Vanessa Rosas
Kalamazoo
Summary
Patient-focused critical care nurse with diverse experience in acute settings. Bilingual in English and Spanish. Effectively enhance team performance through education and training. Proven ability to implement evidence-based practices that improve patient outcomes and ensure compliance with best practices.
Overview
1
1
Certification
7
7
years of professional experience
Work History
Staff Development Instructor – Critical Care & Emergency Department
Bronson Methodist Hospital
Kalamazoo
07.2025 - Current
- Designed, implemented, and evaluated evidence-based education programs for ICU and ED nursing staff, enhancing clinical competencies and patient care outcomes.
- Led orientation, skills validation, and continuing education sessions for multidisciplinary teams, ensuring compliance with hospital policies, regulatory standards, and best practices.
- Collaborated with leadership to identify learning needs, develop training plans, and integrate new technologies, protocols, and quality improvement initiatives.
- Assessed employee performance through observation of tasks and feedback from supervisors.
- Created and distributed instructional materials such as job aids, handouts, evaluation forms, and visual aids.
Surgical Trauma & Burn Intensive Care Unit Registered Nurse
Borgess
01.2021 - 01.2024
- Deliver bedside care in a 20 bed ICU for trauma and critically ill patients
- Conducted patient assessments, notifying surgeons of critical condition changes and essential information to inform treatment decisions.
- Administering vasopressors, sedation, pain medication at regular intervals per orders
- Interpreting and evaluating diagnostic tests to identify and assess patient condition
- Served as charge nurse and preceptor for 2.5 years, managing staffing, bed assignments, trauma call downs, and massive transfusion protocols while training and educating new staff.
- Supported trauma team by performing procedures such as arterial line placement and conscious sedation.
Emergency Department & Intensive Care Unit Nurse Intern
Borgess
01.2020 - 01.2021
- Worked beside an RN preceptor to pass medications
- Learned how to do trauma charting, handle a code, initiate conscious sedation, administer tPA, use IV pumps, administer blood transfusions, call report using SBAR on each patient
- Executed trauma charting procedures during patient care, handle a code, initiate conscious sedation, administer tPA, use IV pumps, administer blood transfusions, call report using SBAR on each patient
Education
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo, MI07-2026
Associates in Nursing -
Kellogg Community College
Battle Creek, MI05-2021
Skills
- Employee evaluation
- Critical care training
- Trauma nursing
- Emergency response
- Clinical education
- Employee assessment
- Performance assessment
- Critical thinking
- Problem-solving abilities
Certification
- Basic Life Support
- Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support
- Pediatric Advanced Life Support
- Trauma Nursing Core Course
- Emergency Nursing Pediatric Course
- Trauma Care After Resuscitation
- NIHSS
Timeline
Staff Development Instructor – Critical Care & Emergency Department
Bronson Methodist Hospital
07.2025 - Current
Surgical Trauma & Burn Intensive Care Unit Registered Nurse
Borgess
01.2021 - 01.2024
Emergency Department & Intensive Care Unit Nurse Intern
Borgess
01.2020 - 01.2021
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Western Michigan University
Associates in Nursing -
Kellogg Community College