Shalyn Gamble

Efficient and dedicated Registered Nurse, with 6 years of work experience in direct patient care and care coordination in a fast-paced work environment. Proven ability to remain calm under pressure and skillfully handle patients in high-stressed situations. Frequently praised as hard-working by my peers, I can be relied upon to help your company achieve its goals.

• Monitor patients for changes in status and indications of conditions such as sepsis or shock and institute appropriate interventions.
• Set up and monitor medical equipment and devices such as cardiac monitors, mechanical ventilators and alarms, oxygen delivery devices, transducers, and pressure lines.
• Administer medications intravenously, by injection, orally, through gastric tubes, or by other methods.
• Evaluate patients' vital signs and laboratory data to determine emergency intervention needs.
• Prioritize nursing care for assigned critically ill patients based on assessment data and identified needs.
• Advocate for patients' and families' needs, or provide emotional support for patients and their families.
• Administer blood and blood products, monitoring patients for signs and symptoms related to transfusion reactions.
• Perform approved therapeutic or diagnostic procedures based upon patients' clinical status.
• Provide basic patient care or treatments, such as taking temperatures or blood pressures, dressing wounds, treating bedsores, giving enemas or douches, rubbing with alcohol, massaging, or performing catheterizations.
• Collect samples, such as blood, urine, or sputum from patients, and perform routine laboratory tests on samples.
• Provide medical treatment or personal care to patients in private home settings, such as cooking, keeping rooms orderly, seeing that patients are comfortable and in good spirits, or instructing family members in simple nursing tasks.
• Administer prescribed medications or start intravenous fluids, noting times and amounts on patients' charts.
• Measure and record patients' vital signs, such as height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, pulse, and respiration.
• Assemble and use equipment, such as catheters, tracheotomy tubes, or oxygen suppliers.
• Supervise nurses' aides or assistants.

Title: Registered Nurse

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