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Andrew Craig's Experience:
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Travel Registered Nurse (Step Down Unit-Progressive Care) at Sky Lakes Medical Center
August 2016 - Present | Klamath Falls, OregonA regional, level 3 trauma center with 176 beds and is affiliated with University of Oregon Medical School. In 2010, Sky Lakes had 6,112 admissions, 6,741 surgical procedures, and 23,248 emergency room visits. Provided excellent nursing care by gathering data, assessments, and implementing the nursing process while collaboratively working with medical staff to provide prescribed medications and treatments. • Nursing Process and Care Plan Development: Collected assessment data to develop patient specific nursing care plans with diseases; such as, sepsis, acute myocardial infarction, or alcohol and illicit drug withdrawal. • Team work and Multidisciplinary Collaboration: Collaborated with the multidisciplinary team to coordinate discharge plans for challenging patient populations with drug abuse, alcohol abuse, or complex comorbidities. • Critical Thinking and Problem Solving: Demonstrated safety awareness by identifying possible causes of sepsis or respiratory distress by analyzing clinical data, laboratory data, and physical assessment findings to plan nursing care, identify covert complications, and help coordinate medical treatment.
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Travel Registered Nurse (Step Down Unit-Progressive Care) at University of Minnesota Medical Center
January 2016 - July 2016 | Minneapolis, MinnesotaA level 2 trauma center and teaching hospital with 839 beds, and had the world’s first open heart transplant surgeries. In one year, Fairview had 34, 256 admissions, 23, 843 surgeries, and 57, 299 ED visits. Collaboratively restored patient health by implementing nursing care plans, identifying complications, giving medications, and implementing medical orders on a fast paced and busy step-down unit. • Nursing Process and Care Plan Development: Frequently implemented nursing care for complicated liver failure patients focusing on the ABCs, hemodynamics, blood loss, multi-system dysfunction, fluid and electrolytes, antibiotics, malnutrition, blood loss, urine output, IV medication administration, and lab data. • Communication and Patient Education: Efficiently and accurately documented nursing care on the EPIC EMR system while effectively using quality verbal communication for bedside patient report hand-off, SBAR report to physicians, and patient specific education. • Critical Thinking and Problem Solving: Implemented cardiac drips; such as, Nitroglycerin, Heparin, Amiodarone, Diltiazem, or Esmolol during emergent or ACLS situations; such as, acute MI, SVT, a-fib with RVR, and hypertensive emergencies.
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Staff Nurse at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics
September 2014 - December 2015 | Iowa City, IowaA level 1 trauma center and teaching hospital with 732 beds and the Magnet Award for Nursing Excellence. In 2015, Iowa had 33,000 acute admissions, 935,000 clinic visits, and 57,000 Emergency visits. Applied evidenced based practice to the assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and evaluation of patient responses to respiratory, medical, and palliative care populations. • Nursing Process and Care Plan Development: Provided focused assessments for specialized pulmonary patients with severe COPD, respiratory failure, cystic fibrosis, mechanical ventilation, or lung transplants often with severe respiratory distress to develop, update, implement, and evaluate nursing care plans. • Team work and Multidisciplinary Collaboration: Collaborated with respiratory, medical, palliative, and on-call resident teams to plan nursing care while appropriately delegating nursing care to CNAs and ancillary staff. • Communication and Patient Education: To enhance nurse-patient relationship and improve patient outcomes, frequently spent extra time teaching and communicating unique discharge education for patients with new tracheostomies, lung transplants, new Type 2 diabetics, or complicated medication regimes.
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Night Charge Registered Nurse at Briarwood Healthcare Center
January 2014 - September 2014 | Iowa City, IowaA skilled nursing facility with 64 beds focused on providing quality healthcare, compassion, and integrity. Holding a Medicare rating of 93/100, Briarwood is one of the highest ranked nursing facilities in Iowa. Managed and supervised nightly activities of the facility; including, medication administration, prescribed treatments, and activities of daily living. • Nursing Process and Care Plan Development: Planned and implemented nursing care plans for skilled nursing residents with conditions; such as, wound care, pneumonia, hip fracture, or infections.
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Night Charge Registered Nurse at Parkview of Wellman Nursing Home
April 2013 - January 2014 | Wellman, IowaA skilled nursing facility with 62 beds focused on comprehensive care services; including, respite care, assisted living, long-term care, hospice, and a secure memory unit. Managed and supervised nightly activities of the facility; including, medication administration, prescribed treatments, and activities of daily living. • Communication and Patient Education: Collaborated and appropriately delegated nursing care to CNAs and ancillary to care for individual resident needs. Provided hospice and end of life education to patients and families.
Andrew Craig's Education:
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Western Governors University
2013 – 2015Bachelor of ScienceConcentration: Registered Nurse -
Black Hawk College
2009 – 2012Associate of ScienceConcentration: Registered Nurse -
Moline High School
2002 – 2006
Andrew Craig's Interests & Activities:
Nursing Informatics, Education, Innovation, Healthcare