Ellen McCue Rodriguez, BSN, RN, MSN, APN, NP, CCRN

**** ****** ****

Wall, NJ

07719

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

Email: adg1g7@r.postjobfree.com

EDUCATION:

Rutgers University Newark, NJ May 2008 - December 2011

• Masters Degree in Acute Care of the Adult and Aged

Graduation date: January 2012

Rutgers University Newark, NJ September 2002- May 2007

• Major: Bachelor of Science in Nursing

• Minor: Sociology

• Additional courses taken in the Spanish Language

Graduation date: May 2007

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Nurse Practitioner & Care Coordinator/Patient Navigator for The Center for Treatment of Paralysis and Reconstructive Nerve Surgery 3/2015-present

Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Neptune NJ

• Patient Rounds. Pre-admission Coordination, inpatient and outpatient care, discharge planning, outpatient follow-up for two plus years. Educates patients, families, and health care providers. Outreach to rehabs, Health Care Providers and national conferences. Records and manages data collection for research. Patient and family liaison. Program diaphragmatic pacemakers for all JSUMC Synapse pacemaker patients. Attends conferences, Health fairs, symposiums, and meetings to represent the CPRNS program. Also, attend the physicians meetings for their practice to develop new research. Prescribe medications. Write all orders for the patients while they are in the hospital. Collaborate daily with the physicians, research team, nurses, secretaries, schedulers, marketing, patient’s personal physicians, therapists, OR staff, pacemaker teams, wound care, pain management, guest relations etc.

Recognize needs for areas of marketing and education. Develop presentations based on evidence based research for the physicians and me to present.

Help patients locate proper therapists. Constantly keep up to date on the newest research and treatments. I act fast in emergent situations with patients in the hospital. I developed the whole organized out-patient post-op follow-up program for the nerve patients to document and track out comes. Dictate discharge summaries. Travel to various office locations wherever the patient needs me. Always accessible via phone or email. Weekend hospital weekend rounds. Record and track the surgeon’s productivity. Integrate well with the physician’s private practice. Patient liaison.

Nurse Practitioner, Trauma Department 10/2012-3/2015

Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Neptune NJ

• Independently provide care for trauma and surgical patients by performing thorough assessment and creating an in-depth course of action from admission to discharge daily.

• Collaborate with Trauma surgeons, a variety of consulting physicians and midlevel practitioners, nurses, physical therapists, case management, nursing assistants, EMTs, and paramedics.

• Respond to trauma alerts and follow ATLS guidelines to care for all trauma patients. • Critically assess and treat surgical and trauma patients in the intensive care unit with the guidance of the trauma intensivist.

• Insert Central lines, Arterial lines, chest tubes; repair simple and complex lacerations.

• Interpret radiology results.

• Assist in surgical procedures.

Nurse Practitioner, Medical Mission Calvary Chapel, Nicaragua 5/2013

• Independently assessed and created plans of care for multiple medical conditions and diseases.

• Provided education on many illnesses, nutrition, hygiene, and healthy living. • Translated Spanish to English and English to Spanish.

• Prescribed medication specific to a variety of medical problems.

Registered Nurse, Surgical Mission Health Talent International, Guatemala 1/2012

• Cared for preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative patients.

• Translated Spanish to English and English to Spanish.

• Administered medications.

• Provided all patient care to the surgical patients, such as obtaining and evaluating vital signs, assessing wounds, helping with hygiene, educated patients on the surgical procedures and postoperative needs.

Registered Nurse, Surgical/Trauma ICU 8/2008 – 10/2012

Jersey Shore University Medical Center Neptune, NJ

• Primary RN and charge RN to critically ill, unstable post operative and trauma patients.

• Primary RN and secondary RN in the trauma admitting area with adult and pediatric patients.

• Monitored and analyzed hemodynamic trends and fluid shifts through the assessment of lab values, basic EKG interpretation, arterial pressures and central venous pressures.

• Assessed and managed hemodynamic stability and pain control with the use of vasoactive infusions and conscious sedative drug titration to facilitate improvements in patient conditions.

• Delivered care to complex patients requiring ventilator support and assist in determining readiness to wean.

• Advocated for the patient while coordinating with the interdisciplinary team to ensure that all patient needs are met and the best patient care is achieved.

• Assisted in rapid sequence intubation, bedside surgical procedures, insertion of invasive hemodynamic lines, intracranial pressure devices such as ICP bolts and ventriculostomies and instituting evidenced based practice to every patient.

• Organized bed management, responded to rapid responses, code blues, and code neuros.

Registered Nurse, Telemetry Unit 9/2007-8/2008

Jersey Shore University Medical Center Neptune, NJ

• Cared for cardiac and dialysis patients requiring telemetry monitoring.

• Prioritized assessments and medication administration for 6-8 patients daily. • Interpreted telemetry rhythms daily.

• Provided wound care. Assisted in discharge planning.

Nurse Extern, Telemetry Floor 6/2006-8/2006

Monmouth Medical Center, Long Branch, NJ

• Under the supervision of a RN, cared for patients with acute and chronic conditions. Responsibilities included the assessment, treatment and documentation of six patients, assisting in the prioritization of patient care and medication administration.

CERTIFICATIONS:

ANCC Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Certification (2012-present)

CCRN (2011)

ACLS certified ( 2008-present)

PALS certified (2010-present)

BLS certified (2007-present)

Trauma Nursing Core Course (2009-2013)

ATLS 2014

AWARDS:

Ann May Scholarship (2009)

Ann May Scholarship (2010)

Florence Nightingale award (2011)

References available upon request.

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