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Desired Job Title
Senior Nurse InternRegistered NurseWork Type
Full TimeLocation Preference
On-SiteLocation: Orlando, FL
Open to relocation: Yes
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Sarah Keegan
Orlando,FL
Work Preference
Summary
Healthcare professional with proven track record in delivering comprehensive patient care and leading nursing assistant teams with focus on excellence. Adept in developing and implementing patient care plans that align with best practices, ensuring positive patient outcomes. Reliable team player with commitment to collaboration and flexibility in dynamic healthcare environments, showcasing strong clinical and leadership skills.
Overview
2
2
Certification
4
4
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Nurse Intern
Orlando Regional Medical Center
Orlando, FL
04.2026 - Current
- Led patient care initiatives, improving treatment protocols and enhancing overall patient outcomes.
- Mentored junior nursing staff, fostering skills development and promoting adherence to best practices.
- Collaborated with interdisciplinary teams to develop patient-centered care plans, ensuring comprehensive support.
- Implemented quality assurance measures, streamlining processes and increasing operational efficiency within the unit.
- Evaluated patient conditions and adjusted care strategies based on critical assessments and clinical guidelines.
Nursing Assistant 2 - EMT Intermediate Critical Care
Orlando Health – Orlando Regional Medical Center
Orlando, FL
02.2022 - 04.2026
- Assists patients with hygiene, mobility, hydration, elimination, and nutritional needs taking into account diet orders and restrictions.
- Provides routine treatments such as oral care and CHG skin treatments to 4 – 12 patients.
- Maintains a safe, clean, neat, and organized patient environment to ensure quality care and peaceful environment.
- Maintains safety and security of 4- 12 patients, their families, self, and other members of the healthcare team.
- Assures patient privacy, rights, and confidentiality via application of HIPAA.
- Follows standard precautions, always washes hands between patients and follows posted regulations indicating isolation status.
- Assists with admission, transfer, and discharge of patients. → HOW
- Takes and records temperature, blood pressure, pulse, respiratory rates, food and fluid intake and output as directed every 4 hours.
- Obtains data and accurately documents pertinent patient information according to Orlando Health specific policies and guidelines and in compliance with HIPAA for 12 patients on the unit at any given time.
- Recognizes and communicates appropriate information and safety concerns regarding the patient’s condition to the RN and or other members of the healthcare team.
- Participates in handoff report and purposefully hourly rounding of 4 to 12 patients.
- Provides exceptional service and or care to all patients, families, customers, and team members.
- Demonstrates competency in vitals assessment, phlebotomy, patient ambulation, oral care on vented patients, foley care, CHG skin treatments, restraint usage and management, patient toileting and hygiene, patient deterioration assessment, GCS scoring, wound care.
- Successfully executes postmortem care on expired patients in a compassionate manner.
- Receives and processes incoming phone calls, patient call lights and guest requests.
- Transports and delivers items, equipment, blood products, and medications (excluding controlled substances and IV chemotherapy drugs) throughout the facility.
- Maintains reasonably regular, punctual attendance consistent with Orlando Health policies, the ADA, FMLA and other federal, state and local standards.
- Maintains compliance with all Orlando Health policies and procedures via monthly educational and policy reviews provided by unit Learning Specialist.
Full-time Research Assistant
Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics Lab, UF College of Medicine
Gainesville, FL
01.2021 - 05.2021
- Completed 7 trainings including handling biohazards, informed consent process, social and behavioral science, identifying personal health information for Institutional Review Board and Informed Consent research processes hosted by University of Florida Institutional Review Board members and Clinical Coordinators.
- Obtained informed consent by reviewing 4 study protocols and expectations from potential research participants to correctly enroll them in a study to test the feasibility of reducing secondhand tobacco smoke exposure in children within the pediatric care setting.
- Coordinated schedules with over 10 nurses, doctors and pediatric residents in order efficiently recruit at least 5 study participants per day.
- Effectively managed clinic workflow to keep staff of over 15 on schedule to see patients in a timely manner to improve study enrollment rates and overall patient satisfaction.
- Participated in seminars such as Patient Safety Quality Week, Black Voices in Research, Communication Foundations, Managing Challenging Patients to improve professional verbal and written communication skills
- Utilized professional verbal and written communication skills to keep Dr. Salloum, Lead Researcher of the Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics Lab, informed on the status of the ongoing study.
- Managed and resolved data input issues in RedCap, a software to enhance data collection in clinical research, by directly contacting research participants, clinic staff and research coordinators to ensure 100% accuracy of data entry and compliance with necessary protection of personal health information.
- Developed proficiency in electronic health record systems such as Epic and MyChart by activating and navigating at least 25 accounts per day and showing doctors how to navigate the software better to foster more patient-doctor relations via new technology.
- Adapted study protocols to better fit the clinical setting to maximize potential study participant interaction leading to 50% increase in patient contact.
- Presented 16 weekly study updates to research coordinators, clinic staff, research assistants and director of the study to reveal clinical findings, clarify protocol and data entry issues and receive feedback on study progress.
- Interacted with 25+ clinic patients per day to set up MyChart accounts to streamline the process for clinic patients accessing their medical records online to ensure patient data quality and privacy.
Maternity Ward Assistant
Orlando Health – Health Central Hospital
Ocoee, FL
03.2015 - 08.2016
- Developed professional communication skills by observing and interacting with over 6 nurses and doctors to learn medical best practices of patient care to effectively care and provide help to patients effectively assist in patient care.
- Interacted with 150+ patients weekly to increase hospital efficiency by keeping doctors and nurses on task, streamlines discharge of patients, trained new volunteers which lead to overall patient satisfaction.
- Trained 50+ volunteers on patient admission and discharge, patient portfolio management, and hospital organization to establish relationships between 8 people.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
University of Central Florida
08-2026
Emergency Medical Technician – Basic
First Response Training Group
11-2021
Bachelor of Science - Applied Physiology and Kinesiology (Exercise Physiology)
University of Florida, College of Health and Human Performance
05-2021
Skills
- Critical care
- Clinical judgment
- Complex Problem-solving
- Physical assessments
- Quality improvement
- Patient care
- Infection control measures
- EMR systems
- Precepting
Certification
- Emergency Medical Technician License - December 2021 to Present
- CPR/BLS Certification
Timeline
Senior Nurse Intern
Orlando Regional Medical Center
04.2026 - Current
Nursing Assistant 2 - EMT Intermediate Critical Care
Orlando Health – Orlando Regional Medical Center
02.2022 - 04.2026
Full-time Research Assistant
Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics Lab, UF College of Medicine
01.2021 - 05.2021
Maternity Ward Assistant
Orlando Health – Health Central Hospital
03.2015 - 08.2016
Bachelor of Science - Applied Physiology and Kinesiology (Exercise Physiology)
University of Florida, College of Health and Human Performance
Emergency Medical Technician – Basic
First Response Training Group
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
University of Central Florida