Shawna Bowen

Nurse Supervisor

• Operational Leadership: Manage daily unit operations, ensuring safe staffing ratios, shift-to-shift workflow optimization, and rapid deployment of staff during facility-wide medical events.
• Compliance & Risk Management: Enforce strict adherence to regulatory compliance, infection control protocols, and patient privacy standards (HIPAA/PHI).
• Staff Development: Mentor nursing staff, conduct clinical performance evaluations, and facilitate training on emergency response protocols and new equipment.
• Resource Management: Coordinate with facility administration and regional hospitals to streamline the transfer of critical patients and maintain optimal medical supply inventories
• Clinical Quality & Auditing: Conduct comprehensive chart audits for nursing documentation, ensuring strict adherence to regulatory standards, facility policies, and patient care protocols. Evaluate "sent out" (external transfers/referrals) records to verify clinical accuracy, completeness, and seamless continuity of care. Identify documentation gaps and implement targeted educational feedback for nursing staff, directly supporting continuous quality improvement

• Worked for travel agency for a FEMA contract to provide relief during the COVID-19 crisis
• Provide education to patients and families regarding their disease process and/or COVID diagnosis and prevention
• Rapid Assessment: Performed ESI triage and rapid, continuous assessments for high-volume emergency departments across Level I and Level II trauma centers
• Delegated duties to LVNs, CNA, and medical technicians and assessed their skills and care upon completed task
• Cared for and managed ventilated patients, STEMIs, trauma patients, GI and GU emergencies
• Worked within a dynamic team while closed loop communication to facilitate effective collaboration
• Trauma Activation: Actively collaborated with multidisciplinary trauma teams in critical resuscitations, airway management, and massive transfusion protocols.
• Hemodynamic Stabilization: Managed unstable patients, titrating critical care drips (e.g., vasoactives, sedatives), and interpreting cardiac rhythms continuousl
• Contagion Containment: Strictly adhered to evolving airborne and droplet precautions while managing high-acuity COVID-19 and infectious disease populations
• Surge Adaptability: Quickly onboarded and integrated into various hospital frameworks, maintaining high-quality patient care standards during rapid shifts in unit census and staffing.
• Compliance: Ensured full compliance with FEMA and hospital-specific disaster response guidelines, emergency reporting, and safety protocols.
• Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Coordinated directly with emergency physicians, case managers, and allied health staff to ensure timely patient treatment and discharge planning. [1]
• Medication Administration: Safely administered high-risk medications, analgesics, and thrombolytics following strict hospital policies.
• Documentation Excellence: Maintained accurate, real-time charting in electronic health records (EHR) to guarantee continuity of care and meet regulatory requirements

• Treated patients requiring stabilization and resuscitation for variety of illnesses and injuries.
• Detected, monitored and attempted to prevent complications associated with health situations or treatment plans.
• Administered medications and treatment to patients and monitored responses while working with healthcare teams to adjust care plans.
• Provided skilled, timely and level-headed emergency response to critically-ill patients.
• Provided exceptional care to high-acute patients needing complex care such as ventilator management, extensive wound care and rehabilitation.
• Monitored patient condition, including interpreting and tracking EKG readings, identifying irregular telemetry readings and updating team members on changes in stability or acuity.
• Performed triage on all incoming patients and determined severity of injuries and illnesses.
• Followed all personal and health data procedures to effectively comply with HIPAA laws and prevent information breaches.

• Trained travel nurses and new graduated registered nurses.
• Care and manage patients with COVID-19 and administer therapeutic. medication's and maintaining proper precautions.
• Critical patients who are intubated, titrating drips, and maintain hemodynamic stability.
• Prepared patients for surgery, educating patients and family members on surgical procedures, obtaining informed consent.
• Monitored patient condition, including interpreting and tracking EKG readings, identifying irregular telemetry readings and updating team members on changes in stability or acuity.
• Care for patients with GI bleeds, MI, strokes, and t-PA administration
• Computer and accurate charting using Cerner and inputting physicians orders.

• Trauma & Critical Care: Delivered dynamic, hands-on care for a diverse, pediatric-to-geriatric demographic, managing life-saving interventions for critically ill patients and trauma cases.
• Specialized Procedures: Executed advanced emergency procedures including initiating peripheral IVs, performing PICC line/port access for blood draws, managing foley catheters, monitoring I&O, and administering wound care. [1]
• Medication Administration & Documentation: Prepared and administered emergency medications per physician protocols, ensuring 100% compliance with clinical standards and absolute accuracy of patient charts
• Staff Leadership & Education: Acted as a preceptor for nursing students and delegated daily tasks to clinical support staff, actively monitoring their documentation and training for completeness

Registered Nurse – Treatment & Triage Unit / Urgent Care

• Rapid Triage & Assessment: Perform rapid, accurate triage and ongoing assessments of emergent and urgent medical/psychiatric cases, prioritizing care based on acuity and strict critical thinking frameworks.
• Emergency Interventions: Execute emergency medical protocols, including administering life-saving medications, managing acute trauma, and stabilizing patients prior to higher-level transfers.
• Multidisciplinary Collaboration: Coordinate seamlessly with custody staff, on-call physicians, and external EMS to ensure safe, efficient patient handoffs and continuity of care.
• Crisis De-escalation: Apply de-escalation techniques and behavioral management to stabilize highly agitated or psychiatric patients in a secure environment.

• Helped clients maintain optimal health by overseeing medication administration and all doctor's appointments
• Provided safe mobility support to help patients move around personal and public spaces
• Applied mobility assistance knowledge to safely ambulate patients in different spaces involving varying elevations and obstacles
• Supported clients with mental support and physical activities to accomplish quality of life and sustain needs
• Provided assistance in daily living activities by dressing, grooming, bathing and toileting patients

• Implemented online data tracking system
• Ensured caregiver staffing for adequate patient care
• Interviewed caregivers and reviewed DOJ, drug screen, and background checks for employment eligibility
• Evaluated and monitored caregivers skills on a quarterly basis
• Attended to patients needs and assisted in their activities of daily living
• Assist in licensing surgeons, physicians, and midwives
• Daily Data entry
• Answering phones for surgeons, physicians, midwives, and general public questions