Registered Nurse (Agency & Staff) - University of Chicago Medical Center, Flossmoor, Tinley Park, Ingalls Memorial Urgent Aids - Calumet City, IL
(2021-10)
- Perform rapid assessment and triage in high-volume urgent care settings
- Deliver patient-centered care, including medication administration, wound care, and discharge planning
- Provide targeted patient education using evidence-based strategies such as teach-back
- Identify patients requiring escalation of care and coordinate timely transfers
- Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams to ensure safe, efficient, and high-quality outcomes
- Adapt quickly across multiple urgent care sites while maintaining consistent standards of care
Assistant Patient Care Manager - University of Chicago Medical Center - Chicago, IL
(2019-08 - 2021-10)
Adult Emergency Room
- Supervise nursing staff, scheduling, and performance reviews
- Utilization of clinical reasoning, developing, implementing, and evaluating the nursing plan of care
- Assess the patient and family's level of understanding to provide effective communication and education
- Work collaboratively with medical staff in providing quality care in a compassionate and professional manner
- Trained in dealing with a variety of trauma situations requiring quick and decisive actions
- Adaptability at quickly and accurately assessing incoming patients with both physical and mental health conditions
- Supervise Emergency Room Technicians and Patient Services Coordinators
Emergency Room Clinical Coordinator/Charge RN - Metro South Medical Center - Blue Island, IL
(2017-05 - 2019-10)
Hospital closed
- Triage and prioritize patient illnesses and injuries based on medical need
- Make quick and accurate assessments about incoming patients, including both physical and mental health conditions
- Assign patients to various nursing teams while focusing on acuity and patient load
- Identify medical problems, document medical history while ensuring patient flow throughout the emergency room
- Maintain proper supplies of medical equipment
- Comply with protocols, procedures, and hospital safety policies
- Display emotional stability, communication, leadership, empathy, and attention to detail as required
- Patient education on an individualized plan of care
Emergency Room RN (PRN) - Texas Health Emergency Room (Free Standing ER) - Allen, TX
(2016-09 - 2017-05)
- Develop and maintain the plan of care for emergency patients
- Utilization of strong prioritization, communication, and customer service skills
- Excel as a team member to ensure safe and efficient delivery of quality patient care
- Assessments, observations, medication administration, and discharge planning as appropriate in the plan of care
- Adaptability to changes in workload assignment, functioning as Fast Track, Triage, or Charge nurse as needed
- Operate lab equipment, perform point-of-care testing, and perform quality controls
Emergency Room RN-Charge RN-Preceptor RN - Advocate South Suburban Hospital - Hazel Crest, IL
(2011-09 - 2016-08)
- Develop and maintain therapeutic relationships throughout the healthcare continuum
- Facilitates the patient and family's right to receive quality, cost-effective care
- Demonstrate a commitment to meeting the learning needs of patients and families while utilizing appropriate resources to meet those needs and achieve positive patient outcomes
- Provide care based on philosophical and ethical concepts. These concepts include reverence for life; respect for the inherent dignity, worth, autonomy, and individuality of each human being; and acknowledgement of the diversity of all people
- Use assessment techniques and criteria that are pertinent to the patient's age-specific physical, developmental, cognitive, and psychosocial needs
- Document the initial patient's assessment based on presenting chief complaints, only combining subjective and objective data
- Collaborate with the patient, the family, and appropriate health care providers in developing the plan of care
- Provide pertinent information to the patient and significant others to enhance the decision-making process
