Lauren Myers

• Promoted professional development opportunities to encourage nurses to pursue continuous training.
• Investigated and independently and collaboratively resolved complaints from staff, physicians, and patients by leveraging clinical judgment and unit management expertise.
• Developed and implemented quality improvement initiatives to provide best possible patient care and identify and address areas of concern.
• Established and continuously optimized unit schedules and individual work assignments.
• Led staff meetings to keep team informed of departmental changes and provide opportunities for nurses to share ideas and concerns.
• Collaborated with hospital leadership to devise initiatives for improving nursing satisfaction, retention and morale.
• Leveraged feedback and process improvement opportunities to create safer and healthier environment and increase patient satisfaction.
• Led teams in driving successful patient outcomes by prioritizing standard of care and best practices.

• Sought opportunities to improve patient care, outcomes and nursing staff performance.
• Interacted effectively with department managers to promptly correct problems and improve services.
• Supervised professional nursing staff and delegated tasks to maintain continuum of care.
• Fostered improvement in staff development, personnel training, and standards of patient care.
• Coordinated departmental operations according to administrative, legal and medical guidelines.
• Evaluated nursing staff's performance and developed education programs and professional development opportunities to improve individual and team competencies, clinical knowledge and delivery of care.
• Reviewed charts weekly to complete quality control checks.
• Responded to behavioral and medical crises codes.

• Contributed educational and clinical expertise to help optimize training courses and boost student learning.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Developed and maintained courteous and effective working relationships.
• Developed and implemented an emergency department onboarding program with a guide that was adaptable to all levels of emergency nurses and techs/paramedics from new graduate to experienced.
• Oversaw onboarding and orientation of over 45 nurses, techs, and paramedics including 23 new graduate nurses with no prior emergency department experience.

• One of two nurses in a busy Freestanding ER/Urgent care
• Patient care of up to 5 patients at a time
• Over saw 3-6 medical assistants/EMT/Paramedics on any given shift
• Organized supply orders
• Worked with manager to organize and streamline patient lab files

• Worked in 5 different emergency departments within the THR system on a
  per diem need base
• Patient load anywhere from 3-6 depending on assignment

• Emergency Department closed July 2020
• One of 2 RNs in a busy freestanding facility
  Responsible for pharmacy, lab, patient care and charting
• Other staff includes 1 PAR, 1 ER Doctor and 1 Radiology Tech
• Work with manager to maintain our lab, pharmacy, and budget and
  schedule

• Patient load is 4 patients
• Work in intake, triage and take assignments

• Patient load is 4-18 patients at a time depending on the POD assignment
• Work in triage seeing multiple patients throughout my shift
• Trauma certified and run trauma shifts
• Able to manage multiple critical patients
• Work with a variety of professionals/patients on any given day
• Level II Trauma Center

• Patient load is 3-8 patients at a time depending on the POD assignment
• Work in triage seeing multiple patients throughout my shift
• Work with a variety of professionals on any given night
• Level II trauma center
• Work in both the adult and pediatric emergency department

• PRN Peri-operative RN for outpatient GI lab
• Primarily PACU
• Recovered post procedural patients
• Strict and conscience documentation

• Only RN in a freestanding facility
• Responsible for pharmacy, lab, patient care and charting
• Other staff includes PAR, 1 ER Doctor and 1 Radiology Tech
• Did scheduling for the facility.
• Worked with manager to maintain our lab, pharmacy, schedule and budget
  for the facility.

• Patient load is 4-18 patients at a time depending on the POD assignment
• Work in triage seeing multiple patients throughout my shift
• Served as Charge Nurse on this unit
• Trauma certified and run trauma shifts
• Able to manage multiple critical patients
• Work with a variety of professionals on any given day
• Level I trauma center
• Adult ER, but about 20% of population is pediatrics
• Precept new graduate nurses and new nurses to the department

• Patient load is 3-10 patients at a time depending on the POD assignment.
• Work in triage seeing multiple patients throughout my shift.
• On the trauma committee and help with all traumas when they come into the
  department
• Work with a variety of professionals on any given day
• Adult ER, but about 35% of population is pediatrics.
• Precept new graduate nurses and new nurses to the department

Emergency Department 11/2012-1/2014

• Patient load is 3-8 patients at a time depending on the POD assignment
• Work in triage seeing multiple patients throughout my shift
• Work with a variety of professionals on any given night
• Served as Charge Nurse on this unit
  Level II trauma center
• Work in both the adult and pediatric emergency department

Telemetry/Stepdown 1/2009-11/2012

• Patient load is 5-6 patients at night/4-5 patients during the day
• Served as a charge nurse on this unit
• In charge of up to 9 RNs and 4 CNAs, as well as up to 52 inpatients
• Preceptor for New Grad nurses since I was 6 months in