Noah Matthews
Crestview Hills,KY
Summary
Compassionate registered nurse with experience in a high-acuity pediatric cardiac intensive care unit, providing evidence-based, patient-centered care for critically ill patients. Skilled in managing complex cases, collaborating with interdisciplinary teams, and mentoring peers to promote excellence in clinical practice. Committed to culturally competent care and dedicated to advancing nursing expertise through a DNP Nurse Anesthesia program to provide safe, high-quality anesthesia care.
Overview
1
1
Certification
3
3
years of professional experience
Work History
Registered Nurse, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Cincinnati, OH
09.2023 - Current
- Supplied comprehensive resources to enhance project outcomes. patient-centered care to medically and socially complex patients with congenital heart defects during their pre/post operative periods.
- Manage patients with advanced life support devices, including extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, left and right ventricular assist devices, chest tubes, pacemakers, arterial and central lines.
- Administration and titration of vasoactive medications and sedation for patient hemodynamic stability and comfort
- Initiation and Management of Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy(CRRT)
- Shared management of ventilators with respiratory care team for ideal airway/oxygenation support
- Collaborate with providers: occupational/physical therapy, social workers, pharmacists, and speech therapy to ensure holistic patient care.
- Respond to critical code situations, manage the Zoll defibrillator, deliver and coach high-quality CPR, and urgently draw up sedation and required medications.
- Advocate during nursing-led rounds to provide care team with recent and long-term patient needs.
- Maintain precise documentation and compliance with hospital policies and best practice for patient safety.
- Role model and guide as a preceptor to students and new nurses, educating and facilitating early learning experiences, skill development, and introducing them to fellow faculty.
- Annual training in maintaining knowledge of ventricular assist devices, including Heartmate 3, Syncardia, Impella, and Berlin Heart
- Active member of Neurodevelopment council, responsible for unit projects in reduction of delirium, standardized lighting cycles to mimic sleep-wake periods, and positioning of infants to maintain head-neck- hip alignment.
- Part of Hospital wide Peer to Peer team, responsible in helping care team members by providing resources, 1:1 communication, and a listening ear following patient death both traumatic and withdrawals of care
- Serve as a float nurse in pediatric and neonatal intensive care units, broadening clinical exposure and understanding of the variety of complex treatment modalities combined with developing patient conditions
Education
Master of Science - Nursing
University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, OH08-2023
Bachelor of Science - Biomedical Studies
Univeristy of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, OH05-2021
Certification
Registered Nurse: Compact License #528095
- September 2023-Present
Pediatric Critical Care Registered Nurse (CCRN)
- July 2026-Present
Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS)
- March 2024-Present
Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS)
- March 2024-Present
American Association of Critical Care Nurses (ACCN)
- January 2026-Present
Timeline
Registered Nurse, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
09.2023 - Current
Master of Science - Nursing
University of Cincinnati
Bachelor of Science - Biomedical Studies
Univeristy of Cincinnati
Anesthesia Shadowing Experience
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave, Cincinnati, OH 45299 June 1st, 2026
Observed a CRNA in the Cardiac Catheterization Operating Room for 3 separate cases, witnessing the use of general anesthesia through inhaled gas from the anesthesia gas machine and intravenous medications.
- Observed the different forms of airway management(LMA and ETT) and monitoring hemodynamic stability throughout the stages of anesthesia.
- Watched the flow of patients from the preoperative assessment & huddle, prepping the operating room, and taking the patients to the PACU or ICU for recovery.
Atrium Medical Center, 1 Medical Center Drive, Middletown, OH
Observed a combination of CRNA/Anesthesiologist across an 8 hour long case, witnessing standard ETT intubation/induction and vasoactive medication management.
- Observed a complete robotic hysterectomy from robotic set-up, patient to door, and throughout the case till taken to recovery room
- Witnessed the da Vinci surgical system preform minimally invasive surgery