KRISTINA LEE, RN

• Monitored and evaluated nursing staff performance, providing feedback and guidance to support standards of care.
• Established and maintained effective communication with staff, physicians and community organizations to promote high quality patient care.
• Oversaw and approved recruitment, hiring and orientation of new nursing staff.
• Designed and introduced leadership development, coaching and team management model, resulting in promotion of employees into increased levels of responsibility.
• Spearheaded and implemented new projects to expand scope of engagement.
• Participated in management team meetings to discuss resident status, census changes, and resident complaints or concerns.

Monitored and evaluated nursing staff performance, providing feedback and guidance to support standards of care.

• Participated in management team meetings to discuss resident status, census changes, and resident complaints or concerns.
• Worked closely administration to develop and implement best practices to improve patient outcomes.
• Built and maintained positive working relationships with physicians and staff to support seamless healthcare operations.
• Developed and updated policies and procedures, maintaining compliance with guidelines relating to HIPAA, benefits administration and general liability.
• Conducted routine facility inspections, identifying areas needing improvement and eliminating hazards posed to staff and residents for continued compliance with associated regulations.
• Implemented successful healthcare program through professionalism, quality of care, medical teaching and patient satisfaction.

• Multi-faceted role as an advanced clinical resource for this reputable travel nursing agency, providing high-quality nursing care to facilities such as UFShands and North Florida Regional hospitals
• Operates as Shift-Charge RN utilizing specialty background and expertise to provide comprehensive support to patients, their families, and the medical staff
• Through critical thinking and use of problem-solving skills delivers optimal levels of care to both general and specific patient populations
• Active in multiple groups to ensure smooth facility operations, including the Unit Practice Counsel, Pharmacy Committee, and Hospital Protocol Committee
• Takes part in group votes and decisions on existing practices and submits these recommendations to senior leadership
• Educates patients and their families in areas of medication, safety, prevention, and symptom management
• Collaborates with physicians and other medical staff to develop an integrated and holistic plan of care in alignment with patient and family needs.
• Monitored progress of each student and provided formal evaluation upon completion of clinical placements.
• Contributed educational and clinical expertise to help optimize training courses and boost student learning.

• Worked with intubated and ventilated patients, monitoring and reporting on conditions to maintain stats within optimal levels.
• Utilized critical thinking skills to assess, plan and implement evidence-based patient care.
• Responded rapidly to critical codes to coordinate stabilization treatments and restore vital functions.
• Oversaw various aspects of telemetry by administering pa catheters and arterials, vasoactive drugs, titration, thrombolytic therapy, dysrhythmia interpretation, and chest tubes.
• Utilized critical thinking skills to assess, plan and implement evidence-based patient care.

• Responded to emergency situations to provide rapid and accurate care.
• Utilized ventilators, monitors and infusion pumps following manufactures' guidelines.
• Delivered age-appropriate medical care for adult, adolescent, and geriatric ICU patients.
• Coordinated with healthcare staff from various disciplines to devise, carry out, and manage personalized care plans to benefit patient health and recovery.

• Care RN Charge (Rapid Response)
• Functioned as a full-time ICU Nurse for this 262-bed, adult specialty hospital within the 22-bed Intensive Care Unit (2:1 nurse-to- patient ratio)
• Provided bedside procedure assistance to Intensivists and Pulmonologists and monitored bedside nurses to provide guidance, promote critical thinking, and encourage effective decision making skills
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• Continuously monitored patient alarms for strokes and codes to identify relevant changes in patient health care status and proactively problem-solve before their condition deteriorated
• Assessed, planned, implemented, and evaluated patient care and performed patient education in accordance to unit standards for all patient types and age groups
• Successfully distinguished between normal and abnormal developmental and age-related physiological and behavioral changes in acute, critical, and chronic illnesses
• Utilized ventilators, monitors and infusion pumps following manufactures' guidelines.
• Responded to emergency situations to provide rapid and accurate care.

• Care RN Charge | Preceptor
• Critical Care Nurse role for this 93-bed, full-service acute care non-profit hospital and certified primary stroke center
• Worked on a 10-bed unit with a 2:1 nurse-to-patient ration, while providing additional nurse float support throughout various other units in the hospital
• Functioned within multiple departments and disciplines including, but not limited to respiratory, nutrition, dialysis, multi- specialty physicians, PT/OT, speech, social work, imaging, and laboratory staff
• Actively participated on different hospital committees, most recently serving on the Alcohol Withdrawal and Level 4
• Pharmacy Committees
• Developed and revised individualized nursing care plans and maintained accurate and up-to-date documentation.
• Utilized critical thinking skills to assess, plan and implement evidence-based patient care.
• Worked with intubated and ventilated patients, monitoring and reporting on conditions to maintain stats within optimal levels.
• Collaborated with interdisciplinary healthcare team to deliver optimal patient outcomes.
• Operated critical care equipment to keep patients stable and promote recovery.

• Practiced skilled nursing and long-term ventilator/tracheotomy care within this 62-bed, assisted living facility
• Served in a cross-functional role as Charge Nurse and Preceptor for the Chronic Vent/Trach Unit (23 beds)
• Worked with a talented team of Board-Certified Respiratory Therapists, Pulmonologists, and Credentialed Respiratory Care
• Practitioners helping to maintain medical equipment and delivering top quality patient care for ventilator and tracheotomy patients
• Collaborated with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions.
• Administered medications via oral, IV, and intramuscular injections and monitored responses.

Registered Nursing ( on Year Needed), (City, State Needed)