Committee Member Clinical Nurse
Resume:
Pamela B. Buhidar, BSN, RN, RNC-OB, VA-BC
Boonsboro, MD 21713
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Objective:
Pursuing a position that will enable me to apply my skills and knowledge acquired with 33 years of nursing experience.
Education:
Bachelor of Science in Nursing, Towson State University, 1989
Experience:
January 2022-present
Towson University-University System of Maryland at Hagerstown
Clinical Instructor, School of Nursing
●Instructor of second semester junior nursing students in the hospital clinical setting. Ensuring the students are applying learned skills of assessment and intervention, and applying them to the daily patient’s plan of care. Supervise students in skills and medication administration within the guidelines of the assigned hospital rotation and school of nursing scope of practice.
August 2017-November 2021
Upper Chesapeake Medical Center: Vascular Access Services
Registered Nurse and Clinical Resource Nurse
●Responsibilities included the assessment, insertion and care of all inpatient PICC lines, daily rounding (included necessity, care, maintenance and removal) of all CVADs that were inpatient.
●Additional responsibilities included daily rounding and surveillance of peripheral IV on inpatients and insertion of PICC lines in outpatients.
●Other duties included serving as a resource to the emergency department and critical care for difficult access, education of nurses at the bedside pertaining to IV access and infusion therapy.
●Assumed the role of clinical resource nurse and developed a decision tool and policy in collaboration with multidisciplinary teams (critical care, emergency medicine, infection control and nursing).
●Other job duties were to drive vascular access team practice forward and making it a cohesive group. Revision of policies pertaining to vascular access.
●Successfully maintained VA-BC certification.
●Attended INS national conference May 2019.
●Continued as a member of the Maryland Chapter of INS, AVA and INS national member.
September 2015-October 2019
Frederick Memorial Hospital: Vascular Access Services
Registered Nurse IV
●Responsibilities included the assessment, insertion and care of all inpatient PICC lines, daily rounding (which includes necessity, care, maintenance and removal) of all CVADs that were inpatient.
●Function as a resource for difficult peripheral IV insertion and consult for patients with complicated venous access history.
●Other responsibilities included: education of new and current staff on vascular access theory and venous access skills (peripheral IV starts, central line care). Participated in departmental audits, collection of statistics and review/revision of departmental policies pertaining to vascular access.
●Member of Evidence Based Practice Counsel
●VA-BC certified December 2016
●Member of National and Maryland chapter of Infusion Nurses Society
October 2012-September 2015:
Meritus Medical Center: Family Birthing Center
Registered Nurse III
●Responsibilities within this role included the care of the patient in labor, immediate post-partum and postpartum to discharge (mother/baby). Developed skills in the care of the newborn (late preterm and term infants, infants requiring special assessment for blood sugar control, neonatal abstinence scoring and hyperbilirubinemia care).
●Education of the patient and family regarding care of self, family and infant. Each plan of care was developed for each unique family.
●Functioned as a preceptor for new staff and resource for high-risk patients.
●Chair of unit-based Nurse Practice Council and member of hospital wide Nurse Practice Council.
●Achieved inpatient certification, intermediate and senior level fetal monitoring, NRP and STABLE certifications.
January 2012-October 2012:
Meritus Medical Center: PICC Line Program
Registered Nurse III
●Responsibilities include the assessment, planning and insertion of PICC lines in appropriate candidates.
●Ongoing performance improvement audits for deep vein thrombosis, catheter occlusion and infections.
●Involved with staff education on assessing need for PICC line versus other forms of vascular access, preventing central line infection and catheter related deep vein thrombosis.
September 2011-April 2012:
University of Maryland Medical Center: Interventional Radiology.
Clinical Nurse II
●Responsibilities included the direct care of patients utilizing skills of assessment, planning and intervention to deliver safe administration of effective moderate sedations for patients undergoing interventional procedures.
●The patient population was acute, involving management of patients in critical condition due to trauma, strokes, cardiopulmonary compromised, cancer and multisystem failure.
The procedures included as follows:
●Administration of chemotherapy treatment for hepatic and pancreatic type cancers, which involve direct administration of chemotherapy and radioactive compounds to the organ/site of the cancer versus traditional chemotherapy routes.
●Neurological intervention for patients experiencing acute strokes, aneurysms and arterial stenosis of carotid and midbrain vascular systems.
●CT guided procedures for a variety of percutaneous fluid drainage, drain placements and pelvic blocks.
●TIPS procedures for patients with liver failure.
●Long term central venous access for chemotherapy, dialysis, aphaeresis, bone marrow transplants and other medical treatments needing central venous access.
●Embolization procedures for acute loss of blood/bleeding or vessel dissection for patients to unstable for traditional OR intervention.
September 2007-August 2011:
Corpus Christi Medical Center/HCA Healthcare: Interventional Radiology
Team Leader
●As team leader, duties included management of staff, patient caseload and workflow, policy and procedure development, training of nursing staff for interventional rooms and PICC line placement.
●Involved in direct care of patients, utilizing skills of assessment, planning and intervention to deliver safe administration of effective moderate sedation for patients undergoing interventional procedures.
●Involved with patients with chronic conditions: such as dialysis, liver disease, diabetes, coronary artery disease, peripheral vascular disease and cancer.
oPatients needing diagnostic procedures to identify underlying medical problems.
oPatients that were acute and in need of thrombolytic therapy (not to include neurovascular) or venous or arterial type embolization to control bleeding (postpartum hemorrhage, pulmonary hemorrhage, upper GI bleeding, post nephrectomy bleeding.)
●Worked within CT scan and ultrasound as needed to provide moderate sedation and anxiety relief for patients undergoing biopsy procedures.
July 2001 to September 2007:
Corpus Christi Medical Center/HCA Healthcare: Nursing Administration
House Coordinator
●Responsibilities of this job entailed the organizing, directing and coordinating the delivery of care for The Corpus Christi Medical Center.
●Served as Clinical resource for staff, ensure adherence to the policies and procedures of the medical center and support the hospital’s mission, vision and values.
●Cross trained to work in a variety of nursing units (i.e. emergency room, intensive care, medical/surgical floors as needed; familiar with EMTALA policy and procedure, appropriate placement of patient in observation status vs. admit status and workings of hospital day to day functions.
May 2000 to July 2001:
Corpus Christi Medical Center/HCA Healthcare: Labor and Delivery
Clinical Nurse
●Resumed role as a labor and delivery nurse, duties included were charge nurse, resource for staff and functioned in the operating room as scrub and circulating nurse for cesarean sections, tubal ligations and emergency hysterectomies.
●Patient population was low risk, but was a clinical resource for high risk patients and was asked to care for these patients when situations arose.
November 1998 to May 2000:
University of North Carolina Hospitals: Vascular and Interventional Radiology
Clinical Nurse
●Responsibilities included the assessment, planning and delivering of safe and effective nursing care for patients undergoing interventional radiology procedures.
●Provided nursing care in outpatient recovery and diagnostic radiology areas as needed.
●Primary area of focus was vascular radiology. The procedures included the following:
●Placement of various long term venous access devices: PICC, groshong catheters, hickman catheters, mediports and dialysis catheters.
●Diagnostic procedures to identify underlying medical illnesses.
●Involved in the organ donation process, with donors coming to the lab for angiograms of the organ they were going to donate (liver and kidney).
●Procedures on acute patients requiring thrombolytic therapy, embolization of venous and arterial injuries resulting from trauma or surgery, when the patient was too unstable to go to the operating room.
●TIPS procedures
October 1997 to November 1998:
University of North Carolina Hospitals: Labor and Delivery
Clinical Nurse
●Continued with the care of high and low risk obstetrical patients. Focused on the education of patients experiencing complications with pregnancy, i.e. diabetes (insulin and non-insulin dependent), preeclampsia, chronic hypertension and preterm labor.
●Duties included circulating and scrubbing in the operating room (cesarean sections, tubal ligations, and emergency hysterectomies), charge nurse and clinical resource.
October 1996 to October 1997
Quintiles, Inc., RTP, North Carolina
Clinical Research Associate
●Assume the responsibility for monitoring clinical trial sites in the Southeast US. Acquired working knowledge of FDA regulatory process and procedures and was able to apply the knowledge in an effective way.
●Performed Site Selection, Initiation, Monitoring and Close Out visits.
●Responsible for source data verification documentation, case report form completion and drug accountability for individual research sites.
●Mentored new incoming Jr. CRAs and performed co-monitoring visits.
●Worked closely with LCRA and PM to ensure timelines are met for assigned sites.
January 1994 to October 1996
University of North Carolina Hospitals: Labor and Delivery
Clinical Nurse
●Responsibilities included the care of high risk obstetrical patients and focused on strengthening skills in low risk obstetrics.
●Developed strong interpersonal communication and working skills with peers and other interdisciplinary team members.
●Other duties included circulating and scrubbing in the operating room, charge nurse and clinical resource.
March 1990 to January 1994
University of Maryland Medical Systems: Labor and Delivery
Associate Partner
●Acquired working knowledge of high risk obstetrics and incorporated this knowledge in my care of obstetrical patients.
●Committee member in developing standards of care for the critically ill maternal patient, and helped facilitate the use of standards of care.
●Developed circulating and scrub nurse skills, charge nurse and also was involved in the care of patients undergoing in vitro fertilization.
January 1989 to March 1990
Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Service Systems/Shock Trauma Center:
Primary Nurse I
●Responsibilities included the care of patients with closed head and/or spinal cord injuries.
●This unit focused on the special needs of patients in their transition from critical care to rehabilitation.
●Strong emphasis was placed on primary nursing, patient assessment, and patient/patient family education.
Professional Achievements:
●Registered Nurse State Board of Maryland; 1989
●AWHONN certification: Inpatient Obstetrics 1993, recertified 2003,
Maintained certification 2014, 2017,2017 and 2020.
●Certified to place PICC lines November 2008; recertified September 2015
●VA-BC certified 2017 and 2021
●Certified Basic Life Support, American Heart Association; Expires October 2022
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