Melissa Tedeschi

• Trained new nurses in proper techniques, care standards, operational procedures and safety protocols.
• Implemented quality patient care techniques to align with safety, health and organizational regulations.
• Monitored nursing care, patient assessment processes and treatment implementations.
• Coordinated nursing care on unit through staff assignments, assisting and rounding with physicians, monitoring patient orders and communicating with ancillary departments.
• Supervised and managed daily scheduling, tasking and administration of a 31 bed department.

• Conferred with physicians to discuss diagnoses and devise well-coordinated treatment approaches.
• Effectively prioritized assignments, executing care based on each patient's relative condition and delegating tasks to available personnel deliver safe and efficient care.
• Updated patient charts with data such as medications to keep records current and support accurate treatments.
• Precepted student nurses and oriented new hires, providing guidance and mentorship when teaching on hospital policies, emergency procedures and nursing best practices.
• Implemented medication and IV administration, catheter insertion and airway management.
• Directed patient care by initiating and following through with plan of care, continuing care and discharge instructions.

• Worked within interdisciplinary health care team to develop, implement and make adjustments to patient care plans, individualizing strategies and methods to improve health and meet recovery goals.
• Conferred with physicians to discuss diagnoses and devise well-coordinated treatment approaches.
• Effectively prioritized assignments, executing care based on each patient's relative condition and delegating tasks to available personnel deliver safe and efficient care.
• Trained new nurses in proper techniques, care standards, operational procedures and safety protocols.
• Updated patient charts with data such as medications to keep records current and support accurate treatments.

• Performed various nursing interventions such as wound dressing, vital sign monitoring and specimen collection.
• Implemented medication and IV administration, catheter insertion and airway management.
• Managed elements of patient care from admission to discharge or transfer to other units.
• Precepted student nurses and oriented new hires, providing guidance and mentorship when teaching on hospital policies, emergency procedures and nursing best practices.
• Trained new nurses in proper techniques, care standards, operational procedures and safety protocols.
• Assessed physical, psychological, physiologic and cognitive status of patients.

From June 1992 until November 2015 stay-at-home mother of 5 children including the oldest of them having 2 Bone Marrow Transplants and cancer treatments.