Registered Nurse

Alynn Merkin, RN, BSN, CCRN

Address: * *** ****** ****, ******, NJ, 07059

Phone: 908-***-****

E-mail: *********@*****.***

Professional Summary

Diligent, driven, and passionate Registered Nurse bringing over four years of expertise leveraging critical thinking, analysis and healthcare knowledge, delivering quality care to patients. Adept at working closely with doctors and nurses and prioritizing tasks with sound clinical judgement in high-pressure environments.

Work History

Clinical Nurse: Cardiothoracic Surgical ICU

The Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY

05/2017 - Current

• 1,134 bed teaching facility ranked 6th nationally for cardiology and heart surgery.

• Provide specialized care of immediate postoperative patients in a 26-bed unit receiving complicated high-risk procedures such as coronary artery bypass grafting, heart transplantation, assistive device implantation, cardiovascular valve repair/replacement, and aortic aneurysm repair.

• Proficient with advanced medical therapies such as ECMO, CVVH, IABP, TAH, LVAD, RVAD, and Impella.

• Manage patients requiring ventilatory support and initiate ventilator weaning and patient extubation based upon ventilator settings, clinical values, and assessment.

• Administration and titration of inotropic, vasoactive, sedation, analgesic, and paralytic medications.

• Adhere to unit protocols and standards of care to maintain patient hemodynamic stability.

• Responsible for charge nurse duties including managing the unit, the transfers of patients out of ICU, coordinating admissions from the cardiac operating room, and overseeing the nursing and ancillary staff and scheduling.

• Assist with bedside procedures such as emergency intubation, sternotomy, ECMO cannulation, chest tube insertion, IABP insertion, central line placement, arterial line placement, and pulmonary artery catheter insertion.

• Communicate acute changes in patient status promptly to the respective members of the interdisciplinary team including doctors, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and colleagues and intervene suitably.

• Up to date on all required training to continue to provide care for patients requiring 24/7 hemodynamic monitoring, external devices to support the heart, pacemaker management, Swan Ganz and other arterial and venous catheter care, chest tubes and drainage management, airway protection, IV medication titration, and initiation of the ACLS/BLS protocols.

Registered Nurse: Cardiothoracic Stepdown Unit

University of Miami Hospital, Miami, FL

08/2015 - 02/2017

• Cared for patients on a Cardiac Stepdown Unit and implemented all due nursing interventions involving the interdisciplinary team to improve health status.

• Monitored patients before and after procedures, including, but not limited to open heart surgery, PCI, cardioversion, cardiac ablations, vascular surgery, cardiac catheterizations, and thoracic surgeries including thoracotomies, lobectomies, lung nodule resections, and pneumonectomies.

• Involved appropriate resources such as Physical, Speech, and Occupational Therapy, as well as Social Services, ensuring a multidisciplinary treatment approach.

• Managed chest tubes, Pleur-x catheters, epidural catheters, IV drips, and patient-controlled analgesia.

• Documented data including vital signs, pain management, neurological status, and head-to-toe assessments

Skills

Epic Systems

Critical thinking

Electronic Health Records

Interdisciplinary Involvement

Microsoft Word

Pain management

Standards and hospital

protocols

Quality Management

Rehabilitation

Continuing Education

Social Services

Patient privacy

Chronic and acute disease

management

Confidentiality

Medication administration

Care coordination

Family and patient education

Acute care expertise

Patient and family advocacy

Clinical judgment

Clinical documentation

Education

University of Miami - Coral Gables, FL

08/2011 - 05/2015

Major: Bachelor of Science in Nursing

• Minor in Psychology

• Graduated with 3.6 GPA

• Member of Sigma Delta Tau

• Dean's List: Spring 2012, Fall 2012, and Spring 2013

• Provost's Honor Roll: Fall 2012 and Spring 2013

• Social Chair for Sigma Delta Tau in 2013

Externship/Volunteer Experience

JFK Medical Center: Edison, NJ

Shadowing Chief CRNA, 60 hours

05/2019 - 06/2019

Jackson Health System: Holtz Children's Hospital: Miami, FL

RN Preceptorship, 120 hours

01/2015 - 05/2015

• Performed select procedures and treatments, provided high quality patient and family centered care and strengthened clinical skills and nursing judgment while under direct supervision of a preceptor in the Pediatric Emergency Room.

Kessler Institute of Rehabilitation: West Orange, NJ

Summer Externship Program, 360 hours

06/2014 - 08/2014

• Obtained a 9-week nursing experience under supervision of a nurse preceptor on the Traumatic Brain Injury Unit, Spinal Cord Injury Unit, and Stroke Unit and provided comprehensive care to patients recovering from strokes, amputations, SCI, TBI, and Multiple Sclerosis.

• Presented an Evidence-Based Practice Final Project to administration and nursing leadership that introduced a discharge clinical pathway.

Affiliations

• Member, Skin Champion Committee, 2017 - Current

• Member, Employee Engagement Committee, 2017 - Current

• Member, American Nurses Association (ANA), 2015 - Current

• Member, Sigma Theta Tau: Honor Society of Nursing

Certifications

Registered Nurse in New York, New Jersey, and Florida

CCRN: American Association of Critical-Care Nurses

Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS)

Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)

Basic Life Support (BLS)

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