Overview
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Education
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Thomas Smith

Pantego,TX

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Registered Nurse, Intensive Care Unit

USMD Hospital
08.2024 - Current
  • 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.

Education

Bachelor Of Science In Nursing -

The University of Texas At Arlington
Arlington, TX
12.2009

Associate Degree In Nursing -

Tarrant County College
Fort Worth, TX
12.2006

Certification

  • Registered Nurse - Texas Board of Nursing- License #742341 - Expires 03/2025
  • Medical Surgical Nursing Certification - American Nurses Credentialinh Center (ANCC) - Expires 02/2025
  • Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) - American Heart Association - Expires 09/2025
  • Basic Life Support (BLS) - American Heart Association - Expires 03/2025
  • NIHSS Certification - Apex Innovations - Expires 05/2025

Timeline

Registered Nurse, Intensive Care Unit

USMD Hospital
08.2024 - Current

Registered Nurse, Intensive Care Unit

Methodist Mansfield Medical Center
03.2019 - 06.2024

Registered Nurse

Kindred Hospital
05.2015 - 06.2019

Bachelor Of Science In Nursing -

The University of Texas At Arlington

Associate Degree In Nursing -

Tarrant County College
Thomas Smith