NICOLE DAVID

● Provide nursing care to critically ill cardiovascular patients in a high-acuity cardiovascular intensive care setting.

● Recover post-STEMI and post-PCI patients, monitoring cardiac rhythm, hemodynamic status, access sites, bleeding, perfusion, and potential post-procedure complications.

● Perform femoral sheath removal according to provider orders, facility policy, and established competency, with ongoing assessment for bleeding, hematoma, distal perfusion, and vascular complications.

● Collaborate with physicians, advanced practice providers, respiratory therapists, cardiac catheterization staff, and multidisciplinary care teams to coordinate treatment and promote patient safety.

● Nominated for Nurse of the Year for the past two consecutive years in recognition of clinical excellence, professionalism, and dedication to patient care.

● Delivered patient-centered nursing care in a high-volume trauma center environment, prioritizing critically ill patients and evolving clinical needs.

● Assessed patient conditions, communicated significant changes to treating providers, and advocated for interventions aligned with treatment goals.

● Educated patients, families, and caregivers on diagnoses, prognoses, treatment options, medication safety, disease management, and lifestyle modifications.

● Reinforced wound care instructions, discharge plans, and recovery goals to support safe transitions of care.

● Coordinated care with multidisciplinary teams to promote efficient treatment, continuity of care, and recovery-centered outcomes.

● Supported quality improvement and regulatory readiness by maintaining adherence to facility policies, documentation standards, and patient safety practices.