Joanne Lee, BSN, RN
West Sacramento
Summary
Professional with strong background in clinical care, skilled in patient assessment, treatment planning, and medical documentation. Known for effective collaboration with healthcare teams, ensuring optimal patient outcomes. Adept at adapting to changing healthcare needs, providing consistent, high-quality care. Reliable and results-driven, with focus on delivering patient-centric solutions.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
Work History
Clinical Nurse II- Emergency Department
UC Davis Medical Center
Sacramento, CA
03.2024 - Current
- Educate patients and families regarding treatment plans, medications, and post-discharge care instructions.
- Demonstrated strong clinical reasoning skills when assessing patients'' conditions, initiating appropriate interventions, and escalating concerns to physicians as needed.
- Provided nursing care for patients being co-managed by multiple providers
- Provided care for acute and chronic conditions such as fever, respiratory illnesses, diarrhea, UTI, anxiety, depression
- Utilized medical terminology and knowledge of current trends in nursing
- Adapt in fast-paced environment in a positive, productive manner
- Improved patient outcomes by consistently providing high-quality emergency care and implementing evidence-based nursing practices.
Clinical Nurse II - South 3/North 3
UC Davis Medical Center
Sacramento, CA
10.2022 - 03.2024
- Administered patient care plans in collaboration with multidisciplinary teams.
- Educated patients and families on treatment plans and health management strategies.
- Utilized critical thinking skills to prioritize nursing interventions based on patients'' acuity levels and individual needs.
- Enhanced patient satisfaction by providing compassionate, holistic nursing care that addressed physical, emotional, and spiritual needs.
- Provided nursing care for acute and chronic conditions in adult populations such as UTI, CHF, COPD, stroke, hypertension, Diabetes Mellitus
Clinical Nurse II, D12 Surgical Specialities Unit
UC Davis Medical Center
Sacramento, California
11.2021 - 10.2022
- Organized and managed care of patients undergoing various therapies and procedures.
- Advised patients and caregivers of proper wound management, discharge plan objectives, safe medication use and disease management.
- Managed care from admission to discharge.
- Collaborated with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions.
- Provided direct patient care, stabilized patients and determined next course of action.
- Collected blood and other laboratory specimens and prepared for lab testing.
- Updated patient charts with data such as medications to keep records current and support accurate treatments.
- Evaluated healthcare needs, goals for treatment and available resources of each patient and connected to optimal providers and care.
Registered Nurse, Medical-Surgical/Telemetry Unit
Monterey Park Hospital
Monterey Park, CA
09.2020 - 10.2021
- Managed care from admission to discharge, including patient assessments, care planning, health educations and discharge support.
- Provided direct patient care, stabilized patients and determined next course of action using nursing process as a problem solving model.
- Administered medications via oral, IV and intramuscular injections and monitored responses.
- Monitored patient condition, including interpreting and tracking EKG readings, identifying irregular telemetry readings and updating team members on changes in stability or acuity.
- Minimized hospital stays with recovery-centered approaches, reducing average in-patient stay length.
- Reviewed post-operative orders and continuously monitored patients' post-operative vitals, set up PCA and fluids and oriented patients to unit.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
California State University - San Marcos
San Marcos, CA05.2020
Bachelor of Arts - Social Ecology
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA06.2016
Skills
- Compassionate and Caring
- Patient Condition Monitoring
- Decision Making
- Clear Patient Communication
- Patient/Family Teaching Skills
- Creative Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Attention to Detail
- Organization and Time Management Skills
- Bilingual in English and Korean (Fluent Level)
Timeline
Clinical Nurse II- Emergency Department
UC Davis Medical Center
03.2024 - Current
Clinical Nurse II - South 3/North 3
UC Davis Medical Center
10.2022 - 03.2024
Clinical Nurse II, D12 Surgical Specialities Unit
UC Davis Medical Center
11.2021 - 10.2022
Registered Nurse, Medical-Surgical/Telemetry Unit
Monterey Park Hospital
09.2020 - 10.2021
Bachelor of Arts - Social Ecology
University of California, Irvine
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
California State University - San Marcos
Licenses/Certifications
- California Registered Nurse (RN) License: #95226693
- Basic Life Support (BLS): #195508368754
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS): #196508388996
- Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS): #197008389424
- NIH Stroke Scale (NIHSS) Certification
- Telemetry Certified