Registered Nurse Resume Examples

• Cared for 3-4 adult med-surg patients per 12-hour shift under an RN preceptor, from admission assessment to discharge teaching.

• Documented assessments, intake and output, and every medication pass in Epic, scanning each dose with barcode medication administration.

• Noticed a post-op patient's rising heart rate and falling blood pressure, escalated to the preceptor, and assisted during the rapid response.

• Taught insulin self-injection to six newly diagnosed diabetic patients using teach-back before discharge.

• Took vital signs, blood glucose checks and 12-lead EKGs for up to 12 patients per shift on a 30-bed telemetry unit.

• Drew blood for morning labs and helped with bathing, turning and early mobility, reporting changes to the assigned RN.

• Kept hourly rounding logs and bed alarms current, supporting the unit's fall-prevention program.

Clinical rotations: medical-surgical, telemetry, pediatrics, labor and delivery, behavioral health and community health.

• Care for 5-6 adult patients per 12-hour shift, including post-op, sepsis and heart failure admissions.

• Run the 36-bed unit as relief charge nurse two shifts a week: assignments, admissions with the house supervisor, and escalations.

• Lead the unit's fall-prevention huddles and hourly rounding audits; falls with injury went from six to two in a year.

• Precepted seven new-graduate nurses through 12-week orientations; six still work on the unit.

• Monitored cardiac rhythms for 4-5 telemetry patients per shift and titrated heparin and diltiazem drips by protocol.

• Called nine rapid responses on early signs of deterioration, from new-onset atrial fibrillation to falling oxygen saturation.

• Taught heart failure patients daily weights, fluid limits and medication timing using teach-back before discharge.

• Lead 64 RNs, patient care technicians and unit secretaries on a 32-bed unit with a $7.8M annual operating budget.

• Cut RN turnover from 22% to 13% in two years with self-scheduling, a formal preceptor program and stay interviews.

• Raised HCAHPS nurse-communication scores from the 48th to the 71st percentile through hourly rounding and bedside shift report.

• Brought overtime from 9% to 4% of worked hours by building a shared float pool with two sister units.

• Managed daily staffing, scheduling in UKG and bed flow for a 40-nurse team across day and night shifts.

• Chaired the unit practice council that standardized catheter removal protocols; CAUTI cases fell from seven to one in a year.

• Coached charge nurses through a just-culture event review process used for every medication error.

• Cared for 1-2 critically ill cardiac patients per shift, including post-CABG, IABP and ventilated patients.

• Served on the code team and as a superuser during the hospital's move to Epic.

• Precepted 12 new ICU nurses and taught the unit's annual hemodynamic monitoring skills lab.