Susan Ericksen

03/2021-10/2021 OR Circulating Nurse

10/2021-current Staff Nurse Same Day Surgery

•preop/post op patients having general surgery, Gyn procedures, Urology procedures, Vascular procedures, ENT surgeries

•IV insertion

• Foley catheter insertion

•Communication with patients, families, physicians, physician's office, surgery staff, and other interdisciplinary team members.

•Scheduling, assigning, and assessing needs of new patients

•Communicating with patients, patient's families, nursing staff, MD, MD's office, and other interdisciplinary team members

•Employee scheduling

• Employee evaluations

•Chart reviews

•Scheduling, assigning, and assess needs of new patients

•Communicating with patients, patient's families, nursing staff, MD, MD's office, and other interdisciplinary team members

•Employee scheduling

• Employee evaluations

•Chart reviews

Year 1-10

Caring for post partum patients, newborns, uncomplicated vaginal and abdominal gyn surgical patients

• Collaborated with patients, families, MDs and other interdisciplinary team members
• Charge nurse
• Served as a patient care specialist
• Taught prenatal classes
• New hire receptor

Year11-20

Caring for antepartum and laboring patient, circulating nurse for cesarean sections, post partum tubal ligations, and D&Cs

• Collaborated with patients, families, doctors and resident doctors, and other interdisciplinary team members

•Charge nurse duties

•Served as a patient care specialist

•Preceptor for new hires

• Served on building committee for new Women's Center

Year 21-30

Home Health Care- Case Manager

•Communicating with patients, patient families, doctors, and other interdisciplinary team members

•Education of patients and families on disease process, IV antibiotic administration, Pleural drainage system, wound care.

•Weekly PICC and port care, including dressing changes, lab draws, accessing and deaccessing ports, and removing PICC lines

•Served as a new hire preceptor