REBECCA RASMUSSEN, RN, BSN, PHN

• Delivered all nursing care with warmth, integrity, and respect to meet patients' needs and optimize their comfort, healing, and empowerment in the hospital setting.
• Coordinated with multidisciplinary teams to ensure cohesive patient care and treatment strategies for patients with solid tumors, lymphoma, leukemia, and other hematologic conditions and complications.
• Demonstrated advanced assessment skills to identify early indications of deterioration in a patient's condition, enabling prompt intervention when needed.
• Administered chemotherapy and immunotherapy and carefully monitored patients for adverse reactions.

Participated in:

• Online Oncology Nursing Society modules.
• Live class series taught by Stanford Health Care Oncology experts.
• Simulation training for safe clinical practice learning.
• Chemotherapy and Immunotherapy certification education and training.

• Provided highly specialized nursing care for patients undergoing bone marrow transplants.
• Coordinated with multidisciplinary teams to develop and implement complex patient care plans.
• Managed care for patients with complications such as Graft Vs. Host disease, Tumor Lysis Syndrome, and Cytokine Release Syndrome.

• Provided whole-person, compassionate post-operative patient care in the Surgery Department, which specializes in spinal, bariatric, and abdominal surgery.
• Assessed vital signs, performed head-to-toe and focused assessments, blood sugars and bladder scans, and performed higher level procedures such as IV starts, PICC line care, Foley insertion and removal, straight catheters, dressing changes, and wound and drain care under the direction of registered nurses.

• Collaborated with Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and Stanford nurse scientist, Dr. Munro, and her team on a scoping literature review and examination of academic/healthcare institution publications to inspect how nurse scientist-led published research is conducted at twenty highly ranked institutions.
• Built datasets, wrote grant proposals, and created abstracts for conferences.