ICU Nurse

Intensive Care Unit (ICU) Registered Nurse — Mercy Health Medical Center

Chicago, IL | August 2023 – Present

• Managed a high-acuity caseload of up to 2 critically ill patients simultaneously, consistently maintaining a 0% medication error rate across more than 4,500 administered intravenous doses.
• Led the clinical implementation of a new ventilator weaning protocol in collaboration with 5 pulmonologists, reducing the average duration of mechanical ventilation by 18% over a 12-month period.
• Served as primary preceptor for 8 new graduate nurses and clinical interns, conducting over 320 hours of hands-on training in hemodynamic monitoring and vasoactive drug titration.
• Achieved a 42% reduction in catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) by spearheading a weekly unit-wide sterile technique audit and training 45 nursing staff members.

Registered Nurse - ICU/Critical Care — St. Jude Memorial Hospital

Evanston, IL | October 2020 – July 2023

• Administered acute care to post-operative cardiac and trauma patients, utilizing Epic EHR to document patient status changes and vital signs with 100% compliance with hospital standards.
• Monitored and titrated complex vasoactive infusions including norepinephrine, epinephrine, and dopamine for over 400 patients, responding to acute physiological changes in under 60 seconds.
• Collaborated with an interdisciplinary team of physicians, respiratory therapists, and pharmacists on daily clinical rounds to optimize care plans, improving patient discharge efficiency by 12%.
• Participated in the hospital's central line-associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI) reduction task force, contributing to a unit-wide 30% reduction in infection rates over a 14-month span.

Critical care nursing, Hemodynamic monitoring, Ventilator management, Vasoactive drip titration, Patient assessment, Epic EHR, Wound care, Arterial line management, Cardiac rhythm analysis, ACLS, BLS, Interdisciplinary communication, Patient education, Infection control, Code Blue response

Unit-Wide CLABSI Reduction Initiative

Role: Clinical Practice Leader

Tools: Epic EHR, Sterile Dressing Kits, Audit Checklists

Led a team of 12 nurses to overhaul central line insertion and maintenance procedures, achieving 0 CLABSI cases over a 9-month period and saving an estimated $75,000 in treatment costs.

Sepsis Alert Protocol Optimization

Role: Critical Care Specialist

Tools: Epic EHR, Sepsis Screening Tools, Smart Pumps

Coordinated with emergency and ICU departments to implement a pre-alert screening tool, reducing the time to first-dose antibiotic administration by 35 minutes and improving sepsis survival rates by 15%.

• Critical Care Registered Nurse (CCRN) (2022)
• Registered Nurse (RN) License, Illinois (2020)

• Languages: English (Native), Spanish (Conversational)
• Volunteer Work: Disaster relief medical volunteer with the American Red Cross (2021 – Present)
• Professional Membership: Active Member of American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) since 2020