Rhonda Hunks

Dedicated and compassionate critical care nurse with 2+ years experience in acute, fast paced intensive care setting. Expertise in managing critically ill patients, advanced life support, and complex medical conditions. Collaborate with ICU team to provide evidence base, exceptional care to improve patient outcomes.

Experience with ventilated patients, titrating vasopressors and inotropes according to patients condition and response. CRRT, ACLS and wound care.

Provided timely interventions to address airway management complications such as respiratory depression or obstruction in post-operative patients. Prevented complications from anesthesia side effects such as nausea or vomiting using effective medication administration techniques.Provided emotional support to patients and their families during the recovery process, easing anxiety related to surgery outcomes.

Expert in the assessment and care of patients with thermal, chemical, electrical burn injuries. Skilled in wound management, pain control and emotional support with special care related to infection prevention and patient recovery. Provided extensive skin and wound care, debridement, and topical medical treatments. Experience with negative pressure wound therapy, leech therapy, microvascular and reconstructive plastic surgery care. Collaborated with interdisciplinary healthcare team to provide wholistic patient recovery.

Two years experience on the Burn Unit in the charge nurse role, with duties including collaboration with physicians on a plan of care with all of the patients on our unit, and our out patient burn clinic. Daily coordination of bed management, staffing/assignments and acuity management. Demonstrating leadership, critical thinking, communication and problem solving with clinical manager and clinicians.