Sarah Keen

• Provide administrative oversight of hospital operations during evening, night and weekend shifts.
• Triage and resolve staffing issues, reallocate resources to ensure optimal patient care.

Serve as the primary point of contact for hospital leadership during off-hours, ensuring effective communication and resolution of operational issues.

• Supervise and support clinical nursing staff, ensuring adherence to hospital policies, procedures and regulatory requirements. *Respond to critical incidents, patient/family care concerns and emergency situations, initiating protocols and escalating issues appropriately.
• Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams to promote quality patient outcomes and ensure continuity of care.
• Participate in hospital wide improvement initiatives, policy reviews and accreditation preparations.

Jasper Memorial Hospital

• Provides high-quality, compassionate and efficient emergency care to patients of all ages in a ural healthcare setting (critical access hospital)
• Triage incoming patients and determine priority of care based on condition.
• Provide direct patient care, including assessment, monitoring and treatment of acute illnesses, trauma and life threatening conditions.
• Manage and monitor critical care equipment
• Communicate effectively with patients, families and the interdisciplinary healthcare team.
• Initiate and implement emergency response protocols
• Document all patient care activities accurately and timely in the electronic medical record.
• Coordinate patient transfers, arranging EMS or air transport services.
• Comply with hospital policies, protocols and state/federal regulations.
• Administer medications, wound care, catheterizations, EKGS, CPR

• Temporary nursing support in ER, delivering high quality care in a fast-paced, acute care environment.
• Perform patient triage and prioritization based on acuity and presentation.
• Provide evidence-based care for medical, trauma, pediatric and behavioral health emergencies.
• Administer medications, IVs, manage wounds and perform emergency interventions.
• Monitor and document vital signs, assessments, interventions and outcomes.
• Participate in emergency codes (Code Blue, Rapid Response and Stroke Alerts).
• Maintain accurate, timely electronic medical records per facility standards.
• Ensure patient safety and infection control compliance.
• Follow agency policies and facility-specific protocols.

• Provided expert, adaptable, prompt and high-quality nursing care in emergency room with minimal orientation.
• Rapidly assess and triage patients presenting with a variety of emergency conditions.
• Administer medications, treatments and procedures in accordance with facility protocols and physician and mid-level orders.
• Respond to trauma, stroke and code blue alerts as part of a multidisciplinary team.
• Document nursing assessments, interventions, and patient responses using facility-specific EMR (Epic) systems.
• Ensure patient safety, comfort and education during emergency room care.
• Adapt quickly to new environments, policies and clinical workflows.
• Maintain compliance with all agency, facility, state and federal regulations.

• *Frontline clinical leader responsible for overseeing nursing operations and patient care flow in the Emergency Department.
• Coordinate patient flow, including triage, room assignments, admissions and discharge.
• Collaborate with physicians and multidisciplinary teams to support optimal patient care.
• Manage and allocate staff assignments based on patient acuity and staffing needs.
• Ensure compliance with protocols, including, trauma, stroke, sepsis and cardiac arrests.
• Act as a clinical resource for ER nurses, paramedics and support staff.
• Participate in shift hand-offs and leadership rounding.
• Document shift-related issues, staffing concerns, patient incidents and operational challenges.
• Facilitate communication between nursing staff, providers and leadership.
• Assist in onboarding and mentoring new nurses and agency nurses.

• Provided expert, compassionate care to patients in a fast-paced Emergency Room setting , served in leadership capacity when designated as charge nurse.
• Provide direct patient care including assessment, treatment, medication administration and ongoing monitoring of patients with urgent and emergent needs.
• Triage patients based on acuity using standardized protocols.

Document nursing interventions, assessments and outcomes accurately in the EMR.

• Collaborate with providers and multidisciplinary team to deliver timely and effective care.
• Educate patients and families on diagnoses, treatments and discharge instructions.
• Foster a supportive and collaborative team environment.

• Provided care to patients in high-volume, fast paced emergency room: including triaging, stabilizing, treating and educating patients of all ages presenting with medical, surgical, trauma, behavioral health and life-threatening conditions.
• Rapidly assess, triage and prioritize patients bases on presenting symptoms and acuity.
• Deliver evidence-based nursing care to a diverse population with varying levels of complexity.
• Administer medications, perform procedures and monitor vital signs.
• Respond to emergency situations including cardiac arrest, trauma activations, sepsis and imminent birth.
• Coordinate nightly operations of the ER, including: staffing assignments, shift transitions and patient flow.
• Monitor and manage bed availability, triage priorities and incoming EMS traffic.
• Support team members with clinical decision making, patient care escalation and resource needs.