Wendy Risner

• Administered patient care in accordance with established protocols and treatment plans.
• Monitored vital signs and documented changes to ensure patient safety and comfort.
• Educated patients on dialysis procedures, enhancing understanding and compliance with treatment.
• Collaborated with interdisciplinary team to develop individualized care plans for optimal patient outcomes.
• Educated family members and caregivers on patient care instructions.
• Documented treatments delivered, medications and IVs administered, discharge instructions, and follow-up care.

• Monitored vital signs and administered medications to critically ill patients in a fast-paced ICU environment.
• Collaborated with interdisciplinary teams to develop and implement individualized care plans for patients.
• Performed advanced assessments to identify changes in patient conditions and initiated timely interventions.
• Mentored junior nurses and nursing students, fostering professional development and enhancing team performance.
• Handled ventilator support, feeding tubes and central lines.
• Assisted physicians with bedside procedures, ensuring accurate treatment administration and timely patient recovery.
• Demonstrated advanced critical thinking skills while managing complex clinical situations involving multiple organ systems failures in critically ill patients.
• Identified patients' current needs through careful observation, vitals monitoring and discussions with loved ones or patients.
• Facilitated smooth patient transitions from the ICU to other units by providing detailed reports and recommendations for ongoing care.
• Served as charge nurse as well as rapid response.

Travel assignment of 14 months caring for cardiac patients post open heart surgery.

Direct care of open heart recovery patients as well as septic or neuro injured individuals. In addition to direct nursing care I functioned as a charge nurse as well as rapid response nurse.