Clinical Nurse Resource Promotion Narrative Report

RN III to Clinical Nurse Resource Promotion
I graduated from nursing school in 2011 and accepted my first nursing position here at Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare Saint Joseph Hospital in the Emergency Department that same year. I started my orientation with two other staff nurses and began working independently after eight weeks. I remember that I felt so unsure of myself and was frequently asking others for their input on patient cares. After I had been here for about one year, I recall I found this new confidence in my ability to care for my patients. I had begun to grow an encompassing knowledge of involving the different disciplines and the vast contributions a multidisciplinary approach has on patient care. Increased open communication with the providers, utilizing social workers when needed, consulting with respiratory therapy, working with radiology, involving the care management team early in the patient’s visit for follow up care, speaking with pharmacy about medication choices and use and the list …show more content…
This item is something that our trauma program was missing. I still work on this process each day to ensure its overall success and continue to review its accuracy in capturing all patients that meet criteria. This also involves a large amount of staff education for the Emergency department as well as the inpatient departments. I am able to provide face to face feedback during a quarterly Trauma Multidisciplinary meeting, Bi-weekly email communications with department directors and super visitors to provide up to date information, reminders to Emergency department charge nurses and staff nurses on each trauma patient that was admitted, attend department staff and charge nurse meetings with information on return statistics, and serve as a resource in the department to answer any questions on the process in real time or via