Registered Nurse Patient Care

GINELLE R. HUSTED, RN

**** ****** *****, ***** ******, NY 14072 • Mobile: 716-***-**** • Email: ad8k9a@r.postjobfree.com OBJECTIVE

Highly motivated, knowledgeable, dedicated, and compassionate professional to secure a position as a Registered Nurse, utilizing my extensive skills, training, expertise, education, and experience SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

Over 20 years’ nursing experience in hospital and nursing home settings, versatile in Recovery, MedSurg, Telemetry, Cardiac Rehab, recognized and commended for consistently delivering quality nursing care for patients and residents

Approximately 6 years’ experience as an RN, guiding, directing, and supervising up to 8 medical staff including other RN’s, and other medical staff, training, mentoring, delegating assignments, monitoring all critical patient care activities to ensure uncompromising highest quality, safety, and wellness for the patient, conducting performance evaluations, and re-training, if necessary

Adapts rapidly to high-pressure, fast-paced settings with minimal orientation and supervision in a variety of environments, including overseeing up to 230 residents in a rehab/nursing home facility and up to 32 patients with a wide range of medical conditions in an acute care nursing unit of a hospital, requiring the administration of a wide range of plans of care

Establishes rapport quickly with a diverse patient population, highly skilled, compassionate and caring

Regards patient confidentiality seriously and fully compliant with all HIPAA regulations

Leverages technology to enhance accuracy and productivity, Windows, MS Office, proprietary medical software (Cerner and PowerCharts), and more

Utilized as a knowledgeable and respected resource, the “go-to” professional, highly regarded by all levels of management, peers, nurse staff, and patients, providing sound judgment, well-informed decision-making, and solutions to complex patient care logistics and resource allocation issues through the formulation and implementation of effective strategic action plans when others cannot PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

12/08 - Pres. Kaleida Health, Buffalo, NY

Millard Fillmore Suburban Hospital / DeGraff Hospital The largest not-for-profit healthcare network in Western New York, managing 5 hospitals with approximately 11,000 employees

Registered Nurse - Millard Fillmore Suburban (10/17- Pres.)

Provides nursing care to a wide range of post-up patients in the surgical unit, up to 6 patients, with a wide range of medical conditions, including cardiac, renal insufficiency, respiratory distress, and more, providing emergency response as needed

Provides comprehensive training in the capacity of a preceptor for new nurse staff, allowing individuals to shadow during critical rounds, posing hypothetical questions in relation to patients’ current medical conditions, and coaching individuals for critical thinking methodologies for optimal solutions which would most benefit the patient

Provides nursing care management for individuals undergoing addictions and/or behavioral health issues

Receives patients from ED/Recovery and performs additional health assessments for all incoming individuals, determining risk factors and required therapies

Personally administers medications (oral, IM, and IV), monitoring for reactions and/or positive responses

Manages patients for a wide range of co-morbidities, including for a prevalence of individuals with diabetes and heart disease

Consults with and health-teaches patients and their family members, instructing them on follow-through with treatments to be continued upon and after discharge GINELLE R. HUSTED RESUME, PG2

Charge Nurse - Registered Nurse - DeGraff Hospital (12/08 - 10/17)

Manages, supervises, guides, and directs up to 5 RN’s and up to 3 other medical staff ensuring quality nursing care per physicians’ specifications

Assigned to out the tenure various units including Cardiac Telemetry, MedSurg, and, for a short duration, Recovery

Functioned as preceptor to provide professional development and hands-on training for new college nursing students from D’Youville, Niagara University, ECC, NCCC, and others

Promoted to the Charge Nurse position in 2014 based upon dedication, strong work ethic, leadership, nursing, patient relationship building expertise, and other performance metrics 07/04 - 05/09 Unit Manager - RN / LPN

Sheridan Manor Nursing Facility / Williamsville Suburban, Williamsville / Tonawanda, NY

Promoted to the Unit Manager position (11/04), performing nursing care supervision and duties for 3 floors in the 110-bed skilled nursing LTC facility, Sheridan Manor, initially assigned at the 230-bed facility at Williamsville Suburban

Monitored all activities of daily living for the residents, including overseeing resident care plans, contributing to interdisciplinary team meetings for individuals regarding nutrition, administration of medications, and directing up to 5 staff to ensure each resident’s safety and well-being

Accompanied physicians and nurse practitioners, as scheduled, on bi-weekly rounds, for resident re-assessments and further directions

Conducted regular staff meetings to provide training, updates on individual residents’ conditions and status, enforcing SOP, especially holding such meetings during shift transitions, with a focus on specific residents in noticeable decline or potentially life-threatening conditions

Promoted to the Registered Nurse position upon acquisition of an Associate’s degree in Nursing from Niagara County Community College (07/08) coupled with a strong history of dedication and compassion, as well as ongoing experience and knowledge of the facilities’ residents

EDUCATION, TRAINING & ACHIEVEMENTS

NYS Registered Nurse License #608327-1, Current and Unencumbered Office of Professions, Albany, NY

Basic Life Support (BLS) & Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) Associate of Applied of Science in Nursing, 2008

Niagara County Community College, Sanborn, NY

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