
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.
Electronic Medical Records
Therapeutic intervention
Excellent oral communication
Process improvements
Preventive health
Patient and family advocacy
Strong clinical judgment
High level of autonomy
Prioritizing and time management
Team collaboration
Strong critical thinking capabilities