LINDSEY HERNANDEZ

• Delivered comprehensive care for critically ill adult patients in community-based intensive care unit, ensuring optimal patient outcomes.

• Managed care for patients with respiratory failure, sepsis, cardiac conditions, renal failure, and complex critical illnesses, contributing to multidisciplinary treatment plans.

• Collaborated with physicians, advanced practice providers, respiratory therapists, pharmacists, and nursing staff to deliver evidence-based critical care.

• Integrated into new healthcare environments, prioritizing patient safety and achieving high-quality clinical outcomes.

• Adapted to new hospital system and ICU workflow, ensuring high standards of patient care were consistently met.

• Independently managed critically ill adult patients requiring ventilator support, vasoactive infusions, sedation, and invasive monitoring.

• Collaborated with interdisciplinary teams to provide safe, evidence-based care in a fast-paced critical care environment.

• Exhibited flexibility and rapid clinical adaptability during transition to travel nursing, facilitating effective communication in diverse settings.

• Provided comprehensive care for critically ill adult patients in a high-acuity Medical ICU.

• Managed complex patients requiring mechanical ventilation, vasoactive medication titration, invasive hemodynamic monitoring, and continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT).

• Collaborated with multidisciplinary teams to develop and implement evidence-based care plans, enhancing patient outcomes in the Medical ICU.

• Strengthened clinical judgment and critical thinking while managing care for patients with complex medical conditions, leading to improved patient safety and recovery.

• Provide patient care, monitor vitals, ventilator management, medication administration including titration of vasopressors and continuous drips, wound care.
• Preceptor for new nurses - assist with onboarding and training.
• Relief Charge Nurse and Team Lead- respond to Rapid Responses and Code Blues, make staff assignments, resource for new nurses on the unit, communication with intensivist and family members, involved in hospital-wide management.
• Provided specialized care for patients with complex medical needs - CRRT, pacemakers, ekos, hypothermia.
• Assist with bedside procedures: chest tube placement, central line/arterial line placement, intubation and extubation.