Heather Wettemann

Energetic, caring, and engaged professional with over a decade of nursing skills seeking a position that provides the opportunity for diversification and development to expand my skillset and knowledge base.

Nurse Manager - Southeastern Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependance (S.C.A.D.D) - New London, CT

(2018-01)

• Coordinates admissions to detox facility
• Determines appropriate plan of care for each admission
• Initiates protocol for each new admission
• Works directly with prescribing doctors
• Manages multiple psychiatric and dependency issues
• Unit leader

Accounting Assistant/Food and Beverage Administrative Assistant - TPC River Highlands - Cromwell, CT

(2015-01)

• Assist Club Controller with daily accounting functions which include reconciliation from various points of sale such as revenues, tax liabilities, cash and charge receipts, accounts payable and accounts receivable
• Record journal entries, daily reports, and inventory changes into the general ledger and subsidiary ledger systems
• Communicate with members and maintain the member accounts receivable system, including sending statements
• Verify gratuities and audit payroll earnings
• Assist in preparing monthly financial reporting package to Headquarters

Correctional Nurse - UCONN Walker-MacDougall Correctional Facility - Suffield, CT

(2014-01 - 2015-12)

• Work as a staff nurse providing acute care to maximum security inmates at a correctional facility
• Provide care in acute hospital setting as well as daily medical management for chronic care
• Work directly with doctors in transcribing orders for inmates

Charge Nurse - Branford Hills Healthcare Center - Branford, CT

(2014-01 - 2014-12)

• Floor supervisor for an acute unit of geriatric patients
• Manage all doctor orders, admissions, and organize staffing roles for the unit
• Work directly with management and prescribing doctors
• Unit Leader

Supervising RN - Klingberg Family Centers - New Britain, CT

(2012-01 - 2014-12)

Supervisor for two group homes and an extended day treatment center. One group home consists of teenage girls with histories of trauma, abuse, neglect, and psychological disorders. The second group home consists of Problem Sexual Behavior diagnosis teenage boys.

• Maintain policy per Department of Children and Families per licensing protocol
• Maintain safety per policy across settings and crisis situations
• Currently certified in Therapeutic Crisis Intervention (TCI), and Risking Connection: Transforming Your Work with Survivors of Childhood Abuse
• Certified Med Administration Trainer, responsible for maintaining all certified staff at each program, and provide monthly education
• Case management of all clients at each group home, including medications
• Team leader

Emergency Department RN - Middlesex Hospital - Middletown, CT

(2011-01 - 2012-12)

• Train and work as emergency triage nurse in urgent care clinic setting
• Develop skills across settings and patient profiles including critically ill/emergent patients, geriatric and behavioral health patients
• Manage multiple psychiatric issues and chemical dependency issues
• Skilled IV placement, and phlebotomy
• Maintain safety per policy across settings and situations
• Recognized for patient satisfaction
• Master organization and time management skills required in and emergency department setting

Staff Nurse, Medical/Surgical Floor, Pediatrics - Connecticut Children's Medical Center - Hartford, CT

(2001-01 - 2011-12)

Shift supervisor for overnight inpatient medical/surgical unit. Specialize in patients ages ranging from neonate to adulthood. Specialize in orthopedics, GI disorders, rehabilitation for traumatic brain injuries, neurosurgical, pulmonary disease including ventilators and tracheostomies, and hematological disorders.

• Manage staffing requirements and supervised floor staff
• Identified as team leader
• Extensive experience with psychological disorders in youth
• Consistently manage and maintain company standards across settings and situations
• Recognized for IV efficiency skills, request across units to perform difficult IV insertions
• Research, implement, and educate state of the art IV techniques
• Orient/Precept new RN staff
• Research and propose new techniques designed to improve Press Ganey Scores
• Committee work including reduction of blood stream infections, management of central venous access
• Receive consistent 'outstanding care' feedback from multiple families to management

Bachelor of Science - Nursing - Southern Connecticut State University (1997-01 - 2001-12)