LINDSEY E. SHOCKLEY
Augusta
Summary
Compassionate ICU Nurse with 16 years experience in delivering high-quality care to critically ill patients in fast-paced environments, looking to transition into a case manager role. Strengths include maintaining patient stability through skilled assessment, intensive therapeutic treatment and invasive monitoring. Significant impact made in previous roles through effective communication, collaboration with medical teams, advocacy for clients' rights and needs, and improving client well-being through personalized care plans and resource allocation.
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.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Staff ICU Nurse: ICU Float Pool
Augusta University Medical Center
12.2013 - 12.2025
- Work in Medical ICU, Shock/Trauma ICU, Neuro ICU, Cardiac ICU, and Surgical ICU interchangeably as needed.
- Assess, analyze and treat complex patient conditions.
- Maintain, monitor, and analyze various patient monitoring equipment such as arterial lines, intracranial pressure monitors, IABP, temporary pacemakers, NxStage, and ventilators.
- Promote and follow core measures and hospital policies while providing high quality care.
- Build trust and rapport with patients, caregivers and colleagues.
- Offer rapid response and code support to non ICU areas of the hospital.
Registered Nurse/Travel Nurse: ICU
Atlanta Medical Center South
South Fulton
03.2013 - 06.2013
- 24 bed ICU unit with a 2:1-3:1 patient to nurse ratio.
- Cared for patients in the ICU and collaborated with the multidisciplinary medical team.
- Continually assessed the response to treatment therapies and intervened when therapies were ineffective.
- Used sound judgement and clinical experience to make independent decisions consistent with hospital protocols.
- South Fulton, GA
Registered Nurse/Travel Nurse: Medical/Neurological/Surgical ICU
Cape Fear Valley Hospital
Fayetteville
11.2012 - 02.2013
- Cared for patients with diverse medical conditions in a combined 30 bed unit that encompassed Medical, Surgical and Neurological critically ill patients.
- Demonstrated professionalism and compassion towards patients and their families in various aspects of critical care.
- Fayetteville, NC, 600 bed non-profit, community owned health system.
Registered Nurse/Travel Nurse: Neurosciences Critical Care Unit
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore
04.2012 - 09.2012
- A 24-bed closed-unit design that provides complete ICU management and care to more than 1,700 admissions per year with patients admitted from neurosurgery, neurology, interventional neuroradiology, orthopedic/spine, and otolaryngology.
- Collaborated with an extensive team of specialists who work together to treat the most challenging and difficult diseases of the neurologic system and to provide the highest quality and most comprehensive care possible to patients with a variety of neurological conditions and diseases.
- Provided care for patients with traumatic brain injuries, large strokes, tumors of the brain and spinal cord, brain hemorrhages.
- Baltimore, MD, A primary teaching institute that is a national leader in neurocritical care medicine.
Registered Nurse
Critical Solutions Medical Staffing
07.2011 - 04.2012
- Provided high quality care for patients in the ICU, Burn ICU, and Medical/Surgical Areas.
- Adapted quickly to different patient care settings.
Staff ICU Nurse: Neurology/Stroke Intensive Care Unit
University Hospital
Augusta
02.2009 - 07.2011
- Provided nursing care for patients with life-threatening illnesses with an emphasis on neurological disorders.
- Proficient in hypothermia protocol and organ donation.
- Exhibited the ability to remain calm and professional during times of critical needs.
- Readily developed rapport with patients, staff, and physicians.
- Proven record of reliability and responsibility.
- Maintain established department/hospital policies, procedures, objectives, performance improvement, patient safety, and infection control.
- Augusta, GA
PCAII/SNAP: Labor and Delivery/4 South
University Hospital
Augusta
06.2006 - 12.2007
- Assisted in meeting patients’ needs including ADL’s, clinical procedures, transporting, and safety needs.
- Communicated with team members in a timely manner about observations of the patients’ progress, needs, and problems.
- Took accurate assessments/histories of triage patients and obtained proper labs/specimens.
- Provided care for up to 13 patients with a variety of high risk problems on the 4 South Antepartum Unit.
- Augusta, GA
Education
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
USC Aiken
Aiken, SCSkills
- Critical thinking
- Team collaboration
- Interpersonal skills
- Diplomacy
- Judgement
- Professionalism
- Multitasking
- Priority management
- Patient care
- Patient satisfaction
- Team motivation
- Communication skills
- Accuracy in documentation
- Knowledge in administration
- Patient assessment
- Patient treatment
- Patient referral
- Patient education
Certification
- Registered Nurse, Georgia, 01/01/09, present, 12/31/24
- ACLS/BLS and CCRN certified
Timeline
Staff ICU Nurse: ICU Float Pool
Augusta University Medical Center
12.2013 - 12.2025
Registered Nurse/Travel Nurse: ICU
Atlanta Medical Center South
03.2013 - 06.2013
Registered Nurse/Travel Nurse: Medical/Neurological/Surgical ICU
Cape Fear Valley Hospital
11.2012 - 02.2013
Registered Nurse/Travel Nurse: Neurosciences Critical Care Unit
Johns Hopkins Hospital
04.2012 - 09.2012
Registered Nurse
Critical Solutions Medical Staffing
07.2011 - 04.2012
Staff ICU Nurse: Neurology/Stroke Intensive Care Unit
University Hospital
02.2009 - 07.2011
PCAII/SNAP: Labor and Delivery/4 South
University Hospital
06.2006 - 12.2007
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
USC Aiken