Nurse Hospital

Jo Green

Email: *********@********.***

Address: *** ****** ***** ****

City: Cordova

State: TN

Zip: 38018

Country: USA

Phone: 901-***-****

Skill Level: Experienced

Salary Range: $80,000

Primary Skills/Experience:

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Educational Background:

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Job History / Details:

Mark Luttrell Correction Center

6000 State Road

Memphis, TN 38134

Staff RN evenings

July 2012-October 2012

$27.00 per hour

Local correction facility for women. I passed meds, observed diabetics, assisted with the "sick call" clinic, drew lab and administered vaccines and PPD skin tests. I am grateful to have had this experience, but this is not the environment for me. I did not want to lose all of my clinical skills, and prefer an area with cohesion and good inter-personal staffing relationships. I am a strong adovocate of teamwork and a healthy working environment. I may actually be spoiled because of the 5-20 yr relationships I had with my weekend co-workers at St Jude, but a spirit of cooperation with the best outlook for the patient is my goal no matter what area I work in.

22 years 10months.

St Jude Children's Research Hospital

RN, PONS IV Med Room Weekender

262 Danny Thomas

Memphis, TN 38105

Start date - Jan, 1989 End date October, 2011

Ending hourly rate 40.77 plus hourly $1 pt. care diff.

RN TN multi-state license #72162 exp. - 10/14

BLS: exp. - 4/13

ACLS: exp. -I believe this expires in 8/12

PALS: needs renewal (exp. 11/11)

PALS instructor: - inactive as PALS expired. I've been PALS certified for 10 yrs./instructor about 6)

ONS Biotherapy/Chemotherapy Certification - exp. 11/11 needs renewal

Nursing Research Fellowship: Results Co-published with Pam Hinds Et. Al. in nursing management journal 2006, Have copy of article.

I taught a PIV class with two of my co-workers: for nurses who weren't comfortable with the process, for education dept.

Med Room-

-Rapid assessment of patients upon arrival as to level of consciousness, VS, color, pain control, nausea, dietary needs, possible recommendations to other departments for concerns.

-Assess and access surgically placed central venous lines, PICC's, single/double sub-q ports, butterfly IV's, plastic over the needle catheter IV's as indicated for administration of meds/fluids, and changing of dressings.

-Checking protocols, consents, BSA, PK levels, lab results, and patient understanding of that day's therapy, plus the calculation of dosage etc. before administering chemo/antibodies.

-Watch for reactions to meds, stop immediately and take appropriate action, if pre-ordered and at bedside give, if not call Doc, and have co-worker draw up epi and solu-cortef while calling if severe, while a third manages airway.

-Treat sepsis per PALS/ACLS protocol with beginning fluid bolus/O2 draw cultures while MD writes for antibiotics and monitor BP frequently to determine stage of shock and appropriate treatment, admission status.

-Infant apnea observation for 6 hours after initial recovery from anesthesia.

-Observe patient for tolerance of treatment emotionally and for family support. Use multi-disciplinary systems for optimal patient tolerance of treatment utilizing social work, behavioral medicine, and chaplains as needed as well as child life when needed.

-On the back up stick list for IPD for difficult sticks.

Clinic side-

-Watch for lab results to come back then place pt. in room.

-Rapid assessment and position pt. to comfort and assess needs for the day, obtain assessment of pain control, nausea, dietary needs/tolerance, determine what teaching may be required.

-Obtain more lab/cultures/nasal washing's, etc., or administer meds/fluid as needed per MD orders.

-Discuss scheduling with patient and insure understanding of return to clinic instructions.

-Schedule admissions, call report to IPD, Med Room or where ever appropriate as needed.

Procedures (9 years)

-Organized pt. schedule of the day and prioritize: new diagnosis primary, clinic, procedures after scans, IPD...

-Call pt. to room, rapid assessment, IVF's started for anesthesia per central line, usually periperal started for new patient, and lab drawn at the same time to decrease trauma.

-Connect pt. to monitor

-Set up procedure tray, for LP/IT, ommaya tap, BMA/BMBX, skin Punch BX or whatever was scheduled for the day, usually LP with BMA/BX.

-Check IT chemo against protocol, consent, orders, armband, and age range for dose.

-Monitor pt. while sedated. Assist clinician with needs, extra betadine, tubes, needles, etc.

-Remove oral airway when appropriate.

-Monitor pt. for recovery and discharge when awake with instructions or admit to IPD, or next appt area as needed.

Prior to Procedures - (where I was one of the first two nurses.) I was first

ACU Float- filled in for any nurse in any area that might be on vacation, or if all staff available, helped where the need was greatest, or for lunches and educational opportunities, and ended the day in the med room giving chemo and blood products.

Full time clinic prior to that - at that time clinics weren't specialized, MD's would take care of all types of pts., but specialize in a sub-type.

March '88-Jan '89 - worked full time agency at St Jude doing DI sedation for CT scans, daily radiation and MRI's, which were done on Dunlap at the time.

Upjohn/Trinity Healthcare

RN-Agency ICU

Memphis, TN

Aug 1987 - Jan 1989

From 3/88 - 1/89 I filled in full time at St Jude Children's Research Hospital as DI sedation nurse. Using Chloral Hydrate, rectal Pentothal, narcotics, or monitored pt. during general anesthesia for daily radiation therapy treatments, or DI scans. When MRI's done accompanied pt. to facility on Dunlap.

Recovered patient as appropriate and discharged with instructions. We did not have pulse ox at the time, we would monitor pt. by color and watching chest rise, while in the scan room with pt., except during XRT during which we would leave the room for very short intervals observing patient on camera monitor.

8/87-3/88- work as ICU fill-in agency staff in different units around town, predominantly at Meth. North and St Joseph. I did fill in at Fed-Ex Hub clinic and also some in the Med's step-down unit. Did 2 shifts at St Francis and remembered why I left there. Did staffing - took patients as any other ICU nurse would, admitted surgery, accident patients, cared for patients on ventilators, on vasopressors, and others, unstable patients unable to be admitted to regular floor.

St Francis Hospital

RN-ICU

Memphis, TN

Jan 1987 - Oct 1987

I worked in the intensive care unit, usually split between pods with 3-4 intensive/critical patients on vents/drips in unstable condition, with cardiac meds per IV, and ventilators.

Scans to be transported to with nurse as they were on monitored meds, and post-surgical patients; usually with one other nurse per pod. I suctioned patients when needed.

Observed and monitored patients for other nurses when they left the area for patient scans, notified physicians of pt. changes, participated in codes of my patients and assisted in the care of my co-workers patients when beginning to have a crisis.

I prioritized and triaged care frequently in this area. Learned much about what is really important to the well-being of the patient and the importance of being a strong patient advocate and a team player. I really began to value my co-workers for their exceptional skills to a much greater degree.

This was my only truly negative work experience as a nurse, but it taught me a lot of really positive things about the nurses I worked with, and how talented and skilled we actually are as a profession. I ended up working with 4 of these nurses for over 12 years a piece at St Jude later, and have the utmost respect for their skill, but also much more likely to appreciate the skill of other nurses now than ever before, no matter what their length of practice or education. A nurse may always have something to offer.

Mercy Health Center

RN-SICU

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

May 1983 - Nov 1986

SICU-

Cared for post-CV surgery patients: CABG, AAA, fem-pop

Cared for trauma patients: post vehicle accident, GSW (post Edmond Post Office

Shooting victims), head injuries post fall

Cared for fragile elderly patients post-surgery.

Cared for unstable pregnant cancer patient waiting for delivery. 24-32 weeks

Gestation.

Daily admission of CABG patients from Recovery, with occasional weaning from the

vent. and/or occasional need for balloon pump, monitoring and regulation of

vasopressors, cardiac status, output from chest tube, etc.

Occasional need to cover shifts in MICU and CCU.

Remote monitoring of outlying hospitals in telemetry room, plus assistance

with codes in those hospitals when needed.

Shift to shift staffing for the three units, moving nurses to other units as

needed, calling for extra help or sending nurses home for "low call"

shifts if necessary.

Occasional teaching of new nurses of use of Swan-Ganz and Art-lines during

orientation classes to help education department.

High Plains Baptist Hospital

GN, RN - Step down; NA and Nurse Tech on ortho/neuro floor

Amarillo, TX

Aug 1980 - May 1983

I began my health career as a nursing assistant and a nurse tech on the ortho/neuro floor while going to nursing school. It was a great idea to work in hospital setting during school. Helped people get up with walkers and crutches, bathe, re-wrapped traction, changed dressings, catheters, and assisted with comfort and general needs.

GN- Transferred to step-down unit. I worked monitoring potentially fragile CV patients, and on occasion in CCU and ICU. On occasion after license was charge nurse for the shift with one RN and one LPN.

Education:

ADN: Amarillo College, Graduated 1982

University of Memphis: I took about 3-4 semesters of general ed., Algebra I, II, History, Literature, A&P II, Mythology, I'm not sure what else - approx.- 24 - 30 hours, towards my BSN around '94, but it proved to be a little much as a single parent. Would really like to finish at some point, but also had to raise my grandson for 7 years (and I thought girls were busy!).

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