Tandi M Sherman
Ontario
Summary
Highly trained Registered Nurse with strong clinical abilities and a successful career in Obstetrics. Proactive and organized with passionate commitment to first-rate patient care through evidence based practice. Detail-oriented and energetic with a solid history of achievement in patient satisfaction. Motivated leader skilled in patient care, teamwork, and patient advocacy. Areas of expertise include OB OR, Labor and Delivery, OB Triage, Nursery, Special Care Nursery and Postpartum care.
Overview
26
26
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Registered Nurse
Newark-Wayne Community Hospital
Newark, NY
05.2012 - Current
- Monitor, record, and report symptoms or changes in patients' conditions.
- Record patients' medical information and vital signs.
- Order, interpret, and evaluate diagnostic tests to identify and assess patient's condition.
- Maintain accurate, detailed reports and records.
- Inform physician of patient's condition throughout her stages of care
- Perform PACU duties.
- Direct or supervise nursing or healthcare personnel as charge nurse.
- Consult and coordinate with healthcare team members to assess, plan, implement, or evaluate patient care plans. (care management, social work, Peds, OB/Gyn, secretaries, PCT, etc)
- Monitor all aspects of patient care, from admission through to discharge.
- Conduct specified laboratory tests.
- Instruct and educate individuals and families on topics such as postpartum care, post-surgical care, infant care, breastfeeding, health education, disease prevention, and childbirth.
- Prepare patients for cesarean sections.
- Circulate/scrub for cesarean sections.
- Assess the needs of individuals and families, including assessment of individuals' home or work environments, to identify potential health or safety problems.
- Prepare rooms, sterile instruments, equipment, or supplies and ensure that stock of supplies is maintained.
- Provide training or instruction of auxiliary personnel, students and orientation of new hires.
- Monitor, record, and report to providers patients reporting to triage and managing their concerns/needs.
- Manage women throughout their labor and delivery experience including pharmacological and non-pharmacological pain management.
- Manage and perform medical procedures for well and sick infants such as circumcision, chest x-rays, IV insertion, blood glucose monitoring and management, and neonatal resuscitation etc.
Clinical Adjunct Instructor
Finger Lakes Community College
Canandaigua, NY
02.2018 - 05.2023
- Mentoring and teaching students in a clinical setting.
- Fostering growth as a role model.
- Evaluating students’ knowledge and clinical skills through observation, communication, and various written work.
- Providing constructive feedback.
- Assisting students to navigate the nursing process.
- Providing support for students throughout their clinical rotation.
Registered Nurse
Genesee Valley Laser Center
Rochester, NY
06.2011 - 05.2012
- Maintain accurate, detailed reports and records.
- Record patients' medical information and vital signs.
- Modify patient treatment plans as indicated by patients' responses and conditions.
- Monitor all aspects of patient care, including education for post procedure care.
- Conduct specified laboratory tests.
- Prepare patients for and assist with examinations or treatments.
- Assess the needs of individuals, families, or communities, including assessment of individuals' home or work environments, to identify potential health or safety problems.
- Prepare rooms, sterile instruments, equipment, or supplies and ensure that stock of supplies is maintained.
Patient Care Technician
Highland Hospital
Rochester, NY
04.2010 - 06.2011
- Complete physical checks and monitor patients to detect unusual or harmful behavior and report observations to professional staff.
- Record and maintain patient information, such as vital signs, eating habits, behavior, progress notes, treatments, or discharge plans.
- Maintain patients' restrictions to assigned areas.
- Provide patients with assistance in bathing, dressing, or grooming, demonstrating these skills as necessary.
- Clean and disinfect rooms and furnishings to maintain a safe and orderly environment.
- Restrain or aid patients as necessary to prevent injury.
- Serve meals or feed patients needing assistance or persuasion.
- Perform duties, such as measuring vital signs, collecting specimens, or drawing blood samples, turning every 2 hours, obtaining BG levels and reporting to assigned nurse.
- Complete administrative tasks, such as entering orders into computer, answering telephone calls, or maintaining medical or facility information.
- Interview patients upon admission and record information.
Pharmacy Technician
Wegmans Pharmacy
Webster, NY
07.2000 - 09.2010
- Receive written prescription or refill requests and verify that information is complete and accurate.
- Establish or maintain patient profiles, including lists of medications taken by individual patients.
- Maintain proper storage and security conditions for drugs.
- Prepack bulk medicines, fill bottles with prescribed medications, and type and affix labels.
- Answer telephones, responding to questions or requests.
- Clean and help maintain equipment or work areas and sterilize glassware, according to prescribed methods.
- Prepare and process medical insurance claim forms and records.
- Price and file prescriptions that have been filled.
- Assist customers by answering simple questions, locating items, or referring them to the pharmacist for medication information.
- Receive and store incoming supplies, verify quantities against invoices, check for outdated medications in current inventory, and inform supervisors of stock needs and shortages.
- Order, label, and count stock of medications, chemicals, or supplies and enter inventory data into computer.
- Operate cash registers to accept payment from customers.
- Implement a new organizing and storing system for prescriptions to be kept for the required by law 6 years.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Bachelors of Science in Nursing
Chamberlain University College of Nursing
Cleveland, OH08-2017
Associate of Applied Science - Nursing
Monroe Community College Applied Technologies Center
Rochester, NY05-2011
Skills
- Medication and IV administration
- Sterile technique
- IV insertion/Foley insertion/phlebotomy
- Maternal/newborn assessments
- VS monitoring
- Electronic Medical Records
- Fetal monitoring
- Postpartum care
- Breastfeeding
- BLS/ACLS/NRP
- Care planning/Patient education
- Blood administration
- Obstetric emergencies
- Leadership (charge nurse/unit council president)
- Critical thinking/Time management/Communication
- Multitasking/Attention to detail
- EPIC/Careconnect/OBIX/Centricity/Cerner
Certification
- Neonatal resuscitation (NRP)
- ACLS
- BLS
- Maternal newborn certification - NCC
- Electronic fetal monitoring certification - NCC
Timeline
Clinical Adjunct Instructor
Finger Lakes Community College
02.2018 - 05.2023
Registered Nurse
Newark-Wayne Community Hospital
05.2012 - Current
Registered Nurse
Genesee Valley Laser Center
06.2011 - 05.2012
Patient Care Technician
Highland Hospital
04.2010 - 06.2011
Pharmacy Technician
Wegmans Pharmacy
07.2000 - 09.2010
Associate of Applied Science - Nursing
Monroe Community College Applied Technologies Center
Bachelor of Science - Bachelors of Science in Nursing
Chamberlain University College of Nursing