SHELLIE HUFFMAN
PORT SAINT LUCIE
Summary
Professional nurse with significant experience in clinical leadership seeking to impact patient care and team performance. Known for collaboration, adaptability, and consistent delivery of high-quality outcomes. Proficient in staff training, patient management, and implementing healthcare protocols. Reliable, results-driven, and skilled in fostering cohesive work environment.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Assistant Nurse Manager
Florida Coast Medical Center
Port Saint Lucie, FL
08.2025 - Current
- Led nursing staff in daily operations, ensuring high-quality patient care and compliance with healthcare standards.
- Managed staffing schedules, balancing resource allocation with patient needs for optimal service delivery.
- Conducted performance evaluations, providing constructive feedback to foster professional development among team members.
- Facilitated communication between departments, enhancing collaboration and streamlining processes across healthcare services.
CVPCU Registered Nurse
Lawnwood Regional Medical Center
Ft. Pierce, FL
05.2025 - 08.2025
- Administered patient care following established protocols and safety guidelines.
- Collaborated with multidisciplinary teams to develop and implement individualized care plans.
- Monitored and assessed patient conditions, documenting changes in electronic health records.
- Educated patients and families on health management, medication usage, and preventative care strategies.
- Supervised junior nursing staff, providing mentorship and guidance on best practices.
CVPCU RN/CHARGE NURSE
Cleveland Clinic Martin Health
Stuart, FL
05.2021 - 04.2025
- Weekend charge RN cover.
- Correlates care of surgical open heart surgery patients, CABG, TAVR, Angiogram, and many more.
- Provides monitoring and care of acute care patients.
- Correlates and documents patient care planning, teaching and discharge planning.
- Works closely with a team of discharge planners, MDs, Physical therapists, dieticians, hospice, home health, and other care teams within the hospital to provide appropriate patient care and discharge.
IMCU - STEP-DOWN/TELEMETRY RN (FLOOR +CHARGE)
Bay Area Hospital
Coos Bay, OR
10.2017 - 03.2021
- Additional skills following Med/Surg include critical drip medications, higher acuity patients, bedside monitoring, more frequent monitoring.
- ICU cross training.
- Charge nurse shifts, leadership roles, staffing, troubleshooting unit needs, assisting staff, patient and family complaints and concerns.
MCU- MEDICAL/SURGICAL- RN
Bay Area Hospital
Coos Bay, OR
03.2015 - 10.2017
- Tasks include but are not limited to patient advocacy, documentation, patient-centered care, medication administration, follows protocol and procedures per policy, assessment of patient and medical conditions, provide treatments, delegate tasks to certified nursing assistants, assess laboratory values, communicate and plan with doctors, physical therapists, speech therapy, case management, patient families, and respiratory therapy.
- Discharge teaching, diabetes teaching, new medication teaching, newly diagnosed medical condition teaching.
- Staffing, patient assignments, correlates flow of inpatients in the hospital, utilization of chain of command, leadership skills, training new employees, unit orientation, code response, adaptability to any given situation, troubleshooting difficult family situations and presenting a solution.
- Supporting families with information for discharge and correlating needs with case managers to assure safe proper discharge.
SKILLED NURSING/LONG TERM CARE RN
Life Care Center
07.2014 - 10.2017
- Tasks include treatments per MD orders, medication administration, assessments, documentation, shift reporting, monitoring vital signs, insulin administration, blood glucose monitoring, wound care, woundvac's, range of motion, telephone orders, communicating with MD, paper charting, discharge teaching, medication teaching, communicating with patient families.
SKILLED NURSING CHARGE RN
Ochoco Care Center
Prineville, OR
01.2014 - 07.2014
- Care planning, providing treatments per MD order, delegating tasks to certified nursing assistants, tube feedings, IV therapy, IM injections, documentation in the medical record, providing patient privacy, head to toe assessments, wound care, pain assessment, oxygen therapy, patient teaching, oral care, blood glucose monitoring, pressure wound assessments, treatments and documentation.
Education
Associates in Nursing Degree -
Breckenridge School of Nursing
Skills
- Staff development
- Quality improvement
- Ethical practice
- Care coordination
- Documentation accuracy
- Cardiac catheterization
- Performance monitoring
- Medication management
- Quality control
- Clinical leadership
- Patient care
Certification
- Nursing Licenses
- Florida RN License
- BLS+ACLS
Timeline
Assistant Nurse Manager
Florida Coast Medical Center
08.2025 - Current
CVPCU Registered Nurse
Lawnwood Regional Medical Center
05.2025 - 08.2025
CVPCU RN/CHARGE NURSE
Cleveland Clinic Martin Health
05.2021 - 04.2025
IMCU - STEP-DOWN/TELEMETRY RN (FLOOR +CHARGE)
Bay Area Hospital
10.2017 - 03.2021
MCU- MEDICAL/SURGICAL- RN
Bay Area Hospital
03.2015 - 10.2017
SKILLED NURSING/LONG TERM CARE RN
Life Care Center
07.2014 - 10.2017
SKILLED NURSING CHARGE RN
Ochoco Care Center
01.2014 - 07.2014
Associates in Nursing Degree -
Breckenridge School of Nursing