Patricia Lynn Cooley

• Coordinated nursing care on unit through staff assignments, assisting and rounding with physicians, monitoring patient orders and communicating with ancillary departments.
• Trained new nurses in proper techniques, care standards, operational procedures and safety protocols.
• Implemented quality patient care techniques to align with safety, health and organizational regulations.
• Worked as triage nurse using ESI process, delivered patient care and facilitated transfers to higher level of care when necessary.

• Gathered patient health data through interviews and observation, documenting data in electronic records.
• Triaged patient using ESI process in Immediate Care Unit.
• Facilitated transfers to higher level of care when necessary.

Worked on 40 bed Level 3 Emergency Room with Cardiac Cath lab and Stroke Center

• Triaged Patients using ESI.
• Collaborated with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions.
• Trained new nurses in proper techniques, care standards, operational procedures and safety protocols.
• Provided direct patient care, stabilized patients and determined next course of action.

• Helped with planning schedules and delegating assignments to meet staffing needs on all Nursing units.
• Managed all Float pool staff and Agency staff for a 350 bed hospital.
• I was also involved in Census Management to meet the needs of the hospital.

• I worked on several different nursing units during this time frame. I worked on an Ortho/Neuro unit as Night shift charge nurse. I then transferred to a General Surgery unit and worked as night shift charge nurse.
• Educated patients, families and caregivers on diagnosis and prognosis, treatment options, disease process and management and lifestyle options.
• Provided direct patient care, stabilized patients and determined next course of action.
• Trained new nurses in proper techniques, care standards, operational procedures and safety protocols.

• Used critical thinking skills to assess and evaluate patient physical, psychosocial and emotional needs.
• Developed and implemented individual plans of care in collaboration with members of healthcare team to promote patient and family centered care in healing environment.
• Precepted new employees on our unit

• Collaborated with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions.
• Educated patients, families and caregivers on diagnosis and prognosis, treatment options, disease process and management and lifestyle options.
• Trained new nurses in proper techniques, care standards, operational procedures and safety protocols.
• Provided direct patient care, stabilized patients and determined next course of action.
• Worked on a 27 bed General Surgical Unit and covered ambulance call outs with an orderly.

• Collaborated with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions.
• Educated patients, families and caregivers on diagnosis and prognosis, treatment options, disease process and management and lifestyle options.
• Trained new nurses in proper techniques, care standards, operational procedures and safety protocols.
• Provided direct patient care, stabilized patients and determined next course of action.

• Organized and managed care of patients undergoing various therapies and procedures.
• Minimized hospital stays with recovery-centered approaches, reducing average in-patient stay length.
• Reviewed post-operative orders and continuously monitored patients' post-operative vitals, set up PCA and fluids and oriented patients to unit.
• Collaborated with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions.