Megan Vancil
Summary
Dedicated Registered Nurse with 5 years of nursing experience and demonstrated proficiency in prioritizing tasks and maintaining composure in high-pressure environments. Works effectively within healthcare teams through exceptional communication and recordkeeping skills.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
Registered Nurse, Internal Medicine
OSF St. Mary Medical Center
Galesburg, IL
01.2024 - Current
- Collaborated with interdisciplinary healthcare teams to develop comprehensive care plans tailored to individual patient needs.
- Developed strong rapport with patients and families, addressing concerns empathetically while advocating for their needs within the healthcare system.
- Exhibited strong clinical judgment when prioritizing patient care needs, allocating resources effectively to address the most pressing concerns in a timely manner.
- Participated actively in quality improvement initiatives aimed at enhancing patient safety measures within the internal medicine unit.
- Ordered screening tests and advised patients on preventive care treatments to promote ongoing health of patients.
Registered Nurses/Charge Nurse- Interventional Radiology
Memorial Hospital
08.2021 - 12.2023
- Prepare patients for and assist with examinations or treatments
- Instruct individuals, families, or other groups on topics such as health education, disease prevention, or childbirth and develop health improvement programs
- Conduct specified laboratory tests
- Monitor, record, and report symptoms or changes in patients' conditions
- Maintain accurate, detailed reports and records
- Administer medications to patients and monitor patients for reactions or side effects
- Record patients' medical information and vital signs.
- Trained new nurses in proper techniques, care standards, operational procedures, and safety protocols.
- Coordinated nursing care on unit through staff assignments, assisting and rounding with physicians, monitoring patient orders, and communicating with ancillary departments.
- Developed and maintained close relationships with patients and families to facilitate smooth communications, provide encouragement and build trust.
- Optimized patient satisfaction through timely response to concerns and effective communication among staff members.
Registered Nurses
Great River Health
06.2020 - 05.2021
- Monitor all aspects of patient care, including diet and physical activity
- Assess the needs of individuals, families, or communities, including assessment of individuals' home or work environments, to identify potential health or safety problems
- Instruct individuals, families, or other groups on topics such as health education, disease prevention, or childbirth and develop health improvement programs
- Prepare patients for and assist with examinations or treatments
- Consult and coordinate with healthcare team members to assess, plan, implement, or evaluate patient care plans
- Monitor, record, and report symptoms or changes in patients' conditions
- Administer medications to patients and monitor patients for reactions or side effects
- Maintain accurate, detailed reports and records.
LPN
Great River Klein Center
07.2019 - 06.2020
- Prepare patients for examinations, tests, or treatments and explain procedures
- Collect samples, such as blood, urine, or sputum from patients, and perform routine laboratory tests on samples
- Apply compresses, ice bags, or hot water bottles
- Evaluate nursing intervention outcomes, conferring with other healthcare team members as necessary
- Supervise nurses' aides or assistants
- Work as part of a healthcare team to assess patient needs, plan and modify care, and implement interventions
- Provide basic patient care or treatments, such as taking temperatures or blood pressures, dressing wounds, treating bedsores, giving enemas or douches, rubbing with alcohol, massaging, or performing catheterizations
- Measure and record patients' vital signs, such as height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, pulse, or respiration
- Observe patients, charting and reporting changes in patients' conditions, such as adverse reactions to medication or treatment, and taking any necessary action
- Administer prescribed medications or start intravenous fluids, noting times and amounts on patients' charts.
Nursing Assistants
Great River Klein Center
01.2019 - 06.2019
- Collect specimens, such as urine, feces, or sputum
- Restock patient rooms with personal hygiene items, such as towels, washcloths, soap, or toilet paper
- Provide physical support to assist patients to perform daily living activities, such as getting out of bed, bathing, dressing, using the toilet, standing, walking, or exercising
- Record vital signs, such as temperature, blood pressure, pulse, or respiration rate, as directed by medical or nursing staff
- Undress, wash, and dress patients who are unable to do so for themselves
- Document or otherwise report observations of patient behavior, complaints, or physical symptoms to nurses
- Measure and record food and liquid intake or urinary and fecal output, reporting changes to medical or nursing staff
- Feed patients or assist patients to eat or drink
- Answer patient call signals, signal lights, bells, or intercom systems to determine patients' needs
- Turn or reposition bedridden patients.
Preschool Teachers, Except Special Education
Kidzone Day Care
12.2017 - 12.2018
- Confer with other staff members to plan and schedule lessons promoting learning, following approved curricula
- Organize and label materials and display students' work in a manner appropriate for their ages and perceptual skills
- Plan and conduct activities for a balanced program of instruction, demonstration, and work time that provides students with opportunities to observe, question, and investigate
- Organize and lead activities designed to promote physical, mental, and social development, such as games, arts and crafts, music, storytelling, and field trips
- Prepare materials and classrooms for class activities
- Read books to entire classes or to small groups
- Meet with parents and guardians to discuss their children's progress and needs, determine their priorities for their children, and suggest ways that they can promote learning and development
- Attend to children's basic needs by feeding them, dressing them, and changing their diapers
- Provide a variety of materials and resources for children to explore, manipulate, and use, both in learning activities and in imaginative play
- Teach basic skills, such as color, shape, number and letter recognition, personal hygiene, and social skills.
Food Preparation Workers
Subway
01.2015 - 07.2017
- Load dishes, glasses, and tableware into dishwashing machines
- Remove trash and clean kitchen garbage containers
- Stock cupboards and refrigerators, and tend salad bars and buffet meals
- Prepare a variety of foods, such as meats, vegetables, or desserts, according to customers' orders or supervisors' instructions, following approved procedures
- Portion and wrap the food, or place it directly on plates for service to patrons
- Clean and sanitize work areas, equipment, utensils, dishes, or silverware.
Education
Bachelor's - BSN
Southern Illinois University- Edwardsville
Edwardsville, IL05.2024
Associate - Nursing
Southeastern Community College
Burlington, IA05.2020
High School -
West Central High School
Biggsville, IL05.2017
Skills
- Thoracentesis
- Paracentesis
- Biopsies
- Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) Certification
- Charge Nurse
- Interventional Radiology
- Nurse Education
- Orthopedics
- Behavioral Health
- Geriatrics
- Wound Care
- Caregiving
- Telemetry
- Acute Care
- Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)
- Basic Life Support
- Medical Surgical Nursing
- Nursing
- Nursing Care
- Compassionate Care
- Clinical judgment
- Vital signs monitoring
- Intravenous therapy
- Healthcare ethics
- Compassionate and Caring
- Direct Patient Care
- Patient and family advocacy
Timeline
Registered Nurse, Internal Medicine
OSF St. Mary Medical Center
01.2024 - Current
Registered Nurses/Charge Nurse- Interventional Radiology
Memorial Hospital
08.2021 - 12.2023
Registered Nurses
Great River Health
06.2020 - 05.2021
LPN
Great River Klein Center
07.2019 - 06.2020
Nursing Assistants
Great River Klein Center
01.2019 - 06.2019
Preschool Teachers, Except Special Education
Kidzone Day Care
12.2017 - 12.2018
Food Preparation Workers
Subway
01.2015 - 07.2017
Bachelor's - BSN
Southern Illinois University- Edwardsville
Associate - Nursing
Southeastern Community College
High School -
West Central High School