Kinsey Ray BSN, RN

• Improved patient recovery through efficient post-operative care and communication in a multi-provider ambulatory facility, including collaborating with six different plastic surgeons.
• Closely monitoring patient vitals, pain level, surgical sites and promptly addressing any concerns.
• Providing comprehensive patient care instructions to family members and caregivers.
• Mentored new PACU nurses in best practices for post-anesthesia care, contributing to an improved skill set across the unit.

• Travel CVICU RN in a busy 26 bed ICU at a level 1 trauma center during crisis COVID surge.
• Patient population included post-operative cardiac surgery, thoracic surgery, heart transplants, advanced heart failure therapies, COVID/ARDS, ENT, plastics, orthopedic, and OB-GYN.

• Provided professional care, detailed assessments, and interventions in a 34-bed, level 1 trauma ICU
• Assisted providers in sterilized bedside procedures such as tracheostomy insertion, central line insertion, chest tube insertion and ECMO cannula insertion.
• Management of post operative CABG, vascular repair, valve replacements, device insertions, heart transplants, lung transplants, COVID/ARDS population requiring mechanical ventilation, advanced heart failure patients with Swan-Ganz catheters, hemodynamic monitoring, and titration of critical drips
• Care for patients with advanced heart failure devices such as LVAD, IABP, Impella, CRRT, ECMO

Clinical Preceptor

Served 30 weeks as a mentor and clinical coach educator to new graduate nurses, demonstrating leadership by teaching the management for post-surgical cardiovascular and cardiopulmonary patients.