Kimberly Ransom
Copper Cliff
Summary
Registered Nurse with extensive experience at Health Sciences North, excelling in direct patient care and Charge nurse, extensive experience with complex wound management and leading nursing teams, while advocating for patients and enhancing care quality. Skilled in chemotherapy administration and fostering professional growth among staff.
I am looking to relocate for slower paced living and a better quality of life while away from work. I plan on working at least 10 more years before retirement. HSN has become a very large corporate hospital without any personal connection. I want to know everyone's name from housekeeping to management. That's how my career started and that's how I need it to end.
Overview
30
30
years of professional experience
Work History
Registered Nurse
Health Sciences North
06.1995 - Current
- Utilized critical thinking skills to prioritize nursing interventions based on patients acuity
- Administered medications safely while closely monitoring for side effects or adverse reactions
- Assessed patients during high risk for hypersensitivity chemotherapy and identify reactions as early as possible
- Assisted physicians in performing various procedures including bone marrow biopsies, lumbar punctures, intrathecal chemo administration, chest tube insertion, thoracentesis, paracentesis, central line removal and eye enucleation
- Educated patients and their families about their cancer diagnoses and all the ways that cancer can impact your life and what to expect from radiation/brachytherapy
- Coordinated referrals to palliative care services and pain and symptom management when appropriate for comprehensive symptom management
- Participated in ongoing continuing education opportunities specific to oncology in order to maintain competency
- Served as a patient advocate during interdisciplinary team meetings
- Provided mentorship for nursing students while fostering professional growth opportunities
- Administered chemotherapy and other targeted therapies including monoclonal antibodies and immunotherapy and preparing to offer CAR-T therapy
- Participated in cancer-specific seminars networking with colleagues from across the nation
- Streamlined workflow to enhance patient care, safety and nursing staff satisfaction
- Implemented quality improvement initiatives
- Provided information on treatment options and home care services available to patients and caregivers
- Delivered a high level of care to diverse populations from all of northern Ontario and remote northern Quebec while ensuring that cultural needs are met and interpreters are used when appropriate
- Adhered to infection control policies and ensured staff adherence
- Liaised between nursing staff, physicians, and management to advocate for staff and patients
- Championed a positive work culture by recognizing exemplary performance and addressing conflicts with staff, management and dealing with patient/family complaints
- Managed staffing schedules, ensuring adequate coverage while minimizing overtime expenses.
- Streamlined shift handovers, minimizing information gaps and promoting safety and transparency
- Maintained high standards of patient care during dangerously short staffed shifts, reassigning patients as required and ensuring the safest staffing with limited resources
- Quickly responded to situations impacting safety and security to unit, to control and de-escalate situations.
- Provided skilled, timely and level-headed emergency response to critically-ill patients.
- Supervised up to 20+ nurses and unregulated staff on a 60 bed acute oncology/hematology, nephrology and palliative care unit in a 633 bed teaching hospital/regional referral centre for all specialties often operating at 120% occupancy
Education
Registered Nurse
Cambrian College of Applied Arts And Technology
Greater Sudbury, None05-1995
Skills
- Direct patient care and Charge nurse
- Infection control champion
- Blood and blood product administration
- TPN, continuous anticoagulation therapy and enteral feeds
- Nasogastric tube insertion, ostomy care
- Complex wound care including radiation burns, VAC dressing, amputations, packing and management of fungating and necrotic tumours, decubitus ulcers and post op wounds
- Resource for all staff as a senior nurse
- Telemetry
- Tracheostomy care
- Collecting blood specimens from central lines
- Precepting
- Lab result interpretation
Languages
English
Native or Bilingual
Timeline
Registered Nurse
Health Sciences North
06.1995 - Current
Registered Nurse
Cambrian College of Applied Arts And Technology
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