Susan Morris

Trainee

• Contract assignment Trained remotely with Optum Costa Mesa to become a prior authorization nurse in pharmacy services (April, 2021)
• Evaluated prior authorization requests for medical necessity and compliance with guidelines.

• Perform medical assessments to determine suitability for plasma donation

• Phase I Unit Monitored patients participating in clinical trials for psychiatric, sleep, and neuromuscular disorders, dosed IPs and assessed for adverse events.

• PK Unit Monitored subjects/participants in clinical trials for medical, pain, and vaccine studies, dosed IP and assessed for adverse events.

• Intensive Care Unit Instrumentally responsible for the care of critically ill adult patients encompassing, trauma, medical, surgical, and cardiac disease processes.

• Per diem supplemental staffing agency. Critical care.

• Care and management of the organ donor, donation after cardiac death, management of vasoactive drips, ventilator settings, blood draws, electrolyte repletion, coroner reporting, organ allocation.

• Intensive Care Unit Instrumentally responsible for the care of critically ill adult patients encompassing, trauma, medical, surgical, and cardiac disease processes.

• 5North ICU Saperstein Critical Care Tower Instrumentally responsible for the care of medical and surgical critically ill adult patients under the guidance of pulmonary and critical care intensivists and fellows.

• Performed therapeutic plasma exchange for patients diagnosed with blood clotting syndromes, Multiple Myelomas, and various neuro-muscular syndromes. Leukopheresis, plateletpheresis performed for therapeutic purposes, and stem cell collections performed for cancer patients after chemotherapy.

• Performed therapeutic plasma exchange for patients diagnosed with blood clotting syndromes, Multiple Myelomas, and various neuro-muscular syndromes. Leukopheresis, plateletpheresis performed for therapeutic purposes, and stem cell collections performed for cancer patients after chemotherapy.

• Performed therapeutic plasma exchange for patients diagnosed with blood clotting syndromes, Multiple Myelomas, and various neuro-muscular syndromes. Leukopheresis, plateletpheresis performed for therapeutic purposes, and stem cell collections performed for cancer patients after chemotherapy.

• Instrumentally responsible for nursing care of critically ill patients, including cardiovascular, PCI, thoracic, renal transplant, neuro-surgical, trauma, patients receiving continuous renal replacement therapy, monitoring of invasive lines and hemodynamics, and monitoring of intra cranial pressure and brain oxygen tension. Also involved in quality improvement and assurance and drug clinical trials in the ICU setting.

• Instrumentally responsible for nursing care of medical, surgical and telemetry patients, post-op care of patients receiving heart catheterizations, preparing patients for renal transplants, monitoring ventilators and anti- arrhythmia and vasoactive drips not requiring titration, tube feedings, and monitoring cardiac arrhythmias.

• Medical-Surgical and Telemetry registry nursing.

• Instrumentally responsible for nursing care of medical/pulmonary patients encompassing IVs, tube feedings, medications.

• Instrumentally responsible for nursing care of medical/telemetry patients encompassing IVs, tube feedings, medications. monitoring cardiac arrhythmias.

• Instrumentally responsible for nursing care of medical patients encompassing IVs, tube feedings, medications, and monitoring arrhythmias in the Continuous Monitoring Area (CMA), managing ventilated patients and vasoactive drips.