Wound Care Nurse Practitioner - Carolina East Medical Center Wound Healing & Hyperbaric Service - New Bern, North Carolina
(2025-01)
- Conduct assessments: Perform comprehensive physical exams, health histories, and diagnostic evaluations.
- Design plans: Formulate individualized, evidence-based treatment tracking for complex or chronic wounds.
- Perform procedures: Execute sharp debridement, chemical cauterization, and advanced dressing applications.
- Order diagnostics: Interpret vascular studies, labs, and imaging to guide infection and perfusion management.
- Prescribe medications: Order necessary therapeutics, including systemic antibiotics and specialized topical agents.
- Evaluate candidates: Assess patients prior to dive sessions to confirm HBOT indications and rule out contraindications.
- Authorize treatments: Generate precise therapeutic dosing profiles and dive prescriptions.
- Supervise dives: Provide continuous clinical supervision while the hyperbaric chamber is occupied.
- Manage complications: Identify and treat barotrauma, oxygen toxicity, or claustrophobia immediately.
- Collaborate medically: Coordinate care under proper federal, state, and institutional guidelines regarding physician collaboration.
- Direct staff: Offer clinical training, guidance, and support to hyperbaric technicians and nursing staff.
- Manage documentation: Complete thorough, accurate, and timely EHR charting for compliance and billing codes.
- Coordinate care: Communicate updates and outcomes seamlessly to referring primary care or surgical specialists.
Licensed Financial Professional - World Financial Group & World System Builder - State of North Carolina
- Educating families on financial fundamentals and life insurance solutions.
- Matching clients with appropriate life and health insurance products based on their needs.
- Building a personal brand and professional network to grow the business.
- Attending live trainings, workshops, and community events
Cardiac Intermediate Care Nurse - Carolina East Medical Center - New Bern, North Carolina
(2023-08 - 2024-12)
Travel Contract
- Conduct thorough assessments of the patient's cardiac status, including monitoring vital signs, cardiac rhythms, and hemodynamic parameters.
- Perform focused cardiac assessments and identify changes in patient condition promptly.
- Collaborate with physicians and other healthcare providers to develop individualized care plans based on patients' cardiac diagnoses, medical history, and treatment goals.
- Implement evidence-based interventions to manage cardiac conditions and optimize patient outcomes.
- Administer medications as prescribed, including cardiac medications such as antiarrhythmics, anticoagulants, and vasopressors.
- Monitor patients for adverse reactions and therapeutic effectiveness and adjust medication regimens as necessary.
- Utilize cardiac monitoring equipment to continuously monitor patients' cardiac rhythms and detect abnormalities.
- Respond promptly to changes in rhythm or other cardiac indicators, initiating appropriate interventions as needed.
- Provide education to patients and their families regarding cardiac conditions, treatment plans, medications, lifestyle modifications, and self-care strategies.
- Empower patients to actively participate in their care and promote cardiac health and wellness.
- Work collaboratively with interdisciplinary team members, including physicians, nurse practitioners, respiratory therapists, and pharmacists, to coordinate care and ensure seamless transitions between care settings.
- Maintain accurate and comprehensive electronic medical records, documenting assessments, interventions, patient responses, and care plans according to established protocols and regulatory standards.
- Participate in quality improvement initiatives to enhance patient care delivery, promote safety, and achieve quality outcomes.
- Contribute to data collection, analysis, and implementation of evidence-based practices to optimize cardiac care processes.
- Engage in ongoing professional development activities, including continuing education, certifications, and participation in professional organizations, to enhance clinical knowledge and skills in cardiac nursing practice.
Central Staffing/Float Pool Nurse - ECU Health Medical Center - Greenville, North Carolina
(2022-09 - 2023-03)
Travel Contract. Served as a travel nurse, providing essential central staffing support, and floating to various clinical settings, including critical care, progressive and intermediate units for cardiac care, medical-surgical, neurology, oncology, orthopedics, ambulatory surgery, observation unit in the emergency department, and inpatient rehabilitation unit.
- Diligently monitored patients with acute and chronic medical illnesses or injuries and complex diagnoses in a level 1 trauma hospital serving the community of Eastern North Carolina.
- Collaborated with the healthcare team and communicated effectively with family members in a professional, compassionate, and empathetic manner.
- Employed EPIC for electronic health documentation and managed medications using PYXIS.
Critical Care Nurse - Covenant Medical Center - Lubbock, Texas
(2021-09 - 2021-12)
Travel Contract. Served as a travel nurse; providing crucial staffing support to critical care and ICU step-down units.
- Diligently monitored patients experiencing life-threatening conditions, injuries, and complex diagnoses at a level 2 trauma hospital serving the community of Lubbock, Texas.
- Collaborated with the healthcare team and communicated professionally, compassionately, and empathetically with family members.
- Utilized the Meditech system for electronic health documentation and managed medications via PYXIS.
Critical Care Nurse - Montefiore Nyack Hospital - Nyack, New York
(2021-04 - 2021-07)
Travel Contract. Served as a travel nurse; contributed to the float pool team, aiding in critical care staffing for medical and surgical intensive care, stepdown units, and the emergency department.
- Diligently monitored patients facing life-threatening conditions or injuries.
- Collaborated closely with the ICU team to develop treatment plans for intricate diagnoses.
- Demonstrated adeptness in adjusting to new settings and communicated with family members in a professional, compassionate manner.
- Documented notes in the facility's electronic medical record EPIC and dispensed medications using PYXIS.
COVID-19 Vaccinator & Monitoring Nurse - Essex County Health Department, New Jersey - Essex County, New Jersey
(2021-01 - 2021-05)
Weekends Only
- Provided support to the health department and its vaccination programs in the community.
- Served as a vaccinator and or monitored patient for 15 minutes post-vaccine administration.
Medical-Surgical Intensive Care Unit Nurse - Clara Maass Medical Center - Belleville, New Jersey
(2015-09 - 2021-05)
Started career in the telemetry/cardiac care unit, gaining over a year of experience before transitioning to critical care. Monitored patient progress in a combined medical and surgical ICU setting, and occasionally rotated to the progressive care or critical care step-down unit.
- Identified abrupt or subtle changes in a patient's medical condition.
- Recognized signs and symptoms
