NICHOLAS KEETON
Jasper
Summary
Dynamic Registered Nurse with 2 years of diverse experience in direct patient care, staff supervision, and department operations at Baptist Health Walker ICU. Successfully improved patient outcomes through life-saving interventions and effective collaboration with multidisciplinary teams. Adept at being in a fast paced environment and managing critical situations with composure, while providing essential emotional support to patients and families.
Overview
2
2
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Registered Nurse
Baptist Health Walker Intensive Care Unit
01.2023 - Current
- Charge nurse experience (1 Year)
- Hemodynamic monitoring (arterial lines, central venous Lines, CVP)
- Hemodialysis monitoring and management
- Ventilation management (mechanical ventilation, NIPPV)
- Administration, titration, and management of vasopressors, inotropes, paralytics, sedatives and anticoagulant therapies
- Rapid response team
- Post anesthesia care
- Assist physicians and nurses anesthetist during intubations.
- Assist physicians with lumbar punctures, chest tube placement, thoracotomy, temporary pacemaker insertions and cardioversions.
- Intravenous access
- Blood and blood product infusions
- Assisted in the training and mentorship of new nursing staff members.
- Served as a preceptor for nursing students during their clinical rotations.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
University of Alabama At Birmingham
Birmingham, AL12-2024
Associate of Science - Nursing
Bevill State Community College
Jasper, AL08-2022
Skills
- Intravenous access and therapy
- Medication and IV administration
- Direct patient care
- Professional bedside manner
- Telemetry monitoring
- Precepting
- Rapid response team
- Emergency procedures
- Chest pain management
- Cardiac care
- Charge nurse
- Tracheostomy care
- Titration and management of intravenous medicine
- Managing high acuity patients with septic shock or multiple organ system failure
Certification
- Registered Nurse License (RN) - State Board of Nursing.
- Critical Care Registered Nurse (CCRN) - American Association of Critical-Care Nurses.
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support Certification (ACLS)
- Basic Life Support Certification (BLS)
- Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS)
- National Institute of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS)
- Crisis Prevention Institiute (CPI)
Shadowing Experience
48 hours shadowing multiple certified registered nurse anesthetist using general, regional and local anesthsia.
24 hours shadowing in cardiac cath lab observing a pericardiocentesis and invasive hemodynamic pressures during right and left heart catheterizations.
Timeline
Registered Nurse
Baptist Health Walker Intensive Care Unit
01.2023 - Current
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
University of Alabama At Birmingham
Associate of Science - Nursing
Bevill State Community College
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