Savitre McFarland
223 Beachwood Avenue , Avon Lake ,OH
Summary
Objective : To obtain a clinical preceptor who will provide mentorship, supervision, and hands-on training to help me develop the clinical competencies required for my Family Nurse Practitioner program .
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Registered Nurse
Cleveland Clinic
Avon
05.2017 - Current
- 23 – Bed Emergency Department
- Triage patients using the ESI system.
- Intravenous therapy, management of central venous lines, administer rapid intravenous fluids, calculating insulin drips, heparin drips and blood products. Handling cardiac/ pulmonary arrest and status epileptics.
- Respond to unconscious patients due to overdose/intoxication, intracranial events, and COPD exacerbations.
- Care for cardiac patients displaying symptoms of angina, monitored/interpreted ECG rhythms.
- Assist doctors with conscious sedations for reductions.
- Manage patients with abdominal pain, lower extremity pain and palliative patients.
- Manage diabetic patients with hypoglycemia, hyperglycemia and diabetic ketoacidosis.
- Interpret lab values and reporting critical numbers to the physician.
Registered Nurse
Cleveland Clinic
Abu Dhabi , United Arab Emirates
02.2015 - 05.2017
- 45 – Bed Emergency Department/Float to Step Down.
- New expansion of Cleveland Clinic opened to the public May 1, 2015 “start up hospital”.
- Collaborating with all emergency Doctors to discuss plan of care for patients, review new protocols and changes that need to be initiated prior to opening.
- Attending workshops by specialists surrounding neurology, cardiac topics and lifesaving drugs.
- Reorientation on intravenous cannulation, emergency department equipment and mock operations.
- Triage patients based on the emergency severity index scale (ESI).
- Working in the resuscitation rooms and administering lifesaving medications.
- Receive/stabilize trauma patients and transferring them out to the local trauma hospital.
- Code blue team, respond to codes around the hospital and treating any life-threatening issues on scene.
- Treat and manage patients with diabetes, coronary artery diseases, sickle cell anemia.
- Monitor telemetry and interpretation of ECG rhythms.
- Work with diverse populations including Emiratis and involving their culture/beliefs into health care.
- “Pacemaker Super User” teaching the emergency registered nurses how to operate the pacemaker and verifying they are able to use it independently.
- Orienting new staff to the department.
- Emergency department representative for the falls committee regarding the entire hospital.
- Worked on the neurology floor as a nurse and floated to ICU.
- Epic trained for documentation.
Registered Nurse
Thunder Bay District Jail
Thunder Bay , Ontario Canada
08.2012 - 02.2015
- 42 – Bed Emergency Department.
- Triage patients using the Canadian triage and acuity scale (CTAS).
- Intravenous therapy, management of central venous lines.
- Administer rapid intravenous fluids, calculating insulin drips, heparin drips, blood products, handling cardiac/pulmonary arrest and status epileptics.
- Respond to unconscious patients due to overdose/intoxication, intracranial events, and COPD exacerbations.
- Care for cardiac patients displaying symptoms of angina, monitored/interpreted ECG rhythms.
- Assist doctors with conscious sedations for reductions.
- Manage patients with abdominal pain, lower extremity pain and palliative patients.
- Monitor and care for patients with mental health disorders, form 1 and form 3 patients.
- Administer lifesaving medications to patients in code situations.
- Working with the Aboriginal population and being culturally sensitive to theirs needs and practices.
- Manage diabetic patients with hypoglycemia, hyperglycemia and diabetic ketoacidosis.
- Interpret lab values and reporting critical numbers to the physician.
- Work in the trauma and resuscitation room with patients in critical motor vehicle accidents, stabbings, patients on c-spine protocols, septic patients, assisting in cardioversions, and defibrillating patients.
- Flight nursing with EMS crew for stable patients to other hospitals needing vascular surgeries.
- Meditech trained for documentation.
Registered Nurse
Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre
Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
03.2012 - 02.2015
- 42 – Bed Emergency Department.
- Triage patients using the Canadian triage and acuity scale (CTAS).
- Intravenous therapy, management of central venous lines.
- Administer rapid intravenous fluids, calculating insulin drips, heparin drips, blood products, handling cardiac/pulmonary arrest and status epileptics.
- Respond to unconscious patients due to overdose/intoxication, intracranial events, and COPD exacerbations.
- Care for cardiac patients displaying symptoms of angina, monitored/interpreted ECG rhythms.
- Assist doctors with conscious sedations for reductions.
- Manage patients with abdominal pain, lower extremity pain and palliative patients.
- Monitor and care for patients with mental health disorders, form 1 and form 3 patients.
- Administer lifesaving medications to patients in code situations.
- Working with the Aboriginal population and being culturally sensitive to theirs needs and practices.
- Manage diabetic patients with hypoglycemia, hyperglycemia and diabetic ketoacidosis.
- Interpret lab values and reporting critical numbers to the physician.
- Work in the trauma and resuscitation room with patients in critical motor vehicle accidents, stabbings, patients on c-spine protocols, septic patients, assisting in cardioversions, and defibrillating patients.
- Flight nursing with EMS crew for stable patients to other hospitals needing vascular surgeries.
- Meditech trained for documentation.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Lakehead University
Thunder Bay , Ontario, Canada 02-2012
No Degree - Nursing
Delaware State University
Dover, DE06-2009
Skills
ACLS
PALS
BLS
CEN
Legal Nursing Consultant
Fun Facts
Played D1 soccer for Delaware States University
Played for Trinidad and Tobago National Soccer team
Born and raised in Toronto, Ontario
Lived in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Have 2 children ages 3 and 2 and married
Hates mustard
Timeline
Registered Nurse
Cleveland Clinic
05.2017 - Current
Registered Nurse
Cleveland Clinic
02.2015 - 05.2017
Registered Nurse
Thunder Bay District Jail
08.2012 - 02.2015
Registered Nurse
Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre
03.2012 - 02.2015
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Lakehead University
No Degree - Nursing
Delaware State University