Kelly A. Barton, RN, BSN, CCRN
60 Grapevine Trail, Durham, NC 27707
Mobile: 720.234.6867
Email: kellyannebarton@hotmail.com
Online Portfolio: http://kellyannebarton.wordpress.com
Career Goal
Consistently high performing ICU nurse and respected BLS/ACLS instructor seeking to become a Certified
Registered Nurse Anesthetist capable of performing in various hospitals, as well as outpatient surgery
facilities
Education
Duke University, Durham, NC (2012-2015)
 GPA: 3.765/4.0
 Successfully completed two semesters of Nurse Anesthesia Program
 Class Representative, 2012
 Alumni Chair, 2013
 Interclass Liaison, 2013
 Excellent evaluations by Clinical Instructors for performance in Simulation Lab and by preceptors in
clinical
Hope College, Holland, MI (1995-1999)
Bachelor of Science in Nursing, May 1999
• GPA: 3.031/4.0
• Student Nurses Association, Hope-Calvin Department of Nursing: 2nd Vice-President
• Alpha Gamma Phi Sorority: Vice-President, Treasurer, Public Relations Chair, Formal Chair
• Greek Judicial Board Member, 1998-1999
• Resident Assistant (“RA”), 1996-1998
• National League of Nursing accredited
• Spring Break Service Project Worker on Mission Trip to Apache, Oklahoma, 1998
Honors: Alumni Scholarship from Hope College, & Navy Officer’s Wives Club Scholarship
Austro-American Institute of Education, Vienna, Austria (Summer 1998)
• Lived with host family while attending school for elective courses in Communications and Opera
Appreciation
College of Lake County (May-July 1996)
• Statistics, 3.0/4.0
Front Range Community College (January 2010- May 2010)
• Chemistry, 4.0/4.0
• Statistics, 4.0/4.0
University of Northern Colorado (May 2011-August 2011)
• Advanced Pharmacology (Graduate Level), 4.0/4.0
Certifications
Colorado, Alaska, North Carolina, California, Washington, Connecticut Registered Nurse
BLS (Basic Life Support)
ACLS (Advanced Cardiac Life Support)
PALS (Pediatric Advanced Life Support)
BLS Instructor, 2008-present
• Teaching Boulder Community Hospital employees, class size 3-12 students
ACLS Instructor, 2009-present
• Teaching Boulder Community Hospital employees, class size 10-25 students
CCRN Certified, 2009
• Certification exam by the American Association of Critical Care Nurses (AACN)
• Reflects advanced knowledge and clinical expertise in caring for acutely and critically ill patients
and their families
Employment
ICU Travel RN, On Assignment, Stamford Hospital, Stamford, CT (May 2012-present)
• 305-bed, non-profit, Level II Trauma Center
• 15 bed ICU
• Travel nurse caring for cardiac, pulmonary, medical/surgical patients
ICU Travel RN, Advantage RN, St. Elias Specialty Hospital, Anchorage, AK, Charge RN (May 2011Dec 2011)
• 60 bed Long Term Acute Care Hospital in Anchorage, AK
• Only LTACH in Alaska
• 6 bed ICU, 15 bed step-down and 39 bed medical/surgical
• In charge of approximately 12 nurses per shift, managing staffing issues, precepting new graduate
nurses, troubleshooting equipment, central lines, and medications autonomously as there is no MD,
pharmacy or lab within the hospital on the night shift.
M/S/Cardiac ICU, Clinical Coordinator (Charge Nurse), Boulder Community Hospital, Boulder CO
(December 2009-May 2011)
• 20 bed ICU unit, largest in Boulder County, Level III trauma center
• Managing daily routine in the ICU, including coordinating admissions and discharges, creating
nursing assignments, resolving staffing issues, contacting staffing agencies, resolving problems on
the unit, enforcing policies, acting as liaison between staff and management, communicating with
physicians, leading rounds in the ICU twice/week, responding to all “Code Blues” and “Stat” calls in
the hospital, coordinating the OR schedule on nights and weekends, and often acting as House
Supervisor for the hospital. At BCH, this is a separate role than a staff RN, including more
responsibilities. It requires applying and being interviewed by the manager, director of the ICU/ER
and other Clinical Coordinators for the position.
• Includes being a staff nurse for half of your shifts, see description below
M/S/Cardiac ICU, Staff RN, Boulder Community Hospital, Boulder, CO (May 2007-December 2009)
• 20 bed ICU unit, largest in Boulder County, Level III trauma center
• Caring for cardiac, pulmonary, neurological, medical and surgical patients; including open heart
surgeries, neurosurgery, and septic patients
• Includes experience at second BCH campus (Foothills) with a 4 bed ICU, caring for mostly
Oncology and Post-partum critically ill patients
• Frequent experience with ventilators, multiple cardiovascular drips, sedatives, paralytics, BIS
monitoring, CRRT, Swan-Ganz catheters, arterial lines, intracranial monitoring,
ventriculostomies, chest tubes, drains, wound care and the occasional VAD device
ICU Travel RN, Cross Country Trav Corps (2002-2007)
• 3-9 month assignments
• Required flexibility due to short amount of orientation on each unit, but expected to function fully as
a competent RN on that unit
• Excellent evaluations on each assignment
Assignments included:
Boulder Community Hospital, Boulder, CO
-20 bed general ICU
Resurrection Hospital, Park Ridge, IL
-15 bed surgical, cardiac ICU
-Exposed to different ethnicities, including a large Polish population--even the physicians
dictated in Polish!
-Known in the region as having a strong cardiac surgery program
St. Joseph’s Hospital, Denver, CO
-20 bed Med/Surg/Cardiac ICU
-Known in region as major cardiac hospital
-Involved with a large Hispanic population---many Spanish speaking only patients
Long Beach Memorial Hospital, Long Beach, CA
-30 bed Medical/Surgical ICU in Level I trauma center
-Very high acuity patients on locked unit, some gunshot and knife wounds
-Large teaching hospital requiring coordination between students, residents, fellows and
attending physicians
University of Washington Hospital, Seattle, WA
-20 bed Lung & Heart Transplant/Surg ICU
-Large teaching hospital with extremely critical transplant recipient patients
-Many patients on specialty beds
-Some patients with Thora-tec devices, or VAD devices, awaiting a heart transplant
-Fully computerized Epic computer system
Queen’s Medical Center, Honolulu, HI
-15 bed Cardiac & Cardiovascular ICU in the only trauma center in Hawaii
-Helped transition this unit to a combined tele unit with flip ICU/tele beds and training tele
nurses to become ICU RNs
-Received many patients from other islands, flown to Queens for more involved treatments
not offered on the outer islands
-Experienced a variety of Asian and Polynesian cultures
-Fully computerized charting system, including physician order-entry
Kona Community Hospital, Kealakekua, HI
-5 bed general ICU in the only hospital on the west coast of the Big Island
-Very unique experience caring for very ill patients--some even from cruise ships--without
having many resources (no trauma surgeon or even a cath lab on the whole island!)
Fletcher Allen Health Care, Burlington, VT
-25 bed Surgical ICU in the only Level I trauma center in all of Vermont and upstate New
York
-Very high acuity patients including trauma, donor cases, gastric bypass surgeries,
quadriplegics, Whipple procedures
-Exposure to French Canadian lifestyle/culture due to close proximity to Canada
St. Vincent’s Hospital, New York, NY
-10 bed Medical ICU in the most southern hospital in Manhattan, closest to ground zero
-High acuity patients, many with Tb, HIV/AIDS, and Hepatitis
-Started this travel assignment six months to the day after 9/11, on March 11, 2002
ICU Float Staff RN, Bronson Methodist Hospital, Kalamazoo, MI (2000-2002)
• Floated between Trauma/Surgical, Medical and Cardiac ICUs
• Required high amount of flexibility with large knowledge base
• Southwest Michigan’s first Level I trauma center
• Magnet Hospital for Nursing Excellence. Only 5% of the nations’s hospitals have achieved this gold
standard for nursing care.
Med/Surg/Tele/Ortho/Oncology Float Staff RN, Bronson Hospital, Kalamazoo, MI (1999-2000)
• Floated between all wards learning basic care for cardiac, orthopedic, oncology, surgical and
medical patients.
Psychiatric RN, Pine Rest Christian Mental Health Services, Grand Rapids, MI (1999-2000)
• Started as Mental Health Care Worker while in college, then transitioned to RN on Agitated
Dementia Unit
• Floated to Adult and Adolescent Psych Units as well
• Gained extensive experience in therapeutic communication with mentally ill patients
Professional Accomplishments
American Association of Critical Care Nurses (AACN) member
ICU Preceptor at Boulder Community Hospital
• Training nursing students, new grads, and precepting new staff to the unit, including policy and
procedures at BCH
Open Heart Recovery RN, and Complex Neurology RN trained
• At BCH, nurses are expected to complete an extensive training in order to take care of open heart
patients and complex neurology patients (which include lumbar drains, ventriculostomies, pentobarb
coma patients, etc).
Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy (CRRT/CVVH) trained
Ventricular Assist Device (VAD—Left, Right and Bi) trained
Intra-Aortic Balloon Pump (IABP) trained
Hypothermia After Cardiac Arrest (HACA) trained
Boulder Community Hospital’s Representative at AACN’s National Teaching Institute (NTI)
Conference, Chicago, IL, May 2008 & New Orleans, LA, May 2009
• Joined 9,000-10,000 RNs at these national conferences for critical care nurses to learn about the
latest research in medicine and evidence-based practice, including seminars regarding sepsis,
hemodynamic monitoring, ABG interpretation, vasoactive drips, sedation medications,
implementing a computer-based charting system, and volunteer work for national/international
tragedies.
ICU Representative on the Organ Donation Committee conducted by Donor Alliance at Boulder
Community Hospital (2008-2011)
• Attend quarterly meetings regarding the status of BCH and Donor Alliance cases, including organ,
tissue, bone and eye donations
• Attend the annual conference during “Donate Life” Month in April
• Educate staff regarding donor triggers as mandated by Joint Commission and Medicare, and how to
manage a donor case
• Helped create a “Management of Brain Dead Patient” order set for the nursing staff, and a “Brain
Death Declaration” pre-printed form to allow physicians to more efficiently and correctly
identify patients who meet brain death criteria (See online portfolio for these order sets)
Meditech 6.0 Core Team Member, September 2009-2011
• Coordinated the transition to computer charting for the ICU, along with joining the “Order
Management” team by becoming a “Super-user” for the new system, which included building
most of the system from a raw platform
• Taught multiple routines, including order entry and lab lookup to all end-users of the program and
continue to trouble shoot the system for the hospital through monthly meetings
Shadowing and observation-approximately 56 hours
• Observed in the OR at DASC, Duke Hospital and Durham Regional Hospital in March-April 2012,
watching ortho cases, nerve blocks, MAC cases, and successfully intubating two patients.
• Shadowed Anesthesiologist Dr. Avi Dhaliwal in December 2009 in Boulder Community Hospital
for a day of surgeries including cholecystectomies, biopsies, and an 8 yr-old appendectomy.
• Shadowed anesthesiologist Dr. Zellig at Boulder Community Hospital for a lengthy organ
procurement case in 2008.
• Shadowed Dr. Steven Lane in Mante Mexico during a medical mission trip (see below) in 2009.
• Shadowed Angela Malcom, CRNA at Alaska Surgery Center for 8 hours in July 2011
Volunteer work
Mante, Mexico Medical Mission Trip Recovery Room RN, February 2009
• Participated in Boulder Community Hospital’s 100-person annual trip to Mante, Mexico (our sister
city) to coordinate and organize a temporary PACU for over 450 surgeries completed in one
week for the indigent population of Mante
• Recovered surgical patients including hysterectomies, cholecystectomies, hernia repairs, and
children receiving T+A’s, stabismus repairs, and cleft lip and palate repairs
• Gave all post-op and discharge instructions in broken medical Spanish, along with donated ibuprofen
and antibiotics
• Took multiple free medical Spanish classes given by the hospital to prepare for this trip