JOY A EKARDT, MRS.
Nursing at Auburn Way, Tampa, FL

Fortis College - Tampa, FL
Classroom and clinical instructor for medical surgical nursing Kindred Hospital Central - Tampa, FL
Staff nurse University Community Hospital-Carrollwood - Tampa, FL
Staff nurse medical/surgical/telemetry Town and Country Hospital - Tampa, FL
Medical/Surgical/telemetry staff nurse and interventional radiology nurse Urology Health Solutions - Lake Wales, FL
Office Nurse Caregivers Home Health Agency - Dundee, FL
Field supervisor Lake Wales MedicaL Center - Lake Wales, FL
Medical/surgical/telemetry staff nurse Polk Community College - Winter Haven, FL
Professor of Nursing Humana Hospital Brandon - Brandon, FL
cardiac rehabilitation nurse in the cardiac rehabilitation department Lexington Memorial Hospital - Lexington, NC
Staff Nurse in intensive care unit North Carolina Lutheran Home - Salisbury, NC
Charge nurse evening shift St. Joseph's Hospital - Tampa, FL
Staff Nurse-evenings James A Haley V.A. Medical Center - Tampa, FL
Staff nurse

Physical assessment, objective and subjective data gathering, planning and executing appropriate nursing interventions, assessing intervention outcomes and disease progression, timely and accurate communication with physicians and co-workers and families, care-planning, profound appreciation of interdisciplinary teamwork, medication administration with safe assessment and nursing judgement. Procedural skills include PICC line care, medi-port accessing and care, NG insertion and maintenance, G tube care, skin assessment and wound prevention and care, laboratory values interpretation in light of previous and current patient conditions, peripheral IV access and care, safety assessment for fall and injury prevention, mental assessment for changes, drains care and removal, chest tubes, inhalation therapy, foley and SP foley care, ostomies, nephrostomy tubes, rectal tubes, and many more acquired in multiple years of accute care.