Tammy Kilough-Hoover
Olympia,WA
Summary
Highly skilled Intensive Care Nurse with 13 years of nursing experience. Specialized in providing complex critical nursing care to adult patients at intensive care units. Organized and detail-oriented with high standards for performance and maintenance of treatment protocols. Patient-focused and compassionate caregiver.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
Work History
ICU Charge Nurse
Multicare Capital Medical Center
Olympia, WA
01.2018 - Current
- Allocates available resources to promote safe, efficient, and quality patient care.
- Worked as part of interdisciplinary rapid response team to determine each patients' imaging and assessment needs to develop and initiate appropriate care plans.
- Monitored patients' respiratory status and ventilator operation and made adjustments to promote stabilization.
- Observed patients' vital signs and administered physician-prescribed medications and treatments.
- Delivered age-appropriate medical care for adult, adolescent and geriatric ICU patients.
- Prioritize and directs admissions, transfers, discharges, and general flow of patients in the unit. Assigns nurses and support staff to patients.
ICU Staff Nurse
Providence St. Peter Hospital
Olympia, WA
06.2014 - 12.2017
- Care of 1 to 2 critically ill patients in a highly diversified CCU.
- Hemodynamic monitoring with pulmonary artery catheters.
- Initiation and titration of multiple intravenous medications such as vasopressors, paralytics, sedatives, inotropes, narcotic drips, calcium channel blockers, vasodilators, and anti-arrhythmics.
- Initiation and care of patients requiring therapeutic hypothermia.
- Management of neurosurgical patients, including intracranial pressure monitoring and external ventriculostomy devices.
- Care and management of patients experiencing shock.
Medical Staff RN, Surgical Staff RN, Telemetry RN
Providence Centralia Hospital
Centralia, WA
06.2009 - 06.2016
- Nursing care of 4 to 5 acute care patients.
- Provide care to patients after illness, injury, or surgery or with acute health conditions.
- Observed patient health and side effects from treatments and medications, noting all details in patient chart.
- Providing bedside care, treatments, IV therapy and wound care.
- Managed patients' pain by implementing pharmacological and non-pharmacological pain management interventions.
- Educated patients and families on medical-surgical procedures, therapeutic regimens and pain management techniques.
Telemetry Registered Nurse
Providence St. Peter Hospital
Olympia , WA
01.2011 - 06.2014
- Nursing care of 3 to 4 acute cardiac and cardiothoracic patients.
- Care of patients experiencing a myocardial infarction, post-cardiac angiography, congestive heart failure, cardiac dysrhythmias or unstable angina.
- Blue response team member.
- Assist with cardioversions
- Pulling of and monitoring of venous and femoral sheaths.
- Administered heart and blood pressure medication to cardiac patients as prescribed by physicians.
Education
Associate of Science - Nursing
South Puget Sound Community College
Olympia, WA06.2008
Skills
- Critical thinking and problem solving
- Rapid responder
- Code Blue responder
- Task and Work Prioritization
- Emergency Interventions
- Documentation and Reporting
Timeline
ICU Charge Nurse
Multicare Capital Medical Center
01.2018 - Current
ICU Staff Nurse
Providence St. Peter Hospital
06.2014 - 12.2017
Telemetry Registered Nurse
Providence St. Peter Hospital
01.2011 - 06.2014
Medical Staff RN, Surgical Staff RN, Telemetry RN
Providence Centralia Hospital
06.2009 - 06.2016
Associate of Science - Nursing
South Puget Sound Community College