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Augusta, Georgia, United States

Augusta, Ga

➤ Rapidly assessed and cared for critical care patients with minor to severe life-threatening burns, wounds, and illnesses.➤ Performed evaluation of the degree of burn or injury on admission, and worked to stabilize the patient.➤ Contributed to planning nursing intervention in collaboration with the interdisciplinary care team.➤ Helped determine severity of burn, treat thermal, chemical and electrical burns as well as severe skin conditions, and trained to perform abuse identification as needed.➤ Promoted patients well-being, while empathizing and encouraging them the emotional and psychological toll.➤ Effectively taught patients and families to understand burn wound conditions, medications, and self-care skills.➤ Provided reparatory and ventilator management, prepared and managed chest tubes, and hemodynamic monitoring.➤ Administered and assessed prescribed IV/PO paralytic, sedation, vasopressor, angiotensive, and pain medications.➤ Cared for temporary skin coverings, grafts, donor sites, cultured skin, and flaps according to policy and procedure.➤ Proactively educated fellow non-burn Nurses in the very special assessments skills needed to care for these patients.➤ Examined and cared for burns and wounds, changing dressings, collecting cultures, labs and delivering updates to Doctors.➤ Handling infection control for patients, prevention, cross contamination and environmental surveillance.➤ Assisted with conscious/unconscious sedation during bedside procedures.➤ Effectively monitored feeding tubes, Foley, and stool management systems.

Aiken, Sc

Stony Brook, Ny

Rn Diploma, Completed Nclex Exam

Coursework In Bachelor Of Science, Elementary Education