Registered Nurse Care
Resume:
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Charge Nurse **** - Present
Children’s Hospital - Pediatric Cardiac, New Orleans, Louisiana
Successfully manage nursing staff, providing effective leadership, mentoring, and direction to staff support, ensuring daily projects are executed. Preceptor for CICU.
Designed and implemented new nurses training manuals
Provide acute care for pediatric patients recovering from anesthesia, encompassing ambulatory surgical procedures, invasive and extensive surgeries, and traumas
Collaborate with other facility leaders, designing systems, improving service and increasing staff productivity
Respond to emergencies quickly, initiating life-saving responses, administering medications, treatments, and procedures; closely monitoring transplant patients after performing dialysis procedures
Educate family, caregivers, and patients on conditions including patients home care options
Charge Nurse 2013 - 2016
Tulane Medical Center, New Orleans, Louisiana
Acted as a liaison between physician group and patient care unit, ensuring effective communication for overall patient care services
Coordinated with physicians and dialysis units, preparing and educating potential transplant, kidney, and liver recipients
Utilized assessment skills, performing daily nursing tasks for pre-transplant, during transplant, and post-transplant patients, providing quality and compassionate care
Worked closely with physicians, monitoring and identifying patient’s needs, implementing care plans, providing timely and efficient treatments to recovering patients
Organized equipment, medications, and medical instruments for surgeons; provided patients with best recovery care, applying and changing wound dressings and surgical drains
EDUCATION, LICENSURES, CERTIFICATIONS, & AWARDS
Master of Science in Nursing, Nicholls State University Student
Bachelor of Science in Nursing, Dillard University 2013
LA Registered Nurse License 2013
Advanced Cardiac Life Support Certification 2013
Basic Life Support Certification 2011
Theresa Bittenbring Marque & John Henry Marque Ford Fund Student Nurse Award 2013
ACL BLS PALS
LATASHA M. CHOPIN
336 Georgetown Drive
New Orleans, LA 70094
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LMC
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Motivated and compassionate professional with extensive nursing and management experience. Proven background in urgent and high patient settings. Excels in training and mentoring teams to deliver top-quality patient care. High levels of personal and professional integrity and a desire to always lead a winning team.
CORE COMPETENCIES
Staff Training & Development
Personnel Supervision
Preceptor
Medication Administration
Crisis Intervention
Patient Advocacy & Education
Admissions & Discharges
Pediatric Care
Intensive & Critical Care
Bedside Care
Surgical Procedures
Life Support
Patient Assessments
Dialysis Procedures
IV Administrations
Equipment Operations
Tracheostomy Care
Ambulatory Care
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