Chasity Maylon - Registered Nurse Resume Example

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Professional Summary

Seasoned registered nurse with more than 20 years of experience in fast-paced medical surgical, intermediate/intensive care unit. Excellent assessment and IV and hands on skills. Track record of achieving exceptional results in exceptional staff nurse in the medical surgical and intermediate care units and charge nurse on the medical surgical unit and acting charge nurse on the intermediate care unit.

Skills

Sharp assessment skills, initiating IV therapy, accessing port-a-caths, moderate sedation experience.

ACLS certified since 2002.

Recently stroke certified through the Willis-Knighton Stroke Academy as of September, 2018.

Compassionate patient and family care

Helpful to co-workers and strive to work together as a team.

Experience extends to some dialysis and wound/ostomy care.

Precepted new nurse hires and taught student nurses when assigned to the unit.

Experience

Registered nurse Aug 2018 ‐ Current Chasity Maylon ‐ Shreveport, LA Staff nurse on an intermediate care unit at Willis-Knighton Pierrmont. Duties include caring for patients requiring close monitoring, titration drips, extensive care. Types of Illnesses treated are stroke, myocardial infarction, hypertensive urgency, sepsis, post lumbar and cervical spine surgery cases, and complicated post colon surgeries, diabetes, renal failure. Work involves direct patient care, sharp assessment skills, critical thinking, accurate documentation of care, and care planning.

Registered nurse Jan 2016 ‐ Jul 2018 Dorothy Henderson ‐ Shreveport, LA Worked in gastro intestinal lab at Willis-Knighton Pierrmont. Duties included assessing and preparing patients for endoscopy and colonoscopy procedures. Intraprocedural care responsibility is to closely monitor patients vital signs, administer moderate sedation under direct physician instructions which includes sedation reversal and appropriate intervention in case a patient becomes unstable during procedure. Also responsibile for properly collecting and labelling obtained specimens. Also recovered patients post procedure that patients are returned to baseline pre procedure sedation level and understand and have completed discharge instructions. Lastly, helped set up the lab and prepare patient charts for next day.

Registered nurse Jan 2007 ‐ Dec 2016 Kim Willis and Chasity Maylon ‐ Shreveport, LA Care of patients in critical condition and intermediate care areas. Mainly worked in intermediate care unit and occasionally intensive care unit. Duties were the same as current intermediate care duties of patient care, drip titration, post heart and vascular intervention care, sepsis, diabetes, hypertensive urgency, congestive heart failure, complicated pneumonia, and complicated surgery cases. Also cared for post spinal surgeries. Duties extended to assuming responsibility of backup charge nurse when the actual head charge nurse was absent. Those duties included making unit staff assignments with appropriate acuity and work load, crash cart and refrigerator checks, and keeping track of patients who will be discharged or could transfer to lower level of care, and assist with assigning beds to patients requiring intermediate level of care. Making certain unit and staff are in order prior to leaving duty.

Registered nurse Jun 2003 ‐ Dec 2007 Jody Nolte at Willis-Knighton Pierrmont ‐ Shreveport, LA Worked on medical-surgical telemetry unit. For first year, worked as a staff nurse caring for the medical surgical patients ranging from diabetes, hypertension, cellulitis, general surgery such as gall bladder, other patient cases that didn't require ventilator assistance or titration drips who are otherwise stable. After first year, promoted to charge nurse. Those duties included making appropriate assignments for patients and staff, crash cart check, refrigerator and unit checks, assist practical nurse with patients requiring blood products, IV push medicines, assessing and admissions. Responsible for monitoring patient discharges, transfers, admissions. Also assisted nursing and ancillary staff with tasks when necessary making sure duties are carried out and unit is operating smoothly and is organized.

Education

Associate of Science : Nursing May 1995 Louisiana State University Eunice ‐ Eunice, LA Degree in registered nursing achieved. Was on the Dean's list with academics.

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