Racquel Weyandt
Las Cruces,New Mexico
Summary
New Mexico State Board Certified Registered Nurse with over 12 years of experience delivering high-quality care to patients in ICU and critical care units. Proven leader effective at uniting and guiding nursing teams toward achieving patient care goals, improving satisfaction and continuously supporting wide-spread healthcare system improvements. Focused on continuously advancing expertise in intensive care while driving innovation.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
RN, ICU
Tuba City Regional Health Care
Tuba City, Arizona
04.2025 - Current
- Collaborated with interdisciplinary team members to develop individualized care plans for each patient.
- Assumed charge nurse responsibilities when needed, including delegating tasks to other staff members.
- Assisted physicians with procedures such as intubation, chest tube insertion and central line placement.
RN - PCU Organ Transplant Unit
Nebraska Medicine
Omaha, Nebraska
12.2024 - 03.2025
- Identified potential safety hazards in the environment or among patients' behaviors.
- Counseled patients on lifestyle changes that could improve their overall health outcomes.
- Educated patients on health maintenance, disease prevention, and treatment options.
ICU Clinical Nurse
Rehoboth McKinley Christian Health
Gallup, New Mexico
10.2024 - 12.2024
- Assessed patients for changes in condition and reported any abnormalities to the physician.
- Provided direct patient care, including wound dressing, administering medications, catheterization, and IV therapy.
- Performed assessments of patient's physical, psychosocial and spiritual needs.
Contract Travel RN - ED Holds
Presbyterian Medical Center
Albuquerque, NM
09.2023 - 10.2024
- Planned and coordinated patient care activities to ensure quality and cost-effective healthcare services.
- Developed individualized patient care plans based on assessment of physical, psychosocial, cultural, and educational needs.
- Assessed patients' conditions by reviewing medical histories, conducting examinations, ordering laboratory tests, and prescribing medications.
Registered Nurse, Intensive Care Unit
Three Crosses Regional Medical Center
Las Cruces, NM
11.2022 - 08.2024
- Provided care to critically ill patients in a fast-paced environment.
- Assisted with intubations, chest tube insertions, central line placements, and arterial line placements.
- Participated in quality improvement activities aimed at improving the overall standard of care provided to ICU patients.
- Monitored ventilator settings and adjusted as needed according to physician orders or established protocols.
- Responded quickly and effectively to code blue situations for cardiopulmonary resuscitation and advanced cardiac life support.
- Performed bedside procedures such as wound dressing changes, catheterizations, IV starts and changes, tracheostomy care.
Travel Registered Nurse, ICU
TRA - The Hospitals of Providence
El Paso, TX
04.2023 - 09.2023
Travel RN - ICU
Fiber Staffing - Rehoboth Medical
Gallup, NM
09.2022 - 03.2023
- Administered medications, tracked dosages and documented patient conditions.
- Observed nurse administration of oral, intramuscular and IV medications to patients as prescribed, monitoring responses for adverse reactions.
- Resuscitated and stabilized patients with complex cerebral injuries and disorders.
- Monitored diet, physical activity, behaviors and other patient factors to assess conditions and adjust treatment plans.
- Stocked clinical workstations and procedure rooms with necessary supplies.
Contract Travel RN
University Medical Center
El Paso, TX
03.2021 - 11.2022
- Performed therapeutic nursing care interventions for patients with neurosurgical and neurological injuries, including stroke, brain hemorrhage, trauma and tumors.
- Performed ongoing critical thinking skills when assessing changes in a patient's condition or responding to emergent situations.
- Actively participated in code blue situations utilizing ACLS protocols for rapid response resuscitation efforts.
- Administered medications and treatments as prescribed by physicians according to the hospital's policy and procedure manual.
- Performed bedside procedures including arterial blood gas draws, chest tube insertion and removal, and central line dressing changes.
- Measured cerebrospinal fluid pressure to help treat hydrocephalus.
- Coordinated care for critical issues such as cerebral edema and intracranial pressure, hemodynamic instability and spinal injuries.
Registered Nurse, ICU
Mountain View Regional Medical Center
Las Cruces, New Mexico
07.2014 - 02.2022
- Educated patients and families on treatment strategies and at-home care.
- Developed and adapted individualized treatment plans according to patient recovery goals.
- Coordinated care with physicians and other clinical staff to prepare for treatment, carry out interventions and enhance continuum of care to deliver comprehensive services.
- Administered oral, intramuscular and IV medications to patients and monitored responses.
- Updated physicians on patient test results and assisted in developing care plans.
- Assessed patients in active drug and alcohol withdrawal and provided interventions to manage physical and psychological withdrawal symptoms.
- Provided palliative care in outpatient settings ranging from assessment to development and implementation of care plans.
- Instructed patients, caregivers and families on diagnoses, treatment options and self-management to maintain continuity of care.
- Participated in hospital-wide initiatives and committees to improve patient care, satisfaction and safety.
- Maintained optimal ventilator settings and operations to meet patient care needs.
- Collaborated with doctors to plan post-treatment home care and prevent return hospitalization due to complications.
- Maintained composure and efficiency during rapid response situation and emergency codes.
- Delivered quality care and comfort to patients with heart failure, pulmonary hypertension, pulmonary embolisms and end-stage renal disease.
- Counseled patients and caregivers, providing emotional, psychological and spiritual support.
- Performed therapeutic nursing care interventions for patients with neurosurgical and neurological injuries, including stroke, brain hemorrhage, trauma and tumors.
- Executed oral care, endotracheal suctioning, repositioning and chest physiotherapy for critically ill patients.
RN - Critical Care, Contract
Lovelace Medical Center Downtown
Albuquerque, NM
12.2020 - 03.2021
- Treated patients with broad range of diagnoses ranging from sepsis, renal failure, diabetic ketoacidosis, pulmonary embolism, myocardial infarction, pneumonia, acute respiratory distress syndrome, Covid pneumonia, congestive heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Charge Registered Nurse, ICU - Contract
The Hospitals Of Providence
El Paso, TX
07.2019 - 12.2020
- Participated in development, implementation and evaluation of action plans for continuous performance improvement.
- Established and implemented nursing care plans for each patient through assessment, development, activation and evaluation.
- Developed and maintained professional relationship with members of health care team, patient and patient's family.
- Completed patient assessments, triaged and recorded patient histories, symptoms and observations.
- Managed all facets of telemetry, including PA catheters and arterials, vasoactive drug administration and titration, thrombolytic therapy, dysrhythmia interpretation and chest tube management.
- Treated patients with broad range of diagnoses ranging from sepsis, renal failure, diabetic ketoacidosis, pulmonary embolism, myocardial infarction, pneumonia, acute respiratory distress syndrome, congestive heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
- Coordinated care with physicians and other clinical staff to prepare for treatment, carry out interventions and enhance continuum of care to deliver comprehensive services.
- Monitored and recorded patient condition, vital signs, recovery progress and medication side effects.
- Assessed and assisted patients with diverse range and comorbid chronic diagnoses, including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), asthma, congestive heart failure (CHF), cerebrovascular accidents (CVA), diabetes, and sepsis.
- Functioned as charge nurse and assumed patient care in absence of nurses ending or arriving for shifts.
- Skilled in central line and catheter management for triple lumen catheter (TLC), peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC), tunneled intravascular central catheter (TICC), Quinton lines, and implanted vascular access device (IVAD).
RN
Good Samaritan Society
Alamogordo, NM
08.2012 - 07.2014
- Provided direct nursing care to patients, including administering medications, wound care, and IV therapy.
- Ensured compliance with infection control policies and procedures.
- Monitored vital signs, such as blood pressure, temperature, respiration rate, pulse rate and weight.
Education
Associate of Applied Science - Nursing
New Mexico State University At Alamogordo
Alamogordo, NM08.2012
Skills
- Direct patient care
- IV drug therapy management
- Vascular care understanding
- Diabetes management
- Critical care
- Triaging patient concerns
- Rotoprone Therapy
- Colostomy care
- Long-Term Care
- Electronic charting
- Care plan development
- Patient advocacy
- Catheter and wound care
- Culturally sensitive
- Strong medical ethic
- Removing stitches and staples
- Impella Management
- Balloon Pumps
- CRRT
- Patient monitoring
- Patient Care
- Preparing for procedures
- Life-sustaining machines
- Diagnostic tools experience
Timeline
RN, ICU
Tuba City Regional Health Care
04.2025 - Current
RN - PCU Organ Transplant Unit
Nebraska Medicine
12.2024 - 03.2025
ICU Clinical Nurse
Rehoboth McKinley Christian Health
10.2024 - 12.2024
Contract Travel RN - ED Holds
Presbyterian Medical Center
09.2023 - 10.2024
Travel Registered Nurse, ICU
TRA - The Hospitals of Providence
04.2023 - 09.2023
Registered Nurse, Intensive Care Unit
Three Crosses Regional Medical Center
11.2022 - 08.2024
Travel RN - ICU
Fiber Staffing - Rehoboth Medical
09.2022 - 03.2023
Contract Travel RN
University Medical Center
03.2021 - 11.2022
RN - Critical Care, Contract
Lovelace Medical Center Downtown
12.2020 - 03.2021
Charge Registered Nurse, ICU - Contract
The Hospitals Of Providence
07.2019 - 12.2020
Registered Nurse, ICU
Mountain View Regional Medical Center
07.2014 - 02.2022
RN
Good Samaritan Society
08.2012 - 07.2014
Associate of Applied Science - Nursing
New Mexico State University At Alamogordo