Cardiac Care Unit — Registered Nurse - Intermountain Health, Primary Children's Hospital
(2023-08)
Provide evidence based nursing care for pediatric patients with complex cardiac conditions, including congenital heart defects, heart failure, arrhythmias, and post-operative cardiac surgery patients in a high acuity setting.
- Charge Nurse for 2 years, provide clinical leadership to unit and floating staff. Ensure safe/ efficient patient care in a high acuity pediatric cardiac unit. Coordinate staffing assignments, patient flow, and resource allocation on a high census unit.
- Provide specialized care for pediatric patients requiring mechanical circulatory support, including Berlin Heart VADs and HeartMate devices. Closely collaborate with cardiac surgeons, heart failure perfusionists, and multidisciplinary teams to manage care while awaiting heart transplants or myocardial recovery.
- Contribute as a clinical coach, mentoring new nurses and support staff in clinical skills and their professional growth.
- Coordinate patient admissions, discharges, and interdisciplinary teams to optimize care transitions.
Ophthalmic technician - Hoopes vision
(2021-08 - 2023-08)
- Performed patient intake and preliminary assessments for comprehensive eye exams, medical visits, and pre/post operative refractive surgery.
- Served as medical scribe, documenting patient histories, diagnoses, and treatment plans.
Ophthalmic technician, LASIK technician, Contact lens specialist - Utah Valley Eye Center
(2017-06 - 2021-08)
- Assisted ophthalmologist and optometrists with speciality contact lens fittings, and patient education for CRT and Scleral lenses
- Functioned as a scrub technician and surgical assistant during LASIK and PRK procedures, supported patient care and maintained a sterile surgical environment.
