Demonstrates high level of adaptability, independence, and competence, travelling to different regions and facilities in the role of registered nurse in the hospital med/surg unit setting.

Full-time floor nurse on a community hospital general medical/surgical unit. Fluent with the EMR Epic system for medication administration and patient care documentation. Adaptive to the ever-changing patient demographic and admitting diagnoses, managing the in-patient care of 6 cases per 12 hour shift. Virtua Health demands the highest quality in nursing best practices and healthcare consumer satisfaction.

• Function as charge nurse on 30 bed unit demonstrates ability to delegate tasks of RNs providing medications and treatments and nursing aids. Exceeding the Performance Improvement department’s CMS standards of care plan documentation. Confident crisis response leader for medical and psychiatric emergencies. Facilitating education programs based on medications, treatments, intervention rationale, and discharge readiness. Hub member of multidisciplinary team, connecting key stakeholders in management of patient outcomes.• As medication/Tx nurse, completed daily assessments, administered medications, wound care, and treatments. Excelled in crisis intervention, assessment protocol adherence, and quickly developed reputation as a patient advocate with regular consumer feedback to supervisors noting high levels of satisfaction with health care delivery.• Function as acting nursing supervisor includes oversight of 4 units (30 beds each) each staffed with 2-3 RNs and 4-8 nursing aids. Efficiently produced staff assignments, monitored time and attendance including overtime equalization, facilitated staff-to-staff and staff-to-patient conflict resolution, responded to oversee crisis emergencies and communicated unit needs for improvement and successful practices to hospital administration.• Function in staff development required routine certification and included facilitating bi-annual courses with intermittent refreshers for all patient care staff including physicians, psychiatrists, social workers, security, nursing, and administrative personnel. With the use of technology tools, lecture presentation and role-play demonstrations, the 5-day training prepared staff to engage in professional communication and conflict resolution, and provide physical assistance with ADLs. Also, preceptor to new-hire RNs providing 3 weeks of shadowing experience, representing reputation for teamwork cultivation and excellence in job duty knowledge.

• Excellent utilization of electronic medical records tools during medication and treatment administration, documentation of daily shift assessments and care plan interventions and outcomes.• Skills in admission processing and treatment of patients in acute psychiatric crisis and active opiate and/or alcohol withdrawal demonstrates ability to excel in crisis scenarios while performing quality nursing assessments and interventions.

Delegated tasks to a team of 4-8 employees on a daily basis, managed time and resources, facilitated safe working environment, entrusted with $150,000+ worth of equipment on a daily basis. Customer satisfaction liaison.

Educated 2 courses of 20+ students in Introductory Ethics, designed syllabus, managed schedule of assignments and examinations throughout the semester, created and implemented evaluation tools, facilitated interactive group discussions of ethical dilemmas.