Julia Norman

- Prepare ECMO and CRRT pumps and work with ICU team and surgical team to place a patient on ECMO or CRRT

- Coordinate plans of care with multi-disciplinary teams for patients on ECMO, apheresis, or CRRT

- Perform apheresis treatments, educating patients, families, and care team about apheresis, and monitoring patient status and intervening as necessary

- Assist ICUs with daily needs or emergent situations with patients such as admissions, intubations, and traveling for testing

- Respond to Code Blues and Rapid Responses to assess patients and coordinate care

- Assist vascular access team by starting IVs around the hospital

- Create and edit course content for class for bedside caregivers of ECTS patients

- Educate bedside nurses and respiratory therapists about ECTS therapies including their role as the bedside caregiver

- Create and provide hands-on simulations of ECMO scenarios

-Create and edit lectures for new Cardiac Intensive Care Unit and Cardiac Care Unit nurses

- Educate nurses on various cardiovascular and ECTS topics

- Provide hands-on scenarios involving emergency situations such as defibrillator use and emergency medication use

- Run ECMO and/or CRRT pumps including performing patient assessment, maintaining hemodynamic stability and fluid status, controlling anticoagulation status,

- Work with multi-disciplinary teams to coordinate care

- Educate families on purpose, goals, and side effects of ECMO and CRRT

- Train new ECTS specialists during their orientation

- Supervise nursing staff to ensure delivery of safe and effective patient care

- Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams to provide well-rounded care for our patients.

- Create staffing flows to provide best options for care

- Mentor nurses not only in nursing care but in adjusting to our unit and hospital as a whole

- Collaborate with other units to transfer care or provide input

- Mentor new and experienced nurses in clinical knowledge, clinical skills, and professional practice

- Facilitate orientation experiences to ensure nurses receive optimal education

- Give feedback and suggestions on expectations and goals and whether or not nurses are meeting those goals

- Nurture a safe and encouraging learning environment

- Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to provide safe, well-rounded care for patients

- Implement evidence-based care to provide good clinical outcomes

- Organize plans of care for patients and adjust based on patient changes throughout shifts

- Assess appropriate times for and administer medications while watching for side effects

- Support families as well as patients throughout hospital stay

- Educate patients and families on heart defects, medications, and comorbidities

- Provide patient and family centered care during palliative and end-if-life hospitalizations

- Develop and implement lesson plans aligning with state standards

- Accommodate diverse learners by adjusting lessons and activities

- Evaluate and assess student progress and needs through summative and formative assessments

- Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams to provide multi-focus education