Kristin Ciula
Tigard,OR
Summary
Highly qualified nurse educator with exceptional collaboration and leadership skills. Deep expertise in direct patient care, including a comprehensive understanding of relevant principles and protocols. Dedicated to providing clear and comprehensive instruction to all trainees, ensuring their development and success. Adept at fostering a positive learning environment and promoting effective communication among healthcare professionals.
Overview
26
26
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Nurse Educator
RISE Partnership/Long-Term CareWorks
09.2022 - Current
- Primary Nurse Educator for our organization's 7-week CNA Apprenticeship Program, which includes didactic classes, skills training, 40 hours of clinical experience and OSBN CNA exam preparation for each cohort
- Oversee 40 hours of clinical experience training in Long Term Care (LTC) facilities for all apprentices within a cohort
- Collaborated with fellow Nursing Instructors to create and implement a new OSBN approved CNA apprenticeship curriculum, including all didactic and skills training curriculum
- Collaborated with fellow Nursing Instructors to create skills videos for the required OSBN CNA skills/care tasks
- Collaborated with our organization's Career Coaches in building their Professional Development program for all cohort apprentices
- Built a fully functioning, OSBN approved skills lab containing all supplies and equipment for two separate hands-on patient/resident training environments
- Created over 75 educational resource/reference documents to be utilized during didactic and skills training by fellow Nursing Instructors and cohort apprentices
- Developed a new and innovative program initiative to implement a CNA Mentorship Program for the LTCW organization
- This program offers continuing education for our LTC facility partner's CNA mentors/preceptors, Mentor/Preceptor training for potential facility CNA mentors/preceptors, and a continuing education 'Skills Day' for all facility CNA staff
- Lead/Point-Person for our organization's online Absorb Learning Management System (LMS) program
- Primary CPR/BLS training instructor for all cohort apprentices
- Created CNA 'pocket information-at-a-glance' reference cards with priority CNA reference information included within a ring-bound collection of 4x6 laminated notecards
- Involved in educating and training our organization's newly-hire Nursing Instructors and Career Coaches.
SSU/Day Surgery Unit Staff Nurse
Legacy Meridian Park Hospital
08.2008 - 09.2022
- Monitor, record, and report symptoms or changes in patient's condition
- Maintain accurate, detailed reports and records
- Order, interpret and evaluate diagnostic tests to identify and assess a patient's condition
- Modify patient treatment plans as indicated by patient's responses and conditions
- Direct or supervise less-skilled nursing or healthcare personnel or supervise a particular unit
- Consult and coordinate with healthcare team members to assess, plan, implement or evaluate patient care plans
- Monitor all aspects of patient care, including diet and physical activity
- Instruct individuals, families or other groups on topics such as health education and disease prevention
- Prepare patients for and assist with examinations or treatments
- Assess the needs of individuals and families, including assessment of individual's home or work environments, to identify potential health or safety problems
- Preoperative admission history and physical information gathering
- Preoperative preparation of patient including: IV start/monitoring, lab draw/interpretation, surgical preparation of area, patient/family teaching
- Post-operative care of patient including wound assessment, dressing changes, monitor vital signs, pain control with medication administration, home care instructions, Foley catheter insertion, monitoring and home care education when needed, drain care and home education, chemotherapy monitoring and home care education, physical and occupational therapy strategies for home care
- Communicating and coordinating patient status/needs with the doctor and ancillary staff members
- Preparing patients for discharge and providing discharge teaching for patients, family and/or support person
- Assess, monitor, treat and educate patients receiving and/or going home on/with chemotherapeutic agents, indwelling Foley catheters, JP drains, Prevena wound vac systems, and/or orthopedic braces
- Admit, assess, monitor, treat, educate and discharge patients receiving endoscopic procedures, imaging and procedural patients, cardiac procedural patients, plastic surgery, gyn/uro, oncology, orthopedic, neurology surgical patients.
Med/Surg Staff Nurse
Legacy Meridian Park Hospital
12.1998 - 10.2005
- Monitor, record and report symptoms or changes in patients' conditions to appropriate medical team members
- Maintain accurate, detailed reports and records of all patient care and nursing responsibilities
- Record patient's' medical information and vital signs
- Order, interpret and evaluate diagnostic tests to identify and assess a patient's condition
- Modify patient treatment plans as indicated by patient's responses to treatment and condition changes
- Direct or supervise less-skilled nursing or healthcare personnel and/ or supervise a particular unit
- Consult and coordinate with healthcare team members to assess, plan, implement and/ or evaluate patient care plans
- Monitor all aspects of patient care, including diet and physical activity
- Prepare patients for and assist with examinations or treatments
- Complete patient care of medical/surgical patients
- Medication administration/monitoring
- Vital signs, assist with ADL's, dressing changes, tube feedings, NG tube insertion
- Initiation/assessment/monitoring of insulin drips and chest tubes
- IV Resource nurse responsible for night IV insertion/monitoring/troubleshooting, point person for computer/technical support, needed unit supplies, additional patient/nurse needs, daily charge data entries, assist doctors with surgical procedures, ie: central line insertion and being a member of the hospital's code team, where I was responsible for: assisting with cardiac arrest patient care, IV starts, medication administration, foley catheter insertion, resuscitation efforts, family support/teaching.
Education
Bachelor of Science in Nursing -
Western Governor's University
Millcreek, UT06.2017
Associate's degree in Nursing - undefined
Portland Community College
Portland, OR06.1998
Skills
- Laboratory experience (10 years)
- Chemotherapy (6 years)
- Long term care (4 years)
- Neurology (10 years)
- Conflict management (10 years)
- Skilled nursing facility (6 years)
- Surgery (10 years)
- Anesthesia (10 years)
- Nursing (10 years)
- Catheter care (10 years)
- Mentoring (10 years)
- Time management (10 years)
- Care plans (10 years)
- Orthopedic surgery (10 years)
- Gastroenterology (10 years)
- Tube Feeding (6 years)
- LMS (2 years)
- Patient Care (10 years)
- CPR (10 years)
- IV insertion (10 years)
- Post-operative care (10 years)
- Phlebotomy (10 years)
- Medical-surgical (6 years)
- Infection Control Training (10 years)
- Hospital experience (10 years)
- Urology (10 years)
- Caregiving (10 years)
- Oncology (6 years)
- Catheterization (10 years)
- Plastic surgery (10 years)
- Medication administration (10 years)
- Foley catheter (10 years)
- Experience Administering Injections (10 years)
- Vital signs (10 years)
- Public Speaking (2 years)
- Geriatrics (10 years)
- Patient monitoring (10 years)
- EMR Systems (10 years)
- Cardiac Cath Lab (10 years)
- Triage (10 years)
- Epic (10 years)
- Microsoft Word (2 years)
- Clinical Instruction
- Presentation Skills
- Regulatory guidelines
- Resource Management
- Teaching strategies
- Clinical Supervision
- Curriculum Creation
- Clinical education
- Career Development
- Direct Patient Care
- Clinical expertise
- Professional Development
- Aseptic Techniques
- Student Evaluation
- Patient Safety
- Supervising students
- Completing physical assessments
- Mentoring proficiency
Certification
- RN License
- BLS Certification
Timeline
Nurse Educator
RISE Partnership/Long-Term CareWorks
09.2022 - Current
SSU/Day Surgery Unit Staff Nurse
Legacy Meridian Park Hospital
08.2008 - 09.2022
Med/Surg Staff Nurse
Legacy Meridian Park Hospital
12.1998 - 10.2005
Bachelor of Science in Nursing -
Western Governor's University
Associate's degree in Nursing - undefined
Portland Community College
- RN License
- BLS Certification
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