Laura French
Halls Crossroads,TN
Summary
Dynamic Registered Nurse with the ability to complete tasks efficiently and produce high-quality outcomes under pressure. Skilled in maintaining patients' physical and emotional wellbeing before and during surgical cases. Excel in fast-paced environments through strong communication, critical thinking, and teamwork skills. Prepared to utilize specialized expertise and interpersonal skills to deliver outstanding care in surgical and clinical environments.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Operating Room Registered Nurse
Children's West Surgery Center
Knoxville, TN
05.2022 - Current
- Prepared operating room by ensuring sterile environment and organizing surgical instruments based on surgeon preference.
- Successfully cross trained in sterile processing and surgical technology.
- Managed patient positioning and comfort to optimize access for surgical teams.
- Assisted in maintaining OR efficiency through effective time management skills while continuing to provide quality patient care.
- Communicated effectively with members of the interdisciplinary team including physicians, nurses, technicians, therapists and other healthcare providers regarding changes in patient status or any concerns related to care delivery processes.
- Maintained accurate records of surgical case documentation.
Application Analyst - IT
Covenant Health
Centerpoint
06.2019 - 03.2022
- Instructed new hire PowerChart medical documentation classes.
- Supported new nurses and providers while using Cerner applications.
- Scheduled, planned, and led multi-team meetings.
- Provided on-call support to end-users requiring IT assistance, building and correcting IT applications as requested/necessary for clinical end-user staff.
RN
Women’s Care Group Knoxville
Knoxville
10.2014 - 06.2019
- Assisted multiple providers with their daily patient load, obtaining and documenting vital signs, lab draws as necessary, made appointments for patients when needed, set up referrals as necessary, assisted providers with in office surgical procedures, administered oral/injectable medications as ordered by providers, telephone triage nurse, obtained and updated patient history per electronic medical record system requirements, maintained medical record requests to and from referring clinics, insured patients were placed in their rooms in a timely manner and that their needs were met until provider was able to initiate care/evaluate in the room.
RN
University of Tennessee Medical Center Labor and Delivery
Knoxville
06.2009 - 10.2014
- Bedside nursing in a high-risk and fast-paced Labor and Delivery setting.
- Excellent communication and teamwork working with multidisciplinary medical groups, functioned as a preceptor to new-grad hires for training, OR/PACU experience, worked as patient advocate to voice needs and concerns to providers, administered high-risk medication via IM/IV/oral route.
- Functioned as shift team leader who coordinated patient room placement, admissions, discharges, liaison between patient/anesthesia/OB provider/nursery staff, newborn infant care, excellent real-time patient documentation was a must.
Education
ASN - RN -
Lincoln Memorial University
Harrogate05.2009
Obtained pre-requisite courses for nursing school -
Pellissippi State
Knoxville05.2007
Skills
- Microsoft Word
- Excel
- Outlook
- Preceptor skills
- Bedside nursing
- OR/PACU/Recovery nursing
- Fast paced clinic setting assistance
- Office-procedure assistance
- Telephone triage nursing
- Shift leader RN
- IV therapy
- IT support
- On call support
- Sterile technique
- Patient Education
- Triage bedside nursing
- Women's health nursing
- IT support for ambulatory clinics
- Operating room logistics
- Team leadership
- Circulating nurse skills
- Surgical assistance
- Scrub nurse skills
Timeline
Operating Room Registered Nurse
Children's West Surgery Center
05.2022 - Current
Application Analyst - IT
Covenant Health
06.2019 - 03.2022
RN
Women’s Care Group Knoxville
10.2014 - 06.2019
RN
University of Tennessee Medical Center Labor and Delivery
06.2009 - 10.2014
ASN - RN -
Lincoln Memorial University
Obtained pre-requisite courses for nursing school -
Pellissippi State
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