Taravia Boudreaux
Alpharetta,GA
Summary
Compassionate ICU Registered Nurse with great collaboration, critical thinking and mentoring skills. Well-rounded and capable of making split-second decisions to ensure exceptional patient care while remaining compassionate and having excellent bedside manner.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Interventional Radiology Nurse
Piedmont Atlanta Hospital
05.2023 - Current
Staff Nurse SICU
Grady Memorial Hospital
10.2021 - Current
- Deliver age-appropriate medical care for adult, adolescent, and geriatric surgical-trauma ICU patients on a 40 bed unit.
- Explain health care issues and ramifications to patients and families to promote informed medical care choices.
- Utilize ventilators, monitors and infusion pumps following manufactures' guidelines.
- Maintain respectful treatment environment that honored patients' and families' cultural and religious traditions and preferences.
- Supervise new employees and student nurses to promote adherence to established patient care standards and practices.
- Prepare surgical patients for the operating room, and recover fresh post-op patients from the operating room.
RN Traveler
Krucial Staffing
04.2021 - 08.2021
- Delivered outstanding care to patients with various diagnoses and managed care from treatment initiation through to completion.
- Provided targeted care and treatment to COVID patients in
- Guided patients, caregivers and family members on plans of treatment and helpful resources available locally to support care.
- Maintained energy and enthusiasm in fast-paced environment.
- Oversaw various aspects of telemetry by administering PA catheters and arterials, vasoactive drugs, titration, thrombolytic therapy, dysrhythmia interpretation and chest tubes.
- Explained health care issues and ramifications to patients and families to promote informed medical care choices.
- Monitored patients' respiratory status and ventilator operation and made adjustments to promote stabilization.
- Monitored patient reactions to drugs and carefully documented findings.
Manager Surgical Trauma ICU
Grady Health System
01.2019 - 03.2021
- Managed 60 nurses and nursing activities in 40 bed hospital by providing comprehensive nursing guidance and maintaining outstanding patient satisfaction and care standards
- Manage/Care for surgical/trauma patients on 40-bed Trauma ICU 1 trauma center.
- Guide and lead team members in acute care unit and coordinate, delegate tasks, and manage nurses and ancillary staff members.
- Participate in education activities, including evidence-based practice project implementation, nursing competency development and nursing simulation activities.
- Serve as leader and role model for staff as well as unit.
- Provide comprehensive care to patients with inputting data-wide range of standards, including head traumas, intracranial hematomas, strokes, cardiac issues, addiction and multiple chronic diagnoses like COPD, asthma, Renal and Heart failure.
- Work closely with other medical staff, including physicians to determine individualized plans of care for each patient.
- Communicate with patients and/or family regarding care, tests and medications so that they were well-informed.
- Follow all policies and procedures and hospital regulations to ensure compliance and patient safety.
- Manage care for post-operative patients through discharge.
- Train and mentor new RNs that are in Nurse Residency Program.
- Perform emergency interventions and continually monitored patient vitals.
- Patient and family member advocate.
- Enhanced nurse satisfaction and retention, collaborating with leadership to devise initiatives for improving staff morale.
- Investigated and independently resolved complaints from staff, physicians and patients by leveraging clinical judgment and unit management expertise
- Supervised professional and paraprofessional nursing staff and delegated tasks to maintain continuum of care
- Established and continuously optimized unit schedules and individual work assignments
Registered Nurse ICU
Piedmont Healthcare
10.2013 - 01.2020
- Cared for patients in the 24-bed medical ICU
- Cared for patients with chronic and acute health problems such as MI, arrhythmias, asthma, COPD and pneumonia.
- Competent in In-Hospital Hospice practice and guidelines.
- Won 2 Daisy Awards with 2 nominations for exceptional ability to make connections with patients.
- Cooperated and communicated effectively with physicians to ensure client satisfaction and compliance with state and national standards.
- Reviewed customer survey information to prioritize areas of improvement.
- Assisted with the pilot/startup of an Oncology Med/Surg unit
- Trained new nurses in proper techniques, care standards, operational procedures and safety protocols to optimize performance and safety.
- Coordinated departmental operations according to administrative, legal, and medical guidelines.
- Conducted rounds with physicians, advising physicians on patients' conditions and assisting in coordinating diagnostic testing and follow up appointments to achieve optimal patient outcomes.
- Interacted effectively with department managers to promptly correct problems and improve services.
- Reviewed charts weekly to complete quality control checks.
- Directed day-to-day nursing and operational functions for 24-bed ICU facility, ensuring exceptional delivery of care when developing well-rounded nursing teams.
- Introduced initiatives based on staff education, infection control audits, safe medication administration and proper wound care to achieve unit and facility goals.
- Created work schedules for 70 employees.
- Implemented onboarding for new employees, which enabled each to effectively learn tasks and job duties.
- Implemented ongoing learning strategies such as tutorials, instructional modules, and supervised hands-on sessions to help nurses and staff improve understanding of medical equipment and care best practices.
- Promoted high morale and staff retention through dynamic communication, prompt problem resolution, proactive supervisory practices and facilitation of positive work environment.
- Worked with nurse manager to develop nursing staff through education, evaluation, performance management and competency improvement.
- Implement new policies and educate staff on changes.
Charge Nurse, ICU
Grady Memorial Hospital
07.2017 - 12.2019
- Implemented quality patient care techniques to align with safety, health and organizational regulations.
- Monitored nursing care, patient assessment processes and treatment implementations.
- Trained new nurses in proper techniques, care standards, operational procedures and safety protocols.
- Triaged incoming phone calls from emergency rooms and inpatient units to determine needs and prioritize care.
- Documented medications administered, treatments and patient procedures performed in appropriate records according to privacy requirements.
- Administered medications and treatments to patients as ordered by physician, maintaining accountability for accurate narcotic count at end of each shift.
- Participated in departmental quality improvement initiatives to achieve higher standard of patient care.
- Coordinated nursing care on unit through staff assignments, assisting and rounding with physicians, monitoring patient orders and communicating with ancillary departments.
- Supervised and managed daily scheduling, tasking and administration.
- Identified unit areas of inadequacy and adjusted procedures to close gaps and improve policies.
Registered Nurse
Our Lady Of The Lake Regional Medical Centre
08.2012 - 08.2013
Education
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Southern University And A & M College
Baton Rouge, LA2012
Skills
- Pre- and post-surgical care
- Critical Care expertise
- IV drug therapy management
- Epic Superuser
- ICP/EVD experience
- Management of Surgical Trauma ICU
- Precepting
- COVID ICU experience
- Culturally-competent care
- Patient and family advocacy
- Neuro ICU Experience
- Multidisciplinary team collaboration
- Lab result interpretation
- Performing EKGs
- Hospice and palliative care
- Infection control and aseptic procedures
- Chronic disease management
- Clinical leadership/Recruitment
Certification
- BLS
- ACLS
- PALS
Timeline
Interventional Radiology Nurse
Piedmont Atlanta Hospital
05.2023 - Current
Staff Nurse SICU
Grady Memorial Hospital
10.2021 - Current
RN Traveler
Krucial Staffing
04.2021 - 08.2021
Manager Surgical Trauma ICU
Grady Health System
01.2019 - 03.2021
Charge Nurse, ICU
Grady Memorial Hospital
07.2017 - 12.2019
Registered Nurse ICU
Piedmont Healthcare
10.2013 - 01.2020
Registered Nurse
Our Lady Of The Lake Regional Medical Centre
08.2012 - 08.2013
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Southern University And A & M College