Christin Legg
LaFollette
Summary
Registered Nurse of over 7 years with a known reputation for high standards and delivering results. Dedicated and passionate with over 3 years in Geriatric Psych Nursing, and over 4 years in the Operating Room. Driven nurse with a professional commitment to patient centered care using current evidence-based practice. Highly skilled in effective communication and problem-solving in high pressure environments.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Registered Nurse Team Lead
The University Of Tennessee Medical Center
01.2023 - Current
- Company Overview: 710 beds, 36 Operating Rooms, Level 1 Trauma Center
- Team Lead of Oral Maxillofacial, Plastics Reconstructive, Ear Nose & Throat and Opthalmic Surgery.
- Staffing assignments, break assignments, and lunch assignments for each day.
- Ordering service line specific supplies.
- Communicating with the Implant Coordinator to ensure patient specific implants were ordered and arrived per case, and pulling stocked implants for scheduled cases.
- Interactions with sales representatives to make certain their implant systems and patient specific modules were sterilized properly for each case.
- Maintaining and creating "Doctor Preference Cards" for over 40 surgeons across four service lines.
- Communicating with surgeons about case start times, changes in surgical plans, and specific supplies needed.
Circulating Registered Nurse
The University Of Tennessee Medical Center
04.2021 - 01.2023
- Relieving cases running beyond 3pm, and 5pm
- Providing lunches to fellow circulators during these cases
- Circulating Emergent/Trauma surgeries from all service lines (listed with Perioperative Fellowship)
- Shutting down rooms for the day after cases finished, re-stocking used items
- Picking add-on cases and cases for the next day
Interim Charge Nurse
The University Of Tennessee Medical Center
08.2021 - 02.2022
- Interim Charge Nurse of 36 bed Main Operating Room, 4 Cath Lab beds, 7 Interventional Radiology beds and 3 Endovascular suites.
- Shift change staffing assignments, lunch assignments for all remaining cases.
- Case scheduling for add-on, emergent and next day cases.
- Coordinating flow of remaining cases with the Anesthesiologist making assignments.
- Notification of proper staff for emergent cases.
Registered Nurse Perioperative Fellowship
The University Of Tennessee Medical Center
10.2020 - 04.2021
- Registered Nurse in a 6 month perioperative nurse fellowship program.
- Program focused on learning the basic role of a circulating nurse.
- Knowledge about sterile technique, counting surgical items/instruments, equipment, supplies and positioning program focal points.
- Scheduled times to learn about different "service lines" in the operating room provided. Specialties included: Urology, Cardiovascular, Thoracic, Vascular, General, Emergency/Trauma, Robotic, Neuro/Neuro-Spine, Oral Maxillofacial, Ophthalmology, Ear, Nose and Throat, Plastics/Plastic Reconstructive surgeries.
Registered Nurse
Behavioral Health of Rocky Top
11.2018 - 07.2020
- Company Overview: 18 bed unit
- Registered Nurse on an Inpatient Geriatric Psychiatric Unit
- Along with, daily assessments, ADL assistance, patient/family education and communication and collaboration with each client’s full treatment team
- Charge Nurse of the 18 bed unit responsible for admissions, discharges, scheduling and coordination follow-up care
- This role involved working side by side with all members of the client’s treatment team to ensure well planned admissions and discharges
- 18 bed unit
Registered Nurse
Lafollette Medical Center
06.2017 - 10.2018
- Company Overview: 10 Bed unit
- Registered Nurse on an Inpatient Geriatric Psychiatric Unit
- Conducted direct patient care daily, including: daily assessments, ADL assistance, patient/family education, leading group therapy sessions, and collaboration with physicians and ancillary staff on each client’s treatment team
- 10 Bed unit
Education
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Lincoln Memorial University
Harrogate, TN05.2017
Associate of Science -
Wabash Valley College
Mount Carmel, IL05.2015
Skills
- Direct patient care
- Assessments
- Vital signs
- Medication administration
- HIPAA compliance
- Detail oriented
- Organized
- Timely
- Collaboration
- Effective communication
- Planning
- Goal setting
- Electronic health records
- Paper health records
- Clinical leadership
- Medical documentation
- Patient care coordination
- Care planning
Position Held
- Team Leader Nurse: Level 1 Trauma Center Operating Room for Head Neck and Plastic Surgery
- Interim Charge Nurse: Level 1 Trauma Center Operating Room
- Circulating Nurse: Level 1 Trauma Center Operating Room
- Charge Nurse: Inpatient Geriatric Psychiatric Unit
- Staff Nurse: Inpatient Geriatric Psychiatric Unit
Certification
- BLS for providers, expires 08/25
- ACLS, expires 08/25
- Registered Nurse, State of Tennessee, 07/17 - Present expires 10/2026
Timeline
Registered Nurse Team Lead
The University Of Tennessee Medical Center
01.2023 - Current
Interim Charge Nurse
The University Of Tennessee Medical Center
08.2021 - 02.2022
Circulating Registered Nurse
The University Of Tennessee Medical Center
04.2021 - 01.2023
Registered Nurse Perioperative Fellowship
The University Of Tennessee Medical Center
10.2020 - 04.2021
Registered Nurse
Behavioral Health of Rocky Top
11.2018 - 07.2020
Registered Nurse
Lafollette Medical Center
06.2017 - 10.2018
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Lincoln Memorial University
Associate of Science -
Wabash Valley College
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