Dedicated and compassionate Registered Nurse with 21 years experience demonstrating clinical expertise, leadership skills, and skilled patient care. Currently providing intra-operative care in an orthopedic surgery hospital. Energetic and proficient at strategic thinking, problem solving, and working well with others. Seeking a full time or part-time opportunity in the peri-operative setting that provides experience with new challenges.
Prepare operating room for surgery, meet with patients and discuss their plan of care, explain what they can expect during the procedure, check the patient chart and health history, coordinate team care ensuring all drug counts and safety measures are in place, assist with anesthesia and various patient equipment, monitor procedure, document and chart patient care, deliver patient safely to PACU for recovery.
Primary recovery room nurse, responsible for scheduling the PACU staff weekly. Daily responsibilities include checking the crash cart, stocking equipment, monitoring patient vital signs, pain management, collaborating needed care for patient through recovery phase 1 and 2, providing discharge instructions to patients and family. Follow up care for discharged patients via telephone calls. recent cross training to circulate in OR. Perform data entry for Oklahoma State cancer registry.
Daily responsibilities include checking the crash cart, stocking equipment, monitoring patient vital signs, pain management, collaborating needed care for patient through recovery phase 1 and 2, providing discharge instructions to patients and family. Follow up care for discharged patients via telephone calls. Assistance with scheduling PACU staff.
RN surgical cesarean section position. provide pre-operative, intra-operative, post-operative, and newborn care. Also provide care to triage, high risk ante-partum, and laboring patients.
Provide care for triage, high risk ante-partum, laboring, post-partum, and postoperative GYN patients. Occasionally float to medical surgical unit that provided care for a wide spectrum of patients including infants, postoperative, and acutely ill patients.
CPR/BLS
ACLS
PALS