Nicole Williams
Pearland,TX
Summary
Seasoned lead charge nurse with background in managing a team of nurses and coordinating patient care. Experience ranges from developing nursing care plans to providing supervision during medical procedures. Strengths include strong leadership, effective communication and critical thinking skills. Notable contributions include improving workflow efficiency and fostering collaborative environment within healthcare teams.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Lead Charge Nurse
Silverlake ER
Pearland, TX
05.2024 - Current
- Helped patients and families feel comfortable during challenging and stressful situations, promoting recovery and reducing compliance issues.
- Stocked clinical workstations and procedure rooms with necessary supplies.
- Collaborated with other departments within the organization to ensure efficient workflow processes.
- Provided leadership guidance to nursing staff during times of crisis or emergency situations.
- Observed strict safety measures, including checking medication dosages before administration to patients.
- Conducted daily rounds on assigned units to ensure that all clinical standards were met.
- Collaborated with physicians and other healthcare providers to ensure optimal patient outcomes.
- Achieved departmental goals and objectives by instituting new processes and standards for in-patient care.
Travel Registered Nurse
CHI St Luke's Health Memorial
Livingston, TX
09.2023 - 05.2024
- Prioritized and organized tasks to efficiently accomplish service goals.
- Provided direct and indirect patient care according to established standards and protocols.
- Adapted to different hospital units and practices, demonstrating flexibility and resilience.
- Educated patients and family members about proper health maintenance techniques.
- Ensured compliance with applicable laws and regulations governing the practice of nursing within the scope of travel nurse duties.
- Managed patient care plans and provided necessary medical treatments to patients in a timely manner.
Travel Registered Nurse
Kaiser Permanente
Clackamas, OR
10.2022 - 09.2023
- Maintained accurate documentation of patient information such as medical history, vital signs, medications administered.
- Monitored patient progress and adjusted care plans accordingly.
- Adhered to infection control protocols while performing assigned tasks.
- Managed emergency care situations, applying critical thinking and rapid decision-making skills.
- Coordinated with other healthcare professionals to ensure optimal quality of care for all patients.
- Facilitated communication between healthcare team members involved in providing quality patient care services.
- Observed strict safety measures, including checking medication dosages before administration to patients.
Emergency Registered Nurse
St Joseph Medical Center
Houston, TX
08.2021 - 10.2022
- 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
- Coordinated discharge planning to ensure continuity of care post-hospitalization.
- Provided emotional support to patients and their families during difficult times.
- Created, implemented and evaluated patient care plans with medical team.
Ambulatory Registered Nurse - PRN
DUKE OUTPATIENT SURGERY
Durham, NC
05.2020 - 08.2021
- Monitor, record, and report symptoms or changes in patients' conditions
- Order, interpret, and evaluate diagnostic tests to identify and assess patient's condition
- Record patients' medical information and vital signs
- Maintain accurate, detailed reports and records
- Administered medications prescribed by physicians in accordance with hospital policy.
- Performed physical assessments of ambulatory patients to assess current medical status.
- Provided emotional support to patients and their families during difficult times.
Emergency Registered Nurse -Travel
WILSON N JONES
Sherman, TX
10.2020 - 04.2021
- 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
- Perform emergency medical procedures, such as basic cardiac life support (BLS), advanced cardiac life support (ACLS), and other condition stabilizing interventions
- Document data related to patients' care including assessment results, interventions, medications, patient responses, or treatment changes
- Ensured compliance with standards of professional practice as well as state and federal regulations related to health care delivery services.
- Utilized computerized Resource and Patient Management System (RPMS) and Electronic Health Record (EHR) system.
- Utilized critical thinking skills to assess clinical situations quickly and accurately.
Emergency Registered Nurse - Travel
MOUNT SINAI QUEENS
Astoria Queens, NY
03.2020 - 05.2020
- 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
- Collaborated with health groups to plan or implement programs designed to improve overall health of communities.
- Administered oral, IV and intra-muscular medications and monitored patient reactions.
- Advocated for patient needs with interdisciplinary team and implemented outlined treatment plans.
- Administered medications and treatments, monitoring patients for reactions and side effects.
- Educated patients and families on health care needs, conditions, and options.
Ambulatory Registered Nurse - part time
WAKEMED HOSPITAL
Raleigh, NC
11.2019 - 03.2020
- Participate in the development of practice protocols
- Prescribe medications and observe patients' reactions, modifying prescriptions as needed
- Assess the needs of patients' family members or caregivers
- Treat wounds or superficial lacerations
- Stocked clinical workstations and procedure rooms with necessary supplies.
- Provided emotional support to patients and their families during difficult times.
- Referred patients to specialized health resources or community agencies to furnish additional assistance.
- Coordinated discharge planning to ensure continuity of care post-hospitalization.
Emergency Registered Nurse - Travel
CENTRAL CAROLINA
Sanford, NC
08.2019 - 02.2020
- Perform emergency medical procedures, such as basic cardiac life support (BLS), advanced cardiac life support (ACLS), and other condition stabilizing interventions
- Document data related to patients' care including assessment results, interventions, medications, patient responses, or treatment changes
- 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
Emergency Registered Nurse -Travel
ST ELIZABETH CHRISTUS HOSPITAL
Beaumont, TX
03.2019 - 07.2019
- Monitor, record, and report symptoms or changes in patients' conditions
- Order, interpret, and evaluate diagnostic tests to identify and assess patient's condition
- Record patients' medical information and vital signs
- Maintain accurate, detailed reports and records
- Utilized critical thinking skills to assess clinical situations quickly and accurately.
- Evaluated patients, recognized and addressed complications and coordinated treatment with other members of critical care team.
- Provided emotional support and comfort to families during difficult times.
Emergency Registered Nurse
UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL
San Antonio, TX
10.2018 - 07.2019
- 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
Emergency Registered Nurse -Travel
VAL VERDE REGIONAL
Del Rio, TX
02.2018 - 10.2018
- Order, interpret, and evaluate diagnostic tests to identify and assess patient's condition
- Monitor, record, and report symptoms or changes in patients' conditions
- Maintain accurate, detailed reports and records
- Record patients' medical information and vital signs
Nurse House Supervisor -PRN
AMG SPECIALTY HOSPITAL
San Antonio, TX
03.2016 - 05.2018
- Manage patients' pain relief and sedation by providing pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic interventions, monitoring patients' responses, and changing care plans accordingly
- Analyze the indications, contraindications, risk complications, and cost-benefit tradeoffs of therapeutic interventions
- Assess the impact of illnesses or injuries on patients' health, function, growth, development, nutrition, sleep, rest, quality of life, or family, social and educational relationships
- Treat wounds or superficial lacerations
- Read current literature, talk with colleagues, and participate in professional organizations or conferences to keep abreast of developments in acute care
- Distinguish between normal and abnormal developmental and age-related physiological and behavioral changes in acute, critical, and chronic illness
- Perform administrative duties that facilitate admission, transfer, or discharge of patients
Emergency Registered Nurse
PALESTINE REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER
Palestine, TX
08.2017 - 01.2018
- Monitor all aspects of patient care, including diet and physical activity
- Instruct individuals, families, or other groups on topics such as health education, disease prevention, or childbirth and develop health improvement programs
- Assess the needs of individuals, families, or communities, including assessment of individuals' home or work environments, to identify potential health or safety problems
- Provide health care, first aid, immunizations, or assistance in convalescence or rehabilitation in locations such as schools, hospitals, or industry
- Prepare rooms, sterile instruments, equipment, or supplies and ensure that stock of supplies is maintained
Registered Nurse
NORTHEAST METHODIST HOSPITAL
San Antonio, TX
03.2016 - 08.2017
- Perform emergency medical procedures, such as basic cardiac life support (BLS), advanced cardiac life support (ACLS), and other condition stabilizing interventions
- Coordinate billing activities with supervising physicians
- Adjust settings on patients' assistive devices such as temporary pacemakers
- Refer patients for specialty consultations or treatments
- Participate in the development of practice protocols
- Perform administrative duties that facilitate admission, transfer, or discharge of patients
- Provide formal and informal education to other staff members
Licensed Vocational Nurse
SOUTHWEST GENERAL HOSPITAL
San Antonio, TX
02.2014 - 03.2016
- Administer prescribed medications or start intravenous fluids, noting times and amounts on patients' charts
- Observe patients, charting and reporting changes in patients' conditions, such as adverse reactions to medication or treatment, and taking any necessary action
- Provide basic patient care or treatments, such as taking temperatures or blood pressures, dressing wounds, treating bedsores, giving enemas or douches, rubbing with alcohol, massaging, or performing catheterizations
- Sterilize equipment and supplies, using germicides, sterilizer, or autoclave
- Collect samples, such as blood, urine, or sputum from patients, and perform routine laboratory tests on samples
- Work as part of a healthcare team to assess patient needs, plan and modify care, and implement interventions
- Help patients with bathing, dressing, maintaining personal hygiene, moving in bed, or standing and walking
- Record food and fluid intake and output
Licensed Vocational Nurse
NIX HOSPITAL
San Antonio, TX
01.2013 - 02.2014
- Set up equipment and prepare medical treatment rooms
- Wash and dress bodies of deceased persons
- Prepare or examine food trays for conformance to prescribed diet
- Provide medical treatment or personal care to patients in private home settings, such as cooking, keeping rooms orderly, seeing that patients are comfortable and in good spirits, or instructing family members in simple nursing tasks
- Supervise nurses' aides or assistants
- Clean rooms and make beds
- Inventory and requisition supplies and instruments
- Apply compresses, ice bags, or hot water bottles
- Help patients with bathing, dressing, maintaining personal hygiene, moving in bed, or standing and walking
Education
BSN - Nursing
University of Texas of Arlington
Arlington, TX09-2026
ASN - Nursing
Galen College of Nursing
San Antonio, TX01.2016
LVN - Nursing
Global Health College
Arlington, VA07.2012
Skills
- Nursing expertise
- Compassionate care
- Mentoring
- HIPAA compliance
- Staff development
- Clinical leadership
- Team management
Certification
- Texas Registered Nurse - 896109
- NY Registered Nurse - 792244
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Lead Charge Nurse
Silverlake ER
05.2024 - Current
Travel Registered Nurse
CHI St Luke's Health Memorial
09.2023 - 05.2024
Travel Registered Nurse
Kaiser Permanente
10.2022 - 09.2023
Emergency Registered Nurse
St Joseph Medical Center
08.2021 - 10.2022
Emergency Registered Nurse -Travel
WILSON N JONES
10.2020 - 04.2021
Ambulatory Registered Nurse - PRN
DUKE OUTPATIENT SURGERY
05.2020 - 08.2021
Emergency Registered Nurse - Travel
MOUNT SINAI QUEENS
03.2020 - 05.2020
Ambulatory Registered Nurse - part time
WAKEMED HOSPITAL
11.2019 - 03.2020
Emergency Registered Nurse - Travel
CENTRAL CAROLINA
08.2019 - 02.2020
Emergency Registered Nurse -Travel
ST ELIZABETH CHRISTUS HOSPITAL
03.2019 - 07.2019
Emergency Registered Nurse
UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL
10.2018 - 07.2019
Emergency Registered Nurse -Travel
VAL VERDE REGIONAL
02.2018 - 10.2018
Emergency Registered Nurse
PALESTINE REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER
08.2017 - 01.2018
Nurse House Supervisor -PRN
AMG SPECIALTY HOSPITAL
03.2016 - 05.2018
Registered Nurse
NORTHEAST METHODIST HOSPITAL
03.2016 - 08.2017
Licensed Vocational Nurse
SOUTHWEST GENERAL HOSPITAL
02.2014 - 03.2016
Licensed Vocational Nurse
NIX HOSPITAL
01.2013 - 02.2014
- Texas Registered Nurse - 896109
- NY Registered Nurse - 792244
BSN - Nursing
University of Texas of Arlington
ASN - Nursing
Galen College of Nursing
LVN - Nursing
Global Health College
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