Provide direct, quality care to patients in the surgical intensive care unit.
Manage patients requiring ICU level of care post-operatively.
Recover patients post-anesthesia following emergency surgeries.
Stabilize and arrange transfer for patients requiring higher levels of care.
Respond to inpatient codes and assume care of the patient in ICU.
Registered Nurse, Intensive Care Unit
Methodist Mansfield Medical Center
03.2019 - 06.2024
Provided direct, quality care to 1-3 patients in the neuro-trauma intensive care unit.
Managed neuro-trauma specific patients with life threatening conditions including trauma with head injury, spinal injury, multiple fractures, brain hemorrhages (SDH,SAH,ICH), seizures, embolism CVA post thrombolytic and/or thrombectomy.
Managed medical ICU patients with acute, life threatening conditions including sepsis, multi-organ failure, respiratory failure, cardiac arrest, STEMI, DKA.
Served in rotation as a charge nurse of the neuro-trauma ICU.
Responded to inpatient code stroke activations.
Successfully completed the Methodist Health Critical Care Fellowship in 2021.
Prior to transition to critical care, served as Clinical Team Leader of a 36 bed neurology, telemetry unit.
Registered Nurse
Kindred Hospital
05.2015 - 06.2019
Provided direct, quality care to 5-7 patients on a medical-surgical unit.
Managed patients with acute and chronic conditions including sepsis, respiratory failure, diabetes, chronic wounds, CVA with deficits, post-operative complications.
Assisted surgeons and ICU RN with procedures requiring moderate sedation including placement of PEG tubes, tracheostomies, and pleural drains.