Nancy McConnell

• Establishes lab assignments based on facility needs, curriculum, and equipment availability.
• Identify process improvements in the day-to-day functioning of the skills lab and simulation departments.
• Provide maintenance and repairs to equipment when able.
• Promote available resources, and connect students with campus services.
• Orders consumable inventory, as well as other necessary equipment, for the lab.
• Delegate necessary tasks to lab staff assistants.

• Demonstrated appropriate use of equipment such as high- and low-fidelity mannequins, task trainers, and lab supplies, and provided operational guidance to faculty and staff.
• Pulls equipment, sets up labs according to scenario lessons, and breaks down labs.
• Assures that all lab activities are built according to the standards and objectives set by the faculty.

• Established and maintained successful relationships with patients, families, and the hospice agency CNA by utilizing exemplary communication and active listening skills.
• Developed and implemented an individualized care plan for each client, including supporting and assisting family members.
• Offered a listening ear to both patients and loved ones to ensure that emotional, mental, and physical needs were met.
• Administered medications as prescribed by physicians while monitoring for side effects and patient comfort.

Seton Medical Center:

1) Pulmonary care unit: 4 years.

2) Mother-Baby Unit: 2 years.

3) Home health case manager.

4) PACU and endoscopy.

• Delivered outstanding care to patients with various diagnoses, and managed care from treatment initiation through to completion.
• Recorded and measured patients' vital signs, as well as a thorough assessment of adults and newborns.
• Assessed and recorded patient status, and communicated abnormalities to physicians.
• Delivered medications via oral administration, injections, and IV, monitoring responses, and addressing concerns.
• Worked within an 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. Always advocating for patients.
• Taught patients how to improve manage disease processes effectively, recover from procedures, manage newborn care, etc.
• Managed infection control, critical incidents, and made procedural changes and improvements.
• Utilized critical thinking skills to assess clinical situations quickly and accurately.
• Assessed patient needs, prioritized treatment, maintained patient flows and assisted physicians with non-invasive procedures.

• Operates heart-lung machines and other equipment during cardiac surgical procedures.
• Setting up, operating, and maintaining complex perfusion equipment.
• Monitoring circulation.
• Regulating the levels of oxygen and carbon dioxide in the blood.
• Regulating the body temperature.
• Measuring laboratory values (i.e., arterial/venous blood gases, clotting times).