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• Provide direct and quality care to critically ill patients in all Critical Care Units including Cardiac, Neuro, Trauma, and Burn.• Experience as relief charge nurse• Maintain ongoing hemodynamic monitoring and support while managing multiple high risk intravenous drips• Continuously use critical thinking skills to assess patient conditions and anticipate care, as well as possible complications• Communicate changes in patients’ clinical conditions to physicians as appropriate, in addition to actively educating and communicating with patients and family• Work as a team to deliver safe, effective, and patient centered nursing care• Skilled in rapid decision making in a fast paced environment with the ability to adapt individualized care to a vast array of medical diagnoses

• Worked remotely to manage the Team Member Sick Line• Triage symptoms, order testing as appropriate, lab review, Covid contact tracing, provide education• Investigate trends within the hospital to prevent the spread of illness

• Coordinate pre and post care for structural heart procedures including TAVR and MitraClip• Work closely with patients and physicians to streamline care in a busy outpatient cardiology clinic setting• Appropriately triage patient symptom calls by use of critical thinking skills and chart review• Prior authorizations and utilization management for cardiology medications, testing, and procedures

• Relief charge nurse, medication nurse, therapist, and mental health counselor in a 16 bed inpatient acute treatment unit.• Provide therapeutic care and short term stabilization to adults during psychiatric crises by use of medication management, counseling sessions, ongoing case management, and structured milieu activities.• Maintain an ongoing assessment of patient safety while managing a variety of mental illnesses.

• Manage and coordinate care in an outpatient ophthalmology clinic by assisting physicians with exams and procedures, completing diagnostic testing, scheduling appointments, and triaging patients