Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
References
Certification
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MEGAN CHANDLER

LUVERNE,AL

Summary

Compassionate Charge Nurse offers 7 years of patient care and advocacy within psychiatric, medical surgical, and intensive care units. Highly skilled in charting, managing patient intake and discharges and monitoring care plans. Well-versed in promoting policies and protocols to achieve core measures. Demonstrated success in cultivating strong patient rapport to drive outcome goals. Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals. To seek and maintain full-time position that offers professional challenges utilizing interpersonal skills, excellent time management and problem-solving skills.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Charge Nurse

CRENSHAW COMMUNITY HOSPITAL
03.2018 - Current
  • Coordinated nursing care on psychiatric and medical surgical units through staff assignments, assisting and rounding with physicians, monitoring patient orders, and communicating with ancillary departments.
  • Quickly responded to situations impacting safety and security to unit, actualizing crisis prevention interventions to control and de-escalate situations.
  • Facilitated therapeutic communication, conflict resolution and crisis intervention by redirecting negative behaviors and helping patients regain or improve coping abilities.
  • Monitored nursing care, patient assessment processes, and treatment implementations.
  • Collaborated with other healthcare professionals to provide quality patient care.
  • Administered medications and treatment to patients and monitored responses while working with healthcare teams to adjust care plans.
  • Implemented quality patient care techniques to align with safety, health, and organizational regulations.
  • Cared for patients' wounds and changed dressings.
  • Evaluated patient histories, complaints, and current symptoms.
  • Provided skilled, timely and level-headed emergency response to critically-ill patients.
  • Trained new nurses in proper techniques, care standards, operational procedures, and safety protocols.

Registered Nurse

Medical Center Enterprise
05.2022 - 05.2023
  • Collaborated with physicians on the medical surgical floor, floated periodically to intensive care unit to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions.
  • Administered medications via oral, IV, and intramuscular injections and monitored responses.
  • Provided direct patient care, stabilized patients, and determined next course of action.
  • Managed care from admission to discharge.
  • Trained new nurses and nursing students in proper techniques, care standards, operational procedures, and safety protocols.
  • Implemented catheter insertion, and airway management.
  • Advised patients and caregivers of proper wound management, discharge plan objectives, safe medication use, and disease management.
  • Collected blood, tissue, and other laboratory specimens and prepared for lab testing.
  • Monitored patient condition by interpreting and tracking EKG readings, identifying irregular telemetry readings.
  • Maintained quality care and comfort for patients with heart failure, pulmonary hypertension, COPD, end-stage renal disease, and coronary artery disease, and other conditions.
  • Provided exceptional care to high-acute patients needing complex care such as ventilator management, extensive wound care and rehabilitation.
  • Explained course of care and medication side effects to patients and caregivers in easy-to-understand terms.
  • Monitored patient reactions after administering medications and IV therapies.
  • Provided skilled, timely and level-headed emergency response to critically-ill patients.
  • Delivered high level of quality care to diverse populations.
  • Promoted patient and family comfort during challenging recoveries to enhance healing and eliminate non-compliance problems.
  • Performed frequent checks on life support equipment and made necessary adjustments to preserve optimal patient conditions.

LPN

LUVERNE HEALTH AND REHAB
12.2017 - 05.2019
  • Supervised patient care, performed assessments, monitored safety in a long-term skilled facility setting with a bed capacity of 141 patients
  • Delivered direct quality care to patients by evaluating medical conditions and managing and assessing treatments.
  • Assessed patients' temperature, pulse, and blood pressure and recorded in electronic medical records.
  • Assisted in coordinating transfers, discharges and admissions to establish smooth transition of patients.
  • Promoted patient independence by teaching self-care skills and explaining conditions and medications.
  • Trained new graduates in long term facility health practices.
  • Administered medications and injections to patients.
  • Responded to patient requests with appropriate clinical and personal assistance.
  • Helped long-term care residents with bathing, dressing, feeding, and other daily living activities.
  • Helped patients complete bathing, dressing and eating.

Education

ASSOCIATE DEGREE NURSING -

WALLACE COMMUNITY COLLEGE
DOTHAN, AL
05.2022

PRACTICAL NURSING -

WALLACE COMMUNITY COLLEGE
DOTHAN, AL
12.2017

Skills

  • Patient safety
  • Technology Proficient
  • Punctual
  • Dependable
  • Team Player
  • Reliable
  • Organized
  • Adaptable
  • Staff Training
  • Nurse and CNA Supervision
  • Patient Advocacy
  • Coaching and Mentoring
  • Medication Distribution
  • Medication Administration
  • Compassionate and Patient
  • Health Education
  • Calm and Composed
  • Charting and Documenting
  • Microsoft Office

References

  • Victoria Trice, RN, Charge Nurse, 334-782-6463
  • Shana Anderson, RN, Charge Nurse, 334-504-0186
  • April Rigdon, CNA, 334-342-8493

Certification

  • Basic Life Support, Expires August 2025
  • Advanced Cardiac Life Support, Expires September 2025
  • Pediatric Advanced Life Support, Expires September 2025
  • CPI; Nonviolent Crisis Intervention, Expires September 2025

Timeline

Registered Nurse

Medical Center Enterprise
05.2022 - 05.2023

Charge Nurse

CRENSHAW COMMUNITY HOSPITAL
03.2018 - Current

LPN

LUVERNE HEALTH AND REHAB
12.2017 - 05.2019

ASSOCIATE DEGREE NURSING -

WALLACE COMMUNITY COLLEGE

PRACTICAL NURSING -

WALLACE COMMUNITY COLLEGE

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