Stephanie Marterre
Savannah,GA
Summary
Compassionate, intelligent, and resourceful Registered Nurse known for improvement in patients' health outcomes, high productivity, and efficiency in task completion. Specialize in patient education, women's health, mental health, and dialysis treatment administration. Excel in communication, empathy, and problem-solving to enhance patient care and support team collaboration.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
Work History
Dialysis Registered Nurse
Fresenius Kidney Care Dialysis
Savamnnah, GA
10.2023 - Current
- Helped patients and families feel knowledgeable and comfortable during challenging and stressful situations.
- Coordinated with physicians, social workers, registered dietitians, patients, and their families to develop achievable plans of care.
- Reviewed and explained lab results to patients, offering suggestions to meet dietary and fluid restriction goals.
- Provided thorough monthly foot checks, and made proper referrals to podiatry, wound care, and vascular surgeons for new or worsening wounds, and neuropathies.
- Made referrals to vascular surgeons for new or worsening aneurysms, access and skin integrity, access clotting, and access stenosis.
- Supervised dialysis treatments, ensuring correct patient orders are used, and made proper treatment interventions related to patients' physiological responses.
- Made adjustments to the patient's dialysis orders under the MD's permission to the patient's EDW, heparin doses, treatment length, and needle size.
- Initiated patient treatments, from machine setup to catheter connection or access cannulation, and completed patient treatments, from rinse back to needle site care.
- Ensured patient labs are drawn timely, and coordinated laboratory pickup for speedy blood and specimen culture results to be read and interpreted.
- Maintained strict aseptic technique during medication preparation and delivery, fluid assessments, and catheter care.
- Reported new findings to the MD, and carried out in-center standard orders for nausea, diarrhea, and chest pain, and emergency protocols when necessary.
- Educated patients on normal responses to treatments, medications, and their purposes.
- Monitored patients for signs and symptoms of infection, and delivered antibiotics as ordered, staying wary of patient safety with infusion rates, allergic reactions, and adverse reactions.
Mental Heath Registered Nurse
SC DMH
Hilton Head, SC
08.2023 - 10.2023
- Met with patients for their monthly and annual checkups, and provided thorough assessments.
- Relayed to the doctor any new, substantial findings reported by patients and their families.
- Provided monthly antipsychotic and mood-stabilizing injections.
- Called in MD orders and medication refills to assigned pharmacies.
- Worked alongside MDs and social workers to better assist in the patient's coordinated care
Mental Health Registered Nurse
Integral Care
Austin, TX
11.2021 - 07.2023
- Determined medical appropriateness for admission, conducted intake assessments, and reviewed patients' current and past medications, as well as psychiatric and medical diagnoses.
- Monitored vital signs, performed CWAs, and administered both scheduled ordered medications and medications ordered for alcohol and opioid detox.
- Educated patients on the indications, expectations, and potential side effects of medications.
- Educated patients on psychiatric diagnoses.
- Breathalyzer testing and urine drug screening for patients upon admission.
- Coordinated with social workers and physicians to determine best options for care and aftercare.
Women's Health Registered Nurse
Brookside Women's Medical Services
Austin, TX
01.2022 - 06.2023
- Prioritized and carried out duties in women's health, clinical, and surgical settings.
- Performed early pregnancy dating abdominal, and vaginal ultrasounds.
- Educated patients on early pregnancy care: diet, exercise, OTC medications, and essential prenatal vitamins.
- Reviewed lab results: HCG, Pap smears, STI, and urine culture results. Informed patients of results and treatment options.
- Assisted the MD during colposcopy, LEEP, and D&C procedures.
- Started IV inserts and administered sedation medication as ordered.
- Administered reversal medications when necessary during or after procedures.
- Monitored patients for adverse and allergic reactions, post-procedure bleeding, and vital signs in the post-procedure room.
- Administered and placed birth control orders under MD supervision, considering symptoms, prior medical history, and the patient's wants and needs.
- Administered IM injections for HPV vaccines, birth control options, and antibiotics for STI treatment.
- Assisted NP with breast examinations, speculum insertion, bimanual pelvic exams, and Pap smear collection
Infection Control Registered Nurse
Austin State Hospital
Austin, TX
01.2021 - 08.2021
- Inspected facilities regularly for cleanliness and adherence to safety protocols regarding airborne contaminants.
- Communicated trend data and analysis to implement process improvement initiatives.
- Taught instructional courses on TB skin test placement and nasopharyngeal PCR testing.
- Taught new employee orientation, infection control classes.
- Updated and managed employee and patient databases related to new COVID vaccinations and infections.
- Conducted investigations through employee and patient contact tracing, and enforced protocols to prevent the spreads of infections.
- Made hospital rounds, identifying areas with a high risk of infections. and proposed solutions to supervisor
Education
Master of Science - Nursing
University of Texas At Austin
Austin, TX12-2021
Bachelor of Arts - Psychology And Math
UNC Asheville
Asheville, NC06-2010
Skills
- Leadership skills
- IV insertion and fluid/medication administration
- Sedation monitoring
- Medication administration: IV push, IM injection, intradermal, and subcutaneous injections
- Catheter care
- Foot assessments
- Wound care
- Head-to-toe assessments and focused assessments
- Dialysis machine operation
- Medication consolidation and education
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Care coordination
- Patient education
- Lab result interpretations
- CWA and COWs assessments
- Emergency response activation
Timeline
Dialysis Registered Nurse
Fresenius Kidney Care Dialysis
10.2023 - Current
Mental Heath Registered Nurse
SC DMH
08.2023 - 10.2023
Women's Health Registered Nurse
Brookside Women's Medical Services
01.2022 - 06.2023
Mental Health Registered Nurse
Integral Care
11.2021 - 07.2023
Infection Control Registered Nurse
Austin State Hospital
01.2021 - 08.2021
Master of Science - Nursing
University of Texas At Austin
Bachelor of Arts - Psychology And Math
UNC Asheville
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