Susan Elaine Batey

900 South County Line Road

Hobart, IN 46342
(219) 942-9674
Objective
Position as an RN in an outpatient surgery setting
Employment history
Regency Place of Dyer, Dyer, IN
Registered Nurse, 12/09 to 05/10
Served as a Registered Nurse. Provided care with the elderly and residents in ac
ute rehabilitation starting IVs, accessing ports, drawing blood from midline and
PICC line catheters. Also, performing tracheostomy care and suctioning as neede
d, administering gtube care, feedings, and flushings as required, and checking g
tube placement as needed, worked with wound vacs, including changing the caniste
rs and changing the dressing to the wound vac. Palliative care was also provided
. Performed vital signs and assessments daily and on residents as needed when th
eir condition changed. Assisted new employees with procedures and paperwork. Res
idents family members were also a huge part of care.
St. James Hospital, Olympia Fields, IL
Registered Nurse, 08/08 to 02/09
Served as a staff Registered Nurse. Provided care to medical surgical and oncolo
gy patients by administering medications as needed, doing assessments, checking
vital signs, performing tracheostomy care and suctioning as needed, maintaining
isolation as needed, accessing ports, drawing blood from ports and lines as need
ed, administering chemotherapy, starting IVs, and administering gtube care, feed
ings, and flushing as required, and checking gtube placement as needed. Also, TP
N and lipids were hung as needed. Computer charting utilized.
Nursefinders, Oak Lawn, IL
Registered Nurse, 03/08 to 07/08
Served as a Registered Nurse in telemetry and medical surgical units. Provided c
are to patients including rhythm interpretation, detoxification from alcohol int
oxication, administered medications (including injections), performed assessment
s, vital signs, and maintaining isolation as needed, worked with gtubes includin
g flushing, administering tube feeding, and checking placement.
Nursefinders and Club Staffing, Merrillville, IN
Registered Nurse, 11/02 to present
Served as a Registered Nurse for various positions. Provided care to patients wh
ile getting steroid injections and radiofrequencies while watching their rhythm
on a telemetry monitor, worked in LTACHs including working with ventilator, trac
heostomy, and CPAP/BiPAP machines, worked in an urgent care facility, worked in
various hospitals, worked in an ICU, worked in nursing homes, and worked in a be
havioral facility. Worked with gtubes including flushing, administering the tube
feeding, and checking placement, and wound vacs. Blood was drawn from PICC line
s and ports as needed, ports were assessed and deaccessed as needed, administere
d injections, and started IVs, hung antibiotics, TPN, lipids, etc. Computer char
ting utilized.
The Hammond Clinic, Munster, IN
Registered Nurse, 08/05 to 01/07
Served as a Registered Nurse in an oncologists office. Provided care to patients
with hematological and oncological issues which included assisting in bone marr
ow biopsies, mixing and administering chemotherapy, ordering chemotherapy, writi
ng chemotherapy orders (including double checking the doses and drugs with anoth
er RN), checking the patients labs before starting the chemotherapy (and checkin
g with the doctor to be sure it is ok to give the chemotherapy), starting IVs, a
dministering IVs that are not chemotherapy such as Zometa, hydration, etc.), acc
essing and deaccessing ports, scheduling patients to see doctor in Chicago, tele
phone triage, scheduling patients treatments (including shots such as Aranesp, N
eulasta, and Neupogen), checked that patients seen by the doctor and patients th
at received treatment were charged correctly, worked up patients before they saw
the doctor, worked with gtubes and wound vacs, vital signs on all patients befo
re treatment and assessments as needed.
The Community Hospital, Munster, IN
Registered Nurse, 03/04 to 08/05
Served as a Registered Nurse on an oncology floor and an outpatient oncology set
ting. Provided care to patients with oncology and medical surgical issues includ
ing administering chemotherapy, checking the patients labs (and checking with th
e doctor) before administering chemotherapy, starting IVs, accessing and deacces
sing ports, administering blood and blood products, vital signs, assessments, as
sisted in bone marrow biopsies, and administered injections such as Aranesp, Neu
lasta, and Neupogen. Also, worked with gtubes and wound vacs.
The University of Chicago Hospitals, Chicago, IL
Registered Nurse, 10/00 to 03/04
Served as a Registered Nurse for a general medicine floor, a step-down unit, and
an oncology unit. Provided care to patients including rhythm interpretation (EK
G monitor), worked with 1 to 2 patients with intakes and outputs every hour (thi
s required taking and passing a critical care course), medical surgical patients
with GI bleeds, sickle cell anemia, anemia, cystic fibrosis, etc., oncology pat
ients including administering chemotherapy and clinical trial medications (check
ing with the doctor and checking patients labs before administering chemotherapy
), administering injections as needed, starting IVs, accessing and deaccessing p
orts, drawing blood from PICC lines and ports as needed, and doing assessments o
n all patients. Also, worked with gtubes and wound vacs.
Licenses
Illinois and Indiana professional licenses
Education
B. S., Nursing, June 4, 2010
A. S., Nursing, 1999
Purdue University North Central, Westville, IN
Certifications
ACLS
Chemotherapy by ONS
References
Available upon request