Amy Shepherd Email & Phone Number

Hoke Campus

Fayetteville, North Carolina, United States

Fayetteville, North Carolina, United States

Fort Bragg, North Carolina

Responsible for the review and update of the hospital Infection Prevention and Control Plan, the review and collaboration of the respiratory protection program development. Also responsible for the review and correction of the Infection Prevention and Control policy and the Bloodborne Pathogen plan for the organization.

Fort Bragg, Nc

• Providing indirect total nursing care responsibilities by responding to requests from available clinicians.• Intervening in the evaluation of the adult/pediatric patients experiencing signs and symptoms of physiologic instability that are unresolved or of concerns to the clinician providing care.• Assigns work to subordinates based on priorities, difficulty of assignments, and the capabilities of employees. • Develops, reviews, and appropriately updates policies, protocols, standards of nursing practice, standard operating procedures, and scope of practice regarding adult, adolescent, pediatric and geriatric patient care in collaboration with the multidisciplinary members of the health care team.• Communicates patient management strategies to members of the patient care team. Collaborates with physicians regarding patient management, to include evaluating and revising therapeutic plans. • Short term stabilization of behavioral health patients during crisis while developing therapeutic relationships with both patients and family members. • Identify developmental training needs for employees and provide arrangements for needed trainings.• Develops and conducts in-service education programs for other health care professionals.• Serves in a leadership position and is recognized as a consultant and role model to other health care professionals both within and outside the institution. • Exercises significant responsibilities in dealing with officials in other units or organization, advises management officials of higher rank with recommendations of problems and solutions.• Assists and writes standard operating procedures within unit for multidisciplinary patient care.

Fort Bragg, North Carolina

Specialized experience in providing comprehensive nursing care to critically ill patients, operating specialized medical equipment, and initiating emergency medical care. Able to independently determine and implement proper patient care after identifying and interpreting life-threatening condition by initiating life-saving measure. Hearing and resolving complaints of subordinates and referring more serious complaints not resolved to higher level supervisor. Responsible for performance improvement, customer service/patient satisfaction, patient and employee safety, employee relations, standards of care and practice, the work environment, and accreditation and regulatory standards. Plan, organize work to be accomplished, establish priorities, make assignments, monitor progress in terms of timeliness and accuracy of work performed, and make temporary reassignment of employees between jobs to meet workload demands. Giving advice, counsel (informal), or instruction to subordinate personnel on work and administrative issues. Delegation of duties to staff nurses, medics and providers to meet needs of department and mission. Perform risk management assessments and evaluations to implement quality assurance and internal control activities. Serve as Supervisory Nurse, Clinical Nurse Officer in Charge (CNOIC) within the Department of Nursing or Department of Emergency Medicine. Interview, observe and perform physical examinations, with patient, family members and guardians to obtain and record vitals, chief complaints, health-issues, medications, medical history and relevant data and analyze information and data. Plan work to be accomplished by subordinates, set and adjust short-term priorities, prepare schedules for the completion of work, assign work to subordinates based on priorities and evaluate work performance of subordinates. Establish, review and make recommendations for efficiencies and improvements to internal nursing and administrative processes and procedures.

Iraq, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina

• Involved of caring for critically ill patients including but not limited to; ventilators, critical drips, CVP and arterial lines, pathophysiology and IV skills.• Intervening in the evaluation of the adult/pediatric patients experiencing signs and symptoms of physiologic instability that are unresolved or of concerns to the clinician providing care.• Providing direct and indirect total nursing care responsibilities by responding to requests from available clinicians.• Able to independently determine and implement proper emergency measure after identifying and interpreting life-threatening condition by initiating life-saving measure.• Serve as a resource person with whom other critical care nurses and other health care providers consult when particularly difficult problems in the care of critically ill patients arise.• Administer oxygen, intravenous fluids, blood transfusions and all types of medications during emergent events to include intravenous, intraosseous, subcutaneous, intramuscular, by mouth and rectal routes.• Assist the Physician in the performance of Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) and Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) and other specialized procedures.• Coordinate patient referral to ancillary health care professionals, Community Health Nurse, Social Work Services, Dietitian and Physical Therapy.

Meridian, Ms

Radiologic technologist with cross training in Computerized Technology. Routine and traumatic radiography, fluoroscopic, and surgical radiologic studies.

Master Of Science - Ms, Family Practice Nurse/Nursing, 4.0

Activities and Societies: Sigma Theta Tau

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Registered Nursing/Registered Nurse, 3.9

Activities and Societies: Sigma Theta Tau

Aa And As, Radiologic Technology And Adn