Courtney Echstenkamper

• Insert traditional PIVs, Ultrasound guided PIVs, and external Jugular PIVs in the adult population on a daily basis in an acute care setting.
• Insert PICC and Midlines in adult patients
• Coordinate with medical team to ensure appropriate intravenous lines based on patient requirements.
• Assess and change central line dressing, ie. chest ports, Perm Caths, PICCs, tunneled, and non-tunneled CVCs.
• Respond to Codes and Rapid Responses as VAST contributes to those teams on adult patients in hospital establishing new venous access (i.e., IO PIV...)

• Provided education and support to patients and families regarding end-of-life care options.
• Improved patient comfort by providing compassionate end-of-life care and symptom management.
• Administered medications efficiently, ensuring symptom management and patient comfort.
• Administered comprehensive patient assessments to determine individualized care plans.

Travel agency I use as a Travel ICU Registered Nurse. I have completed 1 13 week assignment with extensions. Assignment details below.

• Provided collaborative patient care as a travel nurse predominantly in the Neurologic ICU.
• Provided care to complex neurological, medical, cardiac, and COIVD patients who required constant vital sings monitoring, ICU medication titrations, EVDs, and frequent nursing assessments.
• Floated to Medical ICU, Surgical Trauma ICU, and Cardio Thoracic ICU 25% of the time.
• Insertion of PIVs and phlebotomy sticks 80% of shifts worked.
• Utilized Cerner EMR to document all patient interventions, such as evaluations, care plans and observations.
• Offered accepted and completed a 13 week assignment along with two contract extensions.

Travel agency I used as a Travel ICU Registered Nurse. Completed 5 13 week travel nurse contracts 3 contracts had extensions. Assignment details are below.

• Provided coordinated care for critically ill patients as a travel nurse in a busy medical ICU. This was a general ICU that took all kinds of patients, including medical, surgical, COVID, cardiac, and neuro.
• Insertion of PIVs and phlebotomy sticks 80% of shifts worked.
• Utilized EPIC EMR to document all patient interventions, such as evaluations, care plans and observations.
• Floated to step-down units 35% of the time.
• Offered accepted and completed a 13 week assignment with 2 contract extensions.

• Provided patient care to medical ICU patients. Floated to progressive care 50% of the time.
• Insertion of PIVs and phlebotomy sticks 75% of shifts worked.
• Utilized EPIC EMR to document all patient interventions, such as evaluations, care plans and observations.

• Provided collaborative care as a travel nurse to patients in a neurologic ICU.
• Frequently was charge nurse on the Neuro ICU floor, overseeing 4 RNs working with bed board to ensure safe staffing of the unit based on patient acuity.
• Insertion of PIVs and phlebotomy sticks 90% of shifts worked.
• Became part of the new COVID unit and helped work in team nursing on other critical care COVID units in the hospital as a team leader.
• Offered, accepted and completed 13 week assignment with 2 contract extensions.
• Utilized EPIC EMR to document all patient interventions, such as evaluations, care plans and observations.

• Provided Collaborative care as a travel ICU nurse in a very busy, prestigious, nationally renowned facility.
• Insertion of PIVs and phlebotomy sticks 60% of shifts worked.
• This position I was a float ICU nurse and as such was floated to all 7 different ICUs on campus, along with 10% of the time floated to step-down units.
• Utilized EPIC EMR to document all patient interventions, such as evaluations, care plans and observations.

• Provided critical care to complex patients on a neuroscience ICU and Trauma ICU in a level 1 trauma center for the majority of this contract, woking closely with residents, fellows and attending critical care physicians.
• Served as a Unit Resource Nurse to provide direct support to nursing staff on the unit with their complex patients/care.
• Floated to medical and cardiac ICU 20% of the time.
• Insertion of PIVs and phlebotomy sticks 80% of shifts worked.
• Utilized EPIC EMR to document all patient interventions, such as evaluations, care plans and observations.
• Offered, accepted, and completed 13 week assignment with 2 extensions to contract.

• Provided collaborative care to patients in a Level 1 trauma center's Neurosurgical/trauma ICU.
• Oversaw patients requiring constant vital signs monitoring, every hour neurological checks, ventilator support, titrations of ICU medications, and specialized neurological interventions such as continuous EEG,EVDs, and LP drains.
• Insertion of PIVs and phlebotomy sticks 75% of shifts worked.
• Floated to Medical and Surgical Trauma ICUs 25% of the time.
• Utilized Cerner EMR to document all patient interventions, such as evaluations, care plans and observations.

• First ICU job as a registered nurse. Learned how to proficiently and comprehensively provide care to critically ill patients.
• Provided care to critically ill patients in a general ICU with a heavy caseload of neurological patients as this was a comprehensive stroke center.
• Monitored patients vital signs 24/7, ventilator support, titrated ICU medications, inserted PIVs, ran CRRT and TTM.
• Preceptor to new graduate nurses/new hires during their orientation period.
• Relief Charge Nurse working along side the AMN and bed board to facilitate safe unit staffing to a 60 bed unit, with about 30 nurses and 4 health care techs.
• Resource Nurse on unit to help provide direct support to nurses on the unit with their complex patients.
• Insertion of PIVs and phlebotomy sticks 80% of shifts worked.
• Utilized EPIC EMR to document all patient interventions, such as evaluations, care plans and observations.

• In my first job out of college, I learned to provide care through the nursing process of assessment, planning, intervention, and implementation.
• I was working with epilepsy patients on a step-down floor, working closely with Epileptologists and Neurosurgeons for post-operative brain surgery patients.
• Insertion of PIVs 80% of shifts worked.
• I was a preceptor in which I trained and mentored new graduate nurses/heirs on best practices, hospital policies and standards of care.
• I was a charge nurse for the 15 bed unit working closely with bed board and the epilepsy residents/doctors to safely staff the unit as well have it run smoothly and safely while overseeing duties preformed by 5 RNs and 2 Health Care Techs.