Samantha A. Wampler
Pittsburgh,PA
Summary
Healthcare professional with 3+ years of compassionate patient care. Graduated nursing school while balancing a position as a Patient Transporter for UPMC Shadyside Hospital. Maintains critical thinking skills essential to providing competent patient care. Seeking to leverage training and skills to obtain a full-time graduate nurse position within UPMC.
Overview
2
2
years of professional experience
Work History
Student Nurse
- Assesses patient needs by conducting physical assessments and providing therapeutic treatment.
- Provides care for patients with acute conditions: heart attacks, respiratory distress, shock.
- Performed clinical tasks according to facility policy.
- Administers intravenous medications.
- Initiates and provides patient and family education.
- Performed basic cardiac life support (BLS).
- Performed basic duties such as feeding, bathing, obtaining vital signs, and measuring intake and output.
- Obtained blood glucose levels when needed.
- Electronically charted the appropriate information that was obtained from assessments.
- Perform daily AM care along with oral care, peritoneal care, and careful skin care.
- If patient is immobile, assisting them with activities of daily living.
- Safely transferring patients from the bed to a chair as well as from chair back to bed.
- Safely repositioning clients using correct body mechanics.
- Trained in BLS and CPR, Hoyer lift usage, and safe body mechanics.
- Cognizant of patient privacy and HIPAA Regulations.
Patient Transporter
UPMC Shadyside Hospital
01.2019 - Current
- Transport patients between patient units, treatment centers, testing sites, and discharge locations in a safe, timely, and accurate manner.
- Assuring that the patients’ questions regarding the transport are answered by the nurse prior to leaving the unit.
- Reporting any changes, cancellations, or reschedules about the patients test to the correct supervisors, nurses, and testing site personnel.
- Demonstrating interpersonal skills when communicating with nurses, physicians, and family when transporting the patient.
- Ensuring that a safe patient hand-off is given to the proper health care team using SBAR.
- Recording the safe patient transport into the online system of the transport department.
- Safely delivering equipment, medications, patient belongings, and patient information to the appropriate location while ensuring patient confidentiality.
- Transporting patients in a reasonable amount of time to assure other patients are making it to their testing sites as well.
- Always following the proper personal protective equipment when going into patient isolation rooms.
- Assuring that patients are also wearing appropriate PPE when leaving room.
- Maintaining safe transport by obtaining the correct amount of oxygen for the patient.
Education
Community College of Allegheny County
Highschool Diploma - undefined
Baldwin High School
Skills
Care plan management
Patient support
Mobility assistance
Standard medical equipment
Health promotion
Patient Assessment
Medication Administration
Patient and family advocacy
Intravenous therapy
Strong clinical judgment
Timeline
Patient Transporter
UPMC Shadyside Hospital
01.2019 - Current
Highschool Diploma - undefined
Baldwin High School
Community College of Allegheny County