Kathy L. Vang
Campobello
Summary
Compassionate Registered Nurse with many years of experience in providing top-quality patient care within high-volume hospital environments. Strengths include critical thinking, sound clinical judgement, and effective communication skills with patients, families, and healthcare teams. Have consistently ensured optimal patient outcomes while adhering to strict safety standards and protocols. Made significant impacts in previous roles by contributing to quality improvement initiatives and enhancing patient satisfaction rates.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Staff RN
AnMed Medical Center
02.2024 - Current
- Provide direct patient care. Document patient assessments, vital signs. Monitor symptoms and condition changes.
- Update patient health history and medication list while communicating with providers.
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to initiate and implement individualized care plans.
- Administer medications and wound care along with other treatment options.
- Resolve individualized care plans, educated patients, and scheduled follow-up appointments.
- Charge Nurse role, which consists of patient assignment, managing 11-bed Telemetry unit, and lead in all codes on unit.
Emergency Room Travel Registered Nurse
Tact Medical Staffing
09.2021 - 02.2024
- Assist ER providers and work with multiple interdisciplinary team members to provide direct care for patients of all ages, in all ER settings, including life-threatening trauma and critical patients.
- Monitor health conditions, plan long-term care needs, and assist with minor medical procedures.
- Triage and assess the needs of each patient, and prioritize care based on acuity.
- Stabilize patients, treat the problem, discharge the patient after the emergency visit, involve in admission of patients requiring hospital stay.
- Detect changes in symptoms, health, or pain, and implement necessary interventions.
Clinical Informatics Specialist
Advent Health Hendersonville
12.2018 - 09.2021
- Develop, implement, and maintain ongoing training program for Cerner and front-end voice recognition program for clinicians, ancillary departments, physicians, advanced-practice providers, and staff.
- Integrate clinical skills, computer science and information science to identify, acquire, preserve, manage, retrieve, aggregate, analyze and transmit information to make it meaningful and useful to clinical practice, administration, and the expansion of clinical knowledge.
- Develop training manuals and flyers, provide computer-based training, and identify and coordinate education classes.
- Facilitate required informatics training and serve as a resource throughout the facility including monitoring Help Desk tickets and serving as the facility security liaison.
- Collaborate with other departments as necessary to meet educational needs.
- Assist in preparing policies and procedures, Cerner training materials, providing any necessary information to providers and clinicians, including downtime and recovery procedures.
- Maintain working knowledge of organization activities, applications, concepts and operations procedures.
- Manage unit and departmental specific projects and assist Informatics Optimization Specialist with corporate initiative projects.
- Assist with pilot programs and post implementation projects.
Emergency Room Resource Registered Nurse
Spartanburg Medical Center
01.2016 - 08.2019
- Plan, direct, and coordinate daily patient care activities in clinical practice.
- Identify and assist staff with clinical issues and staff development in the department.
- Ensure adherence to policies, protocols, regulations, and standards.
- Implementation of evidence-based practice, mentoring, collaboration, education, and leadership.
- Oversee at least 20 nurses and Certified Nurse Aids, specifically for documentation completion, improving scanning scores, create a plan for improvement and perform chart audits.
- Trainer and resource to ensure core measures compliance for Code Stroke, Code STEMI, Code Sepsis, Code Trauma.
- Serve as super-user and trainer for implementation of Epic, new equipment, processes, and procedures implemented in the department.
- Assist with onboarding of new employees and involvement in orientation meetings with new hires and their preceptors.
- Work closely with nurses completing orientation to aid in the development of critical thinking skills, time management skills and continue to work with new hire nurses for first year.
- Facilitated and assisted with unit-based competencies.
Emergency Room Registered Nurse
Spartanburg Medical Center
05.2012 - 01.2016
- Assist physicians and work with multiple interdisciplinary team members to provide direct care for patients of all ages.
- Provide direct patient care for life-threatening trauma and critical patients.
- Work with other nurses and healthcare professionals to provide care, monitor health conditions, plan long-term care needs, and assist with minor medical procedures.
- Teach, educate, and advise patients and their families on illness, care, and continued care.
- Triage and assess the needs of each patient, prioritize care based on acuity.
- Stabilize patients, treat the problem, discharge the patient after the emergency visit, involve in admission of patients requiring hospital stay.
- Detect changes in symptoms, health, or pain, and implement necessary interventions.
Medical-Surgical Registered Nurse
Spartanburg Medical Center
02.2010 - 05.2012
- Vast set of skills consisting of knowledge in all areas of adult health with excellent skills in assessment, organizational, technical, and prioritization.
- Patient advocate and promote patient safety, flexible and versatile in providing holistic care.
- Work in a health care setting of diverse Medical-Surgical patients with complex diagnoses as well as corresponding complex needs.
- Coordinate, organize, and prioritize complex multiple client assignments.
- Integrate discharge planning into the patient’s daily care.
- Collaborate with other members of the health care team.
- Night shift Charge Nurse role, which included delegating tasks, assigning nurses to patients, medical supply inventory, managing 18-bed Medical-Surgical unit, and team lead in all codes on unit.
- Capability to integrate research and best practice guidelines in relation to diverse care needs.
Education
Master of Science - Nursing Informatics
Walden University
Minneapolis, MN02.2018
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
University of South Carolina Upstate
Spartanburg, SC08.2016
Associate Degree - Nursing
Spartanburg Community College
Spartanburg, SC12.2009
Skills
- Medication administration
- Patient assessment
- Critical care nursing
- Triage and prioritization
- Electronic health records
- Care coordination
Certification
- BLS
- ACLS
- PALS
References
- Tara Devito, MSN, RN, ER Manager, AnMed Medical Center, 864-356-1589
- Brad Holmes, MSN, RN, Director of Emergency Services, AnMed Medical Center, 864-512-1000
- Courtney Pinnell, MSN, RN, Nursing Faculty and Lab/Clinical Coordinator, University of South Carolina Union, 864-424-8053
License
207985, Issue Date 01/14/10
Timeline
Staff RN
AnMed Medical Center
02.2024 - Current
Emergency Room Travel Registered Nurse
Tact Medical Staffing
09.2021 - 02.2024
Clinical Informatics Specialist
Advent Health Hendersonville
12.2018 - 09.2021
Emergency Room Resource Registered Nurse
Spartanburg Medical Center
01.2016 - 08.2019
Emergency Room Registered Nurse
Spartanburg Medical Center
05.2012 - 01.2016
Medical-Surgical Registered Nurse
Spartanburg Medical Center
02.2010 - 05.2012
Master of Science - Nursing Informatics
Walden University
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
University of South Carolina Upstate
Associate Degree - Nursing
Spartanburg Community College