Rebecca Jo Liu
Staten Island,NY
Summary
Experienced and dedicated Registered Nurse with over a decade of clinical expertise with a strong background in patient-centered care, team collaboration, and clinical decision-making. Demonstrated leadership in high-pressure environments. Proven leadership as a Charge Nurse, overseeing unit operations, coordinating interdisciplinary teams, and ensuring optimal patient outcomes. Chosen to mentor staff and students, while maintaining compliance with healthcare standards. Extensive experience as a travel nurse, providing high-quality care across diverse healthcare settings throughout the United States and internationally, with proven adaptability to new environments, teams, and vulnerable patient populations.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Travel RN
AYA HEALTHCARE
08.2023 - Current
- University of New Mexico- PCU/ ER
- Yale New Haven Hospital- Cardiovascular
- Guam Regional Medical City - ER / PCU
- Monmouth Medical Center – Acute Care Float RN
- NYU Langone – ER
- Robertwood Johnson Barnabas Health – IMCU / Charge RN
- Collaborated with multidisciplinary teams to develop patient-centered care plans.
- Administered medication and treatments as per physician orders in diverse clinical settings.
- Monitored and assessed patient conditions, adjusting care strategies based on real-time data.
- Led quality improvement initiatives to enhance patient safety and care standards across units.
- Demonstrated adaptability when assigned to different units or shifts as needed, seamlessly integrating into diverse healthcare teams while maintaining exceptional performance levels.
- Administered medications and treatment to patients and monitored responses.
Surgical Care Nurse
ADVENT HEALTH
Daytona Beach, FL
02.2023 - 08.2023
- Prep patient for surgical procedures.
- Conducted assessments of patient signs and symptoms to determine changes in physiological and psychosocial health.
- Wound care management through proper assessment, documentation, and implementation of wound care protocols.
- Actively manage and call rapid response teams and codes.
- Extensive communication during interdisciplinary rounding with attendings, residents, Physician Assistants, and case managers to discuss and modify treatment plans for comorbidity patients.
- Monitored patient vital signs, documenting changes to ensure optimal care delivery.
- Administered medication and treatments in accordance with care plans and physician orders.
Float Nurse
PENN MEDICINE PRINCETON MEDICAL CENTER
04.2022 - 12.2022
- Units include ER, ICU, CCU, Med-Surg, Telemetry, Acute Rehab, Pediatrics, Mother-Baby and adult/pediatric Eating Disorder unit.
- Demonstrate knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span and possesses the ability to assess data reflective of the patient's requirements relative to his/her age-specific needs.
- Demonstrate knowledge to assess, plan, evaluate, and document care in coordination with the health care team across the continuum.
- Manages the day-to-day operations of assigned area(s) to ensure support of the mission, goals, and objectives of assigned area(s)
- Perform assessments of patients and collect accurate complete pertinent data through continuous assessments.
- Maintain health awareness of each patient by proactive hourly rounding with special considerations to age and physical and psychosocial needs.
- Monitor and assess for any changes in condition and advocate for patient as needs
Med-surg/Tele, Orthopedic RN
Northwell Health SIUH
Staten Island, NY
06.2016 - 04.2022
- Manage post-surgical joint knee and hip replacements, trauma, and fractures.
- Receive patients from PACU and monitor vital signs, review patient chart, and administer medications accordingly.
- Perform assessments of patients and collect accurate complete pertinent data through continuous assessments.
- Maintain health awareness of each patient by proactive hourly rounding with special considerations to age and physical and psychosocial needs.
- Monitor and assess for any changes in condition and advocate for patient as needs arise.
- Maintain proper position for post-surgical patients in accordance with proper body mechanics, as well as monitor their input and output.
- Place patients on cardiac monitor as per physician’s orders.
- Assessing and interpreting EKG monitor and reporting changes in patient’s condition.
- Assess signs and symptoms indicating physiologic and psychosocial changes in the patient's condition.
- Administer prescribed medications, start intravenous fluids. Assessing and starting IV line.
- Extensive communication during interdisciplinary rounding with attendings, residents, Physician Assistants, and case managers to discuss and modify treatment plans for comorbidity patients.
- Providing complete care to patients and providing support and education to family and patients
- Administered pre-operative and post-operative care to orthopedic patients, ensuring adherence to best practices.
- Monitored vital signs and patient responses, adjusting care plans to optimize recovery outcomes.
Acute Care Inpatient Psychiatric RN
Northwell Health Staten Island University Hospital
Staten Island, NY
01.2016 - 09.2019
- Charge Nurse- Strategic delegation of duties to staff members while maintaining therapeutic milieu, ensuring patient safety, and optimizing team morale. Coordinates needs of unit with administration of hospital.
- Participation in interdisciplinary rounding with attendings, residents and social workers to discuss and modify treatment plans for dually diagnosed patients.
- Provides psychiatric care to adults and seniors (from admission through discharge) with psychiatric diagnosis as well as concurrent medical and substance abuse.
- Assessed signs and symptoms indicating physiologic and psychosocial changes in the patient's condition.
- Administers psychotropic medications and successfully identifies Extrapyramidal Symptoms (EPS.)
- Led crisis intervention initiatives to stabilize acute psychiatric episodes and enhance patient safety.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, COLLEGE OF STATEN ISLAND
12-2016
Skills
- Patient needs assessment
- Emergency care
- Care plan development
- Patient education
- Teamwork and collaboration
- Problem-solving
- Psychiatric nursing
- Medication administration
- Critical thinking
- Nursing process
- Peripheral IV insertion
- Venipuncture expertise
Certification
- New York, California, and New Jersey (Compact License)
- ACLS, PALS, BCLS
- Legal Nurse Consultant Certification
- Trained in Preventing and Managing Crisis Situations (PMCS)
Timeline
Travel RN
AYA HEALTHCARE
08.2023 - Current
Surgical Care Nurse
ADVENT HEALTH
02.2023 - 08.2023
Float Nurse
PENN MEDICINE PRINCETON MEDICAL CENTER
04.2022 - 12.2022
Med-surg/Tele, Orthopedic RN
Northwell Health SIUH
06.2016 - 04.2022
Acute Care Inpatient Psychiatric RN
Northwell Health Staten Island University Hospital
01.2016 - 09.2019
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, COLLEGE OF STATEN ISLAND