Meredith Mitchell
Summary
December 1992 - August 2022 MEREDITH RACHELLE MITCHELL Professional Summary Seasoned Registered Nurse with more than 30 years of experience in fast-paced inpatient acute care hospital setting. Excellent patient care and people skills. Dependable with an excellent attendance record and annual evaluation.
Overview
44
44
years of professional experience
Work History
Staff Registered Nurse
Baptist Health Medical Center
- Responsible for patient data intake when rooming patient in physician office
- Gives medicationsin clinic as ordered by physician
- Record patients' medical information and vital signs
- Maintain accurate, detailed reports and records
- Consult and coordinate with health care team members to assess, plan, implement, orevaluate patient care plans
- Conduct specified laboratory tests
- Prepare patients for and assist with examinations or treatments.
Registered Nurse/Clinical Nurse
Baptist Health Medical Clinic Stuttgart/ England
Stuttgart, AR
12.2020 - 08.2022
- Collaborated with multidisciplinary team to evaluate patient data and determine patient care plans.
- Monitored patients, evaluated results and recommended further courses of treatment to quickly improve patient outcomes.
- Demonstrated knowledge of technical procedures and proper equipment use.
- Stayed current with health system initiatives and incorporated evidence-based practice and research into care routine.
Surgery Clinic Registered Nurse and Scrub Assistant
Baptist Health Medical Center
Stuttgart, AR
10.2011 - 08.2022
- Treat wounds or superficial lacerations
- Assess the needs of patients' family members or care givers.
- Obtained client medical history, medication information, symptoms and allergies.
- Assisted surgeon during surgery with retraction, suturing, and camera operating.
Registered Nurse/ Staff Nurse
Baptist Health Medical Center
Stuttgart, AR
12.1990 - 08.2022
- Responsible for the intake of patient data and recording in the electronic medical record
- Organize and schedule patients for surgical procedures and ancillary testing
- Obtains pre authorization from insurance companies for procedures
- Sets up and assists surgeon with in office procedures
- Assists surgeon with surgical procedures in the operating room by assisting as first surgical scrub
- Maintain accurate, detailed reports and records
- Record patients' medical information and vital signs
- Prepare patients for and assist with examinations or treatments
- Prepare rooms, sterile instruments, equipment, or supplies and ensure that stock of supplies is maintained
- Hand items to surgeons during operations
- Organization and performance of patient care duties on Medical Surgical unit
- Shift Charge nurse of medical surgical unit with duties including direct patient care (i.e
- Physical assessment, management of medical issues, administration of medications, insertion and maintenance of intravenous lines), management and mentor of staff members, management of staffing ratios, and interdisciplinary team interaction to set and achieve patient care goals
- Monitor, record, and report symptoms or changes in patients' conditions
- Maintain accurate, detailed reports and records
- Record patients' medical information and vital signs
- Order, interpret, and evaluate diagnostic tests to identify and assess patient's condition
- Modify patient treatment plans as indicated by patients' responses and conditions
- Document data related to patients' care including assessment results, interventions, medications, patient responses, or treatment changes
- Perform emergency medical procedures, such as basic cardiac life support (BLS), advanced cardiac life support (ACLS), and other condition stabilizing interventions
- Manage patients' pain relief and sedation by providing pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic interventions, monitoring patients' responses, and changing care plans accordingly
- Administer blood and blood product transfusions or intravenous infusions, monitoring patients for adverse reactions
- Assess urgent and emergent health conditions using both physiologically and technologically derived data
- Set up, operate, or monitor invasive equipment and devices such as colostomy or tracheotomy equipment, mechanical ventilators, catheters, gastrointestinal tubes, and central lines
- Diagnose acute or chronic conditions that could result in rapid physiological deterioration or life-threatening instability
- Discuss illnesses and treatments with patients and family members
- Collaborate with members of multidisciplinary health care teams to plan, manage, or assess patient treatments
- Obtain specimens or samples for laboratory work
- Collaborate with patients to plan for future health care needs or to coordinate transitions and referrals.
- Administered medications via oral, IV and intramuscular injections and monitored responses.
- Effectively prioritized assignments, executing care based on each patient's relative condition and delegating tasks to available personnel deliver safe and efficient care.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Chamberlain University
Diploma - Nursing
Baptist Health College Little
High School Diploma - General Study
Humnoke High School
Skills
- Customer and Personal Service- Treat
- Each patient and family member with
- Respect and compassion Attend to all
- Needs promptly
- Active Listening- Make time for any
- Questions or concerns that a patient or
- Family member may have Individually
- Address issues and correct each one
- Personally if possible
- Coordination- Organize patient care
- Tasks and complete them in order of
- Urgency Oversee staff members
- Working under me and ensure that
- Patient care is carried out
- Education and Training- BLS, ACLS,
- PALS certified Preceptor for new hire
- Nursing staff Medical Surgical
- Nationally certified
- Critical Thinking- Problem solves by
- Utilizing all available resources involves
- Ancillary health care members as
- Needed to meet patient goals
- Monitoring- Identifies changes in a
- Patient's medical condition and acts
- Quickly to slow deterioration Posses the
- Required assessment skills to identify
- Those changes
- Judgment and Decision Making- Able to
- Make sound/ safe decisions in regards
- To a patient's well being Notifies
- Physician and collaborates as needed
- Time Management- Organizes shift
- Patient care responsibilities and
- Performs in a timely manner
Timeline
Registered Nurse/Clinical Nurse
Baptist Health Medical Clinic Stuttgart/ England
12.2020 - 08.2022
Surgery Clinic Registered Nurse and Scrub Assistant
Baptist Health Medical Center
10.2011 - 08.2022
Registered Nurse/ Staff Nurse
Baptist Health Medical Center
12.1990 - 08.2022
Staff Registered Nurse
Baptist Health Medical Center
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Chamberlain University
Diploma - Nursing
Baptist Health College Little
High School Diploma - General Study
Humnoke High School