Elizabeth Fathauer

• Appropriately diagnose and treat patients in an emergency care setting
• Performed physical exams, ordering and evaluating lab/diagnostic tests as well as medications.
• Built trust and rapport with patients by listening to concerns, advocating for wellness and educating on acute and chronic health issues.
• Managed pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatment of various disorders and diseases.

• Appropriately diagnose and treat patients in urgent care settings.
• Assess need for, order, obtain and interpret appropriate lab and diagnostic tests.
• Built trust and rapport with patients by listening to concerns, advocating for wellness and educating on acute and chronic health issues.
• Collaborated with other healthcare professionals to provide comprehensive patient care.

• Precepting new ER nurses
• Efficiently implement nursing skills including wound care, tPA infusions, post ROSC hypothermia treatment, orthopedic splints, IV starts, blood product transfusions, and ventilator care
• Assisting physicians with interventions such as intubations, central line placements, lumbar punctures, defibrillations, and conscious sedations

Implement nursing care to patients in a 9 bed full service freestanding ER. Coordinate and perform non nursing duties such as registering and transferring patients.

Lend respite care to families with children that have life-long disabilities and participate in fundraisers

Travel nurse assignment at a high volume downtown Seattle emergency room. Swedish Hospital, First Hill Campus, has 700 beds total with 22 beds in the emergency department. Occasionally floated to work at nearby affiliated emergency room campuses.

Provide emergency nursing care to patients experiencing life threatening conditions in a 199 bed accredited primary stroke and chest pain center.

Serve rural indigenous communities in the Panamanian jungle