KRISTEN ALYSSA PACK
Searcy,AR
Summary
Dedicated and compassionate registered nurse (RN) with progressive career history in direct patient care, triage and care coordination in fast-paced environment. Proven to remain calm under pressure and skillfully handle difficult patients and high-stress situations. Consistently developing strong relationships with patients and families through empathetic communication, respectful attitude and excellent customer service.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
REGISTERED NURSE - EMERGENCY ROOM
MEDPRO STAFFING
01.2023 - Current
- Monitor, record, and report symptoms or changes in patients’ conditions
- Maintain accurate, detailed reports and records
- Record patients’ medical information and vital signs
- Order and evaluate diagnostic tests to identify and assess patient’s condition
- Modify patient treatment plans as indicated by patients’ responses and conditions
- Consult and coordinate healthcare team members to assess, plan, implement, or evaluate patient care plans
- Monitor all aspects of patient care
- Instruct individuals, families, or other groups on topics such as health education and disease prevention
- Prepare patients for and assist with examinations or treatments
- Administer local, inhalation, intravenous, or other anesthetics
- Perform emergency medical procedures, such as basic cardiac life support (BLS), advanced cardiac life support (ACLS), and other condition stabilizing interventions
- Document data related to patients’ care including assessment results, interventions, medications, patient responses, or treatment changes
- Manage patients’ pain relief and sedation by providing pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic interventions, monitoring patients’ responses, and changing care accordingly
- Administer blood and blood product transfusions for intravenous infusions, monitoring patient for adverse reactions
- Assess urgent and emergent health conditions using both physiologically and technologically derived data
- Set up, operate, or monitor invasive equipment and devices such as colostomy or tracheotomy equipment, mechanical ventilators, catheters, gastrointestinal tubes, and central lines
- Collaborate with members of multidisciplinary health care teams to plan, manage, or assess patient treatments
- Obtain specimens or samples for laboratory work
- Treat wounds or superficial lacerations
- Assess the needs of patients’ family members or caregivers.
REGISTERED NURSE -EMERGENCY ROOM
BAPTIST HEALTH MEDICAL CENTER
01.2012 - 10.2022
- Performed charge nurse duties including directing patient flow, delegating assignments, and providing supervision for the support staff in accordance with their level of training and the patient’s acuity, and worked in cooperation with medical providers to ensure quality patient care
- Monitor, record, and report symptoms or changes in patients’ conditions
- Maintain accurate, detailed reports and records
- Record patients’ medical information and vital signs
- Order and evaluate diagnostic tests to identify and assess patient’s condition
- Modify patient treatment plans as indicated by patients’ responses and conditions
- Consult and coordinate healthcare team members to assess, plan, implement, or evaluate patient care plans
- Monitor all aspects of patient care
- Instruct individuals, families, or other groups on topics such as health education and disease prevention
- Prepare patients for and assist with examinations or treatments
- Administer local, inhalation, intravenous, or other anesthetics
- Perform emergency medical procedures, such as basic cardiac life support (BLS), advanced cardiac life support (ACLS), and other condition stabilizing interventions
- Document data related to patients’ care including assessment results, interventions, medications, patient responses, or treatment changes
- Manage patients’ pain relief and sedation by providing pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic interventions, monitoring patients’ responses, and changing care accordingly
- Administer blood and blood product transfusions for intravenous infusions, monitoring patient for adverse reactions
- Assess urgent and emergent health conditions using both physiologically and technologically derived data
- Set up, operate, or monitor invasive equipment and devices such as colostomy or tracheotomy equipment, mechanical ventilators, catheters, gastrointestinal tubes, and central lines
- Collaborate with members of multidisciplinary health care teams to plan, manage, or assess patient treatments
- Obtain specimens or samples for laboratory work
- Treat wounds or superficial lacerations
- Assess the needs of patients’ family members or caregivers.
REGISTERED NURSE - EMERGENCY ROOM
TRAVEL NURSES ACROSS AMERICA
06.2022 - 09.2022
- Monitor, record, and report symptoms or changes in patients’ conditions
- Maintain accurate, detailed reports and records
- Record patients’ medical information and vital signs
- Order and evaluate diagnostic tests to identify and assess patient’s condition
- Modify patient treatment plans as indicated by patients’ responses and conditions
- Consult and coordinate healthcare team members to assess, plan, implement, or evaluate patient care plans
- Monitor all aspects of patient care
- Instruct individuals, families, or other groups on topics such as health education and disease prevention
- Prepare patients for and assist with examinations or treatments
- Administer local, inhalation, intravenous, or other anesthetics
- Perform emergency medical procedures, such as basic cardiac life support (BLS), advanced cardiac life support (ACLS), and other condition stabilizing interventions
- Document data related to patients’ care including assessment results, interventions, medications, patient responses, or treatment changes
- Manage patients’ pain relief and sedation by providing pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic interventions, monitoring patients’ responses, and changing care accordingly
- Administer blood and blood product transfusions for intravenous infusions, monitoring patient for adverse reactions
- Assess urgent and emergent health conditions using both physiologically and technologically derived data
- Set up, operate, or monitor invasive equipment and devices such as colostomy or tracheotomy equipment, mechanical ventilators, catheters, gastrointestinal tubes, and central lines
- Collaborate with members of multidisciplinary health care teams to plan, manage, or assess patient treatments
- Obtain specimens or samples for laboratory work
- Treat wounds or superficial lacerations
- Assess the needs of patients’ family members or caregivers.
REGISTERED NURSE - MED-SURG
CENTRAL ARKANSAS VETERANS HEALTHCARE SYSTEM
04.2020 - 12.2020
- Monitored patients’ vital signs
- Administered medication via IV/PO/SQ/IM
- Established IV access
- Administered blood and blood products
- Monitored and recorded input and output in patients with renal failure, gastroenteric, and cardiac conditions
- Removed secretions using aspiration technique in patients with endotracheal tubing
- Assisted patients with bathing, dressing, maintaining personal hygiene, moving in bed, standing and walking
- Educated patients and their families on disease processes, med/surg procedures and medications
- Maintained and managed patients’ database in EMR software
- Collected, handled, and transported blood and urine specimens for laboratory test.
REGISTERED NURSE - ICU
WHITE RIVER MEDICAL CENTER
02.2020 - 04.2020
- Provided high-quality care and prescribed medical treatment to patients
- Demonstrated critical thinking skills, specific judgment, and organizational skills
- Prioritized tasks and adjusts priorities when necessary
- Collaborating with multidisciplinary medical teams for patients’ comfort and treatment
- Monitoring and caring for patients on ventilators and other life-saving equipment
- Performing complex assessment and intervention for better health and faster recovery of patients
- Providing immense comfort, mental, and physical support to patients and their families
- Providing advanced life support, treating wounds, controlling infection, and recording patients’ vital signs
- Monitored medical equipment and assisted physicians during examination and treatment of patients
- Observed changes or progress in patients’ conditions regularly and provided accurate report to physicians
- Provided basic care along with proper medications to patients as prescribed by doctors, changed dressings, administered IV fluids and medications
- Implemented nursing protocols and standards and responded to critical situations
- Collected, handled, and transported blood and urine specimens for laboratory test
- Administered blood and blood products.
REGISTERED NURSE - WELLNESS
RESTORE HYPER WELLNESS
07.2019 - 02.2020
- Responsible for ordering all supplies and micronutrients
- Maintain an accurate inventory database
- Coordinate all outside vendors
- Train, educate, and manage part-time nurses
- Scheduling of all part-time nurses
- Educate basics of IV/IM micronutrient benefits to non-medical staff
- Communicating to managers and where necessary corporate staff any issues or concerns facing medical staff
- Actively participate in all monthly nurse calls
- Identify best practices and share with corporate and other lead nurses
- Maintain accurate, detailed reports and records
- Record patients’ medical information and vital signs.
REGISTERED NURSE - OPERATING ROOM
UNITY HEALTH
10.2018 - 07.2019
- OPERATING ROOM
- Functioned as cross-departmental intermediary support of operations and surgical procedures
- Delivered exceptional patient care, including maintaining sterile and safe environment
- Cultivated and nurtured relationships with patients and families
- Ensured availability of legal documentation prior to procedures
- Assisted with administration of anesthesia; Ensured proper positioning of patient for procedures
- Evaluated pre-procedure patient condition, including vital signs and responsiveness;
- Reported any irregularities to attending surgeon
- Created and maintained proper patient documentation/records.
PATIENT CARE TECH - EMERGENCY ROOM
BAPTIST HEALTH MEDICAL CENTER
07.2017 - 11.2017
- Answer patient call signals, signal lights, bells, or intercom systems to determine patients’ needs
- Apply clean dressings, slings, stockings, or support bandages, under directions of nurse or physician
- Change bed linens or make beds
- Clean and sanitize patient rooms, bathrooms, examination rooms, or other patient areas
- Collect specimens, such as urine, feces, or sputum
- Communicate with patients to ascertain feelings or need for assistance or social and emotional support
- Document or otherwise report observations of patient behavior, complaints, or physical symptoms to nurse
- Feed patients or assist patient to eat or drink
- Measure and record food and liquid intake or urinary and fecal output, reporting changes to medical or nursing staff
- Provide physical support to assist patient to perform daily living activities, such as getting out of bed, bathing, dressing, using the toilet, standing, walking, or exercising
- Record vital signs, such as temperature, blood pressure, pulse, or respiration rate, as directed by medical or nursing staff
- Restock patient rooms with personal hygiene items, such as towels and washcloths
- Supply, collect, or empty bedpans
- Transport patients to treatments units, testing units, operating rooms, or other areas, using wheelchairs, stretchers, or moveable beds
- Turn or reposition bedridden patients
- Undress, wash, and dress patients who are unable to do so for themselves
- Lift or assist others to lift patients to move them on or off beds, examination tables, surgical tables, or stretchers
- Transport specimens, laboratory items, or pharmacy items, ensuring proper documentation and delivery to authorized personnel
Education
BACHELOR OF NURSING - NURSING
UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS
Fayetteville, AR12.2020
ASSOCIATE DEGREE - NURSING
BAPTIST HEALTH COLLEGE
Little Rock, AR06.2017
HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA -
ROSE BUD HIGH SCHOOL
Rose Bud, AR05.2008
Skills
- Team Coordination
- Removing Sutures
- Foley Catheter Insertion and Removal
- Complex Problem-Solving
- Strong Clinical Judgment
- Patient Assessments
- Delegation and Motivation
- EMR Systems
- Blood Draw and Sample Collection
- Life-Sustaining Machines
- Monitor Vital Signs
- Seizure Management
- Patient Discharging
- Patient and Family Advocacy
- Epic Systems
- IV Drug Therapy Management
- Direct Patient Care
- Time Management
- Patient Education
- Medical Procedure Preparation
- Patient Care
Certification
- BLS
- ACLS
- MOAB
- PALS
- 3-Day Rhythm Course
- Completion of RN Residency Program
- TNCC
- NIHSS
Timeline
REGISTERED NURSE - EMERGENCY ROOM
MEDPRO STAFFING
01.2023 - Current
REGISTERED NURSE - EMERGENCY ROOM
TRAVEL NURSES ACROSS AMERICA
06.2022 - 09.2022
REGISTERED NURSE - MED-SURG
CENTRAL ARKANSAS VETERANS HEALTHCARE SYSTEM
04.2020 - 12.2020
REGISTERED NURSE - ICU
WHITE RIVER MEDICAL CENTER
02.2020 - 04.2020
REGISTERED NURSE - WELLNESS
RESTORE HYPER WELLNESS
07.2019 - 02.2020
REGISTERED NURSE - OPERATING ROOM
UNITY HEALTH
10.2018 - 07.2019
PATIENT CARE TECH - EMERGENCY ROOM
BAPTIST HEALTH MEDICAL CENTER
07.2017 - 11.2017
REGISTERED NURSE -EMERGENCY ROOM
BAPTIST HEALTH MEDICAL CENTER
01.2012 - 10.2022
BACHELOR OF NURSING - NURSING
UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS
ASSOCIATE DEGREE - NURSING
BAPTIST HEALTH COLLEGE
HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA -
ROSE BUD HIGH SCHOOL
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