Megan Steinmetz
Webster,NY
Summary
- Hardworking Registered Nurse skilled in critical thinking and communication, while providing exceptional, individualized patient care. Demonstrates excellent time management skills by prioritizing tasks and efficiently delegating responsibilities to ensure all patients receive care. Organized and dependable candidate with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Registered Nurse
Golisano Children's Hospital
02.2021 - Current
- Conducts thorough patient assessments to identify changes in condition, promptly notifying physicians and initiating appropriate interventions when necessary. Specialties include orthopedics, new onset diabetics, adolescent medicine, behavioral health, cystic fibrosis, asthmatics, and other viral illnesses.
- Manage patients recovering from medical or surgical procedures.
- Skillfully manages challenging patient situations using de-escalation techniques, crisis intervention strategies, and therapeutic communication skills.
- Monitors patient reactions after administering medications and IV therapies such as IVIG, electrolyte replacements, and blood transfusions.
- Assists in the training and mentorship of new nursing staff members.
- Serves as a preceptor for nursing students during their clinical rotations.
- Maintains continuous growth of professional knowledge and competencies through ongoing education opportunities.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
University of Rochester School of Nursing
Rochester12-2020
Skills
- Medication and IV administration
- Direct patient care
- Patient assessments
- Documentation and charting
- Patient/family education
- Clinical judgment
- Patient and family advocacy
- Professional bedside manner
- Telemetry monitoring
- Tracheostomy care
- Precepting
- Patient discharge
- Performing EKGs
- Vaccine administration
- Diabetes management
- Feeding pumps understanding
- Seizure management
Safety Hero Award
After noticing a change in a long-term patient's behavior, I conducted a thorough review of their medication list and notified a provider after noticing a specific medication had expired. This action promoted safety for both patient and medical staff. Within hours of resuming medication, patient returned back to their baseline.
Certification
PEARS certification
BLS certification
Senior Level II Registered Nurse
Co-champion of unit Peripheral IV team committee
Timeline
Registered Nurse
Golisano Children's Hospital
02.2021 - Current
PEARS certification
BLS certification
Senior Level II Registered Nurse
Co-champion of unit Peripheral IV team committee
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
University of Rochester School of Nursing
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