Kaitlyn McQuillan

-Infant/child assessment and immunizations

-Counseling and referrals -Basic mental health and wellness counseling

-Making appropriate referrals to family drs, OT, SLP, community mental health/women's wellness, community nutrition, Triple P parenting programs, Chances

-Providing care sensitive to individual/family needs, lifestyle, culture, and socioeconomic status

-Family centered care

-Prenatal assessments and education; teaching individual and group classes

.-School health; immunizations, education, vision and hearing

-Facilitation and planning of school immunization clinics

-Health promotion and illness prevention

-Promotion of sexual health, including sexual health education, STI and BBI education and follow-up

-Screening adults for vaccine eligibility, as well as booking and administering immunizations

-Use of ISM, Microsoft Word, Excel

-Conducting and monitoring hemodialysis treatment

-Promoting independence and self care to patients and families by providing education to teach necessary skills surrounding illness (ie diet, lifestyle, etc)

-Providing teaching and monitoring of pre-dialysis patient -Ongoing monitoring of patient situations

-Providing education, counseling and support to patients and families with chronic kidney disease

-Obtaining information about the most recent technological changes and advances in treatment

-Working with other members within the dialysis interdisciplinary team (nephrologists, social workers, dietitians, home care, etc.)

-Participating in ongoing development of dialysis program

-Assessment and care of AV fistulas and CVC lines, dressing changes, specimen collection

-Administered medications and treatment to patients and monitoring responses while working with healthcare teams to adjust care plans.

-Educating patients, families and caregivers on diagnosis and prognosis, treatment options, disease process, and management and lifestyle options.

-Symptom management for patients receiving radiation

-Chemo teaching education re: treatment and management screening for distress

-Works closely with interdisciplinary team members

-Making appropriate referrals

-Bladder chemo instillations

-Taking detailed BPMH, health history, and symptom assessment

-Provided emotional support and guidance to new mothers and families during labor, delivery and postpartum.

-Coached new mothers with breastfeeding techniques, postpartum self-care and infant care to promote easier transition into motherhood.

-Responded to emergency situations such as pre-eclampsia, early labor, and fetal distress.

-Assisted physician during delivery, examination and surgical procedures by anticipating needs, encouraging patient, and attending to baby after birth.

-Supported physicians in both planned and emergency Cesarean section procedures.

-Coordinated care of low and high-risk laboring women of childbearing age and immediate stabilization of newborn following delivery.

-Assessed infant health directly after birth using APGAR and monitored health for specified amount of time for any changes in status.

-Worked closely with doctors in coaching pregnant women through childbirth and post-natal recovery.

-Prenatal care/assessment

-Care of pre/post surgical gynecology patients

-Coordinates the interdisciplinary dialysis team

-Providing and ensuring dialysis care to clients

-Integral contact and resource to health care teams, doctors, and hospitals

-Coordinate the daily operations of the dialysis unit -Staff and client scheduling

-Mentor and coach staff in providing daily dialysis care

-Participation in the development of policies and procedures and participation in committees

-Participate in the collection of statistical data, research activities, and quality assurance initiatives/projects

-Ensure the provision of staff education -Schedule and chair staff meetings

-Assess, plan, implement, and evaluate dialysis nursing interventions for clients and their families

-Develop individual care plans for clients based on their specific needs Respond to client inquiries, provide/coordinate follow-up care and make referrals to other health care services when necessary

-Participation in weekly and monthly rounds with interdisciplinary dialysis team, as well as additional case conferences

-Ensuring appropriate and comprehensive nursing care is provided by ensuring accurate up-to-date medical records are maintained and collaborating with dialysis team

-Advocating and educating clients to take responsibility for promoting, maintaining, and enhancing their health

-Reviewing lab results and physician recommendations with clients

-Maintain up to date knowledge of dialysis care, treatment, best practices

-Participate in overall planning and evaluation of dialysis program and services

-Convey and represent the concerns, ideas, and needs of the dialysis program to management

-Facilitate learning for nursing students

-Act as a resource person to health care providers and team members on dialysis related issues

-Participation in the interviewing and selection of dialysis staff candidates

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-Delivered information and valuable instructions to students during clinical rotations.

-Identified and assigned appropriate activities and projects to enhance student learning.

-Grading assignments

-Biweekly team meetings

-Coordinated with clinicians to develop and coordinate student assignments.

-Care of pre and post-operative patients and families (general, orthopedic, vascular, etc) as well as off service patients and families such as oncology, medical, palliative, etc

-Performed nursing assessments and developed patient-specific treatment plans to deliver comprehensive care.

-Educated patients and families on medical-surgical procedures, therapeutic regimens, and pain management techniques.

-Assisted with wound care, dressing changes and NG tube placement to maintain stable patient conditions.

-Medication administration and monitoring patient response to same

-Monitored patients before, during and after surgical operations to evaluate patient care.

-Venipuncture and specimen collection

-Documentation

-Care of central lines, PICCs

-Patient interaction/communication

-Independent and team work

-Interdisciplinary interactions (doctors, physio, OT, home care, social work, etc.)

-Collaborated with interdisciplinary team members to facilitate comprehensive patient-centered care.

-Administered blood products and monitored vital signs to address immediate concerns.

-Provided patient-centered discharge planning and education to reduce complications and readmissions.