Colette Smith Email & Phone Number

United States

Administrator on Duty helping all the units to follow all policy and procedures and standard nursing of care, help during Rapids and Codes, De-escalating upset patient’s, responsible for making sure adequate staff for each unit and shift.

Contracts completed at Baycare Hospitals: South Florida Baptist ICU and Winter Heaven Cardiac Vascular Unit (PCU). Computer System Cerner. · Intensive Critical Care unit: 1-2 patients providing medication administration, IV drips, monitoring Ventilators, Hemodynamic monitoring, providing wound care, working closely and managing the critical care of the patient with doctors.· Have helped fill in days as Charge Nurse: helping staff with patient care and following proper policy and procedures.· Administering CRRT with NxStage.

· Burn critical unit (Burn ICU): 1-2 patients providing medication administration, IV drips, monitoring Ventilators, Hemodynamic monitoring, providing wound care, working closely and managing the critical care of the patient with doctors.· Have helped fill days as Charge Nurse: helping staff with patient care and following proper policy and procedures, Help with discharges and admissions, and making sure staffed for the following shift. Help with chart audits. · Mentoring new hires through preceptorship. Precept the new hires on Policy and procedure protocols for the hospital and providing proper patient care.· On the shared governance committee working with staff and trying to help the unit as a whole.· Administering CRRT and PIRRT with NxStage.Computer System: Epic

Sarasota, Florida Area

· Supervision of 120 residents, and Nursing employees· Train and educate new/current team members of protocols and procedures and EMAR System· Scheduling of staff and maintaining ppd ratio per state regulations· Experienced with recognizing patients in distress or early signs and symptoms of sepsis and promptly taking action to increase survival rate· New patient admission by inputting the information into computer, setting up medication list from 3008, assigning nurse to admission, and 24 hour chart reviews of meds and observations· Discharges by setting up paper work for Doctor, getting scripts, setting up home health and education material for patient · Work as a back up Nurse for wound care, measuring wounds, place wound vac's, and documentation and observations for wounds· Nurse Manager of Restorative Program, tracking progress of patients , writing care plans, and communicating to therapy patients who need to be revaluated· Work Closely with Doctors, and resolve family and patients concerns. Work closely with Staff when Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA).. Computer System: Matrix

Bachelor'S Degree, Registered Nursing/Registered Nurse

Associate'S Degree, Registered Nursing/Registered Nurse