,GA
Summary
Experienced healthcare professional skilled in patient care, critical thinking, and communication. Strong focus on team collaboration and achieving optimal patient outcomes. Reliable and adaptable, ensuring efficient and compassionate care in dynamic environments. Equipped with expertise in medical procedures, patient assessments, and care coordination.
Overview
12
years of professional experience
3
Certification
Work History
UCLA Health
Registered Nurse, Medical-Surgical Unit
05.2022 - Current
Job overview
- PRN Med-Surg/Tele Float Pool Position
- Med Surg tele float nurse between two hospitals within the system
- Utilized critical thinking skills to prioritize nursing interventions based on patients'' acuity levels and individual needs.
- Conducted thorough patient assessments to identify changes in condition, promptly notifying physicians and initiating appropriate interventions when necessary.
- Collaborated with interdisciplinary teams for optimal patient care, ensuring seamless communication between healthcare providers.
- Consistently maintained accurate documentation of patient assessments, interventions, and outcomes in accordance with regulatory requirements.
North Georgia Medical Center
Medsurg Registered Nurse
06.2024 - 09.2024
Job overview
- Utilized critical thinking skills to prioritize nursing interventions based on patients'' acuity levels and individual needs.
- Conducted thorough patient assessments to identify changes in condition, promptly notifying physicians and initiating appropriate interventions when necessary.
- Administered medications safely according to established guidelines while closely monitoring for side effects or adverse reactions requiring intervention.
- Enhanced patient satisfaction by providing compassionate, holistic nursing care that addressed physical, emotional, and spiritual needs.
- Contributed to interdisciplinary team meetings by presenting relevant clinical data about patients'' progress toward reaching established goals of care.
Emory Healthcare
Travel RN
07.2022 - 12.2022
Job overview
- Company Overview: Facility Type: Acute Care Hospital
- Travel Nurse at Emory St
- Joseph's Hospital on a med-surf unit
- Travel nurse assisting with providing care for patient diagnosed with Covid-19 and other med-surf and telemetry ailments including heart failure, renal transplant, stroke, amputation, orthopedic surgery, and respiratory ailments
- Assisting patients with telephone triage with doctors appointments, surgical follow up phone calls, surveys about hospital stay, referrals to higher levels of care (hospital/calling 911 for emergency) as well as contacting pharmacies to ensure patients medications are covered by their insurance company
- Facility Type: Acute Care Hospital
Emory Healthcare Long Term Acute Care
Travel Registered Nurse
03.2022 - 05.2022
Job overview
- Travel Nurse at LTACH taking care of clients on ventilators
- 8 week travel contract
- Nurse/Patient ratio 1:5
Favorite Healthcare Staffing
California Crisis Nurse
01.2022 - 02.2022
Job overview
- Crisis travel nurse assisting multiple hospitals with staff shortages during the Omicron Surge
- Improved patient outcomes by administering life-saving interventions such as CPR, defibrillation, and intubation.
- Provided skilled, timely and level-headed emergency response to critically-ill patients.
- Quickly responded to situations impacting safety and security to unit, actualizing crisis prevention interventions to control and de-escalate situations.
- Acted as an advocate for patients and their families, ensuring that their needs were met and concerns addressed throughout the treatment process.
Nurse Choice
Crisis Response Travel Nurse
03.2021 - 01.2022
Job overview
- Travel Nurse at Emory St
- Joseph's Hospital on a med-surg unit
- Travel nurse assisting with providing care for patient diagnosed with Covid-19 and other med-surf and telemetry ailments including heart failure, renal transplant, stroke, amputation, orthopedic surgery, and respiratory ailments
- Assisting patients with telephone triage with doctors appointments, surgical follow up phone calls, surveys about hospital stay, referrals to higher levels of care (hospital/calling 911 for emergency) as well as contacting pharmacies to ensure patients medications are covered by their insurance company
Mercy Health
Rapid Response Travel Nurse
10.2020 - 03.2021
Job overview
- Company Overview: Facility Type: Acute Care Hospital
- Deployed in less than 2 weeks to provide care for a faith-based hospital with a critical staffing shortage
- Travel nurse assisting with providing care for patient diagnosed with Covid-19 and other med-surg and telemetry ailments including heart failure, renal transplant, stroke, amputation, orthopedic surgery, and respiratory ailments
- Facility Type: Acute Care Hospital
Kaiser Permanente
Rapid Response Travel RN
07.2020 - 10.2020
Job overview
- Company Overview: Facility Type: Acute Care Hospital
- Deployed in less than two weeks to a hospital needing assisting with critical staffing shortage
- Travel nurse assisting with providing care for patient diagnosed with Covid-19 and other med-surf and telemetry ailments including heart failure, renal transplant, stroke, amputation, orthopedic surgery, and respiratory ailments
- Facility Type: Acute Care Hospital
Fairview Health Bethesda
Rapid Response Travel Nurse RN
04.2020 - 06.2020
Job overview
- Company Overview: Facility Type: Long Term Acute Care Hospital converted to a Covid-19 hospital
- Deployed in less than two weeks to a hospital needing assisting with critical staffing shortage
- Bethesda became Minnesota's first hospital dedicated solely to treating people with severe, confirmed cases of COVID-19
- Travel nurse assisting with providing care for patient diagnosed with Covid-19 and other med-surg and telemetry ailments including heart failure, renal transplant, stroke, amputation, orthopedic surgery, and respiratory ailments
- Facility Type: Long Term Acute Care Hospital converted to a Covid-19 hospital
Kaiser Permanente Baldwin Park
Travel Nurse RN
02.2020 - 04.2020
Job overview
- Company Overview: Facility Type: Acute Care Hospital
- Deployed in less than two weeks to a hospital needing assisting with critical staffing shortage
- Travel nurse assisting with providing care for patient diagnosed with Covid-19 and other med-surg and telemetry ailments including heart failure, renal transplant, stroke, amputation, orthopedic surgery, and respiratory ailments
- Facility Type: Acute Care Hospital
- Delivered high-quality patient care during emergency situations, remaining calm under pressure and effectively prioritizing tasks according to urgency.
Stanford Health Care
Travel Nurse RN
08.2019 - 02.2020
Job overview
- Company Overview: Facility Type: Acute Care Hospital
- Care for patients recovering from cath lab procedures, open heart surgeries, cardioversions
- Interpreter of EKG print outs and telemetry strips
- Patient advocate of health condition, medication, and recovery process
- Creator of unit based assignment sheet
- Facility Type: Acute Care Hospital
Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital
Float Pool Registered Nurse
09.2018 - 01.2020
Job overview
- Company Overview: Facility Type: Acute Care Hospital
- Float Pool Per Diem Nurse
- Floated to understaffed units to assist with care of cardiac patients in the Emergency Department, Intensive Care Unit, Post -Acute Care Unit, and Medical Surgical Units
- Provider of holistic care for patients classified as med-surg and cardiac including diagnosis such as: chest pain, prostatectomy, encephalitis, GI hemorrhage, a-flutter, altered mental status, orthopedic surgery, renal surgery
- Interpreter of EKG print outs and telemetry strips
- Patient advocate of health condition, medication, and recovery process
- Facility Type: Acute Care Hospital
Providence Saint John's Health Center
Travel Nurse RN
03.2019 - 05.2019
Job overview
- Company Overview: Facility Type: Acute Care Hospital
- Float Pool Ortho/MedSurg, PCCU, Tele, ER
- Provider of holistic care for patients classified as med-surg and cardiac including diagnosis such as: chest pain, prostatectomy, encephalitis, GI hemorrhage, a-flutter, altered mental status, orthopedic surgery, renal surgery
- Interpreter of EKG print outs and telemetry strips
- Patient advocate of health condition, medication, and recovery process
- Facility Type: Acute Care Hospital
West Coast University
NCLEX Coach
09.2018 - 02.2019
Job overview
- National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX) study coach for new nursing students who needed assistance understanding and answering NCLEX style questions
- Hosted a group session entitled "NCLEX 101: understanding the NCLEX format and how to answer with the most correct answer"
- Med math remediation courses
- Creator of a "Med Math 101" worksheet to easily guide students on the principles, equations, and measurements conversions of med math for nurses
Kaiser Permanente Riverside Medical Center
Travel Nurse RN
03.2018 - 02.2019
Job overview
- Company Overview: Facility Type: Acute Care Hospital
- Provider of holistic care for patients classified as med-surg and cardiac including diagnosis such as: chest pain, prostatectomy, encephalitis, GI hemorrhage, a-flutter, altered mental status, orthopedic surgery, renal surgery
- Interpreter of EKG print outs and telemetry strips
- Patient advocate of health condition, medication, and recovery process
- Facility Type: Acute Care Hospital
- Delivered high-quality patient care during emergency situations, remaining calm under pressure and effectively prioritizing tasks according to urgency.
Kaiser Permanente San Diego Medical Center
Travel Nurse RN
08.2017 - 02.2018
Job overview
- Company Overview: Facility Type: Acute Care Hospital
- Provider of holistic care for patients classified as medical-surgical and cardiac including diagnosis such as chest pain, prostatectomy, encephalitis, GI hemorrhage, a-flutter, altered mental status
- Interpreter of EKG print outs and telemetry strips
- Patient advocate of health condition, medication, and recovery process
- Facility Type: Acute Care Hospital
Stanford Health Care
Travel Nurse RN
11.2016 - 08.2017
Job overview
- Company Overview: Facility Type: Acute Care Hospital
- Float Pool Nurse to assist with staffing needs while hospital staff attended training caring for telemetry patients
- Float between orthopedics, cardiac, neurosurgery, trauma, and medsurg units
- Interpreter of EKG print outs and telemetry strips
- Patient advocate of health condition, medication, and recovery process
- Creator of unit based assignment sheet
- Facility Type: Acute Care Hospital
Kaiser Permanente
Travel Nurse RN
11.2015 - 11.2016
Job overview
- Company Overview: Facility Type: Acute Care Hospital
- Provider of holistic care for patients affected by complications of stroke, myocardial infarction, and other diseases of the heart
- Interpreter of EKG and telemetry strip print outs
- Patient advocate of health condition, medication, and recovery process
- Facility Type: Acute Care Hospital
- Assessed patient conditions by taking vital signs and evaluating symptoms to determine appropriate treatment.
MedStar Washington Hospital Center
Charge Nurse/Staff Nurse
10.2012 - 11.2015
Job overview
- Company Overview: Facility Type: Acute Care Hospital
- Charge Nurse
- Frequently requested to lead a team of 8 RNs, and 3 CNAs to provide safe care to 30 patients
- Created daily staff assignment based on staff competency and experience
- Collaborate with healthcare providers to initiate transfer of critically ill patients to a higher level of care
- Created unit wide standard nurse shift report sheet
- Instructor and mentor to new grad nurses to unit procedures and safe nursing care of patients
- Staff Nurse
- Provider of holistic care for patient's pre/postoperative open heart surgery, including but not limited to those undergoing heart transplant, coronary artery bypass grafts, pericardial window, full/partial lobectomy, and valve repairs/replacements
- An integral member of the Quality Assurance team who created and implemented a action plan to increase accurate documentation of intake and output to decrease patient hospital length of stay
- Essential member of wound round committee auditing hospital units for proper documentation and management of hospital and non-hospital acquired pressure ulcers
- Interpreter of EKG and telemetry strip print outs
- Experienced with peritoneal dialysis, ventilators, trachs, chest tubes, and Jackson-Pratt drains
- Competent remover of intra-jugular central lines
- Administration of high risk medication drips including insulin, amiodarone, nitroglycerin, heparin, milrinone, epidurals, and patient controlled analgesics
- Patient advocate of health condition, medication, and recovery process
- Instructor and mentor to new grad nurses to unit procedures and safe nursing care of patients
- UHC/ACCN Nurse Residency Program Grad 2013
- Facility Type: Acute Care Hospital
Target
Guest Service Representative
06.2006 - 10.2012
Job overview
- Guest Service Team member specializing in transactions, returns, gift registry, and work- relief to other team members
- Assisted guests with reservation modifications, resolving any issues promptly and professionally.
- Collaborated closely with colleagues across departments to enhance overall guest experience throughout their stay.
Education
Howard UniversityWashington, DC
Bachelor's of Science from Nursing
05.2012
University Overview
- Dean's List Summer 2010
- Extracurricular Activities: Cheerleading
Coatesville Area Senior HighCoatesville, PA
High School Diploma
05.2008
University Overview
- Honor Roll All 4 years, every semester
- Extracurricular Activities: Cheerleading, Spanish Club, Meistresingers, Track & Field
Skills
- Medication and IV administration
- Medication administration
- Direct patient care
- Patient assessments
- Strong clinical judgment
- Patient and family advocacy
- Compassion and empathy
- Professional bedside manner
- Telemetry monitoring
- Family education
- Licensed RN
- Advanced cardiac life support (ACLS) certification
Accomplishments
- Patient Advocacy - Explained treatment procedures, medication risks, special diets and physician instructions to patients.
- Implementation - Assisted in implementation of new tracking system that resulted in improved patient care.
- Clinical Skills - Monitored patients' respiration activity, blood pressure and blood glucose levels in response to medical administration.
- Documentation - Ensured charting accuracy through precise documentation.
Certification
- Registered Nurse License (RN) - Maryland Compact License and California State Board of Nursing.
- Basic Life Support Certification (BLS)
- Advanced Life Support Certification (ACLS)
Verizon "True Calling" Mini Docuseries Episode 2
Verizon - True Calling is a short documentary series that highlights everyday heroes like nurses, teachers, firefighters, and military members. The series features these individuals as they pursue their "True Calling". Verizon also supports these groups through donations, technology, and plans. Keya Stanford was highlighted in episode 2 of the short docuseries for her work as a travel nurse during the 2020 Covid pandemic.
Timeline
Medsurg Registered Nurse
North Georgia Medical Center
06.2024 - 09.2024
Travel RN
Emory Healthcare
07.2022 - 12.2022
Registered Nurse, Medical-Surgical Unit
UCLA Health
05.2022 - Current
Travel Registered Nurse
Emory Healthcare Long Term Acute Care
03.2022 - 05.2022
California Crisis Nurse
Favorite Healthcare Staffing
01.2022 - 02.2022
Crisis Response Travel Nurse
Nurse Choice
03.2021 - 01.2022
Rapid Response Travel Nurse
Mercy Health
10.2020 - 03.2021
Rapid Response Travel RN
Kaiser Permanente
07.2020 - 10.2020
Rapid Response Travel Nurse RN
Fairview Health Bethesda
04.2020 - 06.2020
Travel Nurse RN
Kaiser Permanente Baldwin Park
02.2020 - 04.2020
Travel Nurse RN
Stanford Health Care
08.2019 - 02.2020
Travel Nurse RN
Providence Saint John's Health Center
03.2019 - 05.2019
Float Pool Registered Nurse
Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital
09.2018 - 01.2020
NCLEX Coach
West Coast University
09.2018 - 02.2019
Travel Nurse RN
Kaiser Permanente Riverside Medical Center
03.2018 - 02.2019
Travel Nurse RN
Kaiser Permanente San Diego Medical Center
08.2017 - 02.2018
Travel Nurse RN
Stanford Health Care
11.2016 - 08.2017
Travel Nurse RN
Kaiser Permanente
11.2015 - 11.2016
Charge Nurse/Staff Nurse
MedStar Washington Hospital Center
10.2012 - 11.2015
Guest Service Representative
Target
06.2006 - 10.2012
Howard University
Bachelor's of Science from Nursing
Coatesville Area Senior High
High School Diploma
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