Selvija Dedushaj

Compassionate Clinical Nurse known for high productivity and efficient task completion. Skilled in patient assessment, emergency care, and chronic disease management. Excel in communication, teamwork, and adaptability, ensuring seamless coordination with healthcare professionals to provide optimal patient care.

• ICU Early Mobility Award, 10/2025
• Certified Critical Care Registered Nurse (CCRN), 2024
• Good Catch Award, 2024
• Wound Care Partner in Prevention, 2023
• Florence Nightingale Award, 2022
• Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS), American Heart Association
• Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification, American Heart Association
• Water Safety for Parents and Caregivers, American Red Cross, 2021
• Frances Sweeney Scholarship for Traditional Nursing Students, 2020
• NARCAN Certification, 2019
• Mercy College Honors Scholarship
• Organizational recognitions for teamwork, patient centered care/ customer focus and developing self

• Intensive Care Unit Pod Leader, MSKCC, NY,NY 10/2025 Serve as Pod Leader, overseeing workflow, patient assignments, resource allocation, and team communication to ensure safe and efficient unit operations.
• Intensive Care Unit Charge Nurse, Northern Westchester Hospital, Mt. Kisco, NY, 10/22, 03/24, Entrusted with overseeing patient care, facilitating transfers and admissions, as well as collaborating with nursing supervisors to ensure safe staffing., Prioritize balancing of patients to ensure nurses have appropriate assignments and aid as needed., Provide in-depth support and communication for patients’ families during hardships., Ensure safety assessments are performed for code cart., Strategic planning to ensure staff members have ample time to take a break., Collaborate with EICU in efforts to provide distinguished safety rounding.
• Intensive Care Unit Nurse Preceptor, Northern Westchester Hospital, Mt. Kisco, NY, 10/22, 03/24, Demonstrate strong leadership skills in mentoring new ICU nurse fellows and new ICU nurses from other backgrounds., Coordinating weekly meetings with nursing manager, preceptee, and nursing education to establish goals and discuss possibilities for improvement and encouragement of tasks completed well., Hold personalized meetings with preceptee post shift to gather thoughts on previous shift and provide emotional support and advice as preceptee advances., Enforce policies and procedures while providing care for patients in the Intensive Care Unit., Encourage preceptee to collaborate with ACPs, to perform research for unknown medications, diseases, procedures to better understanding and nursing care.
• Nursing Quality Council ICU Representative, Northern Westchester Hospital, Mt. Kisco, NY, 01/23, Present, Oversee nursing sensitive quality improvement initiatives., Calculate and illustrate quality measures, and ensure data is current for unit to reflect., Promote principle of culture of safety at NWH., Perform collaborative outcome and event peer reviews., Facilitate monthly hand hygiene audits to ensure proper infection prevention practices are maintained on unit., Promote and assist in leading our 2023 Fall Escape Room in effort to educate staff in NWH current policies in preventing patient harm., Attend Magnet Conference with Chief Nursing Officer and hand selected members to represent Northern Westchester Hospital.
• Student Nurses Association President, Student Nurses Association, Dobbs Ferry, NY, 10/20, 05/21, Schedule Zoom meetings to unite nursing program., Fundraise planning., Organize merchandise production., Communicate issues to nursing faculty., Delegate tasks to SNA executive board., Supervise operations to ensure accuracy.
• Nursing 2021 Cohort Representative, Nursing 2021 Cohort, Dobbs Ferry, NY, 05/19, 05/20, Plan fundraising events., Advocate peer concerns to leaders of SNA., Inform cohort on upcoming events.
• Nursing Tutor and Recitation Leader, Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry, NY, 10/19, 05/21, Assist in teaching nursing material., Expand learning capacity to real life experiences., Create learning material for recitation., Prepared worksheets and practice quizzes., Provide outlines for exams.