Misty Stiles
Alcoa
Summary
Accomplished Registered Nursing professional with strong expertise in multiple Registered Nursing skills. Skilled in patient care, wound care and management, medication administration, and post-operative monitoring. Focused on team collaboration and achieving optimal patient outcomes. Reliable and adaptable to changing needs, known for effective communication and critical thinking abilities. Knowledgeable in electronic medical records and collaborative practices to support seamless healthcare delivery.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Registered Nurse, Medical-Surgical Unit
Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center
11.2024 - Current
- Providing care to patients undergoing endoscopic procedures
- Patient assessments and medical history, to include obtaining IV access. Explaining procedure, obtaining surgical consent
- Assisting MD with endoscopy scope and other instruments
- Documenting accurate patient records, medication administration, observing patient response to procedure, and communicating with the MD
- Recovering patient after procedure, monitoring after effects of sedation, as well as vital signs. Explaining discharge instructions from MD
Registered Nurse
Covenant Homecare
05.2022 - 11.2024
- Supervises LPN Home Health Aide, Case Manager and responsibility of patient care
- Reviews patient records to determine patient needs
- OASIS knowledge for Medicare
- Perform and record cardiovascular, pulmonary, gastrointestinal, neurological, integumentary, genitourinary assessment including pain
- Providing care and removing PICC line with IV administration
- Performs treatment procedures as ordered by MD
- Communication with MD, family and treatment team
- Wound care and treatment including wound vacs
- Utilized critical thinking skills to prioritize nursing interventions based on patients'' acuity levels and individual needs.
- Conducted thorough patient assessments to identify changes in condition, promptly notifying physicians and initiating appropriate interventions when necessary.
Registered Nurse
Intrepid Home Health
06.2021 - 05.2022
- Collected lab specimens, ordering and interpreting diagnostic tests and lab results.
- Monitored and recorded patient condition, vital signs, recovery progress and medication side effects.
- Treated patients using pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatment modalities to address various disorders, diseases and injuries.
- Assessed patients' response to treatment and suggested ways to combat side effects.
- Collaborated with doctors to plan post-treatment home care and prevent return hospitalization.
- Developed and adapted individualized treatment plans according to patient recovery goals.
- Wound care and treatment including wound vacs
- Utilized critical thinking skills to prioritize nursing interventions based on patients'' acuity levels and individual needs.
- Conducted thorough patient assessments to identify changes in condition, promptly notifying physicians and initiating appropriate interventions when necessary.
Registered Nurse
Encompass Home Health
08.2016 - 06.2021
- Coordinated care with physicians and other clinical staff to prepare for treatment, carry out interventions and enhance continuum of care to deliver comprehensive services.
- Monitored and recorded patient condition, vital signs, recovery progress and medication side effects.
- Assessed patients' response to treatment and suggested ways to combat side effects.
- Developed and adapted individualized treatment plans according to patient recovery goals
- Wound care and treatment including wound vacs
- Utilized critical thinking skills to prioritize nursing interventions based on patients'' acuity levels and individual needs.
- Conducted thorough patient assessments to identify changes in condition, promptly notifying physicians and initiating appropriate interventions when necessary.
Registered Nurse
Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center
06.2013 - 08.2016
- Administered medications, tracked dosages and documented patient conditions.
- Maintained personal and team compliance with medication administration standards and patient care best practices.
- Monitored and managed various treatment and care interventions, including IV administration, wound and ostomy care and catheter insertion.
- Administered oral, intramuscular and IV medications to patients and monitored responses.
- Delivered direct patient care, including stabilizing patients and identifying treatment options.
- Cared for more than five patients each shift while delegating assignments and supervising junior team members to handle needs of 34-bed Oncology unit.
- Administered blood products, chemotherapy and prepared patients for stem cell procedure.
- Utilized critical thinking skills to prioritize nursing interventions based on patients'' acuity levels and individual needs.
- Conducted thorough patient assessments to identify changes in condition, promptly notifying physicians and initiating appropriate interventions when necessary.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Registered Nursing
Tennessee Wesleyan
Athens, TN05-2013
Associate of Science - Nursing Science
Pellissippi State Community College
Knoxville, TN05-2011
Skills
- Patient monitoring
- Medical screening
- Unit administration
- Checking oxygen levels
- Patient care planning
- Patient education and counseling
- Geriatric treatment knowledge
- Electronic Health Records Management
- Taking vitals
- Catheters
- IV drug therapy management
- Colostomy care familiarity
- IV and venipuncture certified
- Home visits
- Medication and IV administration
- Changing tracheostomies
- Gastrostomy tube care
- Wound care specialist
- Documenting vitals
- Chemotherapy administration
- Central line management and care
- PleurX catheter maintenance
Timeline
Registered Nurse, Medical-Surgical Unit
Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center
11.2024 - Current
Registered Nurse
Covenant Homecare
05.2022 - 11.2024
Registered Nurse
Intrepid Home Health
06.2021 - 05.2022
Registered Nurse
Encompass Home Health
08.2016 - 06.2021
Registered Nurse
Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center
06.2013 - 08.2016
Bachelor of Science - Registered Nursing
Tennessee Wesleyan
Associate of Science - Nursing Science
Pellissippi State Community College
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