Susan Miller

Critical Care Skills including care of patients with open heart surgery, sepsis, respiratory failure, multi-system organ failure, and neurological disorders.

Skilled in the use of devices such as mechanical ventilation, CRRT, IABP, and Impella.

Work-related skills in critical thinking, time management, use of SBAR for reports, as well as recognizing changes in patients' conditions, and dealing with unexpected situations.

Roles fulfilled include RN collaborating in the Critical Care Team, preceptor, mentor, and resource of less-experienced team members.

Worked in a number of hospitals across the country, from a 20-bed rural hospital to a 570-bed university teaching facility. Critical Care experience in the care of patients that included those with neuro, medical, surgical, cardiac, and transplant diagnoses.

RN on a 10-bed telemetry unit, and then in the 6-bed general ICU.