Sandy Swatch

Compassionate and clinically focused Registered Nurse with progressive experience in specialty intensive care, long-term care, dementia care, palliative care, and community health. Brings strong clinical assessment, critical thinking, prioritization, medication safety, documentation, and interdisciplinary collaboration skills. Recognized for delivering safe, respectful, patient- and family-centred care while responding effectively to changing clinical needs.

Committed to evidence-informed practice, professional accountability, infection prevention, patient safety, and continuous learning.

Registered Nurse (RN) - AgeCare Walden Heights - Calgary, AB

(2022)

• Provide comprehensive nursing care to residents with complex medical, cognitive, and palliative needs.
• Complete focused and comprehensive assessments, identify changes in condition, develop and evaluate care plans, and escalate concerns appropriately.
• Administer medications safely and monitor therapeutic response, adverse effects, and clinical status.
• Provide dementia, palliative, and end-of-life care with a strong focus on dignity, comfort, safety, and resident-centred goals.
• Collaborate effectively with physicians, LPNs, HCAs, families, and allied health professionals to coordinate care.
• Maintain accurate, timely, confidential clinical documentation and communicate relevant clinical information during handover.
• Apply sound clinical judgment, prioritization, problem-solving, infection-control, and patient-safety principles in a complex care environment.

Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) - AgeCare Walden Heights - Calgary, AB

(2021 - 2022)

• Provided safe, compassionate resident care in collaboration with RNs and the interdisciplinary team.
• Performed wound care, IV therapy, routine procedures, monitoring, and ongoing clinical observations.
• Recognized and reported changes in resident condition and supported timely clinical intervention.
• Maintained accurate documentation and promoted safety, dignity, and person-centred care.

Community Health Worker - Richmond, BC

(2019 - 2021)

• Provided in-home support to clients living with chronic illness and disabilities.
• Supported personal care, mobility, activities of daily living, and client safety.
• Communicated client needs and connected clients with appropriate community health resources.

Registered Nurse — Specialty Intensive Care Unit - Fortis Hospital

(2014 - 2015)

• Provided nursing care in a specialty intensive care environment for patients requiring close monitoring and complex nursing interventions.
• Performed patient assessments, monitored clinical status, recognized changes in condition, and promptly communicated concerns.
• Supported safe medication administration, nursing interventions, clinical documentation, and interdisciplinary communication.
• Applied critical thinking, prioritization, infection-prevention, patient-safety, and emergency-response principles in a high-acuity setting.

Continuing Registered Nurse Program - Kwantlen Polytechnic University (2020 - 2020)