Registered Nurse Acute Care

Location:

Concord, NC

Posted:

May 26, 2025

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Resume:

Kristen Swift, RN, OCN

**** ******** **** *****, *******, NC 28027

704-***-****

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Professional Summary

Registered Nurse

• Highly skilled career professional with more than 3 years of clinical experience in an acute care inpatient oncology hospital setting and 15 years of experience in an ambulatory Oncology care setting.

• Established in care of the Oncology patient including assessment and plan of care development.

• Computer skilled, managing heavy daily patient volume including patient scheduling, admissions, discharges, and patient referral. Proficient in all documentation/record maintenance and paperwork to ensure accuracy and patient confidentiality.

• Proficient in EPIC, Canopy/Cerner, all Microsoft products (Word, Excel, Power Point)

• Very effective in high-pressure situations and communication skills to ensure seamless teamwork.

• Strong leadership skills with proven ability to oversee daily operations of a 14 bed Oncology unit with a high patient turnover rate.

• Highly motivated preceptor and role model with 15 years of experience precepting new graduate nurses, nursing students, new hire nurses, and new hire medical assistants.

• Incredibly organized, detail-minded, and focused.

• Extensive experience providing care to the medical oncology patient. Education

Associate Degree in Nursing, May 2005

Cabarrus College of Health Sciences – Concord, NC

Experience

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Atrium Health-Cabarrus 2005-2023 – Concord, NC

• Oncology Triage Nurse 2008-2023

o Perform complex care coordination for oncology patients across the care continuum. o Communicate with the interdisciplinary team to ensure safe and timely patient care. o Provide ongoing education for patients and families throughout the cancer journey. o Locate community and national resources for patients and families. o Serve as an advocate for patients and families.

o Serve as a preceptor for new nurses.

o Participated in several performance improvement projects with the interdisciplinary team.

o Interviewed new employee applicants for several levels within the organization. o Responsible for development of employee evaluations. o Super-user for Computerized Provider Order Entry go-live.

• Registered Nurse 2005-2008

o Provided care for the acute Oncology patient including assessment, treatment, and plan of care.

o Served as relief charge nurse on weekends and holidays. o Proficient in bedside nursing skills such as initiating and maintaining intravenous therapy, safe medication administration, wound and drain care, and Foley catheter insertion and maintenance.

Credentials

Registered Nurse 2005

Certified Nursing Assistant 2002-2005

Chemotherapy and Biotherapy Certification 2008-2023 (currently certified) Oncology Certified Nurse 2014-2023 (currently certified) Recognition

Pinnacle Award Nominee 2020 for contributions to Covid-19, including the transition from paper to electronic documentation (DocuSign), developing processes for safe virtual cancer care, including virtual training of physicians, and streamlining Covid-19 testing of asymptomatic patients to keep our immunocompromised patients safe.

Daisy Award Nominee 2020- Covid-19 contributions to help staff, patients, and physicians navigate the barriers and changes with virtual visits, volunteering for multiple committees and being a patient advocate.

Co-author of a study that will be published in several Pharmacology journals and will be presented as an abstract at ASCO in 2023

Community Service

Participated in Get Your Rear in Gear walk from 2014-2017 by raising money and walking for colon cancer.

References

Dr. Garry Schwartz

Levine Cancer Institute-Albemarle

945 N 5th Street

Albemarle, NC 28001

980-***-****

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Candace Bashaw

Registered Nurse, RN, MSN, OCN