Travel Nurse

Travel Registered Nurse (ICU/ER) — Aya Healthcare (Contract assignments)

San Diego, CA | January 2024 – Present

• Delivered acute critical care to an average of 4 high-acuity patients per shift across multiple intensive care units, adapting to different hospital layouts and clinical protocols within 24 hours of assignment.
• Coordinated with multidisciplinary teams to manage patient care plans, resulting in a 14% decrease in patient readmission rates and a 22% improvement in patient safety satisfaction scores across 3 hospital contracts.
• Administered medications, blood products, and vasoactive infusions to 12+ patients daily via Alaris pumps, ensuring 100% compliance with HIPAA standards and state nursing board medication administration safety rules.
• Led training for 6 permanent staff members on updated Epic Systems charting workflows, which reduced shift-change handover times by 18 minutes and improved billing code accuracy by 15% over a 13-week contract.

Staff Registered Nurse (ICU) — Colorado Medical Center

Denver, CO | June 2020 – December 2023

• Provided direct bedside care to upwards of 5 acute care patients per shift in a 24-bed ICU, performing hourly rounding, sterile wound dressings, and ventilator management with 0 protocol deviations.
• Collaborated with the quality assurance department to audit 45+ medical charts weekly, resolving documentation discrepancies to raise nursing compliance scores from 82% to 96% within 12 months.
• Managed intravenous therapy, cardiac monitoring, and emergency response for 10+ critical care patients daily, reducing adverse clinical events by 18% through early detection and rapid intervention.
• Mentored 4 newly hired nurses and nursing students on intensive care unit procedures, decreasing their average onboarding integration time by 25% and improving team retention by 12% over 3 years.

Acute care, Patient triage, Ventilator management, Cardiac monitoring, IV therapy, Electronic Health Records (EHR), Epic Systems, Cerner, Alaris infusion pumps, HIPAA compliance, Medication administration, Patient safety, Multi-state compact licensing

EHR Migration Initiative

Role: Super User / Nursing Lead

Tools: Epic Systems, MS Teams, Excel

Guided the migration of patient record templates to Epic Systems across 3 hospital units, training 45+ staff members and reducing documentation time by 24%.

Emergency Department Triage Redesign

Role: Triage Committee Member

Tools: Cerner, SharePoint, PowerPoint

Co-designed a new patient triage assessment flow, reducing average ER wait times by 32 minutes and improving patient care throughput by 18% over a 6-month period.

• Registered Nurse (RN) - Multi-State Compact License (2020)
• Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) (2020)
• Basic Life Support (BLS) (2020)

• Languages: English (Native), Spanish (Conversational)
• Professional Affiliations: Member, American Nurses Association (ANA)
• Availability: 4 weeks notice (completion of current contract)