Emily O'Shea

• Managing care from admission to discharge, overseeing patients admission process, patient care in 1st stage PACU (Sedation and General Anesthetic), and discharge process.
• Facilitating care for wide range of post-operative patients including; ophthalmology, gynecology, orthopedics, pain management (epidurals), and maxillofacial.
• Monitoring patient care post surgery - providing adequate pain relief where required.
• Advanced airway management skills.
• Organized and managed care of patients undergoing various therapies and procedures.
• Reviewed post-operative orders and continuously monitored patients' post-operative vital sings, collaborated with multidisciplinary team to achieve best patient outcomes.
• Used first-hand knowledge and clinical expertise to advocate for patients under care and enacted prescribed treatment strategies.
• Assisting and educating notice/junior nurses.

PACU: 2017 - 2020

• Care provided to post - operative patients, adult and pediatric in busy and faced paced post operative setting.
• Managing chronic illnesses in acute care setting.
• Managing acute deterioration, as well as
• Airway management and assessment, utilizing advanced knowledge to achieve optimal patient outcomes.
• Ensuring adequate pain management, assessing pain levels and providing appropriate pain relief.
• Using critical thinking and applying evidence based knowledge to recognize patient deterioration.
• Working with collaborative multidisciplinary team environment to escalate patient care where necessary.

Cardiac Catheter Lab: 2016 - 2017

• Scrub/scout nursing duties, assisting surgeons with cardiac angiography's, angioplasty's, ablations, cardioversion.
• Patient admission process, guided by cardiologist's standing orders for specific procedures.
• Facilitated care in Post - operative phase, monitored patient's ECG's, removal of femoral sheaths and ensuring hemostasis, conducting ATT.
• Worked along side multidisciplinary team to determine optimal patient outcomes, always escalating patient care where needed and monitoring for clinical deterioration.
• Completed intensive 12 week Cardiothoracic educational course and ECG interpretation.

Graduate Nursing Rotation Program : 2015 -2016

Cardiac Surgical/Medical Ward and Orthopedic Surgical/Medical and Neurology Ward

• Care provided to wide variety of post-operative Cardiac and Orthopedic patients.
• Worked within my scope of practice, with educational and guidance of clinical educators.

Medical and Secure Dementia Ward - 5A

• Assisted Registered and Enrolled Nurses in providing care to medical patients, specifically dementia and neurologically impaired.
• Responsible for patient care (ADLS, mobility and stimuli) for 4 dementia patients.
• De-Escalating aggressive patients and situations, escalating care where required.
• Used critical thinking to break down problems, evaluate solutions and make decisions.
• Ensured stock levels and equipment was sage and readily accessible for patients and staff.