RN CV SURGERY INPATIENT UNIT - UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA HOSPITAL (MAZANKOWSKI ALBERTA HEART INSTITITUE) - Edmonton, Alberta
(2025-01)
Provide comprehensive nursing care to patients within a high-acuity cardiovascular surgery inpatient unit.
- Care for complex post-operative cardiac and thoracic surgery patients, including heart and lung transplant recipients.
- Training and experience managing patients with Ventricular Assist Devices (VADs), including monitoring, troubleshooting, and patient/family education.
- Monitor and assess patients with advanced cardiac and respiratory conditions requiring specialized interventions and close observation.
- Collaborate closely with interdisciplinary teams including surgeons, cardiologists, transplant coordinators, respiratory therapy, physiotherapy, and critical care teams.
- Perform detailed patient assessments and respond promptly to clinical deterioration and emergent situations.
- Administer medications, blood products, and advanced therapies (inotropes) in accordance with unit protocols and best practices.
- Support discharge planning, patient teaching, and continuity of care for complex cardiac and transplant patients.
- Demonstrate strong prioritization, critical thinking, and communication skills within a fast-paced, high-acuity environment.
- Precept and support nursing students and new staff while promoting a collaborative team environment.
RN EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT - ROYAL VICTORIA REGIONAL HEALTH CENTRE
(2017-01 - 2024-12)
- Utilized nursing processes through critical thinking, problem solving, and rapid decision-making to ensure patient safety and well-being.
- Provided effective teaching, counselling and advocating on behalf of patient and their families.
- Played a leadership role while supporting an integrated holistic approach to patient care, health promotion and maintenance.
- Provided comprehensive emergency nursing care to diverse populations and responded efficiently to various medication emergencies.
- Managing critically ill patients, coordinating care, efficiently communicating and collaborating with interdisciplinary team in emergency department.
- Performed rapid assessments, assisting with lifesaving interventions, and overseeing application of advanced cardiac life support protocols (ACLS).
- Demonstrated proficiency in managing multiple high-acuity patients, ensuring timely, safe and effective care delivery.
- Efficient with Medical Record Documentation, initiating appropriate medical directives based on patient presentation, and order processing (i.e., Meditech, ED Tracker).
- 12 lead ECG interpretation and cardiac monitoring.
IMMUNIZATION NURSE - SIMCOE MUSKOKA DISTRICT HEALTH UNIT
(2022-01 - 2025-01)
- Providing immunizations in various clinic settings
- Administering vaccines according to health unit medical directives, policies and procedures as well as the product information inserts
- Able to respond to emergency situations that may arise following immunization.
- Demonstrating current knowledge of vaccines and publicly funded vaccines, and familiarity with health information databases.
- Providing information on all publicly funded vaccine products including contents, expected side effects, risk of diseases vs. benefits of the vaccine, compared to the disease contraindications.
- Conducting immunization record review and updating immunization records into the provincial data bases such as IRIS archives, COVAX, and M-Imms, and Panorama as provided by patients, parents, and health care providers.
- Interpreting various immunization schedules and determining the category of child immunization history in terms of being at risk, eligible, due for or completed, for a specific vaccine.
- Ensuring standards of storage and handling of vaccines are met.
- Working collaboratively as a member of the team and contributing to positive team functioning.
- Respecting and ensuring confidentiality in all work performed on behalf of the Agency.
- Demonstrating a strong customer service focus in dealing with both internally and externally.
PATIENT FLOW COORDINATOR - ROYAL VICTORIA REGIONAL HEALTH CENTRE
(2020-01 - 2022-12)
- Manage and support the flow of the hospital in terms of patients, staff, units and resources, while ensuring effective admissions and discharge policies are implemented
- Provide clinical expertise to all units within the hospital
- Provide and foster a safe working environment for questions and feedback
- Work with both internal and external staff/partners/stakeholders
- Work with other facilities and physicians, within the repatriation agreements for the repatriation and inter-facility transferring of patients
RPN FLOAT NURSE - ROYAL VICTORIA REGIONAL HEALTH CENTRE
(2017-01 - 2023-12)
Float for nursing reserve unit: Medical-surgical, Emergency Department, Cancer-Palliative, Obstetrical, Medicine Treatment Clinic and Mental Health Inpatient Unit
- Ability to multi-task and work efficiently under high-pressure and time sensitive situations while fostering a safe work environment
- Assessments – collects, prioritizes, and synthesizes comprehensive data pertinent to the patient's health or situation
- Actively participating in creating and implementing improvements to achieve clinical, satisfaction and/or efficient outcomes
- Utilizing the nursing process to provide holistic, compassionate, safe, high quality, population based care
- Coordinating with the interdisciplinary team while promoting collaborative teamwork and cooperation
- Maintaining knowledge of, and complying with, all relevant laws, regulations, policies, procedures and standards
- Communicating effectively with patient/family, physicians, the interdependent team and other disciplines regarding plan of care
- Demonstrating practices that support safety with recognition of variations in populations served, preventing harm to patients, families, employees, and themselves
- Computer and audiovisual skills, using various applications, such as internet, email, word processing, electronic medical record systems.
- Experience with clean and aseptic techniques, intravenous therapy and care of central venous lines
RPN MED/SURG/DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING - MUSKOKA ALGONQUIN HEALTH CARE
(2016-01 - 2017-12)
- Supported and observed Radiologist with pre, intra and post procedural care for IR cases.
- Scrub experience with physicians for surgical cases.
- Certified by MAHC to assess and access central venous line devices.
RPN - PETERBOROUGH CLINIC
(2016-01 - 2016-12)
- Assessments for walk-in clinic and implemented care aligned with diagnosis and medical directives.
RPN - BAYSHORE HOME HEALTH
(2016-01 - 2016-12)
- Created and implemented nursing care plan process for diverse needs within client homes.
RPN - UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA HOSPITAL – MAZANKOWSKI ALBERTA HEART INSTITUTE / DAY SURGERY
(2016-01 - 2016-12)
- Education received in preoperative and postoperative patient care
- Telemetry monitoring for abnormalities
- Wound Vac Training
