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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

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Timeline

Patient Transporter

UPMC Shadyside Hospital
01.2019 - Current

Highschool Diploma - undefined

Baldwin High School

Community College of Allegheny County

Student Nurse

Samantha A. Wampler