Registered Nurse Years Experience
Resume:
Kelly Brandon
Nashville, TN, 37216
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Saint Thomas Health Systems, Nashville, TN: 2003-present
Registered Nurse in Cardiac Short Stay, Jan 2008 – present
• Assist case management team in assessing and placing patients in appropriate therapies during discharge planning.
• Diagnose acute or chronic conditions that could result in rapid physiological deterioration or life- threatening instability.
• Discuss illnesses and treatments with patients and family members.
• Read current literature, talk with colleagues, and participate in professional organizations or conferences to keep abreast of developments in acute
care.
• Participate in patients' care meetings and conferences.
• Provide formal and informal education to other staff members.
• Perform administrative duties that facilitate admission, transfer, or discharge of patients.
• Participate in the development of practice protocols, including writing policy and procedure for sheath pull, and creating training materials for our
particular unit.
• Refer patients for specialty consultations or treatments.
• Perform emergency medical procedures, such as basic cardiac life support (BLS), advanced cardiac life support (ACLS), and other condition
stabilizing procedures.
• Document data related to patients' care including assessment results, interventions, medications, patient responses, or treatment changes.
• Manage patients' pain relief and sedation by providing pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic interventions, monitoring patients' responses, and
changing care plans accordingly.
• Assess urgent and emergent health conditions using both physiologically and technologically derived data.
• Interpret information obtained from electrocardiograms (EKGs) or radiographs (x-rays).
• Set up, operate, or monitor invasive equipment and devices such as colostomy or tracheotomy equipment, mechanical ventilators, catheters,
gastrointestinal tubes, and central lines.
Certified Nursing Assistant, 2003 – Dec 2007
EDUCATION
Belmont University, Nashville, TN: B.S. Nursing
University of Wisconsin-Stout, Menomonie, WI : B.S. (Major: Psychology; Minor: Marketing)
ADDITIONAL SKILLS
• Currently serve on Nursing Informatics Committee since 2010. Purpose is to review and enact policy improving efficiency and accuracy of nursing
documentation.
• Participated as "Super User" during Kronos roll-out. Responsibilities included proficient use of software and mentoring staff members to ease
transition.
• Instrumental in teaching nurses hospital wide proficiency using new Cerner charting format "I View".
• Participation in Clinical Ladder from 2009 to 2012 (when program was cancelled).
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