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Charlotte Goor
Position: Expert Care Legal Nurse Consulting
Overview
- 8+ years of inpatient medical-surgical, oncology, and telemetry.
- 5+ years of outpatient oncology - breast and gynecological cancer clinic.
- Currently clinically active
Education
Bachelor of Science in Nursing
Aug. 2014—Dec. 2015
Sigma Theta Tau
Bachelor of Arts in International Studies
Sep. 2007—Dec. 2009
Dean, President’s, Provost’s honors Summa Cum Laude
Muir Scholar Award
Experience
Women’s Center, City of Hope, Duarte CA
- Delivers patient care in a Magnet-status organization, nationally recognized as the gold standard for nursing excellence and innovation in nursing practice.
- Works closely with medical oncologists and surgeons with duties including clinical intake, medication review, patient education, and care coordination of scheduling and services.
- Provides direct nursing care including assessments, medication review, wound care, and chemotherapy and hormone therapy injections - Lupron, Faslodex, Zoladex, Xgeva, etc.
- Specializes in post-operative standards of care for breast surgery, plastics, and all other breast and gynecological cancer treatment.
Registered Nurse Feb. 2016—Apr. 2024
Huntington Memorial Hospital, Pasadena CA
- Delivered patient care in a Magnet-status organization, nationally recognized as the gold standard for nursing excellence and innovation in nursing practice.
- Worked on a unit that serves oncology, hematology, telemetry, and medical-surgical patients. This diverse population included patients with sickle-cell disease, renal failure on dialysis, new/known cancer diagnosis, with auto-immune disease, altered mental status, on a 5150 hold, etc.
- Supervised and implemented patient care utilizing critical thinking and nursing process. This included mitigating patients falls, communicating critical labs and changes in condition to physicians, patient advocacy, sepsis protocols, neutropenic precautions, medication review, etc.
- Administered chemotherapy, immunotherapy, and IVIG, including, but not limited to Paclitaxel, Carboplatin, Gemcitabine, Rituximab, Oxaliplatin, 5-FU, Leucovorin, etc.
- Familiar with NCCN clinical practice guidelines and algorithms.
- Skills include central line access and management, wound care, feeding tubes, surgical lines and drains, palliative and end of life care, pain management focus, pre-operative and post-operative care, infection control practices, telemetry monitoring, blood and blood product transfusions, identifying chemotherapy adverse effects such as tumor lysis syndrome, oral thrush, neuropathy, etc.
- Proficient in computer charting in Cerner and EPIC.