Megan Schug
WellSpan Gettysburg Hospital
Taneytown
1
Certification
8
years of professional experience
Registered Nurse, NASM Certified Personal Trainer, and NASM Certified Nutrition Coach with a passion for helping people improve their health, performance, and quality of life through sustainable nutrition, fitness, and lifestyle habits. Combining a clinical healthcare background with personal experience in endurance training, CrossFit, HYROX, and body composition coaching, I bring a practical, evidence-based approach to behavior change. My nursing experience has strengthened my skills in education, accountability, communication, and individualized coaching, allowing me to help clients build realistic habits that support long-term success.
Work History
Registered Nurse
4 Years- Experienced Cardiac Cath Lab RN functioning as Charge RN, Pre/Post RN, and Intra-procedural RN. Provides comprehensive pre/post procedural care including patient assessment, IV access, medication administration, education, and recovery management. In-lab roles include circulator, monitor, and sedation RN, administering moderate sedation and monitoring hemodynamics, ECG, and procedural data. Collaborates with physicians and interdisciplinary teams to promote patient safety, comfort, and optimal outcomes.
Travel Registered Nurse
5 Months- MedStar Harbor Hospital
- Provides care, performs assessments, educates, and implements interventions for 1-3 intermediate care and critically-ill patients on the 24 bed Medical/Surgical Intensive Care unit. Collaborates with patients, families, and the interdisciplinary team to meet the goals of care. Detailed assessment, interventions, and management of these patients may include invasive and non-invasive ventilation, invasive and non-invasive cardiac monitoring, lines, tubes, and drains, continuous renal replacement treatment (CRRT), and titration of critical medication drips. These drips include, vasoactive medications, sedatives, paralytics, insulin, heparin, etc. Assists in bedside procedures such as central and arterial line insertions, emergent intubation, bronchoscopies, lumbar punctures, and chest tube insertions.
Registered Nurse
2 Years 11 Months- Provides care, performs assessments, educates, and implements interventions for 1-3 intermediate care and critically-ill patients on the 24 bed Medical/Surgical Intensive Care unit. Collaborates with patients, families, and the interdisciplinary team to meet the goals of care. Detailed assessment, interventions, and management of these patients may include invasive and non-invasive ventilation, invasive and non-invasive cardiac monitoring, lines, tubes, and drains, continuous renal replacement treatment (CRRT), and titration of critical medication drips. These drips include, vasoactive medications, sedatives, paralytics, insulin, heparin, etc. Staff nurse and acts in the leadership role as both a charge nurse and clinical lead. Assists in bedside procedures such as central and arterial line insertions, emergent intubation, bronchoscopies, lumbar punctures, and chest tube insertions.
Student Nurse Extern
7 Months- Cared for a diverse group of patients on the Medical Progressive Care Unit (Nelson 5). Performed basic nursing tasks such as, obtaining and recording vital signs, intake and output, blood glucose testing, phlebotomy, urinary catheterizations, tracheostomy care and suctioning. Obtained basic understanding of ventilators, arterial lines, and vasoactive drips.
Education
Bachelors Degree of Science - Nursing
Associates Degree of Science - Nursing
Pre-Nursing
Fulfilled prerequisite nursing degree coursework. Student athlete on the Varsity women’s tennis team and awarded All-Capital Athletic Conference Second Team Doubles. Member of the Student Athletic Conference Committee.
Skills
Electronic patient records - Epic
Cerner
CRRT trained
Heart health
Patient assessment
Medication and IV administration
Direct patient care
Patient assessments
Patient education and counseling
Health promotion and disease prevention
Macro tracking
Body composition assessments
Basic life support for health care providers (BLS)
Advanced cardiac life support (ACLS) certification
Certification
- NASM Certified Personal Trainer
- NASM Certified Nutrition Coach
- Registered Nurse, State of Maryland - R326529
- ACLS and BLS Certification
Timeline
Registered Nurse
WellSpan Gettysburg Hospital
06.2022 - CurrentRead More
Travel Registered Nurse
American Mobile Healthcare
01.2022 - 06.2022Read More
Registered Nurse
Greater Baltimore Medical Center
02.2019 - 01.2022Read More
Student Nurse Extern
Johns Hopkins Hospital
06.2018 - 01.2019Read More
Salisbury University
Pre-Nursing
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Community College of Baltimore County
Associates Degree of Science from Nursing
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Towson University
Bachelors Degree of Science from Nursing
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Awards
ICU Clinician of the Year (2020)