Emily Barber
Penetanguishene
Summary
To obtain full-time employment, where I can contribute my training, knowledge, and skills.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Registered Practical Nurse in Emergency Department
Royal Victoria Hospital
07.2022 - Current
- Use critical thinking to break down problems, evaluate solutions and make decisions.
- Worked in minor, subacute and acute areas in the emergency department.
- Administer medications via various routes and monitoring and documenting patients responses.
- Insert NG tubes and foley catheters for patients.
- Conducting initial assessments of patients and determining the urgency of patient conditions.
- Prioritizing patient care based on severity.
- IV and phlebotomy.
- Administering CPR
- Cleaning and dressing wounds
- Suture and staple removal
- Operating medical equipment (e.g. ECG machines, bladder scanner, doppler)
- Explain medical treatments to patients and their families.
- Time management and task prioritization.
- Collaborative teamwork in high stress environments
- Maintain composure in high-pressure situations.
Registered Practical Nurse
Georgian Bay General Hospital
10.2021 - Current
- Proficiency in Meditech
- Phlebotomy
- Glucometer
- Initiating and monitoring Intravenous access devices
- Asepsis
- Wound irrigation and fluid measurement
- Catheterization
- Administered medications and treatment to patients and monitored responses while working with healthcare teams to adjust care plans.
- Updated patient charts with data such as medications to keep records current and support accurate treatments.
- Collaborated with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions.
- Managed care from admission to discharge
Practical Nursing Student
Georgian Bay General Hospital
04.2021 - 09.2021
- Performed head-to-toe assessments on patients
- Medication administration and reconstitution
- Documentation of total intake and output
- Assisted with activities of daily living by helping patients with bathing, changing clothes, eating and daily hygiene tasks.
- Practiced patient care by taking vital signs and providing wound care for patients.
Practical Nursing Student
Georgian Bay General Hospital
05.2021 - 08.2021
- Learned how to organize patient care workload through watching experienced nurses demonstrate time-management skills
- Applied a variety of splints to both wrists and ankles
- Practice wound care including packing and dressing wounds
- Prime IV tubing lines to administer medications intravenously
- Provide health teaching to patients
- Practiced communication with patients and the interprofessional team
- Administered medications, completed physical assessments, documented patient care in MediTech, and assisted with ordering Physicians treatment plans
- Collaborated with nursing preceptor and interprofessional care team to provide appropriate nursing interventions
- Performing ECGs
Practical Nursing Student
Waypoint Centre for Mental Health
09.2020 - 12.2020
- Reviewed and created care plans for inpatients, monitoring their progress
- Administered medications and took vital signs
- Engaged with patients and their daily activities
- Developed therapeutic nurse-client relationships through engaging in discussions
Patient Care Assistant
Waypoint Centre for Mental Health
05.2020 - 09.2020
- Provided patients with rising and retiring care
- Showered and bathed residents who required assistance
- Assisted with feeding
- Assisted with daily hygiene
- Therapeutic engagement with patients
- Charting care provided
- Verbal de-escalation techniques
Education
Health Care Provider CPR, Action First Aid - undefined
Bachelor of Science - RPN To RN Bridge
Nipissing University
North Bay, ONundefined
No Degree - Coronary Care 1
Sheridan College Institute of Technology And Advanced Learning
Oakville, ON04.2022
Registered Practical Nursing -
Georgian College
Barrie, ON09.2021
Skills
- Patient and Family Advocacy
- Pediatric Care
- IV insertion and Management
- Phlebotomy
- Medication Administration
- Physical Assessment
- Pain Management
- Health Promotion
- Wound Care
- Staple and suture removal\
Certification
GBGH Blood Glucose Training Certificate GBGH Urinalysis Training Certificate WHMIS Training Certified Unregulated Care Provider CPR (HCP level) First Aid certified and Mask fit trained
Timeline
Registered Practical Nurse in Emergency Department
Royal Victoria Hospital
07.2022 - Current
Registered Practical Nurse
Georgian Bay General Hospital
10.2021 - Current
Practical Nursing Student
Georgian Bay General Hospital
05.2021 - 08.2021
Practical Nursing Student
Georgian Bay General Hospital
04.2021 - 09.2021
Practical Nursing Student
Waypoint Centre for Mental Health
09.2020 - 12.2020
Patient Care Assistant
Waypoint Centre for Mental Health
05.2020 - 09.2020
Health Care Provider CPR, Action First Aid - undefined
Bachelor of Science - RPN To RN Bridge
Nipissing University
No Degree - Coronary Care 1
Sheridan College Institute of Technology And Advanced Learning
Registered Practical Nursing -
Georgian College
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