Margaret "Meg" Beguedou

Nephrology RN-In this role, I helped to prepare for clinic, ran clinic which included rooming patients, obtaining blood pressures, placing 24 ambulatory blood pressure monitors, monitoring labs, calling families to remind of appointments, labs and imaging. In this role, I have assisted to make the clinic run more efficiently. I worked up new patient referrals and reviewed with the Provider. Helped to coordinate visits between specialty clinics. I also communicated plan of care with families, Primary Care Providers, CHHC and other various places. I also worked in the office portion of the clinic. I triaged phone calls and communicated with the Providers via Epic.

While at Nebraska Medicine I worked on multiple units. They are listed below:

IMC 6/2008-05/2009: This unit was a cardiac specialty unit. I was a staff RN. In this role, I assessed patients, administered medications, monitored telemetry, and helped teach patients their individualized plan of care. I specialized in the following skills on this unit: chest tube care, LVADs, cardiac catheterization pre and post care, and heart conditions.
APCU 05/2009-04/2014: This unit was a step down ICU. I managed patients with trachs, vented patients, various IV drips, medication administration, trauma patients, telemetry monitoring, frequent assessment and vital signs. I was also a relief lead on this floor which included staffing, code cart checks, and assisting on the floor.
6/7Lied 04/2014-02/2018: This unit was a medical surgical unit.

On this floor I was a charge nurse. This included staffing, helping to manage up to 10 nurses, 6 nursing assistants, 2 receptionists, 2 video monitors and sitters as needed.
While at Nebraska Medicine, I was a Unit Champion for APCU which included assisting with unit practice changes, meeting with other unit champions regularly to discuss practices across the hospital and weekly meetings with ICU to discuss codes and RRTs. I was also involved with UBC, including being chair and co chair on both APCU and 6/7Lied.

RN case manager. In this role I was responsible for patients in the nursing home or assisted care facility that were on the hospice service. In this role, I monitored signs and symptoms of patients and implemented symptom management, offered support to families, monitored vital signs, renewal of service, coordinated with the multidisciplinary team for patient care, and implemented symptom management during the active death process.

RN: I worked on the intermediate care unit. The patient population required more monitoring than a med surge floor. This included medication monitoring, symptom management, initiating bipap, tele monitoring and administration of various IV medications and required monitoring.