Nicole Dammon
North Augusta
Summary
Highly skilled professional registered nurse with expertise in ICU, ER, Medical Surgical, and long-term care. Seeking the position of Registered Nurse Referral Coordinator with the Department of Health Agency at Fort Eisenhower, GA. Extensive experience in healthcare settings has equipped me with a deep understanding of patient care coordination and effective referral management. Dedicated to ensuring seamless transitions for patients and optimizing their access to necessary medical services.
Overview
23
23
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Registered Nurse (Staff nurse/Charge nurse)
Department of Defense/Department of Health Agency
11.2012 - Current
- Provides highly specialized professional nursing care services utilizing triage/trauma care skills for acutely ill stable and unstable patients of all ages in the ED
- Provides comprehensive, therapeutic nursing care to individuals, families, and groups to include patient assessment, direct nursing care, counseling, guidance, and instruction
- Teaching wound and preventive/health promotion care to patients and their family members, to include follow-up care after discharge
- Outpatient medical care
- Consult to all outlying clinics and inpatient units
- Skills Fair Coordination Team/Teach In-services to staff for continuing education and annual competencies
- Assist with annual skills fair with identifying developmental training, critical skills necessary for sustaining effective training in the Emergency Department
- Assist with timecard submission and compliance of staff with timecard
- Proficient in AATAPS and DHMERSi
- Assist with day-to-day clinical operations as requested
- Actively participates in performance improvement projects
- Preceptor for new employees, student nurses, and transition to practice nurses
- Serve with Joint Commission Readiness Team for Emergency Department inspections as a Tracer
- Assist with developing and implementing policies and procedures
- Manage Nursing assignments, patient placement and flow, personnel and resource allotment as Charge Nurse
- Assist with preparation of management reports and utilization
- Disseminate research to enhance department/practice
- Management of follow-up with positive culture reports to ensure proper treatment for patients seen in Emergency Department
- Correcting deficiencies by developing and conducting informal training
- Proficient in ESI and independently made triage decisions to ensure optimal patient outcome
- Provides mentoring and coaching for Emergency Department staff as needed
- Demonstrating leadership in the delivery of nursing care, staff development, staff education and evaluation
- Plans work to be accomplished by subordinates, sets and adjusts short-term priorities, and prepares schedules for completion of work
- Assist Point of Care Coordinator with point of care compliance for Emergency Department
- CAF (Competency Assessment Folders) manager for all nursing Staff in Emergency Department
- Assist with Assigning work to subordinates based on scope of practice, competencies, priorities, and patient care needs, selective consideration of the difficulty and requirements of assignments, and the capabilities of staff
- Assists with work performance of subordinates
- Contributes advice, counsel, or instructions to staff on work
- Serves as an integral member of the Emergency Services team as an emergency/trauma nurse
- Assist with monitoring Staff credentialing and informing staff of expiration of credentials
- Implements protocols for acute care patients and procedures such as gastric lavage, IV, EKG, cardiac monitor set-up, moderate sedation, suturing lacerations angioplasties, tracheostomies, ABG, thoracotomies and chest tubes
- Assist Physician with Advance Cardiac Life Support
- Proficient in patient management of life-threatening conditions
- Independently operates resuscitators, defibrillators, electrocardiographs, oxygen apparatus, Alaris Intravenous pumps and rapid Intravenous infusers
- Administration of blood transfusions and all types of medicines during emergency events to include intravenous, intraosseous, subcutaneous, intramuscular, oral and rectal routs
- Serve as a Charge Nurse and Perform a variety of administrative duties and data collection as an extension of and in support of the Clinical Head Nurse
- Assist and Support Hospital Chief Nurse, Emergency Department Chief Nurse Executive (CNE) along with Chief of the Emergency Department with assigned tasks
- Effective Charge Nurse with proper assignments for staff to ensure effective nursing practice based on patient condition and staff expertise
- Serves as a resource person for the ED
- Hours worked per week: minimum 40 hours
Registered Nurse (Staff nurse/Charge nurse)
Doctors Hospital – JMS Burn Center
07.2002 - 11.2012
- Collaborated with other ER professionals to ensure effective patient care delivery – Identified patients’ conditions and addressed nursing care
- Supervised the assigned staff – Was accountable for daily team performance
- Provided and managed goal-oriented patient care by utilizing established nursing processes and principles
- Independently made decisions and implemented care as needed in life threatening conditions
- Provided education for admission, discharge, follow-up care and medication administration
- Collaborate with Burn/wound care center for dressing changes and burn patients
- Manage and prep wounds per hospital protocol
- Proficient in suture removal, insertion of foley catheters, bandage placement, splint placement
- Specimen collection of urine, feces, sputum and all blood/bodily fluids per hospital guidelines/SOP
- Prepares and transports specimens per Hospital guidelines
- Supports infectious control guidelines and standards
- Implemented nursing care based on desired patient outcomes, customer satisfaction and evidence-based practice
- Coordinated patient referrals to services provided by community health nurse, dietician, social workers, Exceptional Family Member program, Family Advocacy Program and Chaplain as required
- Able to effectively communicate with Health Care Providers at all levels and negotiates for services and products with providers of services and products
- Trained appropriate personnel on equipment, instruments, processes, internal procedures, and protocol of the Burn ICU Department
- Teaches, orients, and reassures patients before, during, and after procedures to reduce patients' anxiety, through the facilitation, accuracy, expectations of tests
- Developed meaningful goals to assist the critically ill patient and family in attaining the optimum level of physiological, sociological and psychological balance within the limitations imposed by the illness
- Provides constant support to patient and family by providing information on disease process, pre and post procedure care, diagnostic procedures, use of equipment related to disease/care, expected and possible adverse reactions to medications, health maintenance and illness prevention
- Assists with patient education and call backs to patients regarding their treatment and follow up care
- Documents patient education and telephone consultation
- Teaches and counsels patients utilizing principles of adult learning
- Teaches and reinforces health promotion and disease prevention and assists patients in developing skills to cope with present health problems
- Uses the nursing process to assess needs of acutely ill, injured trauma patients undergoing diagnostic and therapeutic invasive procedures
- Serves as mentor to health care team members
- Preceptor for new-hire nurses
- Monitoring new staff with nursing operations and narcotic distribution
- Ensuring competency in the Burn ICU
- Collaborated with the interdisciplinary team to continuously improve productivity, efficiency, patient/customer satisfaction and patient care outcomes
- Coordinates nursing priorities, standards of care, and implementation of hospital and nursing policies and procedures
- Effectively communicated with Physicians regarding significant changes in patient’s condition and was addressed in timely manner
- Responsible for all Nursing operations within the Burn ICU in the absence of the CNE
- Member of Code Blue team
- Assist with patient complaints, investigation and patient resolution
- Participated in the Burn ICU quality and performance improvement, staff development and continuing education programs
- Promotes positive customer service
- Performs emergency triage and screening to determine priority of treatment
- Collaborates with physicians and ancillary services to provide a multidisciplinary approach to meet the needs of patients and their families
- Serves as a resource person for peers and subordinates
- Hours worked per week: Minimum of 36 hours
Education
Associates of Science in Nursing - ADN
University of South Carolina- Aiken
Aiken, South Carolina05.2002
Skills
- Medication and IV administration
- Direct patient care
- Patient assessments
- Documentation and charting
- Strong clinical judgment
- Patient education and counseling
- Patient and family advocacy
- Infection control measures
- Wound care
- Compassion and empathy
- Patient monitoring
- IV setup
- Intravenous therapy
- Care planning
- Patient management
- Professional bedside manner
- Physical assessments
- Telemetry monitoring
- Licensed RN
- Advanced cardiac life support (ACLS) certification
- Taking vitals
- Critical care
- Nursing staff leadership
- Tracheostomy care
- Precepting
- Patient discharge
- Lab result interpretation
- Team coordination
- EMR systems
- Performing ekgs
- Complex Problem-solving
- Proper catheter insertion/removal
- Emergency response
- Maintaining privacy
- Relationship building
- Chart updating
- High level of autonomy
- Procedure preparations
- Staff supervision
- Chest pain management
- HIPAA education
- Emergency care
- Acute care expertise
- Medical recordkeeping
- Supply restocking
- Case management
Certification
- Trauma Nurse Critical Care
- Basic Life support
- Advanced Care Life Support/ Instructor
- Pediatric Advanced Life Support
- Triage First
- Advance Trauma Life Support
PROFESSIONAL INVOLVEMENTS
- Assist with Unit Practice Counsel for Emergency Medicine
- Developed downtime chart cart for the ED
- Assist with all animal bite reporting and maintaining of Rabies program
- Keeps track of forms commonly used in the ED
- Unit Counsel Representative
- Member of the Joint Commission Readiness Team for Emergency Department
- Previously assisted with Emergency Department expansion and design
- In charge of monthly chart audits for the Emergency Department, prior to MHS Genesis.
- Received Civilian Service Achievement Award (July,2021) from Department of Army for outstanding service and assistance with Joint Commission Readiness Team.
- Previous ABLS (Advanced Burn Life Support) instructor
- TNCC (Trauma Nurse Core Course) instructor
- PMDB-M (Prevention and Management of Disruptive Behavior- Military) instructor
Timeline
Registered Nurse (Staff nurse/Charge nurse)
Department of Defense/Department of Health Agency
11.2012 - Current
Registered Nurse (Staff nurse/Charge nurse)
Doctors Hospital – JMS Burn Center
07.2002 - 11.2012
Associates of Science in Nursing - ADN
University of South Carolina- Aiken
- Trauma Nurse Critical Care
- Basic Life support
- Advanced Care Life Support/ Instructor
- Pediatric Advanced Life Support
- Triage First
- Advance Trauma Life Support
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