Mark Theis

Registered nurse with experience providing care in emergency, medsurg, and stepdown settings with additional experience in remote record auditing, review, and quality assurance.

Quality Assurance Nurse at MES Solutions (2025-05 – 2026-02)

Collaborated with medical providers and nurses nationwide to ensure proper, accurate, and timely documentation for various clients. Responsible for ensuring appropriate rationales for restrictions and limitations, spelling/grammar, organization, and that all regulatory requirements have been met.

Emergency Department/MedSurg/Stepdown Nurse at Duke University Hospital, St. Louis University, Mercy Hospital System (2022-02 – 2025-02)

Registered nurse operating in high-acuity Level I trauma centers, delivering advanced clinical care in fast-paced environments requiring rapid decision-making and complex patient management. Responsible for simultaneous management of multiple critical patients, including trauma, cardiac, pediatric, psychiatric, and intensive care cases awaiting transfer. Floated to medsurg and stepdown units as required by hospital needs.

Experienced in precepting new graduates, training medical students and EMT students, and mentoring student nurses.

• Establishing peripheral IV access and advanced vascular access in critically ill patients
• Administering high-risk medications including vasoactive agents, sedatives, paralytics, anticoagulants, and insulin protocols
• Managing massive transfusion protocols and blood product administration
• Participating in advanced cardiac life support (ACLS), rapid sequence intubation (RSI), and trauma resuscitation teams
• Stabilizing critically ill adult and pediatric patients in high-volume emergency environments
• Coordinating with multi-disciplinary trauma teams during life-threatening emergencies
• Managing multiple patients of varying acuity simultaneously
• Documentation of events, lines/drains/tubes, workflows, and care management via Epic utilizing various narrators

United States Marine, Member at United States Marine Corps, US State Department, Department of Defense, Nuclear Regulatory Committee (2001-09 – 2018-03)

• Coordinating and collaborating with both US and foreign entities to ensure mission success and safety
• Training and mentoring members of various federal and foreign agencies
• Sitting on governing and regulatory bodies responsible for developing and implementing training curriculum and standards
• Developing and implementing pilot programs utilized by numerous federal agencies

Associate's degree- Nursing. Germanna Community College, Fredericksburg, VA