Kimberly Machado
Lawrenceville,Georgia
Summary
Driven, hardworking nurse, with a colorful background as a registered nurse in various specialties, including an extensive amount of nursing knowledge in newborn and pediatric health wanting to become a member of you nursing care team! I am pursuing a career opportunity that would allow me to care, educate and support patients and their families! I possess a variety of skills. I value and demonstrate family centered patient care, critical care management and knowledge, with strong experience in a high acuity patients. I am adaptable and resilient. I also have a strong attention to detail, and a wide array of clinical expertise, and emergency response management.
My goal is to provide exceptional nursing care , while also upholding the quality standards of the hospital facilities and industries best evidence based practices.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Pediatric Registered Nurse
Childrens Health Care of Atlanta
Atlanta, GA
07.2023 - Current
- Collaborated with multi-disciplinary teams to assess the health status of cardiac pediatric patients.
- Provided basic educational services to parents and guardians on topics such as child growth and development and special needs.
- Maintained continuous growth of professional knowledge and competencies through ongoing education opportunities.
- Monitored ongoing vital signs and medical status for children with chronic cardiac and other various health conditions within office settings.
- Performed electrocardiograms in a physician office setting, while also reviewing EKG results, and communicating results with physicians
- Evaluated patient histories, complaints, and current symptoms.
- Maintained accurate documentation of patient progress notes and lab results.
- Communicated with healthcare team members to plan, implement and enhance treatment strategies.
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Registered Nurse
Piedmont Eastside Medical Center
06.2019 - Current
- Applying nursing expertise to meet needs of neonatal patients and their families in a Level 3 neonatal intensive care unit environment
- Assisted with the admission process of newborns into the NICU unit and provided necessary education to parents on infant care.
- Managing care from admission to discharge, including patient assessments, care planning, health educations and discharging support to provide comprehensive care to the neonatal patients and their families
- Experience working neonates with nasogastric and oralgastric tubes
- Ability to care for infants that are on CPAP and/or on mechanical ventilators
- Deliver medications via oral, IV and intramuscular injections, monitoring responses to address new concerns
- Collaboration with an extensive team of neonatologist, neonatal nurse practitioners, fellow NICU nurses, social work, and other disciplines to achieve optimal patient outcome
- Attending infant deliveries, and cared for neonate's post-delivery to monitor for signs and symptoms of possible complications
- Educate family members on neonatal patient care plans and follow up instructions
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Registered Nurse
Northside Hospital Gwinnett
01.2022 - 07.2023
- Assessed, evaluated and cared for critical neonatal patients.
- Provide exceptional care to various high-acute patients needing complex care such as ventilator management, intravenous medication titration, and continuous cardiopulmonary monitoring.
- Assessed vital signs on critically ill newborns.
- Administered medications and treatments as ordered by physician.
- Communicated with family members and loved ones to provide information about patient care, treatments and medical options.
- Assessed and documented changes in patient's condition and prepared patient for transfer to higher level of care.
- Provided high level of quality care for each and every patient in un to 40-bed neonatal ICU unit.
- Guided and educated patients and caregivers on diagnoses, disease management, preventive measures, medication use and self-care to foster consistency in care administration.
- Demonstrated respect, friendliness and willingness to help wherever needed.
- Followed policies, procedures and hospital regulations for protocol compliance and patient safety.
- Coordinated with healthcare staff from various disciplines to devise, carry out, and manage personalized care plans to benefit patient health and recovery.
Newborn Admission Nurse
Emory Johns Creek Hospital
01.2021 - 01.2022
- Attend vaginal deliveries for infants >35 weeks gestation
- Attend cesarean deliveries for infants >35 weeks gestation
- Reviewing prenatal history of a pregnant patient prior to newborn delivery, in preparation for possible complications
- Stabilize a newborn post-delivery following NRP guidelines
- Provide nursing care to a newborn transitioning after birth
- Monitoring for any significant change in the status of the newborn
- Proving breastfeeding support to breastfeeding mothers and formula feeding support and education to families who chose to bottle feed
- Educating families of newborn safety
- Administration newborn medications per family's consent
- Upholding the role of professional resource to parents of newborn
Intensive Care Registered Nurse
Northside Medical Center Duluth
06.2018 - 05.2020
- Utilizing several types of medical equipment to provide effective patient care
- Medical equipment skills include mechanical ventilators, nasogastric and oral gastric tubes, Foley catheters, Plum A+ pumps and EPIC medical documentation system
- Perform head to toe assessments and being able to determine abnormal finding and provide proper nursing interventions and escalate care as seen within RN scope of practice
- Display critical understanding of hemodynamic monitoring and values
- Coordinated with healthcare staff from various disciplines to devise, carry out and manage personalized care plans to benefit patient health and recovery
- Assist with bedside procedures, including but not limited to emergency intubation, central line insertions and thoracentesis
- Providing central line and peripheral intravenous care including maintenance and removal
- Titrating various intravenous medications, including by not limited to Insulin, Precedex, and Epinephrine
- Providing emotional support to family members as appropriate.
Intensive Care Unit Nurse
University Of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center
01.2017 - 04.2018
- Provided exceptional care to high-acute patients needing complex care such as ventilator management, extensive interventions titration management and heallth rehabilitation
- Monitored patient condition, including interpreting and tracking EKG readings, identifying irregular telemetry readings and updating team members on changes in stability or acuity
- Delivered outstanding care to patients with various diagnoses and managed care from treatment initiation through to completion
- Taught patients how to improve lifestyle choices, dramatically reducing chance of symptom reoccurrence
- Observed patients' vital signs and administered physician-prescribed medications and treatments
- Sustained quality standards by upholding internal and industry best practices.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Nursing Education
Stevenson University
Owings Mills, MD12.2020
Associate of Science - Nursing Education
Harford Community College Bel Air
Bel Air, MD12.2016
Skills
- Ability to provide focused nursing care to infants and pediatric patients
- Communicate and work efficiently and professionally with neonates, patients family members and members of the health care team
- Patient and family advocate
- Experience working in an various intensive care units
- Experience with a complex variety of health conditions within the pediatric population
- Flexible to working day shift, nightshift, or split shifts, and or overtime to fulfill unit's needs
- Written and oral communication
- Ability to work well in a fast pace and high-pressure environment
- Excellent skills in collecting and interpret vital signs
- Strong clinical judgment
- Strong understanding of patient rights
- Experience with EPIC EMR computer systems
- Skillful in neonatal resuscitation
- Family Education
- Patient Intake
- Chart Updating
Certification
- NEONATAL RESUSCITATION PROGRAM (NRP) Expiration: January 2025
- S.T.A.B.L.E Neonatal Certification
- Pediatric Emergency Assessment, Recognition and Stabilization: January 2026
Additional Information
- BASIC LIFE SUPPORT FOR HELATHCARE PROVIDERS Expiration: December 2024
- State of GEROGIA Registered Nurse: RN277510 Expiration: January 2026
Languages
Spanish
Professional
Timeline
Pediatric Registered Nurse
Childrens Health Care of Atlanta
07.2023 - Current
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Registered Nurse
Northside Hospital Gwinnett
01.2022 - 07.2023
Newborn Admission Nurse
Emory Johns Creek Hospital
01.2021 - 01.2022
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Registered Nurse
Piedmont Eastside Medical Center
06.2019 - Current
Intensive Care Registered Nurse
Northside Medical Center Duluth
06.2018 - 05.2020
Intensive Care Unit Nurse
University Of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center
01.2017 - 04.2018
Bachelor of Science - Nursing Education
Stevenson University
Associate of Science - Nursing Education
Harford Community College Bel Air
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