BERNICE FODE

• Collaborated with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions.
• Administered medications via oral, IV, and intramuscular injections and monitored responses.
• Administered medications and treatment to patients and monitored responses while working with healthcare teams to adjust care plans.
• Educated patients, families and caregivers on diagnosis and prognosis, treatment options, disease process, and management and lifestyle options.
• Provided direct patient care, stabilized patients, and determined next course of action.
• Managed care from admission to discharge.
• Trained new nurses in proper techniques, care standards, operational procedures, and safety protocols.
• Implemented medication and IV administration, catheter insertion, and airway management.
• Evaluated healthcare needs, goals for treatment, and available resources of each patient and connected to optimal providers and care.
• Organized and managed care of patients undergoing various therapies and procedures.
• Advocated for patients by communicating care preferences to practitioners, verifying interventions met treatment goals and identifying insurance coverage limitations.
• Conferred with physicians to discuss diagnoses and devise well-coordinated treatment approaches.
• Advised patients and caregivers of proper wound management, discharge plan objectives, safe medication use, and disease management.
• Collected blood, tissue, and other laboratory specimens and prepared for lab testing.
• Monitored patient condition by interpreting and tracking EKG readings, identifying irregular telemetry readings and updating team members on changes in stability or acuity.
• Maintained quality care and comfort for patients with heart failure, pulmonary hypertension, and other conditions.
• Provided exceptional care to high-acute patients needing complex care such as ventilator management, extensive wound care and rehabilitation.
• Participated in nursing simulation activities, evidence-based practice project implementation and competency development to further nursing education.
• Managed quality care for patients with heart failure, end-stage renal disease and coronary artery disease.
• Provided didactic and clinical instructions to orient new nurses and potential student nurses to achieve training outcomes.
• Consulted with team managers, statutory and voluntary agencies and patient's relatives to support patient's treatment plan.
• Referred clients and families to proper resources to obtain community assistance.

TRAVEL NURSING CROSS COUNTRY HEALTHCARE

• Evaluated healthcare needs, goals for treatment, and available resources of each patient and connected to optimal providers and care.
• Managed quality care for patients with heart failure, end-stage renal disease and coronary artery disease.
• Organized and managed care of patients undergoing various therapies and procedures.