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

504-***-****

adkmq5@r.postjobfree.com

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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