Kristy Carico
Fairfield,VA
Summary
Knowledgeable Travel Registered Nurse with over 19 years of experience in delivering comprehensive patient care. Advanced skill working with diverse patient populations. Demonstrated fostering relationships and coordinate with healthcare professionals to advance patient care. Transitions into operations smoothly and flexes to meet differing routines and protocols. Committed job seeker with a history of meeting company needs with consistent and organized practices. Skilled in working under pressure and adapting to new situations and challenges to best enhance the organizational brand. Experienced nursing professional bringing demonstrated clinical expertise, leadership skills and technical knowledge. Proficient in updating charts, monitoring medications and working with multidisciplinary teams to optimize patient care. Quality-driven and efficient with strong interpersonal abilities.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Travel RN
Aya Healthcare
10.2023 - Current
- Coordinated communication between physicians and other healthcare professionals regarding patient care.
- Conducted daily rounds to assess patient conditions, evaluate progress towards goals, and document changes in status or plan of care as needed.
- Assisted with admission and discharge planning for assigned patients.
- Served as a preceptor for new nurses by providing orientation to unit policies and procedures, coaching on clinical skills, and mentoring on professional development issues.
- Participated in quality improvement initiatives to ensure best practice standards were met within the unit setting.
- Actively participated in interdisciplinary team meetings to discuss patient progress toward desired outcomes.
- Maintained accurate records of all treatment interventions provided to each patient.
- Collaborated with other departments such as pharmacy, laboratory services, physical therapy, to ensure proper delivery of services.
- Delegated tasks appropriately among staff members according to their qualifications.
- Responded quickly to emergent situations such as cardiac arrest or respiratory distress.
- Ensured compliance with infection control protocols throughout the facility.
- Supervised licensed practical nurses and certified nursing assistants.
- Provided direct patient care, including assessments and treatments, to a variety of patients.
- Monitored vital signs, medication administration, and fluid balance for assigned patients.
- Coordinated and performed patient admissions, transfers and discharges.
- Collaborated with multidisciplinary healthcare specialists to devise, implement and modify plans of care defining patient outcome goals
Assistant Nurse Manager
UVA Health
Staunton, VA
03.2023 - 09.2024
- Created monthly reports for senior management summarizing operational performance metrics.
- Coached, mentored and trained team members in order to improve their job performance.
- Conducted regular meetings with staff to discuss progress and identify areas of improvement.
- Monitored budgets and expenditures to ensure cost-effectiveness while maintaining quality standards.
- Maintained up-to-date records of employee attendance, payroll information, vacation requests.
- Provided leadership during times of organizational change or crisis situations.
- Assessed team member's skillsets and assigned tasks accordingly for optimal efficiency.
- Analyzed customer feedback data to develop action plans for improving services offered.
- Collaborated with other departments to ensure timely completion of projects within budget constraints.
- Ensured compliance with all applicable laws, regulations, industry standards.
- Scheduled interviews for potential candidates and conducted reference checks prior to hire.
- Monitored staff performance and addressed issues.
- Recruited and hired qualified candidates to fill open positions.
- Assigned tasks to associates to fit skill levels and maximize team performance.
- Maintained accurate records of patients' medical history and treatment plans in accordance with HIPAA regulations.
- Assisted nurses with inserting catheters into patients for hemodialysis treatments.
- Conducted reviews of patient care and operations staff to ensure adherence to regulations and standards.
- Supervised clinical staff in providing direct patient care in a safe manner.
- Ensured compliance with all state and federal regulations related to dialysis services.
Travel Nurse Acutes, Stepdown, ED RN
RN Network and AYA Healthcare
12.2020 - 03.2023
- Performed complete physical assessment, titrated drips, and more on multiple units caring for three to six patients
- Worked with the EPIC charting system
- Worked with a variety of disciplines to provide care for the patient as well as updating providers to determine patient disposition and care
- Education of patient and family as well as oriented new nurses and other travelers
- Acted as charge nurse.
Case Manager
Encompass Home Health
01.2020 - 11.2020
- I am a case manager caring for multiple patients with a variety of illnesses
- I perform comprehensive physical assessments on patients to determine needs for skilled care and report any abnormal findings to the physician while maintaining contact with other disciplines to ensure the patient receives holistic care
- I admit patients and discharge patients from service, perform wound care, obtain lab specimens as needed and perform a variety of other functions to ensure all of my patients have the best possible care with myself and other disciplines within the company
- I work with providers to make recommendations on wound care for patients as well as recommendations for medication changes and needs of the patient.
Nurse
UVA
08.2016 - 01.2020
- I worked in the Neuro Intermediate Care Unit as charge nurse and resource nurse
- I also was the preceptor for all the new nurses to the floor
- I cared for up to three patients in this critical care unit titrating drips, working with patients suffering from TBI, stroke, back surgeries, craniotomy, and numerous other neurological disorders
- I also worked at the UVA Staunton dialysis unit
- I was a charge nurse who filled the role of floor nurse as needed
- Caring for up to 4 patients
- I assess patient pre and post dialysis, monitor vitals as well as labs to determine plan of care, build machines, put patients on the machine and take off, work with the team to determine patient weights and how much fluid to take off of patients
- I use EPIC as well as the AMI charting systems in these roles.
ER Nurse
Augusta Health
Staunton, VA
05.2015 - 07.2016
- I began working here as it was closer to home and offered tuition assistance in obtaining my BSN
- I worked the floor taking up to 7 patients in a team nursing environment performing a, variety of tasks
- Computer charting was used using the meditech system
- I take EKGs, perform IV insertion and venipuncture, titrate drips, handle codes, educate patients and their families and provide interrelations between the family, patients, and doctors.
ER Nurse
Sentara RMH
Harrisonburg, VA
10.2014 - 05.2015
- I left the prison and came to the ER when the new private company took over
- I love the ER and take anywhere from 3-4 patients with different acuities
- I work triage or the floor as needed
- I take EKGs, perform IV insertion and venipuncture, titrate drips, handle codes, educate patients and their families and provide interrelations between the family, patient and doctors
- Use computer charting with the Meditech system and provide total care for my patients.
Health Services Administrator
Corizon
Craigsville, VA
05.2013 - 09.2014
- I was the Director of Nursing and became Health Services Administrator in January of 2014
- I handle the day to day operations of the facility, prepared CQI and corrective actions forms, scheduling for staff, interview and hiring process of staff, budgeting, training, education tracking
- I assign daily tasks to staff based on their skill level
- Handle offender complaints and requests
- I also handled any emergencies that arose from chest pain complaints, stroke patients and traumas
- I ended my career with Corizon when they lost their contract with the state and another private company took over on October 1, 2014.
RN
Virginia State Department of Corrections
Craigsville, VA
10.2011 - 05.2013
- Worked as a floor nurse dealing with direct patient care of offenders
- Triaged and provided sick call to offenders treating them based on nursing guidelines, submitting them for doctor call when necessary
- Triaged all emergency patients, working codes alone as I was the only RN in the facility during shift
- Made judgment calls based of experience and patient condition
- Provided treatment and education for preventative care
- Educated offenders and assisted in the paroling process of offenders
- Handled day to day care of offenders and made decisions for their care based on my own experience and education
- I became the Director of Nursing here when the state privatized this facility to a Corizon site.
Travel RN
Cirrus Medical Staffing
Harrisonburg, VA
01.2011 - 10.2011
- This was a travel nursing position in which I floated between the med/surg, telemetry, PCU and pediatrics floors
- I handled admissions and discharges of patients carrying a load of up to 6 patients while monitoring their telemetry, titrating drips and total care of my patients
- I provided education both pre and post operatively for many cardiac procedures and other surgical procedures
- Charted using the meditech system.
Travel RN
Intelistaf
Shreveport, LA
03.2010 - 12.2010
- This was a travel position in which I floated between many units as well as four different hospitals
- Worked on a cardiac step down unit pulling sheaths, handling chest tubes, titrating drips and post op care of cardiac patients
- Supervised LPNs on the floor under my direction while taking a full patient load myself.
Travel RN
Intelistaf
Port Huron, MI
10.2009 - 03.2010
- This was a travel nursing position where I floated between the telemetry observation unit and the ER
- Handled admissions and discharges from the observation floor as well as in the ER and when needed admitted patients from ER to the floor
- Used McKesson computerized charting
- Read telemetry strips, performed BAC breathalyzers and labs as needed in the ER, titrated drips, and educated patients as well as their families upon discharge
- Handled patient/family/physician relations in the ER.
Travel RN
Cirrus Medical Network
Fort Bragg, NC
01.2009 - 10.2009
- This was a travel nursing position in which I worked the telemetry floor of 4 South caring for military personnel and their families
- An enriching experience in which I was a liaison between military and civilian fields of expertise
- Essentris was used for computerized charting
- Handled admissions and discharges as well as transfers in out and of civilian hospitals
- Problem solving and complaint resolution for military personnel and their families
- Provided care and read telemetry strips and assisted in the training of new military nurse corps nurses.
Travel RN
Intelistaf
Eureka, CA
04.2008 - 12.2008
- This was a travel nursing position where I was the charge nurse on the floor
- I not only trained new nurses to the floor but also my replacement as charge nurse
- Handled chart reviews and floor summaries of all patients
- Used the meditech charting system
- This was a small community hospital in which we transferred patients out when a higher level of care was needed.
Travel RN
Intelistaf
San Francisco, CA
01.2008 - 04.2008
- This was a travel position of a busy 36 bed orthopedic unit in which I cared for total joint replacements, spinal surgeries, and other surgical as well as nonsurgical complaints
- Handled admissions and discharges and used the meditech computer system for charting
- Provided total care for my patients while providing them the education they needed for preop and post op as well as education for discharge.
Travel RN
The Right Solutions
St Joseph, MO
07.2007 - 12.2007
- This was a travel position in which I was the charge nurse for a newly opened orthopedic wing
- I trained new staff for the unit as well as trained my replacement
- Cared for patients with total joint replacements as well as spinal injuries and many other orthopedic issues.
Travel RN
Tulane Medical Center
New Orleans, LA
08.2006 - 07.2007
- This was a travel position in which I floated between multiple units as well as 2 facilitues in New Orleans post hurricane Katrina
- Cared for tracheotomy patients, ortho, neuro, surgical and many others to include a lot of displaced and homeless patients in the New Orleans area
- This was a teaching facility where I helped with the education of new nurses
- Acted as a liaison between new medical staff to include doctors and nurses as well being liaison between staff, patients and their families
- Provided education to staff, patients and their families as needed per their medical condition as well as worked with health departments, other facilities and such to help with placing displaced patients.
Surgical RN
Byrd Regional Hospital
Leesville, LA
03.2005 - 08.2006
- This was my first job as an RN where I worked in the preoperative area, PACU and also the endoscopy lab
- I handled preop paperwork getting patients educated prior to their procedures as well as caring and education prior to discharge
- I loved surgery and endoscopy but left to travel nurse.
Education
Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing -
Chamberlain College of Nursing
01.2016
Associates Degree in Nursing -
Northwestern State University
01.2005
Skills
- BLS/ACLS
- Discharge Planning
- Cardiac monitoring
- Direct Patient Care
- Patient Education
- Immunization Administration
- Chronic Disease Management
- Budgeting
- Committed to compliance reporting
- Prepare CQI reports and action plans
- Strong medical ethic
- Privacy and confidentiality
- OR and ER experience
- Cardiac care nurse
- Skin/venipuncture
- IV starts and maintenance
- Confidentiality assurance
- Employee and physician relations
- Education of patients, family and staff members
- Patient and family communications
- Preparing staff schedules
- Tracking education
- Direct patient care
- Supervision and training of staff
- Problem solving
- Admissions and discharges
- Charting and documentation by computer
- Moderate Sedation
- Dialysis Nursing
- Emergency Care
- Family Education
- Charting and clinical documentation
- Interdisciplinary Collaboration
Certification
- BLS Certified through American Heart Association
- ACLS certified through American Heart Association
References
- Trent Clugsten Department Manager PCU 540-541-9665
- Amber Davis, Nurse Manager, 540-742-9668
- Brooke Garcia Assistant Nurse Manager 540-750-5301
Timeline
Travel RN
Aya Healthcare
10.2023 - Current
Assistant Nurse Manager
UVA Health
03.2023 - 09.2024
Travel Nurse Acutes, Stepdown, ED RN
RN Network and AYA Healthcare
12.2020 - 03.2023
Case Manager
Encompass Home Health
01.2020 - 11.2020
Nurse
UVA
08.2016 - 01.2020
ER Nurse
Augusta Health
05.2015 - 07.2016
ER Nurse
Sentara RMH
10.2014 - 05.2015
Health Services Administrator
Corizon
05.2013 - 09.2014
RN
Virginia State Department of Corrections
10.2011 - 05.2013
Travel RN
Cirrus Medical Staffing
01.2011 - 10.2011
Travel RN
Intelistaf
03.2010 - 12.2010
Travel RN
Intelistaf
10.2009 - 03.2010
Travel RN
Cirrus Medical Network
01.2009 - 10.2009
Travel RN
Intelistaf
04.2008 - 12.2008
Travel RN
Intelistaf
01.2008 - 04.2008
Travel RN
The Right Solutions
07.2007 - 12.2007
Travel RN
Tulane Medical Center
08.2006 - 07.2007
Surgical RN
Byrd Regional Hospital
03.2005 - 08.2006
Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing -
Chamberlain College of Nursing
Associates Degree in Nursing -
Northwestern State University
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