Randi Fowler

• Licensure number: 041.484446
• American Heart Association, Advanced Cardiac Life Support 2020-2022
• American Heart Association, Pediatric Advanced Life Support 2021-2023

                                                      Post Lung Transplant Nurse Coordinator: May 2024-Present

                                                                             Northwestern Memorial Hospital 

• Coordinates care to patients in an outpatient setting after their lung transplant.
• Interprets, analyzes, and triages labs, imaging, and other procedure data to create care plans with cohort doctor and coordinate the follow-up care involved with medical decision.
• Provides education to patients, family and caregivers based on individualized plans of care.
• Involved in multidisciplinary meetings weekly to discuss patients or program changes.
• Currently working with other team members to publish a journal article on the impacts of different types of caregivers on patient outcomes and survival.

                                                   Cardiac Intensive Care Unit Registered Nurse: Oct 2019-May 2024

                                                                   Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital 

• Provides care to patients requiring cardiac surgical interventions, including heart transplant.
• Experience with precepting new orientees and providing a conducive learning environment.
• Proficient in critical thinking skills involved in acute patient changes and communicating medical information to the team.
• Educated parents and family on how to safely care of patients upon discharge.
• A team member of CCU's Sedation Committee, participated in literary review, collaborated with team members to create a sedation slow-sheet and algorithm. Provided education of the new algorithm to co-workers.
• Presented literature review: Blood Cultures Evidence Based Project, flow sheet, algorithm and powerpoint at monthly CCU board meeting.

Global Cardiac Alliance: April 2021- Dec 2023

NCA is a non-for profit organization committed to delivering sustainable cardiac care to low and middle income countries.

• Traveled to AL-Rachaya; Lebanon and Lviv; Ukraine to provide cardiac interventions to Syrian refugees and Ukrainians during the war.
• Cared for patients after procedures, including catheterizations, and an array cardiovascular surgeries.
• Educated local staff in Lebanon and Ukraine on cardiac defects, and how to safely care for patients post surgery, and assessment skills.

Available by request