CAREER PROFILE:
Seasoned Register Nurse with 21 years of clinical experience with a diverse nursing background including nursing administration, hospital nursing supervision, emergency room, medical-surgical, and critical care nursing. Friendly and compassionate individual possessing a strong work ethic, excellent time management, and critical thinking skills. Dedicated to providing quality healthcare to patients. Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals. Seeking a challenging yet rewarding position to broaden clinical knowledge and professional practice to promote and assist patients to achieve optimal health in collaboration with the healthcare team.
• Oversee delivery of care for patients of 25 bed Critical Access hospital including critical care step-down unit and medical-surgical units, providing direct care, delegating nursing assignments, and supervising team comprised of nurses, technicians and cardiac monitor technicians.
• Anticipate potential problems that may occur on shift and set shift priorities accordingly.
• Participate in daily rounding and collaboration with interdisciplinary team of healthcare and social service providers to address patients' needs through effective intervention and care planning.
• Offer immediate assistance in emergency and routine paging situations to evaluate needs and deliver care.
• Create customized care plans and deliver care to meet individual needs.
• Educate patients, families and caregivers on diagnosis, disease process, treatment management and lifestyle options to promote optimal care.
• Provide consultation, education and counseling to patients, care partners, and staff on ostomy care.
• Collaborated with other departments and medical staff to support provision of highest standard for total patient care
• Co-Administrator of 17-bed facility for 1 year. Administrator of 30-bed facility for 2 years. Co-Administrator of multiple facility with 89 beds for 2 years.
• Responsible for all areas of daily operations including staffing, admissions, nursing supervision, ordering supplies, and medical oversight of patients.
• Developed, updated and implemented policies to optimize costs, care and satisfaction of both employees and residents while ensuring compliance with state regulations for licensure.
• Produced monthly financial reports like income statements, balance sheets and cash flow statements for presentation to board of directors.
BLS, ACLS & PALS
Electronic Medical Records
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