Saefkow Training Center

Instructor for high-quality CPR/AED, pediatric and adult first aid, BLS, ACLS and babysitter safety courses. Provide talks concerning community safety issues at local schools and businesses. Offer AEDs (automated external defibrillators), AED inspection and maintenance. Also a small, woman-owned, Chardon local business owner. Skills include website manager, sales, marketing, and creative solutions for local community safety issues.

Business Owner

Lake County Pain and Diagnostics

Plan and implement experienced nursing care for perioperative pain management patients in a busy surgical center. Other nursing and management tasks as directed by the DON including supply inventory, delegating tasks, patient callbacks, and assisting with quarterly QI projects. Some tasks include sterile procedure setup, monitoring patient vital signs, assisting patients with ambulating post procedure, IV insertion and maintenance, and IV sedation.

Assistant Director of Nursing

Lake Health

Plan and implement advanced nursing care in a busy community ICU setting. Skills include open heart nursing care, CCRT, STEMI care, postoperative patient care, ventilator care, implementing ACLS protocols, assisting other floors as RRT, floating to various units, caring for multiple critical patients, sheath removal care, IH care, patient hygiene, medication delivery and management, collaborating with patient support team (patient family and friends, PT, MD, pharmacy, PCNA, OT, RT, RN, nutrition, PA, NP, housekeeping, maintenance, chaplain, IT), advanced knowledge of IV medications and drips, APACHE scoring, charting in Soarian, emotional and physical support for patient.

Critical Care Registered Nurse

Plan and implement basic nursing care for clients in a busy 24 bed ICU unit including tasks such as bed baths, vital signs, toileting, blood glucose checks, intake and output recordings, documentation, hourly rounding, other tasks as assigned by the RN. Specialized tasks include EKGs, assisting with initiation of intentional hypothermia, chest compressions, code situations, transporting critically ill patients, patient care for open heart client (CABG) pre/post surgery, chest tube recording, continuous telemetry monitoring, hourly glucose checks and outputs. 

Support assistant activities include entering doctor’s orders into the electronic medical record, answering phones in a professional and courteous manner, interacting with various departments and physicians, various secretarial duties.

Patient Care Associate/ Support Assistant

Cleveland Clinic

Plan and implement basic emergency care for clients in a 10 bed pediatric ER, including vital signs, POC testing (pregnancy, glucose, urine dipstick, fecal occult blood, rapid strep A), EKGs, and assisting the nurses and pediatricians with various procedures.

Emergency Room Technician

Ashtabula County Medical Center

Implemented basic nursing care in a rural emergency department as well as performed other specialized tasks such as wound irrigation and dressings, fiberglass splints, patient transportation, EKGs, stocking special supplies, and interacting with various departments and personnel within the hospital system.

Orthopaedic Rehab Specialists, PC

Cared for outpatient clients with varying degrees of physical needs from knee surgeries to multiple sclerosis. Performed specialized tasks such as simple massage, traction, TENS units, and teaching simple exercises as directed.

Physical Therapist Technician

I am currently working in a direct patient care and administration capacity at a pain management center. I previously worked as an RN BSN in a community hospital ICU for over 3 years. I have been a licensed EMT since 2008 and previously held EMT-B licenses in 3 states. I was previously certified as an STNA and I have a current healthcare provider BLS and ACLS certification as well as current CPI certification. I have worked in various care settings and I have 10+ years of experience with professional, client-centered medical care.

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