Patience Thorvaldson
Registered Nurse
Woodbury,MN
Summary
Attentive, compassionate float ICU Nurse with 10 years of of valuable hands-on experience providing complex critical nursing care to adults patients in acute care setting, with high degree of personal flexibility and well-developed communication skills to accommodate assignment changes. Supports professional nursing care across practice setting and continuum of care to meet needs of patient and family. Participates in decision-making, leadership functions, research and quality improvement activities to enhance patient care outcomes and unit operations.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Home Visit Case Manger Registered Nurse
Hennepin Home Health Care
Brooklyn Park, MN
01.2016 - 01.2017
- Provided compassionate nursing care in patient's home ranging from detailed assessment, medication set up and documentation
- Provided needed nursing care including medication administration and wound care
- Provide necessary education and training for patients including management of pain and chronic diagnoses including heart disease, diabetes and COPD
- Performed admission and recertification using oasis documentation
- Identified care needs of individual patients and coordinated responses based on physician advice, insurance limitations and procedural costs.
Progressive Care Registered Nurse
Regions Hospital
Saint Paul, MN
09.2014 - 01.2017
- Care to patients in ICU/step-down unit; assist Doctors with on unit procedures, delegate tasks to care technicians, direct admits and pre/post-surgical patients
- Provides discharge information, educational planning, and referral services
- Close observation with complex medications and use of multiple, IV drips where titration is involved
- Used technology combined with clinical decision support to monitor cardiac and other vital systems to detect informational to changes
- Care for patients on bipap and all types of oxygen including trach and stable chronic ventilators.
ICU Registered Nurse Per Diem
Shift-med
Minneapolis, MN
04.2024 - Current
- Provided direct bedside nursing care to patients suffering from acute stroke, intracranial hemorrhage, sub-acute stroke, subarachnoid hemorrhage, brain tumors, epilepsy, and other neurological disorders.
- Evaluate and monitor the patient's progress.
- Identify sudden or subtle changes in a patient's medical condition.
- Deliver regular updates to doctors, patients, and their family members.
Allina Float Pool Per Diem Registered Nurse
Aya Healthcare
08.2022 - Current
- Provide compassionate and high-quality care to critically ill adult patients with complex medical conditions, which require close observation, monitoring, and interventions.
- Collaborate with patient, family, and healthcare team to develop and execute a plan of care that supports the physical and emotional needs of the patient.
- Identify and respond to subtle or rapid changes in patient status.
- Manages complex equipment, medication, and infusion therapies.
Travel: Neuro ICU Registered Nurse
United Hospital-Aya Healthcare
St. Paul, MN
03.2023 - 10.2023
- Provided direct bedside nursing care to patients suffering from acute stroke, intracranial hemorrhage, sub-acute stroke, subarachnoid hemorrhage, brain tumors, epilepsy, and other neurological disorders.
- Helped patients in brain scans and other diagnostic procedures.
- Monitor and track vital signs in neurological inpatients.
- Performed complete and in-depth physical assessments on patients with a variety of neurological deficits and notified the doctor of any negative changes.
- Safely administered medications in a timely fashion, following physician's orders.
Float Pool ICU Registered Nurse
Regions Hospital
Saint Paul, MN
01.2017 - 03.2023
- Provide compassionate and high-quality care to critically ill patients in various critical care settings at a level 1 trauma hospital.
- Manage life support equipment and IV administration of medications and fluids.
- Titrate and monitor critical medication drips.
- Maintain, monitor, and analyze various patient equipment such as a-lines, cardiac monitor, and central lines.
- Promote and follow core measures and hospital policies when providing high-quality care.
Travel: ICU/PCU Registered Nurse
Favorite Staffing-Nicollet Methodist Hospital
Saint Louis Park, MN
06.2022 - 10.2022
- Patient ratio 1:3 on the stepdown unit.
- 1:2 in ICU if sedated, vented, and on vasopressors, requiring titration.
- Provider care to patient with complex diagnoses such as critically ill covid-19 patients requiring ventilator, bipap, HFNC, acute respiratory distress syndrome, congestive heart failure, renal failure, GI bleed requiring blood transfusion, sepsis and multi-system organ failure, vascular surgery patients, wound cares, diabetic keto acidosis patients on insulin drip and cardiac arrhythmias
- Performs advanced monitoring using current medical technology and critically evaluates accuracy of data collected.
Travel ICU Registered Nurse
Epic Staffing-Woodwinds Hospital
Woodbury, MN
01.2022 - 04.2022
- Provider care to patient with several different diagnoses; critically ill COVID-19 patients requiring ventilator, BiPAP, HFNC, respiratory failure, renal failure, GI bleed requiring blood transfusion, vascular surgery patients, wound cares, diabetic ketoacidosis patients on insulin drip, cardiac arrhythmias, etc.
Travel ICU Registered Nurse
UMMC - East Bank Crisis Response
Minneapolis, MN
03.2021 - 08.2021
- Provided care to patients in ICU/step-down unit, care for direct admits and pre/post-surgical patients
- Provides discharge information, educational planning, and referral services
- Close observation with complex medications and use of multiple, IV drips where titration is involved
- Used technology combined with clinical decision support to monitor cardiac and other vital systems to detect informational to changes
- Care for patients on bipap, HFNC including tracheostomy.
Travel ICU Registered Nurse
Health East Saint Joseph’s Hospital Crisis Response
Saint Paul, MN
01.2021 - 03.2021
- Provided care to critically ill patients with complex medical conditions such as covid-19, congestive heart failure, acute lung injury, ARDS, which required close observation, monitoring and interventions during the pandemic.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Bethel University
01.2014
Skills
- Epic Hyperspace
- EMR/EHR
- Decision support
- Documentation
- Medication Administration
- Tracheostomy Care
- Critical thinking
Certification
- Licensed Registered Nurse, MN
- ACLS
- BLS
Personal Information
Title: RN, BSN
Timeline
ICU Registered Nurse Per Diem
Shift-med
04.2024 - Current
Travel: Neuro ICU Registered Nurse
United Hospital-Aya Healthcare
03.2023 - 10.2023
Allina Float Pool Per Diem Registered Nurse
Aya Healthcare
08.2022 - Current
Travel: ICU/PCU Registered Nurse
Favorite Staffing-Nicollet Methodist Hospital
06.2022 - 10.2022
Travel ICU Registered Nurse
Epic Staffing-Woodwinds Hospital
01.2022 - 04.2022
Travel ICU Registered Nurse
UMMC - East Bank Crisis Response
03.2021 - 08.2021
Travel ICU Registered Nurse
Health East Saint Joseph’s Hospital Crisis Response
01.2021 - 03.2021
Float Pool ICU Registered Nurse
Regions Hospital
01.2017 - 03.2023
Home Visit Case Manger Registered Nurse
Hennepin Home Health Care
01.2016 - 01.2017
Progressive Care Registered Nurse
Regions Hospital
09.2014 - 01.2017
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Bethel University