Cameron Berry

• Critical Care Nurse System Float Pool
• Medical/Surgical Intensive Care Unit
• Status per-diem RN working on part-time bases for Providence Health and Services healthcare systems; working a minimum of 4+ shifts per scheduling period.
• Helped increased staffing levels during difficult staffing shifts; helping support nursing units with provision of safe patient care.

• Deployed to provide concierge (at-home) IV vitamin therapy to clients; helping clients revitalize through essential nutrients, vitamins, and minerals for optimal health and recovery
• Improved overall client satisfaction by consistently exceeding expectations in all aspects of concierge services

Assignments:

• LAC+USC Medical Center of Los Angeles, CA. Unit: Critical Care Float Pool. Active: Dec 2022- Apr 2023
• MemorialCare Long Beach Medical Center of Long Beach, CA. Unit: Medical/Surgical ICU. Active: July 2023- Sept 2023

Assignments:

• UCSF Health- Helen Diller Medical Center at Parnassus Heights of San Francisco, CA. Unit: Intensive Cardiac Care Unit (ICC). Active: Jul 2019-Oct 2019 and Jun 2022-August 2022
• John Muir Health- Concord Medical Center of Concord, CA. Unit: Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit (CVICU). Active: Sep 2020-Feb 2021

Assignments:

• Doctors Medical Center of Modesto, CA. Unit: Surgical/Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit (SICU/CVICU). Active: Jan 2019-July 2019.
• Northside Hospital of Atlanta, GA. Unit: Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Active: March 2021- May 2021.
• Sutter Health- Memorial Medical Center of Modesto, CA. Unit: Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Active: Sept 2021- Dec 2021 and March 2022- June 2022.

Assignments:

• Doctors Medical Center of Modesto, CA. Unit: Surgical/Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit (SICU/CVICU). Active: Apr 2020- Aug 2020.

• Utilized throughout the hospital’s critical care resource pool for deployment to all the hospital’s critical care units to provide experienced, reliable, and quality support at the bedside level in order to ensure adequate and safe unit staffing management.

Assignments:

• Memorial Hermann Health System at Texas Medical Center of Houston, TX. Unit: Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit (CVICU). Active: Apr 2015- Aug 2015

• Management of the critically acute patient ranging from several areas such as medical, surgical, neurology/neurosurgery, hematology/oncology, cardiac, and obstetrics.
• Assisted physician and mid-level with bedside procedures such as intravascular access placement, bronchoscopy, synchronized cardioversion, and endotracheal intubation.
• Conferred with physicians to discuss diagnoses and devise well-coordinated treatment approaches.
• Worked within interdisciplinary health care team to develop, implement and make adjustments to patient care plans, individualizing strategies and methods to improve health and meet recovery goals.
• Gathered patient health data through interviews and observation, documenting data in electronic records.
• Department "super user" for the Cerner Electronic Medical Record (EMR) system-wide rollout initiative

• Operated critical care equipment to keep patients stable and promote recovery including: mechanical ventilators, continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT), Left Ventricular Assist Devices (LVAD), Intra-Aortic Counterpulsation Therapy (IABP) and Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO)
• Extensive hemodynamic monitoring of patients with arterial lines, central venous lines, and pulmonary artery catheters (Swan-Ganz catheters)
• Trained new nurses and graduate nursing students in proper techniques, care standards, operational procedures and safety protocols
• Guided and educated patients and caregivers on diagnoses, disease management, preventive measures, medication use and self-care to foster consistency in care administration