Registered Nurse II, Medical ICU (Charge Nurse)
Mar 2021 - Present
- Manage a 2:1 patient assignment in a 24-bed MICU, including vented, CRRT, and vasoactive-drip patients.
- Serve as charge nurse for 3–4 shifts per pay period, coordinating staffing, admissions, and rapid response coverage for the unit.
- Co-led a central line maintenance bundle audit that cut unit CLABSI rate from 1.8 to 0.6 per 1,000 line days over 18 months.
- Precept new graduate nurses through the 12-week residency program; 11 preceptees to date with 100% first-year retention.
- Member of the unit-based Shared Governance council and the sepsis quality improvement committee.