Highly motivated and skilled registered nurse with five years of work experience. Currently, working in a critical care setting with two years of past pediatric care experience. Excellent communication skills with fluency in English and Somali having worked with a diverse patient population. Outstanding nursing training at Saint Catherine University and three years of intensive care work experience has built a strong foundation of critical thinking skills and clinical knowledge. Thus, my cultural competency, work experience, and educational background has prepared me to succeed in the M.S. in Nurse Anesthesia program at Saint Mary's University.
EXPERIENCE
Trauma, Neurological and Surgical ICU, Staff RN
North Memorial Hospital, Robbinsdale, MN | 2016+
• Provide care for 1-2 critically ill patients on a unit that accepts level I adult traumas, level II pediatric traumas, and is accredited as a comprehensive stroke center.
• Provide specific neurological and trauma cares in stabilizing critical ill patients by performing advance cardiovascular life support, mass transfusion & fluid resuscitation, advance airway management, and titrating intravenous critical drips by interpreting non-invasive and invasive hemodynamic monitor values.
• Use clinical judgement and decision- making skills to care for critically ill patients with multisystem traumatic injuries requiring craniotomy/craniectomy/spinal fusions, oral/maxillofacial, orthopedic, thoracic, abdominal, vascular, and plastic surgeries.
• Assist providers with life-saving procedures such as emergent rapid sequence induction and intubation, insertion of intravascular cooling catheters, central lines and thoracotomy tubes, bedside external ventricular drain placement and intracranial pressure monitor system, and follow strict protocol to prevent possible complications.
• Provide comprehensive and focused care for patients with cerebrovascular accident using NIH stroke scale to improve acute stroke symptoms, closely monitor and manage blood pressure parameters, heparin & tPA administration/titration for ischemic strokes, and adequately assess pain, sedation level, and fluid needs by interpreting ICP's, EVD's, CVP's, and vital signs.
• Develop personalized neurological and trauma patient care plans and implement specific nursing actions to improve the overall health of patients.
• Participate daily in multidisciplinary trauma patient rounds by presenting all pertinent data to the trauma team consisting of trauma surgeons, advance practice providers, nurse managers, pharmacists, dietitians, respiratory therapists, and social services to improve patient care and outcomes.
• Use nursing judgment and appropriate ethical frameworks to collaborate with life source specialist to provide care to patients undergoing tissue and organ donation.
• Provider appropriate patient-centered teaching that reflects health literacy to foster patient engagement and family involvement.
Pediatric Float Pool, Medical-Surgical, Staff RN
Children's Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (Level I Trauma Canter) | 2014-2016
• Provided care for 3-4 pediatric patients between the ages of 6 weeks- 21years, presenting with respiratory distress, cardiovascular diseases, neurologic deficits, newly diagnosed hematology/oncology conditions, and varies childhood illnesses.
• Floated to numerous medical-surgical units to fulfil staffing needs and adjusted to changing environments with confidence, willingness, and flexibility.
• Assisted with ADL's, administered medications, managed multiple lines, drains, tubes, and cared for children with complex medical conditions.
• Conducted comprehensive and focused physical assessments in pediatric patients utilizing developmental and cultural appropriate techniques.
• Closely monitored postoperative patients and aimed cares to prevent acute complications following surgery.
• Provided family-centered nursing care to promote parental and/or guardian involvement to achieve better healthcare outcomes.
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