Lauren Lohfink, RN, BSN, CCRN, CFRN, EMT

• Delivered comprehensive, compassionate nursing care to pediatric patients in a high-acuity emergency department, including respiratory distress, seizures, and conscious sedations for orthopedic cases.
• Functioned as Charge Nurse, coordinating patient flow, managing staffing assignments, and serving as a clinical resource to team members.
• Served as a preceptor for new graduate nurses, experienced RNs transitioning to emergency care, and nursing students.
• Cross-trained to a 50-bed adult emergency department, handling critical cases including STEMIs, strokes, and sepsis.
• Collaborated with interdisciplinary teams—including physicians, respiratory therapists, social workers, and child life specialists—to ensure safe, efficient, and patient-centered care.

• Provided autonomous, high-acuity care to critically ill pediatric and adult patients during interfacility and scene transports via rotor-wing aircraft, managing airway, ventilator support, hemodynamic instability, trauma, cardiac emergencies, sepsis, and neurological crises.
• Functioned as part of a two-person clinical team (RN/Paramedic or RN/RN), performing rapid assessments, initiating advanced interventions, and maintaining patient stability during transport.
• Maintained proficiency in critical care transport protocols and skills, including advanced airway management (RSI, ventilator adjustments), vasoactive medication titration, and blood product administration.
• Operated within flight safety protocols, pre-flight checklists, and scene safety assessments, while maintaining situational awareness in high-risk environments.

• Coordinated the full continuum of the organ donation process, including chart audits for donor referral evaluation, medical management of deceased donors, and surgical recovery support.
• Collaborated with physicians, hospital staff, and maintained ongoing communication with internal and external team members to support successful organ recovery and transplantation.
• Order necessary labs, imaging, and medications per donor management standing orders and physician consultation.
• Monitor and manage ventilator settings, hemodynamics, fluid status, electrolytes, and endocrine function.
• Supported surgical recovery procedures by facilitating team coordination, verifying documentation, performing donor timeouts, labeling, and packaging organs per UNOS protocols, and assisting with post-mortem care.

• Provide direct care to critically ill patients in a small community ICU with a broad case mix (medical, surgical, cardiac).
• Function as Relief Charge Nurse, responsible for unit oversight, staffing, bed assignments, and responding hospital-wide to rapid responses and code blues.
• Floated to CICU, MICU, Neuro ICU, PICU, and multiple stepdown units at Ochsner Main Campus when needed

University of Colorado Hospital - Cardiac ICU

• Floated to the Neuro ICU and Cardiothoracic ICU, managing Bolts, EVDs, and post-op transplant patients.

Memorial Hermann Texas Medical Center - Medical ICU

• Floated to Burn ICU and Cardiac ICU

Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center - COVID ICU

• floated to Neuro ICU, Surgical ICU, and PCU.

• Proficient in managing complex cardiovascular and multi-organ failure patients requiring advanced life support, including vasopressors, mechanical ventilators, Swan-Ganz catheters, CRRT, Prismaflex, and TTM protocols via Arctic Sun and Zoll.
• Manage advanced mechanical circulatory devices, including IABPs, Impella, TandemHeart, and LVADs, in both acute decompensation and bridge therapy settings.
• Collaborated with multidisciplinary teams to develop patient-centered care plans.
• Precept new ICU nurses, and serve as a resource nurse/float charge.