Nicole Edna Hébert
Saint John,NB
Summary
Dedicated and compassionate Registered Nurse with a progressive career in geriatric nursing. Proven to remain calm under pressure and skillfully handle difficult patients and high-stress situations. Consistently developing strong relationships with patients, care providers and families through empathetic communication, respectful attitude and excellent patient-centered care.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Registered Nurse
TURNBULL NURSING HOME
12.2023 - Current
- Use of nursing process to establish residents' plan of care.
- Assume leadership and works in collaboration with other care staff to assume provision of needed care.
- Assume care responsibilities, administrative and supervisory roles, as required.
- Developed and maintain good interpersonal and communication skills with residents, families, visitors and other staff.
- Work evening shifts when Director of Nursing and Nursing Home Administrator are absent. Supervisory role of 50 residents and care team including two licensed practical nurses and five resident attendants. Also, overseeing nursing home and other staff in building during those hours, such as dietary and housekeeping.
Registered Nurse
GERIATRIC EVALUATION AND MANAGEMENT UNIT
06.2022 - 12.2023
- Administer medications to unit, which includes 21 patients, in safe and timely manner.
- Perform IV insertion and phlebotomy.
- Administer medications via oral, subcutaneous, intramuscular and intravenous.
- Administer blood products, as per policy.
- Collaborate with small team of Licensed Practical Nurses and Personal Care Attendants.
- Perform interdisciplinary communication with attending medical team.
- Monitor changes in patients and make attending or physician on-call aware to receive further instructions and orders, when appropriate.
- Complete admissions, transfers and discharges of patients.
- Perform complex dressing changes and continuously reassess treatment plans.
- Participated in family conferences (when replacing charge nurse) with attending physician, social worker, occupational therapist, patient and their person(s) of choice to review results of assessments and team's recommendations.
- Apply and monitor restraints and follow least restraints policy.
- Administration of medications via intramuscular injections in high-stress situations to patients with responsive behavior, with or without use of restraints.
- Monitoring and recognizing signs of responsive behaviors, and intervening correctly by non-pharmaceuticals and/or pharmaceutics interventions.
- Use of gentle persuasive approaches and therapeutic communication in dementia care.
- Create care plans, update, evaluate and complete as needed.
- Provide mentorship to fellow staff by providing education and assistance when needed.
Registered Nurse
KV ORAL SURGERY CLINIC
06.2023 - 11.2023
- Retrieve patients and verify no change with current health status, medications and allergies and ensure no new contraindications to intravenous sedation medications.
- IV insertion and administration IV sedation medications under surgeon's orders.
- Monitor patient's status during consciousness sedation, including vital signs, and any signs of adverse reaction.
- Add sterile tools and supplies to surgeon's sterile field maintaining sterile technique.
- Maintain pre-, during and post-operative dental surgery documentation .
- Provide written and verbal post-operative instructions to patients and designated drivers.
- Telephone patients on Nurse's Call Back List, and address patient's post-surgery concerns.
Licensed Practical Nurse, Personal Care Attendant
TRANSITIONAL CARE UNIT
06.2016 - 09.2021
- Intermittent years of work between furthering nursing education.
- ADLs as PCA and health assessment, physical therapy, treatments, vital signs, medications as LPN.
- Provided comprehensive patient care for patient's suffering from Parkinson's disease, Lewy Body Diseases and other mild to major cognitive impairments.
Education
Bachelor of Nursing Degree -
University of New Brunswick
Saint John, NB01.2022
Practical Nursing Diploma -
New Brunswick Community College
Saint John, NB01.2019
Personal Support Worker Acute Care Certificate -
New Brunswick Community College
Saint John, NB01.2016
Skills
- Critical Thinking
- Excellent Problem Solving
- Autonomy
- Professionalism
- Sound Decision Making
- Long-term Care
- Supervisor and Leadership Role
- Patient and Family Education
- Creating, Managing and Evaluating Care Plans
- Administer and Monitor IV Sedation
- Health Assessment, Documentation, Basic Care, Hygiene, Vital Signs
- Elimination (Suppositories, Enemas, Ostomy Care, Urinary Catheter Insertion/Maintenance)
- Blood Glucose Monitoring and Administration of Insulin
- Oxygen Therapy
- Recognizing, Applying and Maintaining Isolation Precautions
- Admissions, Discharges and Transfers of Patients
- Simple and Complex Dressing Changes
- SC Butterfly Insertion
- Medication Administration (Topical, PO, SC, IM, IV, PR)
- Maintenance of IV Therapy and IV Pumps
- Blood Products Administration
- Management of Tubes and Surgical Drains
- Phlebotomy and IV Insertion
- Chest Tube Maintenance
- Tracheostomy Care
- Suctioning
- Enteral Feeding
References
REFERENCES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST
Languages
French
Native or Bilingual
English
Native or Bilingual
Timeline
Registered Nurse
TURNBULL NURSING HOME
12.2023 - Current
Registered Nurse
KV ORAL SURGERY CLINIC
06.2023 - 11.2023
Registered Nurse
GERIATRIC EVALUATION AND MANAGEMENT UNIT
06.2022 - 12.2023
Licensed Practical Nurse, Personal Care Attendant
TRANSITIONAL CARE UNIT
06.2016 - 09.2021
Bachelor of Nursing Degree -
University of New Brunswick
Practical Nursing Diploma -
New Brunswick Community College
Personal Support Worker Acute Care Certificate -
New Brunswick Community College
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