Sheri Ardini

• Organize and manage care for patients undergoing various surgical procedures.
• Advocate for patients by communicating care preferences to practitioners, verifying interventions, and meeting post-surgical goals.
• Implement protocols to promote efficient and effective care for our patients.
• Serve as resource to nursing and support staff.

• Prepared patients for surgery by completing appropriate testing and administering medication as ordered.
• Educated patients and families on protocols implemented.
• Administered IV medication and secured airway management on post-operative patients.
• Provided exceptional care to high-acute patients needing complex surgical procedures.

• Collaborated with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions.
• Administered medications via oral, IV, and intramuscular injections and monitored responses.
• Administered medications and treatment to patients and monitored responses while working with healthcare teams to adjust care plans.
• Educated patients, families and caregivers on diagnosis and prognosis, treatment options, disease process, and management and lifestyle options.
• Trained new nurses in proper techniques, care standards, operational procedures, and safety protocols.
• Conferred with physicians to discuss diagnoses and devise well-coordinated treatment approaches.
• Monitored patient condition by interpreting and tracking EKG readings, identifying irregular telemetry readings and updating team members on changes in stability or acuity.
• Provided exceptional care to high-acute patients needing complex care such as ventilator management, extensive wound care and cardiac rehabilitation.

Staff Nurse

• Provided direct patient care, stabilized patients, and determined the next course of action
• Advised patients and caregivers of proper wound management, discharge plan objectives, safe medication use, and disease management.

Supervisor (1994 -1999)

• Trained new staff nurses in proper techniques, care standards, operational procedures, and safety protocols.
• Oversaw delivery of care for patients on a surgical unit, providing direct care, delegating nursing assignments, and supervising a team comprised of nurses, LPNs, technicians, and unit clerks.

• Administered medications and treatment to patients and monitored responses while working with healthcare teams to adjust care plans.
• Educated patients, families and caregivers on diagnosis and prognosis, treatment options, disease process, and management and lifestyle options.