Yolanda Fleming RN, BSN

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/yolanda-fleming-7992877/

Chicago, IL • 773-***-****

Summary

Experienced Nursing Supervisor and Manager

Highly motivated and committed registered nurse with 30+ years of clinical and management experience in university hospitals, inpatient, outpatient, and home health care settings. Offering a wide range of skills, including patient education and management. Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills ensure patients and family members understand compliance and clinical team efficiency. Demonstrates leadership and offers a dedication to work independently and as a critical member of a team. Critical thinker and problem solver who strives for excellence and continuous healthcare improvement. A conscientious, reliable, and ethical professional with a proven ability to collaborate with other professionals to deliver the highest quality of care: licensed Registered Nurse, Il, CA, MN.

Areas of Expertise

•Attention to Details

•Communication with Patients and Family

•Continuous Improvement Planning and Implementation

•Covid Patient Care

•Critically Ill Adults and Children

•Critical Thinking and Problem-Solving

•Hospital Operations

•Individualized Patient Care Plans

•Interpersonal Skills

•Multidisciplinary Communication with Physicians, Nurses, Technicians, Therapists, and Social Workers

•Nursing and N.P. Preceptor

•Nurse Staffing

•Nurse Employment Counseling Patient Admissions and Transfers

•Peer Reviews

•Pre- and Post-Surgical Patient Care

•Quality of Care

•Relationship Building Inside and Outside of the Organization

Accomplishments

●Oversaw all operational activities of a 250-bed county hospital.

●Manage all phases of patient care in multiple specialty areas, including cardiothoracic care, heart failure, surgical oncology, general internal medicine, rheumatology, OB/GYN, IV infusion, adult/pediatric catheterization lab, radiology, pain management, anesthesiology LDRP, home health, and vascular surgery.

●Managed employees in Labor & Delivery, NICU, and OB departments.

●Scheduled and staffed nurses and ancillary staff for a 40+ bed PICU unit.

●Initiated a safety plan for administering oral and IV medications, focusing on time management.

●Managing intubated, critical newborns requiring 1-on-1 nursing care in Level 3 Hospital Nurseries and managing critically ill hospitalized pediatric patients with multiple illnesses.

●Trained ECMO RN: open heart, trauma, and severe asthma.

Career Experience

Contract Supervisor: JDTC Oct 23-Present

Chicago, Il

Pro Touch Agency: Chicago

Three-month agency contract House Supervisor for the Juvenile Detention Center nurses. Oversee the responsibilities of the staff. Audits intakes, and day to day operations. Charge duties, safety coordination.

Contract Clinical RN: FEMA

Maui, HI

Spectrum Health Care Agency; St. Louis Aug 23-Sept 23

In charge of the mobile clinic, providing daily care to the FEMA employee staff—illness assessment, medication compliance, teaching, sick visits, and COVID-19 monitoring.

Contract NICU/Adult ICU

Chicagoland Hospitals

Care Rev Agency; Chicago Jan 2022-Present

Provide care for Level lll pre-term infants until stabilized to be transitioned to home. Provided care of ICU/MICU/CICU patients sedated and on vasopressors. Provided care to trauma and critically ill patients with a 1:1 or 1:2 and 1:3 ratio when short-staffed. Patients require post-op care and Covid-19 care. All patients that require medical observation in an acute setting. A Resource RN and preceptor.

Contract House Supervisor

Aug 2022-Sept 2022

Children’s Hospital of Minneapolis/St. Paul Dec 2021-Feb 2022

MSSI Agency: Minnesota May 2022- Aug 2023

Oversee the activities of 2 Children's Hospitals 150-300 beds, including staffing, hospital operations, patient care, and family-patient communication, along with direct physician interaction regarding patient care, admissions, and transfers about hospital admissions. One of the hospitals is a Level 1 Trauma—daily staffing of the nurses and CNAs.

Contract ICU Nurse March 2022-May 2022

Amita St. Joseph -Joliet, Il

Supplemental Health Care

Provided care to trauma and critically ill patients 1:1 or 1:2 and 1:3 when short-staffed. Neuro/Surgical/Cardiac ICU patients require vasopressors, sedation, post-op, and Covid-19. All patients that require medical observation in an acute setting. A Resource RN and preceptor.

Contract House Supervisor Aug 2021-Sept 2021

Children’s Hospital of Minneapolis/St. Paul Dec 2021-Feb 2022

MSSI Agency: Minnesota

Oversee the activities of 2 Children's Hospitals with 150-300 beds, including staffing, hospital operations, patient care, and family-patient communication, along with direct physician interaction regarding patient care, admissions, and transfers about hospital admissions. One hospital has Level 1 trauma, along with daily staffing of nurses and CNAs.

Contract ICU Nurse

Fema- Covid

Unity Trinity Point, Rock Island, IL

Sept 2021-Dec 2021

Favorite Staffing Healthcare

Provided care to trauma and critically ill patients with a 1:1 or 1:2 and 1:3 ratio when short-staffed. Patients require sedation, vasopressors and post-op, and Covid-19. All patients require medical observation in an acute setting: a Resource RN and preceptor.

Contract ICU Nurse: ICU/ER/Telemetry Dec 2020 – May 2021

FEMA Covid-19

Laredo Medical Center, Laredo, TX

Krucial Staffing, Laredo, TX

Provide care for trauma and critically ill patients with a ratio of 1:1 or 1:2, requiring intubation, vasopressors, or sedation. Deliver care for COVID and post-surgical patients requiring medical observation in a hospital setting with a 1:3 –4 ratio: resource and Charge RN.

Contract ICU Nurse: ICU/Telemetry, Med/Surg Sept 2020– December 2020

Maxim Healthcare,

Kaiser Moreno Valley, CA

Provide care for critically ill patients, with a ratio of 1:1 or 1:2, requiring intubation, vasopressors, or sedation. Deliver care for COVID and post-surgical patients requiring medical observation in a hospital setting with a ratio of 1:3 – 1:4.

Contract Nursing Supervisor June 2020 – Oct 2020

Total-Med,

O’Connor San Jose, CA

Oversee activities of a 250-bed county hospital, including unit staffing, hospital operations, patient care, patient and family communications, and physician communication regarding transfers and hospital admissions.

Contract Assistant Nurse Manager, Maternal Child Health Department Feb. 2020 – June 2020

Thaxton Management

Kaiser San Francisco, CA

Manage Labor & Delivery, NICU, and OB department employees: lead staffing, employee reviews, and management meetings. Collaborate with staff to ensure activity completion. Plan and implement task improvements. Conduct peer reviews and counsel regarding employment expectations.

ICU and Staff Supervisor, Mother/Baby and Level II Nursery 2010 - 2019

Holy Cross Hospital, Chicago, IL

Provide care for Level II pre-term infants until stabilized at home, triage/laboring mothers, and patients of SICU/CICU. Manage hospital operations for a 200+ bed facility, including staffing, bed assignments, participating in codes, and care coordination with the hospital medical staff.

Contract Clinical Nurse 2005 – 2020

MSN-AMR, Chicago, IL

Manage all phases of patient care, including triage, administering medications, assisting with testing and procedures, providing routine care, and implementing pre- and post-surgical requirements.

•Cardiothoracic Care: Precepting of incoming NPs.

•Heart Failure: Medications, testing, procedures, and routine care.

•Surgical Oncology: Skin, breast, gastrointestinal tract, liver, pancreas, and colon.

•General Internal Medicine: Preventative medicine. Providing patient education, managing diabetes, hypertension, sports medicine, geriatrics, women’s health, and more.

•Rheumatology: Arthritis, musculoskeletal problems, autoimmune disorders, and vasculitis.

•OB/GYN: Women’s health and pregnancies.

•IV Infusion: Intermittent infusion therapy for various health conditions.

•Adult/ Pediatric Cath Lab: Catheterization and sedation of the patient during pre- and post-procedure.

•Radiology: Pre- and post-MRI and CT scan procedures, including discharge teaching and follow-up requirements.

•Pain Management: IV starts, assisting physicians, and triage patient phone calls.

•Anesthesiology LDRP: Managed laboring patients in preparation for labor epidurals.

•Home Health Liaison: Hematology/Oncology: Infusion home therapy post-chemotherapy infusions.

•Vascular Surgery: Vascular issues pre-and post-op, wound care, and management.

•Radiology-MRI: Sedation and procedural management of patient’s newborn-geriatric.

Manager, Level III PICU 2003 – 2005

Charge Nurse, Level III PICU 1992 - 2003

University of Chicago Hospital, Chicago, IL

Home Care Nurse 1998 – 2015

Care Med Chicago Home Health Care Agency, Chicago, IL

Education

Bachelor of Science in Nursing, 1990

The University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL

Affiliations

AWHONN, Member, Since 2018

Licenses and Certifications

Registered Nurse, States of Illinois, California, New York, Minnesota

BLS, May 2024 • AWHONN FHR Monitoring, • NRP 20224

ACLS, September 2024 • PALS, July 2024 • NIHSS 2024

Certified Car Seat Technician, July 2019

CCRN, to schedule,

Epic,Cerner, Meditech

MBA Walden 9/2024

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