Margaret Chikwana

• Collaborating with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions.
• Educating patients, families and caregivers on diagnosis and prognosis, treatment options, disease process and management and lifestyle options.
• Providing direct patient care, stabilizing patients and determining next course of action.
• Providing direct patient care, stabilizing patients and determining next course of action.
• Administering medications via oral, IV and intramuscular injections and monitoring responses.
• Implementing medication and IV administration, catheter insertion and airway management.
• Managing care from admission to discharge.
• Administering medications and treatment to patients and monitoring responses while working with healthcare teams to adjust care plans.
• Collecting blood, tissue and other laboratory specimens and prepare for lab testing.
• Updating patient charts with data such as medications to keep records current and support accurate treatments.
• Monitoring patient reactions to drugs and carefully documenting findings.
• Organizing and managing care of patients undergoing various therapies and procedures.
• Evaluating healthcare needs, goals for treatment and available resources of each patient and connecting to optimal providers and care.
• Advocating for patients by communicating care preferences to practitioners, verifying interventions met treatment goals and identifying insurance coverage limitations.
• Advising patients and caregivers of proper wound management, discharge plan objectives, safe medication use and disease management.
• Teaching patients how to improve lifestyle choices, dramatically reducing chance of symptom reoccurrence.
• Maintaining quality care and comfort for patients with heart failure, pulmonary hypertension and other conditions.
• Overseeing delivery of care for patients on medical-surgical unit, providing direct care, delegating nursing assignments, and supervising team comprised of nurses, LPNs, technicians and unit clerks.

• Provided direct patient care, stabilized patients and determined next course of action.
• Audited charts and reviewed clinical documents to verify accuracy.
• Organized and managed care of patients undergoing various therapies and procedures.
• Advised patients and caregivers of proper wound management, discharge plan objectives, safe medication use and disease management.
• Taught patients how to improve lifestyle choices, dramatically reducing chance of symptom reoccurrence.
• Minimized hospital stays with recovery-centered approaches, reducing average in-patient stay length.
• Evaluated healthcare needs, goals for treatment and available resources of each patient and connected to optimal providers and care.
• Monitored patient reactions to drugs and carefully documented findings.
• Managed quality care for patients with heart failure, end-stage renal disease and coronary artery disease.
• Participated in nursing simulation activities, evidence-based practice project implementation and competency development to further nursing education.
• Managed care from admission to discharge.
• Delivered proper care to victims of domestic violence at urgent care clinic.
• Advocated for patients by communicating care preferences to practitioners, verifying interventions met treatment goals and identifying insurance coverage limitations.
• Secured controlled narcotics and distributed medication on schedule to meet patient needs and minimize misuse opportunities.
• Updated patient charts with data such as medications to keep records current and support accurate treatments.
• Collected blood, tissue and other laboratory specimens and prepared for lab testing.
• Collaborated with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions.
• Implemented medication and IV administration, catheter insertion and airway management.
• Maintained quality care and comfort for patients with heart failure, pulmonary hypertension and other conditions.
• Educated patients, families and caregivers on diagnosis and prognosis, treatment options, disease process and management and lifestyle options.
• Administered medications and treatment to patients and monitored responses while working with healthcare teams to adjust care plans.
• Administered medications via oral, IV and intramuscular injections and monitored responses.
• Kept optimal supply levels in treatment rooms, triage and other areas to meet typical patient loads.

• Assisted physician during delivery, examination and surgical procedures by anticipating needs, encouraging patient and attending to baby after birth.
• Coordinated care of low and high-risk laboring women of childbearing age and immediate stabilization of newborn following delivery.
• Responded to emergency situations such as pre-eclampsia, early labor and fetal distress.
• Worked closely with doctors and midwives in coaching pregnant women through childbirth and post-natal recovery.
• Coached new mothers with breastfeeding techniques, postpartum self-care and infant care to promote easier transition into motherhood.
• Supported physicians in both planned and emergency Cesarean section procedures.
• Assisted obstetricians and midwives with deliveries and cared for newborns directly after birth.
• Aided with induction of labor for women suffering from complications such as preeclampsia.
• Completed comprehensive assessment of patient and family needs to identify outcomes, establish care plans, monitor progress and modify care plan.
• Monitored labs, examined ultrasounds and informed mothers on what to expect in stages of pregnancy.
• Scheduled follow-up visits and instructed care for new mothers for weeks immediately following childbirth.
• Monitored fetal development by listening to fetal heartbeat, taking external uterine measurements and estimating fetal size and weight.
• Assessed individual patient conditions, monitored behaviors and administered medication, injections and intravenous infusions during labor.
• Initiated emergency interventions to stabilize patients.
• Identified high-risk pregnancies and educated pregnant women on gynecological healthcare.
• Collected biological samples from patients, checked pulses, monitored temperatures and assessed blood pressure to keep close eye on changing maternal conditions.
• Educated patients and family members regarding prenatal, postpartum or interconception care.
• Assisted parents in coping with miscarriages, termination, stillbirths and neonatal deaths.
• Helped mothers handle realities of labor, childbirth and postpartum recovery through proactive preparation and education.
• Identified complications in pregnant women or laboring mothers and notified medical doctors to obtain speedy and effective care.

Provided direct patient care, stabilized patients and determined next course of action.

• Taught patients how to improve lifestyle choices, dramatically reducing chance of symptom reoccurrence.
• Organized and managed care of patients undergoing various therapies and procedures.
• Advised patients and caregivers of proper wound management, discharge plan objectives, safe medication use and disease management.
• Minimized hospital stays with recovery-centered approaches, reducing average in-patient stay length.
• Evaluated healthcare needs, goals for treatment and available resources of each patient and connected to optimal providers and care.
• Monitored patient reactions to drugs and carefully documented findings.
• Managed quality care for patients with heart failure, end-stage renal disease and coronary artery disease.
• Participated in nursing simulation activities, evidence-based practice project implementation and competency development to further nursing education.
• Managed care from admission to discharge.
• Advocated for patients by communicating care preferences to practitioners, verifying interventions met treatment goals and identifying insurance coverage limitations.
• Secured controlled narcotics and distributed medication on schedule to meet patient needs and minimize misuse opportunities.
• Updated patient charts with data such as medications to keep records current and support accurate treatments.
• Collaborated with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions.
• Implemented medication and IV administration, catheter insertion and airway management.
• Maintained quality care and comfort for patients with heart failure, pulmonary hypertension and other conditions.
• Educated patients, families and caregivers on diagnosis and prognosis, treatment options, disease process and management and lifestyle options.
• Administered medications and treatment to patients and monitored responses while working with healthcare teams to adjust care plans.
• Oversaw delivery of care for patients on medical-surgical unit, providing direct care, delegating nursing assignments, and supervising team comprised of nurses, LPNs, technicians and unit clerks.
• Administered medications via oral, IV and intramuscular injections and monitored responses.