My daily goal is to give the best patient-centered care I can, following the nursing process of assessment, evaluation, treatment and care and reassessment and patient education.

MARY “KATHLEEN” LANGAN, RN, CEN, CCRN.Goal: To ensure patients receive the highest standard of compassionate and quality care, by encouraging improved communication between, and education of clinicians, patients and their families.“Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.” HippocratesPROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCELSU Public Interim Hospital, formerly known as the Medical Center of Louisiana, New Orleans and Charity Hospital: 1995 - April 2013.• Staff Nurse/ unit-based pool nurse, Adult Emergency Room and Trauma Unit, since October 1996. Approximately 6 month gap in service due to Hurricane Katrina recovery phase.• Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) since January 2000. Completed over 270 forensic exams. Qualified and testified as an expert witness in 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2010, 2011, 2013 in Criminal Court and in Federal Court April 2006. Testified before a Grand Jury twice and was a factual witness in April 2002.• Patient Liaison Nurse in the Emergency Department. Facilitating communication between the medical and nursing staff and patients and their families.• Taught the Critical Care Course module on pain management and discussed pain management with all new nursing personnel during hospital orientation.• Unit based pool RN, Pediatric Emergency Room, July 1995 - October 1996.• Critical Care pool RN, January 1995 - July 1995.• Served on the hospital’s Pain Management Committee.• Represented the SANE program at the New Orleans Rape Crisis Network (RCN) Committee.

Touro Ambulatory Surgery Center, New Orleans.• PRN pre-operative and post-operative (recovery) staff nurse, 2006 - 2007.

Nursing Knowledge, Metairie, Louisiana• Nursing Instructor (per diem), 1994 - 1999.• Taught courses in Advanced Cardiac Life Support (adult and pediatric),Critical Care Nursing, Emergency Nursing, Peri-anesthesia, Pain Management,Intravenous Therapy, and Adult and Pediatric Physical Assessment.

Elmwood Medical Center, Jefferson, Louisiana• RN in "Special Resources Team", 1992 – 1996.• Worked as Charge/Staff nurse in all critical care areas of the hospital (i.e. ICU, PACU, ER) as needed.

Southern Baptist Hospital, New Orleans, Louisiana• RN (part time/pool), 1988 – 1994.• Charge/Staff nurse in ER. Oriented new staff members to unit. Coordinated programming, treatment, care, and follow-up of patients with morphine sulfate pumps.• Helped develop an ER flow sheet used for critical patients.• Published a flow sheet for care of patients with implanted morphine sulfate pumps.• Helped develop an orientation and preceptor program for the ER.• Special project: to encourage ER staff nurses' confidence and expand their knowledge base in care of pediatric patients.

Charity Hospital, New Orleans, Louisiana• Head Nurse and Orientation Nurse in Pediatric Emergency Room, 1987 - 1988.• Head nurse on 3 to 11 p.m. shift. Responsible for orienting all new employees to the unit and cross training in-house nurses.• Responsible for organizing and presenting two in-services per month.• Developed a comprehensive orientation program to the Pediatric Emergency Room.• Improved recruitment and retention of staff. Developed several patient discharge instruction sheets.• Served on the Patient Care Committee, Nursing Issues, Nursing Practice and Forms Committees for Charity Hospital.• Charge/Staff RN in the Accident Room, Major Emergency Room, and Pediatric Emergency Room, 1984 - 1987.• Improved quality of patient care regarding triage, assessment, analysis, intervention, and evaluation of treatment of patients in ER.

Jo Ellen Smith Hospital, New Orleans, Louisiana• Charge/Staff nurse in ER, hyperbaric department, ICU step-down unit and orthopedics 1981 – 1984.

Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England• State Registered Nurse, 1979 – 1981.• Head nurse on medical/surgical units and dermatology unit.