LAUREN CROSSON
Fayetteville
Summary
Experienced Registered Nurse specializing in adult psychiatric care. Skilled in therapeutic communication, crisis intervention, and comprehensive patient assessments. Committed to ensuring patient and staff safety and promoting best practices through effective team collaboration.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Resource Nurse, Adult Psychiatric Unit
Cape Fear Valley Health System
Fayetteville
10.2023 - Current
- Coordination of patient care and supervision of the professional team, as appropriate.
- Enforcing policies and procedures, and ensuring best practices.
- Providing assistance with administrative management, such as employee scheduling.
- Precepting new staff members, as well as nursing students, with a focus on adult behavioral health.
- Promoting a collaborative, interdisciplinary environment that supports quality improvement, client interactions and interventions, and staff development and empowerment.
- Experience in Psychiatric Emergency Department.
Registered Nurse, Adult Psychiatric Unit
Cape Fear Valley Health System
Fayetteville
10.2022 - 10.2023
- Assisting patients with diagnoses such as depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, borderline personality disorders, and substance use disorders.
- Using professional judgment to apply intervention techniques to patients in crisis.
- Communicating effectively with a variety of individuals and functioning calmly and efficiently in high-stress situations.
- Observing, documenting, and helping manage patients' behavior to ensure the safety of both patients and staff at all times.
- Collaborative role working with psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and behavioral health technicians.
Resource Nurse, Medical-Psychiatric Unit
Cape Fear Valley Health System
Fayetteville
04.2021 - 10.2022
- Providing assistance with administrative management.
- Assisting with the clinical education of staff members in the absence of the clinical educator.
- Precepting new staff members with a focus on psychiatric and geriatric patient populations.
- Daily QC and equipment checks (crash cart, bladder scanner, vein finder, etc.).
Registered Nurse, Medical-Psychiatric Unit
Cape Fear Valley Health System
Fayetteville
08.2018 - 03.2021
- Performing tasks of developing, planning, initiating, and evaluating patient care interventions within the scope of practice of the organization.
- Serve as charge nurse and precept new staff members, with a focus on the psychiatric patient population.
- Monitoring patients' mental, emotional, and physical conditions while frequently assessing potential safety concerns.
- Communicate effectively with a variety of individuals, and function effectively and calmly in high-stress situations.
Registered Nurse
Busamed Hillcrest Private Hospital
Durban
01.2015 - 07.2018
- Acute inpatient care of patients with cardiac, respiratory, renal, genitourinary, psychiatric, neurological, and gastrointestinal conditions.
Registered Nurse
Addington Hospital
Durban
01.2013 - 12.2014
- Acute inpatient care of patients with health conditions such as heart failure, myocardial infarctions, arrhythmias, coronary artery disease and strokes on a cardiac care unit.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
University of KwaZulu Natal
Durban, South Africa12.2012
Skills
- Leadership skills
- Medication administration
- Intake and physical assessments
- Restraints and involuntary commitments
- Patient redirection and de-escalation
- Therapeutic communication
- Effective organizational and time management skills
- Reporting and documentation using EHRs
- Clinical judgment
- Conflict resolution
- Crisis management and violence prevention
- Quality improvement
- Policy enforcement
- Interdisciplinary collaboration
- Inpatient and emergency room experience
Certification
- Registered Nurse - NC (compact state license), RN #309097
- Basic Life Support (AHA)
- Vistelar Unified Conflict Management (Workplace Violence Prevention)
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Resource Nurse, Adult Psychiatric Unit
Cape Fear Valley Health System
10.2023 - Current
Registered Nurse, Adult Psychiatric Unit
Cape Fear Valley Health System
10.2022 - 10.2023
Resource Nurse, Medical-Psychiatric Unit
Cape Fear Valley Health System
04.2021 - 10.2022
Registered Nurse, Medical-Psychiatric Unit
Cape Fear Valley Health System
08.2018 - 03.2021
Registered Nurse
Busamed Hillcrest Private Hospital
01.2015 - 07.2018
Registered Nurse
Addington Hospital
01.2013 - 12.2014
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
University of KwaZulu Natal
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