Megan Stepka
Summary
Knowledgeable Travel Registered Nurse with over 7 years of experience in delivering comprehensive patient care. Advanced skill working with diverse patient populations. Demonstrated fostering relationships and coordinate with healthcare professionals to advance patient care. Transitions into operations smoothly and flexes to meet differing routines and protocols. Skilled nursing professional with more than 6 years of experience and passion for providing highest quality of behavioral and medical care. Compassionate and empathetic advocate for patients and families. Skillfully assesses health status, develops diagnoses and manages care for patients with acute and chronic concerns. Experienced in structured and unstructured environments, smoothly coordinating multiple activities and competing priorities.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Travel Registered Nurse
Maxim Healthcare- Emily Program Residential
03.2023 - 09.2023
- Assisted in planning individual treatment programs in consultation with interdisciplinary team using established knowledge and resources in planning care and patient teaching.
- Facilitated communication between healthcare team members involved in providing quality patient care services.
- Assessed patient conditions, monitored behaviors and updated supervising physicians with observations and concerns.
- Recognize and appropriately responds to medical and psychiatric emergencies
- Administered medications as prescribed by physicians and monitored the effect on patients' conditions.
Child Day Therapy Program RN Coordinator
M Health Fairview
12.2019 - Current
- Casual position as of 02/2023
- Managing the care of patients ages 6-12 y/o experiencing psychiatric/mental health disorders
- Use therapeutic approaches to manage milieu to provide safe environment for patients
- Monitoring the safe use of restraints and seclusion and effective de-escalation of patients using collaborative problem solving, relationship-based care, and trauma informed care
- Team collaboration to facilitate therapeutic treatment in order for patients to achieve treatment goals that patients and their families create at admission with the team
- Coordinating with multiple teams (assessment center, inpatient, ER, etc.) admissions and discharges.
Float Pool RN
M Health Fairview Masonic Children's Hospital
09.2018 - 12.2019
- Provide care to pediatric cardiac, nephrology, urology, neurology, solid organ transplant, infectious disease, CF, pulmonary, BMT, and general medical/surgical patients and their families
- Performing advance monitoring, managing complex medication and infusion therapies, and caring for pediatric patients undergoing diagnostic and therapeutic procedures/interventions.
Behavioral Float Pool RN
M Health Fairview
05.2017 - 09.2018
- Provide care to a wide spectrum of patients including child/adolescents, adults, and seniors on 13 behavioral inpatient units
- Ability to adapt to changing environments while providing complex nursing care and maintain safe milieu for patients and staff
- Monitor safe use of physical and chemical restraints and seclusion in emergency situations when patients are danger to other and/or self.
Med Surg RN
Mayo Health System
10.2016 - 05.2017
- Provide care at a rural 16 bed med/surge unit for patients with acute illnesses, orthopedic surgeries, same-day surgeries/infusions, and rehab care for surgeries/wounds
- Provide standard nursing care while adapting and performing services that may not be readily available compared to an urban hospital.
Education
Bachelors of Science in Nursing -
Western Governors University
06.2019
Associates of Science in Nursing -
Normandale Community College
Bloomington, MN05.2016
Bachelors of Science in Psychology -
University of Minnesota- Twin Cities
Minneapolis, MN05.2012
Skills
- Strong Clinical Judgment
- Charting and Clinical Documentation
- Care Coordination
- Critical Thinking
- Crisis Prevention Intervention
- Patient Relationships
- Family Education
- Team Collaboration
- Patient Admission
- Nursing Performance Assessment
Certification
- Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing board certification
- Registered Nurse Licenses in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Washington
- AHA BLS Certified
Timeline
Travel Registered Nurse
Maxim Healthcare- Emily Program Residential
03.2023 - 09.2023
Child Day Therapy Program RN Coordinator
M Health Fairview
12.2019 - Current
Float Pool RN
M Health Fairview Masonic Children's Hospital
09.2018 - 12.2019
Behavioral Float Pool RN
M Health Fairview
05.2017 - 09.2018
Med Surg RN
Mayo Health System
10.2016 - 05.2017
Bachelors of Science in Nursing -
Western Governors University
Associates of Science in Nursing -
Normandale Community College
Bachelors of Science in Psychology -
University of Minnesota- Twin Cities
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