Travel ICU nurse, floating to various units of hospital from ICU to subacute units

Post open heart surgeries, medical & surgical ICU.

Staffing resource for entire hospital. Training new graduate nurses, assisting in traumas within the ED, PACU, staffing the needs for CVCC, NICU, MICU, SICU, TICU, ED, PACU. Responding & assisting to codes on floor units. Charge of step down units.

Post crani care, monitoring of CPP & ICP, Ventricular drain management & interpretation, sepsis, post organ transplant care, massive blood transfusion, titration of vasoactive gtts, subarachnoid & subdural bleed care, neurological exams, vasospasm watch assessments, chest tube care, PICC & central line care, sterile procedures, PICCO monitoring, Artic Sun implementation & care, medical ICU overflow, alsius catheters, organ donation, post mortem care, post coiling, post angiograms, stroke education, mannitol & hypertonic saline administration, lab interpretation, participation with patient rounds within a Harvard medical school teaching facility, train of four, seizure management

Cardiac ICU (Feb 2010 – Sept 2012) post open heart recovery, post STEMIs, Code Team Member, Balloon Pumps, Vasoactive gtt titrations, Prismaflex CCRT, Management of Swan-Gantz catheters, lab interpretation, plueral & medialstinial chest tube care and removal, management of arterial lines, central lines, and multiple IV therapies, Cheetah monitoring, venous/arterial sheath care & removal, ICU overflow, Sepsis, Cardiogenic shock, Identifying cardiac tamponade, post valve replacement and care, assisting with line placements, emergent pericardiocentesis, SvO2 monitoring, Rotaprone bed Neuro/Trauma ICU (Sept 2012 – Aug 2013) Trauma Team Member (level 1 trauma center), intermittent co-charge, CRRT, management of traumatic brain injuries, lycox interpretation, end tidal CO2 monitoring, stroke education, post brain hemorrhages, multi-trauma pt. resuscitation, post crani care, bone flap removal care, implementing traction and continuous care, spinal cord injuries, plasmapheresis co-care, assist with emergent bolt, lycox, and ventricular drain placements and care, Monitoring and interpretation of CPP, & ICP, mannitol administration, , Rotaprone bed, Train of Four, Artic Sun, massive blood transfusion, implementing level 1 fluid resuscitation,