Kimberly Sherwood

Facilitated seamless patient care by establishing communication with physician offices, hospital departments, staff, and rehabilitation services, including educating patients and families to expedite recovery.

Coordinated care with case management to anticipate high-risk patient issues and assisted in the implementation of efficient and detailed rehabilitation plans for joint replacement patients

Developed post operative education for medical and surgical staff to include the detailed planning involving treatment protocols and inservices

Worked cooperatively and communicated effectively with all team members to ensure the coordination of care and documentation of services provided

Assisted Surgical Nursing Unit staff with post-operative patient assessments

Coordinated and instructed family with discharge education pertinent to continued recovery upon return to home setting

Provided critical coordination with throughput of patients in order to ensure the hospital met expected patient surgical services

• Assesses patient conditions and updates care plans based on changing clinical needs.
• Administers medications safely while following physician orders and hospital protocols.
• Monitors vital signs and reports critical changes to charge nurse promptly
• Serves as a resource for all the nurses and patient care techs on the unit
• Assists with all responsibilities of the spine navigation duties in the absence of a designated spine navigator
• Acts as a central liaison between nursing staff, surgeons, ancillary departments in the absence of a unit director
• Completes patient care rounding to proactively anticipate patient needs, and build trust through structured bedside check-ins
• Assists with throughput on the Spine/Orthopedic unit
• Participates in real time in service recovery to ensure the best possible patient experience