Lena Pratt

Managed 30-bed unit complex cases involving multiple co-morbidities, requiring close monitoring and coordination of various healthcare services.

• Assisted patients and their families in navigating the healthcare system and accessing appropriate community resources.
• Streamlined discharge planning processes, ensuring a smoother patient transition to their homes or other facilities.
• Navigated regulatory requirements effectively, ensuring proper documentation and compliance with relevant laws and guidelines.
• Advocated for patients with insurance companies, securing coverage for necessary treatments and medications.
• Led committee on building a repository of discharge planning resources.

• Telephonically coordinated and provided comprehensive care to patients transitioning from hospital to the community to promote optimal recovery, reduce re-hospitalizations, and improve patient outcomes and experiences
• Facilitated cohorts of the Diabetes Prevention Program with positive outcomes.
• Led initiatives to optimize department operations by streamlining workflow processes, including creating a Transitional Care Nurse Toolkit
• Collaborated with community stakeholders to improve health equity through programmatic efforts, including addressing food and nutrition insecurity, collecting and disseminating health food boxes, and maintaining a department food pantry.
• Actively participated in ongoing departmental strategic planning for sustainability and scalability of Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) programmatic efforts.
• Supported department programmatic efforts by participating in preventative health screenings, including cancer, blood pressure, diabetes, stroke screenings, and vaccinations.
• Ensured compliance with Joint Commission standards through quality initiatives, including 90-day follow-up with ischemic stroke patients
• Obtained and maintained the hospital's Modified Rankin Scale data on ischemic stroke patients.
• Provided post-discharge disease management education to patients with ischemic strokes, congestive heart failure, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
• Charge Nurse: Covid 19-Vaccinations
• Trained Community Health and Transitional Care Nurses.

• Obtained experience in a HCA Level II trauma center.
• Managed trauma/neuro-trauma patients with injuries sustained from motor vehicle crashes, ballistic wounds, and traumatic falls, including medically evacuated patients.
• Managed and monitored patients on mechanical ventilation due to traumatic brain injuries, cardiothoracic injuries, and medical-surgical causes.
• Oversaw neurological, hemodynamic, respiratory, and metabolic monitoring: Stroke, inter-cranial pressure monitoring, TPA infusion, pulmonary embolism, post-cardiac events, telemetry, diabetic ketoacidosis, and emergency dialysis.
• Managed emergency drug titrations, including sedatives, analgesics, neuromuscular blocking agents, and vasoactive drips.
• Managed patients with active/deceased organ procurement
• Assisted with emergent bedside procedures, including intubations, bronchoscopies, External Ventricular Drain placement, central/arterial lines, chest tube placement, and fasciotomies.
• Proficient with various equipment and lines, including balloon flotation catheters, intra-aortic balloon pump, Arctic Sun therapeutic hypothermia equipment, arterial lines, central lines, Belmont rapid infuser, EKOS thrombolysis equipment, and temporary cardiac pacing.

• Delivered evidence-based nursing care to adult patients with diverse medical-surgical and oncological conditions.
• Administered medications, performed wound care, and managed post-operative care.
• Monitored patients' progress, recognized and addressed complications, and advocated for patients' needs.