Kiely Annese BSN, RN
Billerica
Summary
Professional registered nurse prepared for this role. Adept at patient care, medical procedures, and clinical documentation. Strong focus on team collaboration and achieving outcomes. Reliable, adaptable, and skilled in critical thinking and time management.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
MedSurg RN
Host Health (travel Contract)
01.2025 - Current
- Charge Nurse for TCU
- Enhanced patient satisfaction through effective communication, empathy, and timely response to their needs.
- Administered medications accurately and safely, reducing medication errors and adverse reactions.
- Educated patients on disease management and self-care techniques, promoting lifestyle changes for improved health.
- Performed wound care treatments and monitored healing progress for optimal recovery results.
- Worked well in a team setting, providing support and guidance.
BSN, Registered Nurse
Grand River Hospital
05.2022 - Current
- Inpatient surgery unit responsible for assessing, planning, implementing, documenting, coordinating, and managing patient care
- Charge Nurse when needed
- Cerner electronic charting
- Promoted patient and family comfort during challenging recoveries to enhance healing and eliminate non-compliance problems.
- Inserting IV
- COVID patient care, COVID swabbing, assessing for signs and symptoms of COVID
- Taking care of patients with epidurals, patient-controlled analgesics, and nerve blocks
- Wound care
- Managing post-op patients through discharge
- Monitoring drains, labs, and pain
- Foley insertion and removal
- Collaborating/communicating with patient families, physicians, and other health care professionals in achieving quality patient care
- Compliance with HIPPA and hospital protocols
BSN, Registered Nurse
Lahey Hospital and Medical Center
06.2019 - 02.2022
- MedSurg: Orthopedic/Neuro Surgical Trauma Unit RN responsible for: skills in assessing, planning, implementing, documenting, coordination, and managing patient care.
- Collaborating/communicating with patients, families, physicians, and other health care professionals in achieving quality patient care.
- EPIC electronic charting system
- Delegating appropriate assignments to nursing assistants and unlicensed personals.
- COVID patient care. COVID swabbing. COVID vaccine administration.
- Patient positioning competency/ pressure injury prevention.
- Feeding assistance. Tube feeding administration. TPN administration
- Foley catheter insertion and removal. Straight catheterization insertion.
- Insulin medication/assistance/education as well as insulin gtt monitoring
- PCA/PNC pumps set up and monitoring.
- Precaution PPE drawing and doffing
- Managing post-operative patients through discharge
- Managing pain effectively
- Educating patient specific condition, including precautions, and potential post-operative complications, etc.
- Able to demonstrate the knowledge and skills necessary for administration of blood and blood products and appropriately monitor the patients receiving blood/blood products for any transfusion reaction; takes proper measures once a reaction is recognized.
- Monitoring drains and wound vacs
- Drawing labs of off central lines
- Monitoring for changes in neurosurgical patients such as: craniotomies, lumbar fusions, cervical disc fusions, traumatic brain injuries, and brain hemorrhages.
- Heart monitoring via tele monitoring.
Nursing Assistant
Lahey Hospital and Medical Center
01.2015 - 01.2018
- Assists with orthopedic/neuro patients and as a unit coordinator. Documents actions by completing forms, reports, logs, and records. Maintains work operations by following policies and procedures
- Provides patients’ personal hygiene by giving bedpans, urinals, baths, back rubs, shampoos, and shaves; assisting with travel to the bathroom; helping with showers and baths. Provides for activities of daily living by assisting with serving meals, feeding patients as necessary; ambulating, turning, and positioning patients; providing fresh water and nourishment between meals.
- Provides adjunct care by administering nonsterile dressings, ice packs, heat treatments; apply restraints. Provides patient comfort by utilizing resources and materials; transporting patients; answering patient’s call lights and requests; reposting observations of the patient to the nursing supervisor or care taker
- Maintains patient stability by checking vital signs and weight; testing urine; recording intake and output; bladder scanning patients; placing patients on tele; performing EKGs.
- Fulltime/per-diem
Education
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
University of New England
05-2018
Skills
IV insertion
Epidural monitoring
BLS
Skin/Pressure Injury Prevention
Floor awarded Daisy Award 2017
Certification
- RN | Registered Nurse, Massachusetts & Maine (Compact license)
- CNO # | 21460223
- BLS | Basic Life Support, American Heart Association
- Pressure Injury and Prevention (skin champ)
- Epidural Monitoring
Timeline
MedSurg RN
Host Health (travel Contract)
01.2025 - Current
BSN, Registered Nurse
Grand River Hospital
05.2022 - Current
BSN, Registered Nurse
Lahey Hospital and Medical Center
06.2019 - 02.2022
Nursing Assistant
Lahey Hospital and Medical Center
01.2015 - 01.2018
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
University of New England
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