Rhonda Walker

• Conferred with physicians to discuss diagnoses and devise well-coordinated treatment approaches.
• Leveraged feedback and process improvement opportunities to create safer and healthier environment and increase patient satisfaction.
• Reduced hospital readmissions through effective discharge planning, patient education, and follow-up care coordination.
• Provided skilled, timely and level-headed emergency response to critically-ill patients.
• Administered medications and treatment to patients and monitored responses while working with healthcare teams to adjust care plans.
• Promoted a culture of safety within the healthcare facility by participating in quality improvement initiatives, identifying potential hazards, and advocating for best practices in nursing care delivery.
• Explained course of care and medication side effects to patients and caregivers in easy-to-understand terms.
• Communicated with healthcare team members to plan, implement and enhance treatment strategies.
• Managed patients recovering from medical or surgical procedures.
• Facilitated patient transitions between different levels of care, ensuring continuity of services and minimizing disruptions in treatment plans.
• Collaborated with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions.
• Documented treatments delivered, medications and IVs administered, discharge instructions, and follow-up care.
• Educated patients, families and caregivers on diagnosis and prognosis, treatment options, disease process, and management and lifestyle options.
• Managed care from admission to discharge.
• Assisted in development and implementation of new policies and procedures to improve healthcare quality.
• Skillfully performed various clinical procedures such as IV insertion, wound dressing changes, catheterizations; ensuring optimal comfort levels for patients during these processes.
• Worked with patients diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), asthma, congestive heart failure (CHF), cerebrovascular accidents (CVA), diabetes or sepsis to asses needs and determine best options for care.
• Charge nurse for telemetry unit
• Devoloped policies and procedures for cardiac catheterization post-op unit
• Developed policies and procedures for chest pain clinic

Worked on cardiac unit where I cared for patients on telemetry monitor. Able to identify cardiac rhythms. Worked with acute patients who had the following conditions: MI, CHF, Angina, cardiac dysrhythmias such as afib, SVT, VT, heart blocks, patients on heart transplant with VAD, pacemaker and defibrillator patient.

Recovered patient post-op unit following cardiac catheterization, cardiac ablations, pacemaker and defibrillator insertions, assisted with pulling of sheath post cardiac procedure.

Served as a clinician 3 charge nurse.

Worked with medical and nursing students, interns, residents and attending in order to develop the appropriate plan of care.

Assisted with QI monitoring.