Laura Sullivan
Mobile,AL
Summary
Highly-motivated employee with desire to take on new challenges. Strong work ethic, adaptability, and exceptional interpersonal skills. Adept at working effectively unsupervised and quickly mastering new skills. Thrives in a fast paced environment.
Overview
24
24
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Member
Radiology Department/Vascular Access Team
06.2021 - Current
- Member of a six person collaborative healthcare team
- Provide conscious sedation for patients during CT and US biopsies
- Assist and monitor patients during procedures not requiring sedation, such as paracentesis and thoracentesis, myelogram, lumbar puncture, and CT coronary studies
- This team has a dual role, as we are also Vascular Access for the 150 plus bed facility, placing PICC lines, midlines, and ultrasound guided extended dwell IVs
Clinical Care Leader-Emergency Department
Bon Secours St Francis Medical Center
04.2020 - 06.2021
- Responsible for supervision of six shift resource nurses, thirty staff nurses and twelve patient care technicians
- Provide support and consistent leadership to the entire team while working to align the department with hospital administration goals and objectives
- Formulate monthly schedule for the entire department, on-call schedules, and weekly staffing sheets
- Responsible for performing weekly chart audits to ensure Joint Commission compliance and positive patient outcomes
- Instrumental in the development of structured evaluation tools used to assess patient length of stay and positive outcomes
- Serve as mentor, role model, and resource for staff members
- Extensive knowledge of policy, procedure development and implementation, along with educating the department on such
- Collaborate with hospital administration and healthcare providers throughout the facility to facilitate positive patient outcomes
Staff Nurse-Emergency Department
Bon Secours St Francis Medical Center
10.2009 - 06.2021
- Member of collaborative healthcare team managing patients in a 21-bed emergency department setting
- Provided interventions appropriate to patient clinical presentation, diagnosis, age, development level, and cultural orientation
- Acute and chronic care of newborn to elderly with comprehensive knowledge of child growth and development level as it pertains to health and wellness
- Key member of the Par Excellence team who developed and implemented a program to account for and prevent losses on chargeable department items
- Member of the education committee, bringing new innovative ideas to our department as well as offering refresher in-services
- In charge of the weekly schedule assignment sheets for all registered nurses in the department with intention of facilitating throughput and preventing stagnation of the nursing staff
Shift Resource Nurse-Emergency Department
Bon Secours St Francis Medical Center
12.2017 - 04.2020
- Member of a six-person shift resource team, providing support and leadership consistently to the staff of the ED
- Expediting patient throughput in the ever-changing environment of the emergency department
- Co-chairperson to the recruitment and retention committee, nurse clinician level 2 on the clinical ladder
- Formulating the monthly schedule for all patient care technicians, paramedics, and unit secretaries, as well as the weekly staffing sheets for the nurses, techs, and secretaries
- Performing audits to directly impact improved patient outcomes
- Maintain charge nurse responsibilities to ensure that the unit runs in a timely and efficient manner
- Serve as a role model for the new staff members to ensure there is a resource for them should they have questions or concerns
- Triage patient according to the presentation on arrival using the AHRQ model of the Emergency Severity Index
Staff Nurse
St Francis Medical Center
Midlothian, USA
01.2006 - 01.2009
Staff Nurse
Johnston Willis Hospital
Midlothian, USA
01.2003 - 01.2006
Staff Nurse
Good Samaritan Hospital
Suffern, USA
01.2001 - 01.2003
Education
Bachelor’s Degree - Nursing
Capella University
Minneapolis, MN10.2020
Associates Degree - Nursing
College of Lake County
Grayslake, IL05.2001
Skills
- Emergency response
- Social perceptiveness
- Teamwork and collaboration
- Flexible and adaptable
- Sedation administration
- Joint Commission compliance
- Time management
- Friendly, positive attitude
Certification
- State of VA nursing license, #0001188426, 12/01/25
- Basic Life Support, 11/01/25
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support, 01/01/26
- Pediatric Advanced Life Support, 02/01/26
Degree
BSN, RN
Timeline
Member
Radiology Department/Vascular Access Team
06.2021 - Current
Clinical Care Leader-Emergency Department
Bon Secours St Francis Medical Center
04.2020 - 06.2021
Shift Resource Nurse-Emergency Department
Bon Secours St Francis Medical Center
12.2017 - 04.2020
Staff Nurse-Emergency Department
Bon Secours St Francis Medical Center
10.2009 - 06.2021
Staff Nurse
St Francis Medical Center
01.2006 - 01.2009
Staff Nurse
Johnston Willis Hospital
01.2003 - 01.2006
Staff Nurse
Good Samaritan Hospital
01.2001 - 01.2003
Bachelor’s Degree - Nursing
Capella University
Associates Degree - Nursing
College of Lake County