Accomplished Registered Nurse with extensive experience in Hospice and NICU settings. Expert in end-of-life care, patient assessments, and critical care, demonstrating leadership and compassion. Proven track record in enhancing patient comfort and quality of life through interdisciplinary teamwork and effective communication.
Develop and implement plan of care to provide patients with highest level of physical, emotional, psychological and spiritual comfort and quality of life.
Provided clinical skills and knowledge to address pain and complex symptom management related to many different disease processes at end of life.
Support and educate patients and families through end of life processes while providing caring, compassionate presence throughout stages of grief and loss.
Collaborated with interdisciplinary care team to develop and implement plan of care to address acute symptom management on busy 23 bed hospice unit.
Conducted thorough patient assessments to identify changes in condition, promptly notifying physicians and initiating appropriate interventions to provide dignity and comfort to terminally ill patients and their loved ones
Utilized critical thinking skills to prioritize nursing interventions based on patients'' acuity levels and individual needs.
Oversaw total patient care of critical newborn patients in a busy level 3 NICU including patient assessment and monitoring, medication and fluid calculations and administration, pre and post operative care, obtaining and evaluating lab results.
Assisted with complex medical procedures such as intubation, lumbar punctures, and umbilical line placements under physician supervision.
Promoted family-centered care by providing education, support, and resources to parents of NICU patients.
Leadership
Interdisciplinary teams
End of life Care
Critical Care
Communication Skills
Compassion
Patient Assessments
Patient Education