Tosin Okereji
Heartland
Summary
Dedicated and compassionate Registered Nurse with progressive career history in direct patient care, triage and care coordination in fast-paced environment. Proven to remain calm under pressure and skillfully handle difficult patients and high-stress situations. Consistently developing strong relationships with patients and families through empathetic communication, respectful attitude and excellent customer service.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
Work History
Registered Nurse, Medical Telemetry Unit
Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital
08.2021 - 12.2022
- Coordinate with other health care team members to assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient care plans.
- Prepare and administer (oral, subcutaneous, IV, IM, Rectal) medications and document accordingly.
- Reports adverse reactions to medications or treatments in accordance with facility policy.
- Monitors and adjusts specialized equipment used on patients, and interprets and records electronic displays.
- Monitor patient’s daily lab values and notify physician of abnormal values and initiate corrective actions per physician order.
- Identify irregular telemetry readings and notifies appropriate medical team members and initiates corrective action whenever information from telemetry monitoring equipment shows adverse symptomatology.
- Provides basic, bedside care.
- Teaches patients and significant others how to manage their illness/injury, by explaining post-treatment home care needs, diet/nutrition/exercise programs, self-administration of medication and rehabilitation.
- Timely Identification of critical incidents and responding to life-saving situations based upon nursing and hospital standards and protocol.
- Records all care information concisely, accurately, and completely, in a timely manner, in the appropriate format and on the appropriate forms.
Telephonic Registered Nurse
Medcor INC
01.2021 - 06.2022
- Answer inbound calls providing telephonic screenings.
- Assess, triage and provide appropriate recommendations for individual clients.
- Provide adequate documentation of client assessment, findings, recommendation and education on patient's electronic medical record.
- Provides client teaching on health maintenance and disease prevention in line with CDC&P guidelines.
- Actively participate in daily and weekly team meetings and huddles.
- Perform other duties and tasks assigned by team leader and supervisors.
Registered Nurse
Encompass health rehabilitation hospital
11.2019 - 10.2020
- Performs patient assessment, nursing diagnoses, plan, implementation, evaluation and documentation.
- Establish IV access to take blood samples and administer IV medications.
- Monitored and recorded input and output in patients with renal failure, gastro-enteric, and cardiac conditions.
- Supervises implementation of nursing care by nursing technicians, making regular rounds and models’ effective patient interactions to non-professional staff
- Implements physician’s orders in accordance with the nurse practice act and facility policies and procedures
- Provides patient/family education to increase patient knowledge of therapy, medications, health, and disease management/prevention to promote independent living skills.
- Serve as a treatment team member whose functions include implementing care plan, engaging patients in therapeutic interactions, and providing activities to assist patients in meeting individual goals.
- Administer medications per order, maintains accountability for medications dispensed from pyxis and the security of assigned medication room keys.
Registered Nurse, Medical-Surgical Unit
University College Hospital
12.2016 - 04.2018
- Perform initial patient assessments and work with physicians to plan, implement, and evaluate plans of care for patients; manage average caseload of 7 patients.
- Establish IV access to take blood samples and administer IV medications.
- Provide direct care to patients, facilitating patient’s physical, behavioral and emotional needs.
- Effectively plan, develop, implement and maintain managed care strategies on the unit.
- Consult and coordinate with healthcare team members to assess, plan, implement, or evaluate patient care plans.
- Attend and actively participate in the treatment team meetings, nursing meetings and case conferences.
- Determine the need for PRN medications and administer PRN medications based on presenting symptoms and proper nursing assessment.
Education
Master of Science - Health Informatics
KENT STATE UNIVERSITY
Ohio12.2024
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN
Nigeria12.2016
Skills
- Skills and knowledge
- Knowledge of the Texas Nurse practice acts
- Effective reading, writing and speaking skill
- Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)
- Advanced cardiac life support (ACLS)
- Crisis prevention intervention (CPI)
- Ability to work well under pressure
- Time Management
- Active Listening skill
- Service Orientation
- Interpersonal relationship skill
- Persuasion
- Social Perceptiveness
- Critical Thinking
- Complex Problem-Solving Skill
- Tools & Technology
- Microsoft Word
- Pyxis med station
- Microsoft Office Suite
- Microsoft Teams
- One note
- Cerner charting
- System
- Epic charting system
- Disease Management Programs
- Microsoft Outlook
Timeline
Registered Nurse, Medical Telemetry Unit
Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital
08.2021 - 12.2022
Telephonic Registered Nurse
Medcor INC
01.2021 - 06.2022
Registered Nurse
Encompass health rehabilitation hospital
11.2019 - 10.2020
Registered Nurse, Medical-Surgical Unit
University College Hospital
12.2016 - 04.2018
Master of Science - Health Informatics
KENT STATE UNIVERSITY
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN
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