Registered Nurse Vascular Access
Resume:
Anna Allen
Skilled Registered Nurse in Vascular Access
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Work Experience
MSS Registered Nurse
Currently working as a Registered Nurse at the Biolife Plasma Center. Started in June, 2023 until present, where I work at the clinic, performing physicals and assessments on donors at the center and reviewing blood work and managing care of donors pre, during, and post donations. Assessing bruises and venipuncture sites and determining donor eligibility with fda regulations and protocols. Registered Nurse IV Team
Upmc Presbyterian Hospital - Pittsburgh, PA
January 2018 to Present
I am currently working on the IV team at Upmc Presbyterian, where I travel to all hospitals in their system, such as Montefiore, and Western Psych. We also establish vascular access to all inpatient and outpatient departments at these hospitals. Including Intensive care units, pre and post operative, nuclear, radiology, cardiology, and Emergency departments. I am very skilled in peripheral iv’s as well as Midline and PICC line insertions via ultrasound ECG technology to confirm placements of PICC lines by cortrak and monitoring their P waves to confirm proper placement of PICC lines without X-rays to confirm if adequate P wave formations are visualized. As a iv team member placing PICC lines after proper look up of patients past medical history, current labs, and all diagnostics to make sure patients are able to safely receive PICC lines. Also on the iv team we place duo tubes via cortrak on patients needing supplemental nutrition. Our IV team also does all port access, deaccess, and dressing and needles changes. We also change PICC line dressing changes as well as central lines, and removal as a vascular access team as it has shown to decrease the amount of infections throughout the hospitals. We also do all troubleshooting to Midlines, PICC lines, and ports, and all central accesses other than dialysis lines. We also Cathflo any central line, per protocol, throughout all facilities and departments. I am also chemo certified and as a IV team member I assess and infuse all chemo infusions as well as injections to all patients needing chemo during their admission. I find that my skills and love of vascular access has been my thrive in all nursing jobs, but adding ultrasound PICC placement has brought my skills to a new level and excitement.
Dialysis RN
DCI Dialysis - Pittsburgh, PA
January 2017 to January 2018
I worked as a Dialysis Registered nurse at DCI outpatient dialysis center. There I was able to assess Renal patients by reviewing their past medical history. Then obtain weight and vital signs and work with the nephrology doctors to maintain a safe dialysis treatment by monitoring their vitals and running the dialysis machine to take an adequate amount of fluid off. I accessed ports, dialysis catheters, fistulas, and grafts. I also gave patients their iv medications as ordered during their dialysis treatments. I was able to take off the patients lines, by changing sterile dressing and keeping them free of infection and instilling cathflo (tpa) as needed to maintain their lines for their dialysis treatments. Registered Nurse
Hemophilia center of Western Pennsylvania - Pittsburgh, PA August 2013 to July 2016
Responsibilities
Infusion nurse on infants and patients with bleeding disorders needing vascular access and factor infusions. Managing and triaging phone calls from patients from all over the area and monitoring and assessing their current bleeds and prophylactic factor infusions. Working with hematology doctors and team members to comprehensively manage these patients' care in all day to day activities. To help them maintain the best possible outlook and awareness of their disease.
Registered Nurse
Ohio Valley General Hospital - McKees Rocks, PA
October 2005 to July 2013
Medical Surgical Unit.
Served as RN on a fifty-bed floor managing the care of 6-8 patients daily with multiple disease processes, many different kinds of surgical patients, and also orthopedic surgeries. Managed care of tube feeding, nasal gastric tubes, drains, and care of the patient everyday needs. Key Accomplishments
* Selected to be one of the few to be telemetry trained when they opened a telemetry area on the medical surgical floor.
* Selected to be trained on wound care at the Wound Care Center at Ohio Valley Hospital and attended meetings as a skin care champion.
* Charge nurse experience on the medical surgical floor. Education
Associate in Nursing
Ohio Valley General Hospital School of Nursing - McKees Rocks, PA 2003 to 2005
Associate in Liberal Arts & Sciences
Community College of Beaver County - Beaver County, PA May 2001 to May 2002
Nursing Licenses
RN
RN567109 Licensure
State: PA
Skills
• Tube Feeding
• Dialysis Experience
• Nursing
• Experience Administering Injections
• Medical Imaging
• EMR Systems
• Patient Care
• Medication Administration
• Epic
• Laboratory Experience
• Cerner
• Nurse Management
• Vital Signs
• Hospital Experience
• Employee Orientation
• Phlebotomy
• Medical Records
Certifications and Licenses
Registered Nurse (RN) RN567109
August 2005
I have been a Registered Nurse for the state of Pennsylvania continuously since obtaining my RN in 2005 BLS Certification
BLS Certification
Registered Nurse (RN)
RN567109
BLS
Cardiac EKG rhythm trained
Chemo certified
PICC trained
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