Teresa Ferguson

• Provide nursing care to critically ill preterm infants and critically ill term infants. Promote parental involvement through family based care.
• Utilized critical thinking skills to prioritize nursing interventions based on patients'' acuity levels and individual needs.
• Conducted thorough patient assessments to identify changes in condition, promptly notifying physicians and initiating appropriate interventions when necessary.
• Administered medications safely according to established guidelines while closely monitoring for side effects or adverse reactions requiring intervention.
• Enhanced patient satisfaction by providing compassionate, holistic nursing care that addressed physical, emotional, and spiritual needs.

Provided Peripheral Intravenous Catheter insertions for infants and children ages newborn to 18yo with poor venous access.

Provided assessments, evaluations and sterile dressing changes of Cental Venous Access Devices, including: PICC lines, Broviacs, TLCL, IJ and mediports.

Repaired Broviac catheters as indicated to prevent surgical re- insertion.

Worked closely with nursing care team on patient floors for evaluation of need of central venous access.