Kimberly Goolesby
Woodville,United States
Summary
Registered Nurse with 39 years of experience across Emergency Room, Med-Surg, Labor/Delivery, and Home Health. Demonstrated leadership as Charge Nurse and House Wide Supervisor, ensuring high-quality patient care and operational efficiency. Skilled in rapid assessments and maintaining composure in high-pressure environments. Collaborates effectively with physicians to uphold exceptional healthcare standards.
Overview
40
40
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
RN Endoscopic
Huntsville Hospital
03.2024 - Current
- Admit patients to the endoscopic department for a colonoscopy, EGD, or both, flexible sigmoidoscopy, helping with controlling bleeding and insertion of PEG tubes.
- This includes an assessment and starting IV line and administering IV fluids.
- Assist MD with the procedures and obtain specimens or/and assisting with the removal of polyps; dilation of esophagus with either a balloon or savory dilator.
- After procedure, recover patient and discharge home or report given to floor or unit on patient.
- Also includes working with children for lumbar puncture to receive chemotherapy or for bone marrow aspiration with the children under MAC sedation; also included with the children we assist with ABR’s with the children under general sedation
Travel RN within Emergency Room
Aya Healthcare and American Mobile
California, CA
08.2022 - 01.2024
- Delivered comprehensive care in diverse Emergency Rooms, including Level One and Level Three Trauma Centers.
- Assessed and treated various patients, including trauma, pediatric, respiratory, stroke, and cardiac cases.
- Initiated and managed IV therapy, administering fluids, antibiotics, and medications via multiple routes.
- Performed EKGs and assisted medical doctors with patient conscious sedation procedures.
RN/Charge nurse
Huntsville Hospital Main
02.2013 - 08.2022
- Work currently in a Level One Trauma Center ER, in which I’m a Trauma Nurse (Red Shirt); also act as a Triage Coordinator.
- Provide care to a variety of patients from trauma patients, acute stroke patients, MI, elderly, Covid patients, overdoses, respiratory distress, assist with conscious sedation and generalized sickness.
- Providing assessments, interventions to these patients such as follows: starting IV’s, use of IV ultrasound machine, if needed; insertion of OG/NG tubes, obtaining lab work; assisting with insertion of chest tubes, arterial lines, and central lines; providing 12-lead EKGs; accessing CVL’s and maintaining.
- Role of charge nurse is making sure the staff provides care to their patients, assist them as indicated and guide them with the correct policy and procedures.
- Role of the triage coordinator is placement of patients on beds according to acuity, along with observing patients and monitoring and starting treatment for patients waiting to be placed on a bed.
Charge Nurse/RN
Decatur General Hospital
12.2009 - 02.2013
- Charge nurse working in a Level 2 Trauma Center hospital in the Emergency room at that time.
- Providing care to patients of all ages from birth to elderly; assessments and inventions such as lab work, establishing IV lines, care of central lines.
- Treatment of Acute Mis to Acute stroke patients.
- Making assignments for staff each shift.
- Working along side staff in caring for patients.
RN
Nutritional/Parental Home Care (NPHC)
03.2008 - 08.2009
- Providing IV therapy to patients in a home setting and in an outpatient setting.
- Teaching patients or caregivers how to administer IV medication as follows: antibiotics, hydration, Immune globulin therapy IV and Subcutaneous; Total Parental Nutrient/TPN and steroids.
- Care for enteral feedings-bolus or pump feeding thru G-tube or J-tube or G/J tube.
- Administering chemotherapy and immunoglobulin products and monitoring effects on patients.
- Providing wound care from simple to complex and working with wound vacs.
- Provided care to patients in the clinic setting and managing the outpatient setting as follows; providing antibiotics and other infusions treatments; care of peripheral IVs, central lines and obtaining labs and scheduling of patients for treatment.
Clinical Supervisory/Director of Nursing
Health Group of Alabama in Home Health Care
08.2006 - 03.2008
- DON/Clinical Supervisory in-home health setting with approximately fifty employees’: managed approximately 20 RNs, 1 speech therapist, 1 social worker, 4 physical therapist, 2 to 3 licensed physical therapist, 1 office manager, 5-6 clerical personal, 3-LPNs, 4 home health aides and 2 clinical supervisors.
- Managed and coordinated care with nursing, home health aides, speech therapist, physical therapists, and social worker, by providing and maintaining schedules for all disciplines.
- Lead weekly team meetings to coordinate care of patients and work thru problems staff or patients maybe experiencing within the home setting.
- Performed supervisory visits with employees every 6 months to 1 year depending on the disciplines.
- Maintain productivity logs, financial reports, providing counseling with employees as indicated.
RN
Nutritional Parental Home Infusion care
06.2003 - 08.2006
- Providing care to patients receiving IV therapy treatment maintaining and care of peripheral IVs, central line catheters/PICC lines/Hickman Catheters/Groshong, Port a Cath and triple lumen catheters; obtaining lab working thru CVL and via venipuncture, dressing changes.
- Reinsertion of G-tubes as needed and educating on enteral feedings via gravity, bolus or via enteral pump feedings.
- Coordinating care with other home health agencies for home infusion care.
- Managing patient schedule and managing NAIC/North Alabama Infusion Center-assisting with billing, coordinating and care with NPHC and other home health agencies.
Clinical Supervisory
Health Group of Decatur in Home Health
10.2001 - 05.2003
- Clinical supervisory managing and coordinating care for approximately 20 to 30 employees.
- Scheduling assignments for RN for patient home visits.
- Coordinating meetings with staff in discussion of new admissions, upcoming patients being discharged, and issues/problems with patients along with their needs and care.
- Counseling conflicts with employees and patients.
- Maintained productivity reports and other logs such as infection control logs, referral logs, lab logs, admission, and discharge logs.
- Coordinated needs of patients care with other agencies involved in their care.
- Provided direct patient care with home visits, which would include assessments, teaching, provided wound care, care of central venous lines, lab draws via peripherally or thru CVL; also performed admissions, discharges and recertifications of patients to agency.
RN/Charge Nurse
Crestwood Medical Center Hospital
10.1999 - 10.2001
- Staff nurse/Charge nurse on a surgical floor; House Supervisory relief.
- Duties included making assignments for staff, CNAs, and LPNs, caring for surgical patients pre and post operative.
- Provided care from simple to complex.
- Maintaining and accessing all types of CVC, flushing the catheters, obtaining labs and dressing changes to them.
- Insertion of foley catheters; provided wound care simple to complex; provided ostomy care and teaching of ostomy care; insertion of NG tubes, foley catheters with irrigation.
- Charge nurse for unit included maintaining nurses’ desk, resolving problems with staff, any problems, in which, physicians were having, signing off physician orders and inputting then into the computer systems.
- Provided relief as House Supervisory hospital wide, making sure patients were assigned to appropriate floors, handing any emergency situations that arouse during the shift.
RN-staff/Clinical Supervisory
Solues Home Care Services
07.1992 - 11.1999
- RN in the field and Clinical Supervisory duties included the following: preparing 485s and 486s, admissions, and discharges of patients in home health; Supervising home health aides and contract nurses in performing quality care of patients; preparing schedules for the month and week to care for the patients.
- Establishing plan of care and working with OASIS.
- Skills performed are listed as follows: performing venipunctures, insertion of foley Cath, N/G tubes and suprapubic catheters.
- Care of central lines as follows: Hickman catheters, Subclavian lines with single, double, and triple lumens, Port a Cath, PICC lines; performing sterile dressing changes to sites, administering IV antibiotics, and maintaining lines.
- Administering chemotherapy.
- Provided ostomy care. (Currently no longer Chemotherapy recertification).
RN
Jackson County Health Department Home Health
09.1991 - 08.1992
- RN in the field duties included as follows: preparing 485s and 486s, scheduling visits per month, averaging 125 to 135 visits per month.
- Supervised contract nurses and aides in providing continuous care of patients.
- Skills performed as follows: administering medications, starting IVs, giving IV fluids or antibiotics; care of CVCs.
- Insertion of Foley catheters, g-tubes, suprapubic catheters, N/G tubes.
- Care was giving to patients range from newborns with severe respiratory and cardiac abnormalities to care of terminal ill patients; wound care to simple to complex.
CAN/RN
Jackson County Hospital (currently Highlands)
09.1985 - 08.1992
- Aide (CAN) until 1987, when I graduated from Nursing school, then I was a staff nurse working in different areas of the hospital.
- Worked on the Telemetry unit managing acute and post MI patients; monitored cardiac markers; relieved in the Intensive care unit also.
- I worked on the medical floor caring for pediatric patients and medical patients; Surgical floor caring for pre and post operative patients, orthopedic patients performing pin care to sites, teaching care of colostomy and ostomy patients; gunshot wounds, chest tubes, IVs, and CVCs.
- Also worked in Labor/Delivery, postpartum and relieved in the well-baby nursery.
- Duties included monitoring pre and term mothers for delivery via vaginal or C-Section-deliveries ranged from well-baby to critically ill to twins, assisting with C-Section as a circulator and care of the neonate.
- Monitoring patients on transport to another hospital due to emergency situations with OB and neonates.
- Had certification at that time in neonatal IV lines, and applications of scalp electrodes.
Education
BSN - Nursing
University of Phoenix Online
Phoenix, AZ09-2003
Associate Degree in Science - Nursing
Northeast Alabama State Junior College
Rainsville, AL05.1987
High School Diploma -
Scottsboro High School
Scottsboro, AL05.1983
Skills
- Patient assessment
- IV therapy management
- Emergency response
- Sedation protocols
- EKG interpretation
- Trauma care
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Clinical supervision
- Care coordination
- Team leadership
- Quality assurance
- Effective communication
- Critical thinking
- Time management
- Conflict resolution
- Geriatric treatment
- Life-sustaining machines
- Culturally sensitive
- Research proficiency
- Treatment Planning
- Insulin medication assistance
- Computer use
- Wound care
- Home visits
- Direct and indirect patient care
- Supply restocking
- Documentation and charting
- BAC screening/drug screen collection
- High level of autonomy
- Vascular care
- Nursing staff leadership
- Feeding pumps
- Medication distribution
- Performing ekgs
- Emergency procedures
- Medical evaluation
- ICD-9 forms
- Call triaging
- Procedure preparations
- Licensed RN
- Removing sutures
- Vaccine administration
- Neonatal and maternity care
- Lab result interpretation
- Discharge coordination
- Personal care needs
- Cardiac care
- SBAR communication
- Professional bedside manner
- Emotional awareness
- Care planning
- Gastrostomy tube care
- Medical assessment
- Home health care
- Emotional intelligence
- Diagnostic tools experience
- IV setup
- Infant CPR certified
- Long-term care
- At-risk patient care
- Evaluations
- Mobility assistance
- Oncology nursing
- Proper catheter insertion/removal
- Managing deadlines
- Employee evaluation
Certification
• TNCC, 05/30/26
• ACLS, 10/20/27
• PALS, 03/25/27
• MOAB, 05/09/23
• BLS, 10/10/27
• Alabama Multistate License, 12/31/27
Massachusetts License, 06/07/26
New York License, 02/28/26
• ACLS, 10/20/27
• PALS, 03/25/27
• MOAB, 05/09/23
• BLS, 10/10/27
• Alabama Multistate License, 12/31/27
Massachusetts License, 06/07/26
New York License, 02/28/26
References
- Lori White, Friend, 256-599-5161
- Noelle HowdyShell, Co-worker, 256-710-6833
- Brooke Beck, Co-worker, 256-244-5040
- Lindsey Reynolds, Supervisory, 256-343-6260
Timeline
RN Endoscopic
Huntsville Hospital
03.2024 - Current
Travel RN within Emergency Room
Aya Healthcare and American Mobile
08.2022 - 01.2024
RN/Charge nurse
Huntsville Hospital Main
02.2013 - 08.2022
Charge Nurse/RN
Decatur General Hospital
12.2009 - 02.2013
RN
Nutritional/Parental Home Care (NPHC)
03.2008 - 08.2009
Clinical Supervisory/Director of Nursing
Health Group of Alabama in Home Health Care
08.2006 - 03.2008
RN
Nutritional Parental Home Infusion care
06.2003 - 08.2006
Clinical Supervisory
Health Group of Decatur in Home Health
10.2001 - 05.2003
RN/Charge Nurse
Crestwood Medical Center Hospital
10.1999 - 10.2001
RN-staff/Clinical Supervisory
Solues Home Care Services
07.1992 - 11.1999
RN
Jackson County Health Department Home Health
09.1991 - 08.1992
CAN/RN
Jackson County Hospital (currently Highlands)
09.1985 - 08.1992
BSN - Nursing
University of Phoenix Online
Associate Degree in Science - Nursing
Northeast Alabama State Junior College
High School Diploma -
Scottsboro High School