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Amanda Roberts

Red Deer,Ab

Summary

Experienced and respected registered nurse with 7 years of informal leadership experience, exceptional organizational skills, and a talent for fostering teamwork.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience

Work History

Clinical Nurse Educator, Surgery

Red Deer Regional Hospital
11.2022 - Current
  • Enhance patient outcomes through planning, developing, implementing and evaluating education for frontline staff.
  • Utilize adult learning principles to adapt teaching methods and enhance hands on learning experiences to meet individual learner needs.
  • Support the goals of the unit, the surgical program, and provincial quality initiatives by aligning education delivered to staff with policy and best practice.
  • Ability to balance multiple competing demands in an ever evolving environment while conforming to shifting priorities and timelines.

Nurse Clinician – Credentialed Trainer

Connect Care
11.2019 - 11.2022
  • Delivered role based training both in person and virtually to end users utilizing a variety of software programs, tools and applications.
  • Required to learn new material quickly and keep up to date with system upgrades, policy changes and documentation standards.
  • Established rapport quickly and delivered information in a meaningful way, reflective of learners varying abilities.
  • Promoted the change process in a positive manner to ensure buy in from new users of the system.

Patient Access Coordinator

Red Deer Regional Hospital
03.2018 - 11.2022
  • Responsible for facilitating patient flow within the RDRH as well as between other facilities within Central Zone as required.
  • Collaborated with leadership, charge nurses, and other members of the healthcare team to solve problems and remove barriers related to patient flow.
  • Provided leadership and clinical direction to various members of the health care team including facilitating daily bed meetings.
  • Accountable for decisions made to ensure timely placement of patients while considering facility wide safety of patients.

Registered Nurse, Short Stay Surgery

Red Deer Regional Hospital
05.2013 - 11.2019
  • Provided quality patient care both pre and post operatively to short stay surgical patients.
  • I worked to promote a collaborative practice environment, developing tools and processes to improve communication among team members.
  • Utilized critical thinking skills to prioritize nursing interventions in a fast-paced high turnover environment.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Nursing

University of Alberta
Edmonton, AB

Frontline Collaborative Care Leadership Certificate -

Alberta Health Services

Basic Life Support Instructor -

Heart And Stroke

Skills

  • Exceptional organizational and time management skills with the ability to multitask and prioritize when faced with multiple distractions
  • Self directed and able to work effectively independently as well as within a multidisciplinary team
  • Ability to coach, mentor, motivate, and support new and experienced staff
  • Leadership skills including change management and conflict resolution
  • Effective communication skills
  • Well developed critical thinking and experience solving complex problems

References

Available upon request

Timeline

Clinical Nurse Educator, Surgery

Red Deer Regional Hospital
11.2022 - Current

Nurse Clinician – Credentialed Trainer

Connect Care
11.2019 - 11.2022

Patient Access Coordinator

Red Deer Regional Hospital
03.2018 - 11.2022

Registered Nurse, Short Stay Surgery

Red Deer Regional Hospital
05.2013 - 11.2019

Bachelor of Science - Nursing

University of Alberta

Frontline Collaborative Care Leadership Certificate -

Alberta Health Services

Basic Life Support Instructor -

Heart And Stroke
Amanda Roberts