Compassionate, patient-focused registered nurse with over five years of experience working with psychiatric patients of all ages. Experienced charge nurse with skill in thorough and timely documentation, efficient patient flow, timely intervention of treatments, deescalation, and delegation of necessary patient care tasks. Focused on serving the population and positive and far-reaching advancement to healthcare.
Collaborate with interdisciplinary treatment team to plan and provide care for inpatient psych unit and geripsych unit
Experience with:
- Skin, fall risk, level of consciousness, and other assessments as deemed necessary
- Timely medical intervention prior to necessitation of medical code
- Timely and level-headed emergency response to critically-ill patients
- Utilization of deescalation techniques to maintain therapeutic milieu
Worked as a travel nurse in understaffed psychiatric units located in South Dakota, Kansas, and Virginia
Experience with:
- Nightly charge nurse duties of admission, discharge, assessments, and chart auditing
- Substance detox assessments and interventions
- Implementing timely interventions when de-escalation techniques are not effective
- Safely administering forced, court-ordered medications when necessary
Worked alongside interdisciplinary care team to develop and implement patient care plans
Experience with:
- Nightly charge nurse duties of admission, discharge, assessments, and chart auditing
- Mentoring and delegating tasks to student nurses and new employees
- Safely administering forced, court-ordered medications when necessary
- Following CDC guidelines in isolating and caring for COVID-19 positive psych patients
- Substance detox assessments and interventions
Worked alongside interdisciplinary care team to develop and implement patient care plans
Experience with:
- De-escalating patients showing signs of crisis/coming down from crisis
- Daily patient health and suicide risk assessments
- Medication preparation and administration
- Implementation of behavioral interventions
- Patient education and maintenance of patient safety
Registered Nurse: Interstate Compact License # 11674544-3102
Basic Life Support (BLS) certified by American Heart Association
PMDB certified
References available upon request
Registered Nurse: Interstate Compact License # 11674544-3102
Basic Life Support (BLS) certified by American Heart Association
PMDB certified
References available upon request