Sydney Goodman
Meridian,MS
Summary
Dedicated and compassionate Registered Nurse (RN) with a career history in direct patient care, critical care management, and care coordination in a high-acuity environment. Proven to remain calm under pressure and skillfully handle difficult patients and high-stress situations. Consistently developing strong relationships with patients and families through empathetic communication, respectful attitude, educational services, and emotional support techniques.
Overview
1
1
year of professional experience
Work History
Registered Nurse- Pediatric Critical Care
Children's Of Mississippi-UMMC
01.2023 - Current
- Administered CPR and code drugs while implementing life saving measures to critically ill patients
- Titrated sedation, paralytics, and pressors
- Extensive experience with ICU level medical devices, post-op patients, trauma cases, orthotic braces and occupational therapy braces
- Extensive experience with chronically ill patients
- Limited experience with post-op heart surgery patients
- Provider complete care to an extensive number of intubated and ventilated patients
- Extensive experience with CPAP, BiPAP, other supplemental oxygen therapy
- Assisted in care of patients on Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation
- Provided complete care for numerous G-tube and trach dependent patients
- Familiar with Home Ventilation Devices
- Participated in multiple Brain Death Tests
- Assisted in "memory making" for families of dying patients including hand prints, feet prints, prayers, and recorded heart beat bears
- Extensive experience with therapeutic communication
- Provided complete care for a "Donation after Cardiac Death" patient including end of life care and OR medication administration
- Provided Complete End of Life and Comfort Care to multiple ICU patients
- Accustomed to recognizing small changes in clinical presentation of patients
- Fully competent in to making clinical judgement calls regarding medication administration and interventions based on clinical presentation
- Trained to recognize the baseline status of a patient and deviations in that status
- Familiar with adverse side effects of many medications such as steroids, anti-diuretics, opioids, CNS depressants/stimulants, etc.
- Accustomed to multitasking and time-management skills
- Daily experience with on-going patient and family education
- Organized and managed care of patients undergoing various therapies and procedures
- Provided skilled, timely and level-headed emergency response to critically-ill patients
- Advised patients and caregivers of proper wound management, discharge plan objectives, safe medication use, infection prevention strategies, and disease management
- Managed patients recovering from medical or surgical procedures
- Managed quality care for patients with heart failure, end-stage renal disease and coronary artery disease
- Educated patients, families and caregivers on diagnosis and prognosis, treatment options, disease process, and management and lifestyle options
- Implemented numerous fall prevention and safety strategies
- Administered medications via oral, IV, and intramuscular injections and monitored responses
- Provided support for patients'' families during difficult medical decisions or end-of-life care, serving as a liaison between the healthcare team and loved ones
Education
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Mississippi Women's University
Columbus, MS 08.2024
Associate's Degree in Nursing - Nursing
Meridian Community College
Meridian, MS12.2022
Skills
- Trauma recovery
- Insulin medication assistance
- Procedure Assistance
- Patient Assessment
- Patient Evaluation
- Tracheostomy Care
- Pediatric Basic Trauma Life Support (PBTLS)
- CPR/AED
- Compassionate and Caring
- Gastrostomy buttons experience
- Documentation and Charting
- Patient and family advocacy
- Maintaining privacy
- Patient Condition Monitoring
- Physical assessments
- Emergency Response
- BAC screening/drug screen collection
- Medical Procedure Preparation
- Medication Administration
- Blood Draw and Sample Collection
- Empathy
- Care Coordination
- Medication and IV administration
- Patient care planning
- Instrument Sterilization
- Critical Care
- Personal care needs
- Clinical judgment
- Treatment Planning
- Certified in CPR/AED
- Hospice Care
- Lab result interpretation
- Monitoring Vital Signs
- End of Life Arrangements
- Diabetes management
- Infection Control
- Relationship Building
- Therapeutic Communication
- Safe Administration of Cancer Medications
- Positioning Techniques
- Safe Use of Supplemental Oxygen
References
Kayla Sykes PICU Charge Nurse
1-601-466-6811
Timeline
Registered Nurse- Pediatric Critical Care
Children's Of Mississippi-UMMC
01.2023 - Current
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Mississippi Women's University
Associate's Degree in Nursing - Nursing
Meridian Community College
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