Nurse Staff
Resume:
Roxanne Pollard, R.N.
Brooklyn, NY 11236
Profile
A well-rounded healthcare professional with over thirty-three (33) years of broad-based experience providing care for individuals throughout the lifespan and with varying healthcare needs. Skilled at prioritizing patient care needs and rendering compassionate care. A proven communicator and negotiator who is able to interface with both managerial and non-managerial staff as well as patients of diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds. Possess excellent interpersonal skills and is able to excel in a fast-paced environment. An independent worker who is able to work as an integral part of a multidisciplinary healthcare team.
Accomplishments
Accessing, planning and identifying treatment goals for patients with HIV/AIDS
Conducting routine chart reviews before routine primary care clinic visits as well as monthly intensive chart reviews as a part of the department’s ongoing quality of care improvement initiative
Functioning as a charge nurse within the Emergency Room’s Level I Trauma Center
Overseeing other RNs, nurses’ aides and clerical staff.
Responsible for direct patient care, complete physical assessment, vital signs monitoring, charting and documentation, medication administration and intake/output recording.
Setting-up and monitor TPN tube feeding, blood and blood product transfusion, pulmonary and cardiac equipment and other life sustaining devices.
Assisting with numerous cardiac and respiratory arrests.
Conducting regular teaching and counseling to patients on special equipment including ventilators, medication and crutches.
Providing tracheostomy and wound care as well as wound dressing.
Setting-up and maintaining crash cart and doing phlebotomy.
Taking and interpreting 12 LEAD EKGs.
Monitoring, evaluating and documenting patient responses to illness and hospitalization while adhering to the HIPPA guidelines as well as the patients’ Bill of Rights.
Assisting surgeons with minor surgery such as suturing of lacerations, applying casts and splinting fractures.
Providing medical histories and preliminary diagnosis on patients.
Bringing calm to chaotic situations.
Work History
2018 – 2020 EAST NEW YORK GOTHAM. Brooklyn, NY. Head Nurse.
2008 – 2018 EAST NEW YORK DIAGNOSTIC AND TREATMENT CENTER. Brooklyn, NY. Staff Nurse.
1996 – 2008 KINGS COUNTY HOSPITAL. Brooklyn, NY. Staff Nurse. Adult Emergency Department.
1989 – 1996 KINGS COUNTY HOSPITAL. Brooklyn, NY. Staff Nurse. Pediatric Department.
1987 – 1989 PRIVATE HOME CARE. New York, NY. Private Duty Nurse
Education
2018 CHAMBERLAIN UNIVERSITY, Downers Grove, IL, B.S., Nursing
1987 BRONX COMMUNITY COLLEGE. Bronx, NY. A.S., Nursing
Certifications
ACLS & BCLS—American Heart Association
Pediatric Advanced Life Support
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