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Acute Care Stroke Nurse: responsible for complete care of “hot” strokes and EVTs throughout the hospital. This includes patient treatments, organizing tests/exams, coordinating with other services to optimize care for the patient.Emergency Nurse: work in all areas of the emergency department including: trauma, mental health, minor treatment, and streaming.ICU Nurse: responsible for complete coordination of care for critically ill patients in a General Medical/Surgical ICU.CCU/Telemetry Nurse: Caring for all types of medical cardiac patients, completing all assessments, monitoring, medications, and education.Street Clinic Nurse: cover all aspects of street nursing including wound care, harm reduction, nutritional counseling, immunizations, and STI information.

Educator: creating, refining, and delivering in-house and online standardized specialty education curriculum within Rural Emergency and Critical Care practice environments across IH region.Current Focus: Regional Emergency Department Education Program (REDEP). Training nurses to be able to start work in the emergency department.

Critical Care Flight Team: Responsible for advanced emergency and critical care patient management during air and ground transport of the critically ill or injured patient from the scene of remote, outlying sites and Health Centers to secondary and tertiary care institutions. Provide intensive care monitoring, critical care interventions and advanced surgical skill procedures to critically ill and injured patients that include neonates through geriatric age groups. This includes the management of high-risk obstetrical, medical, surgical, respiratory, and cardiovascular patients.

Various hospitals of different sizes and scope in British Columbia and ArizonaAreas of work included: Emergency, ICU, NICU, CCU, PAR. Part of the resuscitation teams for the wards and other High Risk areas, such as Labor & Delivery

Responsible for complete operation of the Medigas business in the Interior & Northern BC.I managed 16 employees in 7 branches throughout the BC Interior & North with average gross sales of 3 – 4 million dollars per year.

Staff Therapist/Supervisor: work in all critical care areas: Emergency, ICU, OR, PAR, and on the Cardiac arrest, Trauma, and Neonatal resuscitation teams. Responsible for airway management, ventilation, respiratory assessments, and assisting Physicians with various proceduresPulmonary Rehabilitation Program Responsible for the expansion of the existing Pulmonary Rehab Program from 3 – 4 classes to 20 + classes per year, seeing a total of 250 COPD participants. Pulmonary Rehab is an in-depth program of exercise, education, and psychosocial support for COPD patients and their families.Anesthesia Assistant: Responsible for daily checks and setting up of the anesthesia machines, assisting the Anesthetist with larger cases. Also assigned to the High Risk Labor & Delivery cases several days a week.

Clinical supervision of respiratory therapy staff and accountable for the development, implementation, and evaluation of the respiratory professional practice standards and quality care consistent with the vision and mission of MSA General Hospital.Collaborate with the various Unit Managers regarding respiratory therapy practice and service on the units.Responsible for scheduling and hiring of respiratory therapists at MSA Hospital.Responsible for Clinical teaching and in-services throughout the hospital including: nurses, physicians, respiratory therapists, and any other allied health professionals.

Staff Therapist: work in all critical care areas: Emergency, ICU, OR, PAR, and on the Cardiac arrest, Trauma, and Neonatal resuscitation teams. Responsible for airway management, ventilation, respiratory assessments, and assisting Physicians with various procedures, and providing numerous ground transports of critically ill patients to tertiary care facilities approximately 100 km away.Technical Director of the Pulmonary Function Lab: complete operation of the lab including quality control and assurance, supervising of staff, and developing policies and procedures.Respiratory Rehabilitation Program: assisted in setting up the Respiratory Rehab program and the Community Asthma Clinic with monies from the ‘Closer to Home Funding’ for the provincial government.Cardiopulmonary Technologist: worked in the Catherization lab assisting with the preparation of the patient, monitoring vital signs, and collecting hard data for various heart procedures.

Bachelor Of Science, Nursing

Diploma, Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist