Registered Nurse Medical

Josephine G. Joseph

**** ***** *** ****, ********, GA 30058

Phone No.: 404-***-**** * E-Mail: ***************@*****.***

CAREER PROFILE

Nearly 32 years of experience as an ICU nurse. Ability to utilize my nursing experience to meet

goals and objective in clinical practice education and research, adhere to documentation standards and

appropriateness of patient care assignments based on patient care requirements and staff competence,

and demonstrating expert practitioner knowledge and skills in evaluating the procedure pertaining to

specialize patient population, in conjunction with the Synergy Model of care.

K EY QUALIFICATIONS

• Dedicated and patient-focused Registered Nurse with proven strengths in acute patient care,

staff development, and family advocacy.

• Exceptional capacity to multi-task: manage numerous, often competing priorities with ease and

foster the provision of superior patient care

• Administrative and referral experience including admissions, assessment, treatment, referral,

and education for a wide range of patients.

• Widely recognized as an excellent care provider and patient advocate

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills; superior accuracy in patient history, charting,

and other documentation.

E DUCATION

Higher Grade General NSG 1977

Higher Grade Midwifery in Banglore, India 1977

Certifications: Basic Life support:, ACLS, CCRN

Proficiencies: Med/Surg; medical ICU; NG, Ventilator Care, Telemetry, Phlebotomy

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Nurse,Senior RN,Grady Memorial Hospital,Atlanta,GA, October 2010 to present

• Working at Marcus Stroke Neuroscience ICU

• Working closely with acute strokes and management of ventilators and pressors,sedation

and titration of drips

• Usage of Epic in nursing documentation

Nurse Scholar, Emory University Hospital, Atlanta, GA, 02/01 to 08/10

• Worked in ICU as a Nurse Scholar and a resource for nurses on the floors and in the

ICU’s.

• Being the first in line for the Medical Emergency team and Code 99.

• Working with critically ill patients on ventilators, patients with sepsis, pneumonia, and

ARDS

• The use of high frequency oscillatory ventilators and usage of intra-abdominal pressure

monitoring

• Usage of A-lines, vassopressors inotropes, sedation drips, CRRT, Swan-Ganz catheter

• CCO an SVO2 monitoring, recept catheter, Vigileo and use of hypothermia blanket in

post-cardiac arrest

Nurse, Gwinnett Medical Hospital, Snellville, GA, Jan 2001 to May 2001

• Transferred from Piedmont hospital and worked in the Neuroscience Department in the

ICU

• Worked in Caminos used in ICP monitoring

• Usage of vasopressors, A-lines

Nurse, Piedmont Hospital, Atlanta, GA, Jan 2000 to Jan 2001

• Worked in the ICU Department with critically ill patients on ventilators, sepsis, ARDS,

pneumonia, Swan – Ganz Catheters and use of SVO2 and CCO monitoring

• Usage of CRRT in patients with acute renal failure and management of intra-abdominal

pressure monitoring

• Usage of vasopressors, sedation drips, CRRT, A-lines Swan – Ganz Catheter, CVO2

monitoring, Inotropes, and pressors

Registered Nurse, Richland Memorial Hospital, Columbia, S.C., 1994 to Dec 1999

• Register Nurse in ICU: Trauma Unit, Medical ICU and Surgical ICU

• Provided direct nursing care to patients in critical care, medical, and surgical unit

• Worked with ventilated patients, A-lines, Swan – Ganz catheters, CCO monitoring,

SVO2, ICP, vasopressors, and Inotorpes

• Obtain and assemble equipment to assist physicians with procedures

• Communicated assessment and patient care to other care givers in accordance to hospital

policy for reporting

• Completed nursing assessment and collected data no required forms in accordance to unit

standards

• Implemented plan for care with use of computer

Nurse, Brian Center Nursing Care Facility, Columbia, S.C., 1992 to 1994

• Performed skilled and non-skilled nursing care to nursing residents

• Documented nursing assessment and patient data

• Transferred residents requiring hospitalization after notification physician in accordance

to nursing center guidelines

• Performed wound dressing care, obtained blood specimens, administration for

medication, assistance for meals, supervision of personal hygiene and skin care teaching

Charge Nurse, St. Martha’s hospital, Banglore, India, 1991 to 1992

• Worked as a chare nurse in Obstetrics and Gynecology Dept.

• Worked in allegiance with physicians and nursed in managing low risk and high risk

patients in the antenatal and postnatal unit including care of patients requiring cesarean section

Registered Nurse Maternity Hospital-Ministry f Public Health, Kuwait, Arabian Gulf 1988 to 1990

• Worked as RN, RM high risk prenatal and postnatal unit

Registered Nurse, Maternity Hospital, Bahrain, Arabian Gulf 1980 to 1986

• Worked in Special Care Baby Unit, Labor and Delivery

• Specialized in neonatal unit with ventilators, specialized gtt and preparation of formulas

and administration for neonatal unit

• Managing low risk and high risk patients in labor, hypovolemic shock, patients with

abruptio placenta needing cesarean section

• Care of the new born and resuscitation of neonate and managing complications in both

the mother and newborn

• Worked in the district maternity hospital as a charge nurse and managed the care of

mother and delivery of the new born and the complications of delivery including hemorrhage and

management of drips

• Notifying the physicians in emergencies and the transfer to the hospital for management

Nurse, St. Martha’s Hospital – Banglore, India

• Worked in the following department: Surgical ward, obstetrics, gynecology unit, ICU,

ER, Outpatient Department, and Medical Department.

• Obtained experience in immediate post surgical ICU for emergency surgeries, the

complications, and dressing changes.

• Use of ICP’s and gtts,

• Worked in Medical ICU and the management of various illnesses from septic shock,hypovolemic shock,cardiogenic and use of appropriate treatment.

• Worked closely with physicians in ER for treating the minor to major trauma and alerting

the surgeon on call for immediate transfer to OR if needed

• Managing medical patients and treating these patients and transferring them to the ICU’s

or floor and initiating emergency drips.

S PECIAL SKILLS

Certified in BCLS, ACLS, and CCRN

Skilled in Pulmonary devices: ventilators and chest tubes

Skilled in invasive line devices: Swan – Ganz, catheter, arterial lines, central lines,

SVO2,SCVO2,Flotrac, CCRT

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