Erin Kelly Gonzalez
Willow Grove
Summary
Knowledgeable Assistant Nurse Manager with excellent conflict resolution and problem-solving abilities demonstrated across seven year career history. Ensures the unit is running at peak efficiency daily. Excellent communication and coordination skills. Efficiently maintains communication with nurse manager to support unit needs.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Assistant Nurse Manager
Capital Health Medical Center
01.2018 - Current
- Supervise unit personnel on all levels including schedule adjustments based on unit needs, maintaining balanced acuity of patient care assignments
- Acts as a clinical resource to unit staff; serving as a mentor
- Collaborates with the interdisciplinary team to ensure efficient patient throughput
- Keep the nurse managers informed of all unit activity and problems, while addressing concerns of patients and staff.
- Trained new nurses in proper techniques, care standards, operational procedures, and safety protocols.
- Assisted in hiring and training staff, providing direct supervision, ongoing staff development and continuing education to employees.
- Surgical outcomes, ERAS, ICOUGH, promoting plans to decrease the risk of post surgical infections
- Support the staff to be involved with Unit Council, where the staff can communicate ideas to improve the unit and enhance patient safety
- Facilitates the UAP meetings and staff meetings, to keep an open platform for communication within the unit.
Registered Nurse
Capital Health Medical Center
01.2016 - 01.2018
- Act as charge nurse on Surgical Unit, overseeing unit responsibilities in areas of assignment delegation, direct patient care and employee scheduling, in addition to providing a wide range of general nursing services and provide pre-and post-operative care for surgical patients
- Assess patient status on an ongoing basis
- Recognize health status and emotional changes in patients
- Report findings to Attending, Residents and/or Physician Assistant as needed
- Safely administer medications, educate patients and families on disease processes, medical-surgical procedures and other aspects of therapeutic regimens, including medication and pain management techniques
Registered Nurse
Livengrin Foundation
01.2013 - 01.2016
- Assess and monitor patients on an ongoing basis
- Recognize health status changes as well as emotional changes
- Provide symptom management as needed and notify NP/MD if needed for emergent needs
- Safely administer medications and educate patients in regard to medications being administered
- Assist patients with pre-existing medical conditions, such as diabetes, HTN etc
- Monitor these conditions daily, administer appropriate medication and provide education regarding these conditions
Registered Nurse
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
01.2009 - 01.2010
- Provided pre-and post-operative care for trauma, organ transplant and bariatric surgery patients, assessed patient status on an ongoing basis, recognized health status and emotional changes in patients and reported findings to Attending Physicians, Residents and/or Physician Assistant
- Safely administered medications
- Educated patients and their families on disease processes, medical-surgical procedures and other aspects of therapeutic regimens, including medication and pain management techniques
- Collaborated with the health care team to improve patient outcomes and provided a broad range of general nursing care services in areas of vital signs, telemetry monitoring, foley catheters, feeding tubes, IV and central lines
Registered Nurse
Fox Chase Cancer Center
01.2007 - 01.2009
- Acted as team leader on a weekly basis, oversaw unit responsibilities in areas of assignment delegation, direct patient care and employee scheduling, in addition to providing a wide range of general nursing services and provided pre-and post-operative care for GI/GU surgical patients
- Assessed patient status on an ongoing basis
- Recognized health status and emotional changes in patients
- Reported findings to Attending, Residents and/or Physician Assistant as needed
- Safely administered medications, educated patients and their families on disease processes, medical-surgical procedures and other aspects of therapeutic regimens, including medication and pain management techniques
Education
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Grand Canyon University
Phoenix, AZ05-2027
Associates Degree of Applied Science - Nursing
Burlington County College
Pemberton, NJ01.2025
Skills
- Health principles
- Employee relations
- Performance monitoring
- Patient care delivery
- Discharge planning
- Interdisciplinary collaboration
- Patient care
- Staff development
- Unit operations
Certification
- BLS
- ACLS
Soccer Coach
Coaches 4-5 year old children
Timeline
Assistant Nurse Manager
Capital Health Medical Center
01.2018 - Current
Registered Nurse
Capital Health Medical Center
01.2016 - 01.2018
Registered Nurse
Livengrin Foundation
01.2013 - 01.2016
Registered Nurse
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
01.2009 - 01.2010
Registered Nurse
Fox Chase Cancer Center
01.2007 - 01.2009
Associates Degree of Applied Science - Nursing
Burlington County College
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Grand Canyon University
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