Nicholle Strome

Took a temporary line in Sylvan and returned to my permanent line in the Red Deer Emergency Department.

• Conducted thorough patient assessments to identify changes in condition, promptly notifying physicians and initiating appropriate interventions when necessary.
• Utilized critical thinking skills to prioritize nursing interventions based on patients'' acuity levels and individual needs.
• Facilitated patient transitions between different levels of care, ensuring continuity of services and minimizing disruptions in treatment plans.
• Monitoring IV antibiotic therapy treatments for infection processes
• Basic IV fluid/analgesic/antimetic medication administration
• Basic wound care and dressing changes
• Picc line/Portacath administration and treatment for plugged lines.
• Splint application and removal/cast removal
• Stitch care and removal
• Charge nurse role-staffing issues/unit issues-problem solving and working as a team to have best outcomes for patients and staff
• Triage patients

• Triage/Trauma trained
• Worked with stable to unstable patients
• Able to work in high stress situations, critical thinking skills in high stress situations
• Taken specialty courses specific to emergency
• Experience with all ages of patients from birth to end of life care
• Administered a variety of medications for various conditions
• Working closely with multidisciplinary teams, consultants,doctors
• Independent and able to self regulate workload/prioritization of patient care
• telemetry trained
• Initiating IV's on difficult patient starts

• Managed care from admission to discharge.
• Pre and post operative care
• Monitoring vital signs, medication administration, PCA pumps,dressing changes/blood administration
• focus on abdominal and gynecological surgeries
• Monitoring of JP drains/PERC drains/Wound Vacs/Nasogastric tube/Foley's
• Caring for patients of step down from ICU
• Treating post op complications
• Monitoring stable to unstable patients
• Post op bariatric surgery care
• Discharge teaching to patients on ongoing management of post op care, chronic illness or present condition