Meagan McConnell
Center Moriches
Summary
Dedicated and compassionate Registered Nurse with experience in the critical-care setting stabilizing and caring for premature newborns. Ability to coordinate care in an emergent and fast-paced environment. Consistently develops strong relationships with parents through empathic communication, respectful attitude and excellent customer service.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Middle School Nurse
East Moriches Middle School
2023.09 - Current
- Deliver compassionate and personalized care.
- Reduce medication errors thorough double-checking of prescriptions and dosages.
- Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams for optimized treatment plans and outcomes.
- Promote a safe and comfortable healing environment by addressing concerns promptly and professionally.
- Protect confidentiality of information related to patient care activities
Registered Nurse, NICU
St. Charles Hospital
2018.01 - Current
- Utilize the nursing process to care for one to four critically-ill neonates, often in emergency situations
- Update patient EMR to keep records current and support accurate treatments
- Communicate plan of care compassionately with parents, and advocate for the needs of the patient and families
- Educate parents and caregivers on diagnosis, treatment, disease process, and management
- Follow policies, procedures and hospital regulations for protocol compliance and patient safety
- Implement medication, IV administration, and airway management
- Assess and identify changes in patient's condition and communicate expediently with physicians and NPs.
Registered Nurse, NICU
Stony Brook Medicine
2016.04 - 2017.09
- Cared for neonatal patients from 23 weeks to full-term at this high-acuity, large capacity neonatal ICU
- Collaborated with physicians and respiratory therapists to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions
- Monitored ventilated patients, drug-addicted newborns, as well as chronically-ill patients
- Followed policies, procedures and hospital regulations for protocol compliance and patient safety.
Registered Nurse, NICU
Cohen's Children's Medical Center
2015.08 - 2016.04
- Assessed, evaluated, and cared for one to five micro-preemie and neonate patients on a daily basis
- Implemented therapies associated with premature infants such as central line IV medications, ventilation, tracheostomies, tube feedings, and injections
- Complied with all unit and hospital policies to provide safe and effective care
- Collaborated effectively with Physicians, Respiratory Therapists, Nurse Practitioners and Laboratory techs to provide team-based care.
Education
Bachelor of Science: Nursing -
Molloy College
Rockville Centre, NYBachelor of Arts: Economics -
SUNY At Albany
Albany, NYSkills
- Maintaining Patient Safety Standards
- Nursing documentation
- Ventilator management
- Infection control
- Team collaboration
- Critical thinking
- Breastfeeding support
- Patient and Family Advocacy
Certification
- CPR
- BLS
- AED
- NRP
Timeline
Middle School Nurse
East Moriches Middle School
2023.09 - Current
Registered Nurse, NICU
St. Charles Hospital
2018.01 - Current
Registered Nurse, NICU
Stony Brook Medicine
2016.04 - 2017.09
Registered Nurse, NICU
Cohen's Children's Medical Center
2015.08 - 2016.04
Bachelor of Science: Nursing -
Molloy College
Bachelor of Arts: Economics -
SUNY At Albany
- CPR
- BLS
- AED
- NRP
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