Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Certification
Accomplishments
Community Outreach
Poster Presentations
Associations And Activities
Timeline
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Waliat Moronkola, BSc, MPH, BSN, RN, CCRN

Roanoke,VA

Summary

Enthusiastic Intensive Care Registered Nurse (ICU) with significant experience in critical care within a level 1 trauma center, dedicated to merging academic achievement, professional expertise, critical care proficiency, and research aptitude to administer culturally competent and patient-centric anesthesia care. Specifically aiming to acquire skills in the DNP Nurse Anesthesia program to deliver top-tier patient care.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Registered Nurse

Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital
06.2023 - Current
  • Proactively learn new procedures and treatment protocols
  • Experience included care for critically ill patients following cardiac catheterization, stent placement, and thrombectomy, as well as patients with heart attack, post-cardiac arrest, and stroke
  • Expert in the following skills: Management of mechanical ventilation
  • Titration of sedatives and vasoactive medications such as propofol, dexmedetomidine, norepinephrine, phenylephrine, vasopressin, dobutamine, nicardipine, nitroglycerin etc
  • Invasive hemodynamic monitoring, including arterial line, central venous pressure, Swan-Ganz catheters, etc
  • Management of patient on Intra-Aortic Balloon Pump (IABP), Arctic Sun Targeted Temperature Management (TTM) and Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy (CRRT)
  • Teamwork, collaboration, and effective communication with various teams
  • Other skills included member of Code Blue response team.

Public Health Nurse

Virginia Department of Health (VDH)
06.2023 - Current
  • I utilized my public health knowledge (from my MPH) and nursing skills to promote immunization, tuberculosis screening, and care at a refugee clinic
  • Experience included direct patient care and holistic nursing assessment
  • Expert in the following skills: Vaccine administration per CDC guidelines to patients of all age groups
  • Collection of lab samples and immunology titers
  • Health assessment and physical screening for refugees
  • Tuberculosis screening, risk assessment, and testing.

Charge Nurse

Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital
01.2023 - 06.2023
  • Managed a team of 6 nurses and two nursing assistants, ensuring adherence to policies
  • Supervised patient admissions and discharges from the hospital safely back home
  • Coordinated nursing schedules and patient assignments to ensure proper nurse-to-patient ratio and safe staffing
  • Communicated needs of unit and staff with unit leaders.

Registered Nurse

Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital
07.2022 - 06.2023
  • Experience included nursing care for critically ill patients with various medical conditions, including diabetic ketoacidosis, septic shock, ARDS, etc
  • Developed expertise in the following skills: Teamwork, collaboration, and effective communication with multi-disciplinary team members
  • Management of mechanically ventilated patients with lung protective strategies
  • Invasive hemodynamic monitoring with hemodynamic monitoring, including arterial line and central venous pressure
  • Titration of vasoactive and sedative infusions, such as norepinephrine, epinephrine, phenylephrine, etc
  • Transfusion of blood and blood products
  • Prevention and management of HAPIs, CLABSIs, and CAUTIs.

Graduate Research Assistant

ETSU Dept. of Environmental Health
08.2018 - 08.2020
  • Responsibilities included: Supervised undergraduate students in the laboratory during experiments
  • Assisted with water analysis and sampling procedures
  • Monitored household air quality (COPD study)
  • Performed field data collection and sampling at experimental sites
  • Provided research support to the Departmental Faculty
  • Reviewed scientific literature, literature review, data analysis using SAS, and presentation of results
  • Attended weekly meetings, manuscript preparation, and submission to journals
  • Assisted with Institutional Review Board (IRB) filings and inquiries.

Education

Bachelor of Nursing (BSN) -

East Tennessee State University (ETSU)
Johnson City, TN
05.2022

Master of Public Health (MPH) - Environmental Health and Safety

East Tennessee State University
Johnson City, TN
08.2020

Bachelor of Science in Pharmacology and Toxicology -

University of Lagos
Lagos, Lagos State
11.2015

Certification

  • Registered nurse (RN), 06/2022
  • Certified Critical Care Registered Nurse (CCRN), 03/2023
  • BLS
  • ACLS
  • PALS

Accomplishments

  • First Nigerian undergraduate commencement speaker (CON, ETSU), May, 2022
  • Dean's list 5 semesters
  • Multicultural diversity scholar 7 semesters
  • Honors graduate (summa cum laude)
  • Accelerated cohort executive representative
  • Two times Daisy Award nominee

Community Outreach

  • Ballad Health, Assisted with pre-operation unit documentation, 2019
  • American Red Cross, Disaster Cycle Management and SM Specialist, 2019
  • Rescue Missions, Homeless community engagement volunteer, 2024

Poster Presentations

  • Intermittent Catheterization vs Indwelling Catheterization in patients with Acute Urinary Retention, Nurse Residency, Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital, September, 2023
  • Health Disparities in STIs Amongst Minority Populations within the United States, College of Nursing – Sigma Theta Tau, East Tennessee State University, April, 2021

Associations And Activities

2023 – present, American Association of Critical Care Nurses (AACN)

2023 – present, Member of Carilion Clinic nurse research team

2023 – present, Member of Carilion Clinic code team

2022 – present, Director/founder of Pathway of Promise Foundation (NGO)

2022 – present Member of Carilion Clinic CAUTI prevention team

2020 – 2022, ETSU Accelerated Student Representative, College of Nursing

(CON)

2020 – 2022, ETSU, College of Nursing, Peer Ambassador

2020 – 2022, Tennessee Student Nurse Association (TNA)

2019 – 2021, ETSU Multicultural Center Student Advisory Board

2018 – 2020, ETSU Graduate and Professional Student Association (GPSA)

Timeline

Registered Nurse

Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital
06.2023 - Current

Public Health Nurse

Virginia Department of Health (VDH)
06.2023 - Current

Charge Nurse

Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital
01.2023 - 06.2023

Registered Nurse

Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital
07.2022 - 06.2023

Graduate Research Assistant

ETSU Dept. of Environmental Health
08.2018 - 08.2020

Bachelor of Nursing (BSN) -

East Tennessee State University (ETSU)

Master of Public Health (MPH) - Environmental Health and Safety

East Tennessee State University

Bachelor of Science in Pharmacology and Toxicology -

University of Lagos

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