Allison Lamberson

• Administered medications and monitored patient vital signs to ensure optimal care quality.
• Collaborated with healthcare team to develop and implement individualized patient care plans.
• Educated patients on cardiovascular health management and preventive measures for chronic conditions.
• Mentored junior nursing staff, fostering skills development and adherence to best practices.

• Delivered patient care in emergency and critical settings across diverse departments.
• Collaborated with interdisciplinary teams to develop and implement patient treatment plans.

• Provided patient care in high-pressure emergency situations.
• Collaborated with multidisciplinary teams to assess patient needs.
• Administered medications and treatments according to protocols.

Managing lifesaving medications amongst an array of patients. Caring for all walks of life in all stages of life. Practicing time management while providing care to the critically ill. Bedside procedures including intubations including line placement and intubations, etc.

Critical thinking in a fast paced and ever changing environment including multiple specialties. Bedside procedures including intubations, line placement, conscious sedation, etc. Titrating lifesaving medications in a timely fashion while handling multiple other events.

• Administered medications via oral, IV, and intramuscular injections and monitored responses.
• Evaluated healthcare needs, goals for treatment, and available resources of each patient and connected to optimal providers and care.
• Managed quality care for patients with heart failure, end-stage renal disease and coronary artery disease.
• Provided direct patient care, stabilized patients, and determined next course of action.
• Implemented medication and IV administration, catheter insertion, and airway management.
• Administered medications and treatment to patients and monitored responses while working with healthcare teams to adjust care plans.
• Educated patients, families and caregivers on diagnosis and prognosis, treatment options, disease process, and management and lifestyle options.
• Collaborated with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions.
• Updated patient charts with data such as medications to keep records current and support accurate treatments.
• Provided exceptional care to high-acute patients needing complex care such as ventilator management, extensive wound care and rehabilitation.

This was a short travel assignment on a Medical/Ortho Tele floor. Found out we were expecting a grandchild, so I found a job back home.

• Educated patients, families and caregivers on diagnosis and prognosis, treatment options, disease process, and management and lifestyle options.
• Implemented medication and IV administration, catheter insertion, and airway management.
• Provided direct patient care, stabilized patients, and determined next course of action.
• Updated patient charts with data such as medications to keep records current and support accurate treatments.
• Administered medications via oral, IV, and intramuscular injections and monitored responses.
• Advised patients and caregivers of proper wound management, discharge plan objectives, safe medication use, and disease management.

I transferred to the ICU following some time on one of the most demanding pulmonary step down floors in the hospital. In my time in the Medical/Neuro/Trauma/Ortho ICU, I learned how to really critically think, put the pieces together, find confidence in myself. I had one particular patient that I learned how to run CRRT on as he presented with almost every medical failure he could. I trained multiple people on this machine with this patient. I was invited to a CRRT symposium in Boston and became the ‘problem solver’ if you will for these machines. I managed multiple drips, ventricular drains, medically complex patients and absolutely loved it. In March of 2020 I began shift leading. By June of 2020 I was in charge of 14+ nurses, 28 beds, flow in and out of ICU, in house emergencies, etc.

Then came COVID. Some of the hardest nights of my life. We charged for up to 8 units at one time, 25+ nurses, and cared for some of the sickest patients I have ever seen. We brought up some really good nurses in that time.

In August of 2022, I decided to go back to bedside as I needed to focus on my own mental health following those times, but some big changes in my personal life as well. I went to dayshift for the first time in my career. There were a lot of changes that occurred until my leaving in February of this year.

This was my first nursing job. I chose this pulmonary step down floor because I knew it was one of the most challenging step down floors in the hospital and I wanted to get my feet wet with a challenge. This floor was home to trach patients, chronic vents, new vents, septic patients, renal patients, etc. I would start my career there over again even if offered something different. I learned time management, problem solving, critical thinking, assessment skills, etc.

I started as a Nurse Intern in the ICU I transferred to as a nurse. I assisted with nurses with patient care within my scope of practice, transporting, bathing, assisting patients with meals, ambulation, etc.

I had a small hiccup in school and ended up as a patient safety companion for about a year. I then began traveling to all MSHA facilities until able to intern again. I worked at multiple facilities and I learned so, so much from each facility. I landed back in the ICU for about a year before I graduated nursing school.