Registered Nurse Care
Resume:
Danielle Germany
Sahuarita, Az 85629
adcw7c@r.postjobfree.com
Professional Summary
To obtain a nursing position in a healthcare facility to increase my skill set, supplement recent education and experience within an intermediate or critical care setting. Energetic and hardworking; compassionate and knowledgeable; motivated and trustworthy, registered nurse who thrives to provide satisfactory and quality care to all patients. Certifications and Licenses
Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)
Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification
PALS
Registered Nurse in the State of Arizona: since 2013 RN180141 TNCC
ENPC
NIHSS
Professional Experience
02/2018-current Green Valley Hospital/Emergency department
● Providing excellent care to patients
● being a patient advocate
● Charge RN on occasion
● trach care
● IV placements
● Managing IV gtt, while monitoring patient for adverse reactions
● Fluid resuscitation
● Charge nurse
● identification of acute changes in patient status
● Management of critical patient’s
● Build rapport with patients and ensuring the very best care is provided
● Educating patients on their disease process
● Sterile and clean procedures
● removing and placing foleys.
● Cardioversion
● identification of CVAs, MIs, respiratory distress, asthma attacks, septic patients.
● EKGs and EKG interpretations,
● Setting up for intubation
● Demonstrating sound decisions that save patients lives
● Experience with, PO, IV,IN,SubQ medications and computerized documentation
● CAre for adult and pediatric patients
● Assessments and triage of patients
● Monitoring of bacteria infection, cardiac arrest, trauma patients and stabilizing the patient and sending them to a higher acuity facility
● rounds on patients and assist with doctor rounds
● administrate PO, IV, sublingual, IM medications while closely monitoring for adverse reaction
● Analyzed client ABGs, CBC/metabolic profiles, radiological results, and EKG readings.
● Collaborated with nurse and rapid response team for patient transfers to ICU or Tertiary Hospitals.
● Multitasking and prioritizing responsibilities based on patients conditions in timely manner maintaining confidence in critical situations
● Implemented patient call-back
● Assessed patient status and notify physicians of clinical changes.
● Interacted with departments regarding patient care.
● Educated patients/families on health care needs, conditions, options etc.
● Provided the department with the nurse monthly schedule.
● Maintained patient standard of care and confidentiality
● Ensured that patient direct care needs are met.
● Performed patient and family education.
● Collaborate with teams in patient care.
● Provided care appropriate to the age and specific needs of the patients.
● Implemented infection control techniques in all patient interactions.
● Coordinated quality and timely care of patients presenting with a STEMI to ensure their safe and expedient transfer to the Cath Lab for further intervention.
● Provided safe care of psych patients - collaborating with social work, providing community resources/referrals and coordinating transfer as necessary.
● Participated in CODE STEMI and CODE STROKES while on duty
● React calmly and effectively in emergency situations
● Assess, plan, implement and evaluate emergency patient care
● Delegate tasks to competent and certified staff while ensuring quality emergency care to patient
● needed
03/2016-current Enliven Home infusion specialties
Registered Nurse
● Monitor Vital signs
● Start IV’s
● Administer IVIG and antibiotics, monitoring patient for adverse reactions
● Monitor for adverse reactions
● review orders and educate patients on care plans
● educate patients on IVIG side effect, anaphylactic shock kit
● calculating IV gtt
● titrating IVIG infusions
● Case management, communicating with pharmacists and doctors as needed 11/2018-12/15/2019 pathways Hospice RNCM
Registered Nurse Case Manager
● Maintain comfort and quality of life, and alerted physicians about changes in patient condition
● Provided continuous and precise assessment of patients pain and comfort levels
● Communicate all pertinent information and evaluations through clear and concise documentation
● Attended Team Conferences with MSW, bereavement counselors, medical director, volunteer counselor, spiritual care counselors
● Managed physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual needs of patients and families as they journeyed through end of life issues
● Utilized critical thinking, communication, time management, and problem solving skills
● Monitored and documented significant changes in the condition of the patient
● Provided in home patient care including, but not limited to, activities of daily living, patient hygiene and pain control
● Empathic, coherent communication with patient and family
● Educated patients and families on end of life care
● Input Prescriptions information, Supervised LPNs and hospice health aids
● Coordinated care between health providers, patient, family members, and facilities
● Implemented or revised patient care plans reflecting changes in patients' condition
● Educated family members on the uses, effects, and side effects of medications
● Assessed for changes in patients and monitored their progression toward death
● Ordered and administer medications per Doctor's orders
● Comfort grieving family members
● Collaborated with Medical Doctor to provide expertise in pain management and comfort control measures inherent to the management of symptoms associated with disease progression
● Reports to the attending physician, hospice medical director, and core team members any significant changes in the patient's condition and requests change of orders as needed
06/2017-3/2018Heartland Hospice
Registered Nurse Case Manager
● Maintained comfort and quality of life, and alerted physicians about changes in patient condition
● Provided continuous and precise assessment of patients pain and comfort levels
● Communicated all pertinent information and evaluations through clear and concise documentation
● Attended Team Conferences with MSW, bereavement counselors, medical director, volunteer counselor, spiritual care counselors
● Managed physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual needs of patients and families as they journeyed through end of life issues
● Utilized critical thinking, communication, time management, and problem solving skills
● Monitored and documented significant changes in the condition of the patient
● Provided in home patient care including, but not limited to, activities of daily living, patient hygiene and pain control
● Empathic, coherent communication with patient and family
● Educated patients and families on end of life care
● Input Prescriptions information, Supervised LPNs and hospice health aids
● Coordinated care between health providers, patient, family members, and facilities
● Implemented or revised patient care plans reflecting changes in patients' condition
● Educated family members on the uses, effects, and side effects of medications
● Assessed for changes in patients and monitored their progression toward death
● Ordered and administer medications per Doctors orders
● Comfort grieving family members
● Collaborated with Medical Doctor to provide expertise in pain management and comfort control measures inherent to the management of symptoms associated with disease progression
● Reports to the attending physician, hospice medical director, and core team members any significant changes in the patient's condition and requests change of orders as 10/2016- 07/2017 Republic Health resources
Registered Nurse/Traveling Nurse/Emergency Department nurse
● Providing excellent care to patients
● being a patient advocate
● trach care
● IV placements
● Managing IV gtt, while monitoring patient for adverse reactions
● Fluid resuscitation
● Charge nurse
● identification of acute changes in patient status
● Management of critical patient’s
● Build rapport with patients and ensuring the very best care is provided
● Educating patients on their disease process
● Sterile and clean procedures
● removing and placing foleys.
● Cardioversion
● identification of CVAs, MIs, respiratory distress, asthma attacks, septic patients.
● EKGs and EKG interpretations,
● Setting up for intubation
● Demonstrating sound decisions that save patients lives
● Experience with, PO, IV,IN,SubQ medications and computerized documentation
● CAre for adult and pediatric patients
● Assessments and triage of patients
● Monitoring of bacteria infection, cardiac arrest, trauma patients and stabilizing the patient and sending them to a higher acuity facility
● rounds on patients and assist with doctor rounds
● administrate PO, IV, sublingual, IM medications while closely monitoring for adverse reaction
● Analyzed client ABGs, CBC/metabolic profiles, radiological results, and EKG readings.
● Collaborated with a nurse and rapid response team for patient transfers to ICU or Tertiary Hospitals.
● Multitasking and prioritizing responsibilities based on patients conditions in timely manner maintaining confidence in critical situations
● Implemented patient call-back
● Assess patient status and notify physicians of clinical changes.
● Interacted with departments regarding patient care.
● Educate patients/families on health care needs, conditions, options etc.
● Provided the department with the nurse monthly schedule.
● Maintained patient standard of care and confidentiality
● Ensured that patient direct care needs are met.
● Performed patient and family education.
● Collaborated with a team in patient care.
● Provide care appropriate to the age and specific needs of the patients.
● Implemented infection control techniques in all patient interactions.
● Coordinated quality and timely care of patients presenting with a STEMI to ensure their safe and expedient transfer to the Cath Lab for further intervention.
● Provided safe care of psych patients - collaborating with social work, providing community resources/referrals and coordinating transfer as necessary.
● Participated in CODE STEMI and CODE STROKES while on duty
● React calmly and effectively in emergency situations
● Assess, plan, implement and evaluate emergency patient care
● Delegate tasks to competent and certified staff while ensuring quality emergency care to patient
07/2013-10/2016 The University of Arizona Medical Center/ Banner UMC Tucson- Cardiothoracic Intermediate Care unit and Emergency Department
Registered Nurse
● Assesses and appropriately documents the patient's physical and psychosocial condition and develops the patient's plan of care for the day while identifying patient care needs
● Collaborate with all members of the health care team to assess, evaluate and advocate for patients well-being while promptly informing doctors of any clinical changes within patients
● Involved in and works with case management when coordinating discharge plan of care
● Trained and certified to work with heart assist device and total artificial heart patients, encouraging their independence while engaging them in their own plan of care and possible transition to home
● Engages in patient/family teaching with all patients especially pre/post transplantation, providing resources and education about diagnosis, treatment and discharge plan
● Administers oral/IV chemotherapy and biotherapy agents to patients for non-oncology purposes (rejection)
● Complex cardiac monitoring and ECG interpretation
● Direct anticoagulation management including lab testing, medication adjustment and patient teaching
● Takes responsibility for maintaining a collegial work environment by building effective relationships across work groups, treating fellow employees with courtesy and respect
● Provides outstanding patient care, taking pride in being the patient's advocate and family support system
● G-tube, J-tube, JP drain, and chest tubes management
● Trach care
● PCA, On Q balls and epidural administration and monitoring
● Anti-rejection therapy
● Initiating tube feedings
● Blood draws (peripheral and central)
● Management of IV gtts
● PICC and central line removals
● Identification of acute change in status
● Management of critical pt’s
● Sterile and clean procedures/dressing changes
● Removing and placing Foley's
● input and output monitoring
● Placing PIV's
● Identification of stroke, STEMI, respiratory distress.
● IM/SubQ injections.
● SubQ infusions
● Port access and deaccess
● Triage patients
● EKGs and EKG interpretations,
● Setting up for intubation
● Demonstrating sound decisions that save patients lives
● Experience with, PO, IV,IN,SubQ medications and computerized documentation
● Care for adult and pediatric patients
● Assessments and triage of patients
● identification of acute changes in patient status
● Management of critical patient’s
● Build rapport with patients and ensuring the very best care is provided
● Educating patients on their disease process
● Sterile and clean procedures
● removing and placing foleys.
● Cardioversion
● identification of CVAs, MIs, respiratory distress, asthma attacks, septic patients.
● EKGs and EKG interpretations,
● Setting up for intubation
● Demonstrating sound decisions that save patients lives
● Experience with, PO, IV,IN,SubQ medications and computerized documentation
● CAre for adult and pediatric patients
● Assessments and triage of patients
● Monitoring of bacteria infection, cardiac arrest, trauma patients and stabilizing the patient and sending them to a higher acuity facility
● rounds on patients and assist with doctor rounds
● administrate PO, IV, sublingual, IM medications while closely monitoring for adverse reaction
● Analyzed client ABGs, CBC/metabolic profiles, radiological results, and EKG readings.
● Collaborated with nurse and rapid response team for patient transfers to ICU or Tertiary Hospitals.
● Multitasking and prioritizing responsibilities based on patients conditions in timely manner maintaining confidence in critical situations
● Implemented patient call-back
● Assess patient status and notify physicians of clinical changes.
● Interacted with departments regarding patient care.
● Educate patients/families on health care needs, conditions, options etc.
● Provided the department with the nurse monthly schedule.
● Maintained patient standard of care and confidentiality
● Ensured that patient direct care needs are met.
● Performed patient and family education.
● Collaborated with a team in patient care.
● Provide care appropriate to the age and specific needs of the patients.
● Implemented infection control techniques in all patient interactions.
● Coordinated quality and timely care of patients presenting with a STEMI to ensure their safe and expedient transfer to the Cath Lab for further intervention.
● Provided safe care of psych patients - collaborating with social work, providing community resources/referrals and coordinating transfer as needed
● Participated in CODE STEMI and CODE STROKES while on duty
● React calmly and effectively in emergency situations
● Assess, plan, implement and evaluate emergency patient care
● Delegate tasks to competent and certified staff while ensuring quality emergency care to patient
06/2006 - 09/2009 Quik Mart – Tucson, AZ
Assist Manager/Cashier
● Review sales and activity reports
● Perform sales floor work, such as greeting or assisting customers stocking shelves and taking inventory
● receive payment by cash, check, credit cards, vouchers, and automatic debits
● issue receipts and refunds credits, or change due to customers
● assist customers by providing information and resolving their complaints
● greet customers entering establishments
● maintain clean and orderly checkout areas and complete other general cleaning duties, such as mopping floors and emptying trash cans
● monitor checkout stations to ensure that they have adequate cash available and that they are staffed appropriately, and supervise others
● provide on-the-job training.
Education and Training
Grand Canyon University – Tucson, AZ
08/11-05/13
Bachelor of Science: Nursing Program
Graduated may of 2013
3.41 GPA
08/2008-05/2011 Pima Community College – Tucson, AZ Nursing prerequisites
3.75 GPA
08/2010-05/2011 University of Arizona – Tucson, AZ Nursing Prerequisites
Awards
Pima Community College
February 17, 2010
The All-State Academic Team scholarship was awarded by the Board of Regents. This award was given in recognition of scholarly achievements of students enrolled in Arizona's community college. Presented by Arizona's Community Colleges, The Coca-cola scholars Foundation, and the Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society.
Affiliations
Arizona’s Network for PKU and Allied Disorders (ANPAD) Ann Hall-President of ANPAD
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Currently holding the Vice President of Tucson position on the board as of March 10, 2013 Held the Education/Welcoming committee chair from 2011-2013 prior to becoming the Secretary and now Vice President
Community Service
Camp-Knot-a-PHE
Melanie Colville-Metabolic Dietitian
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Volunteer on the committee from 2010-now. This job involves schedule planning, communicating with vendors, menu planning for over 30 metabolic patients, organizing educational seminaries and activities at camp.
Arizona’s Network for PKU and Allied Disorders (ANPAD) Ann Hall-President of ANPAD
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Assisted with multiple function events including picnics, Camp-Knot-a-PHE, and fundraising to help provide education, support and resources to the underserved metabolic population. Currently the Vice President of Tucson
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