Alyssa Corbin — Registered Nurse, Medical ICU
Portland, OR
Critical care nurse with eight years at the bedside, the last four as a night charge nurse on a 24-bed medical ICU. Rewrote the unit sepsis huddle that took door-to-antibiotic time from 71 minutes to 38, and precepts the new-graduate residency cohort each spring.
Experience
Charge Nurse, Medical ICU, Harborlight Regional Medical Center · June 2022 – present
Nights on a 24-bed medical ICU. Runs the assignment board for nine nurses and carries a two-patient load.
- Rewrote the sepsis huddle so the first antibiotic is drawn and hung at the bedside, cutting door-to-antibiotic time from 71 minutes to 38 across 240 admissions.
- Precepted 14 new graduate nurses through the 12-week residency; 13 were still on the unit at one year, against a house average of six in ten.
- Chairs the unit practice council, whose two-hour turn schedule took hospital-acquired pressure injuries from nine a year to two.
- Led the catheter audit that brought CAUTI from 3.1 to 0.9 per 1,000 catheter days over four quarters.
Travel ICU Nurse (Contract), Wayfinder Health Staffing · March 2021 – May 2022
Three consecutive 13-week critical care contracts.
- Took a full two-patient ICU assignment after two days of orientation at each host hospital, across three different charting systems.
- Trained 22 float-pool nurses on the ventilator weaning protocol at a 400-bed host site, which kept the teaching sheet as unit standard.
- Joined the four-person proning team through a respiratory surge, turning up to 30 ventilated patients a week with no line dislodgements.
Staff Nurse, Progressive Care, Cedar Hollow Community Hospital · August 2018 – February 2021
- Caught a mislabeled batch in the pharmacy tube system before a dose reached a patient, then wrote the barcode check that four units adopted.
- Cut heart-failure discharge teaching from 45 minutes to 25 with a teach-back card the unit still prints; 30-day readmissions fell by a fifth.
- Ran float orientation for 18 nurses during a staffing shortfall, clearing the unit orientation backlog in six weeks.
Education
- B.S.N. Nursing · Oregon Health & Science University · September 2014 – June 2018
Skills
- Critical care: Ventilator management, Vasoactive drips, CRRT, Sepsis bundles, Post-arrest care, Prone positioning
- Procedures: Arterial lines, Central line care, Chest tubes, Moderate sedation, Difficult IV access
- Unit practice: Charge nurse staffing, Preceptorship, Chart audit, Rapid response, Family meetings, Epic documentation
Certifications
- RN License, Oregon (active, multistate compact) — Oregon State Board of Nursing
- CCRN, Adult Critical Care — American Association of Critical-Care Nurses
- ACLS and BLS Provider — American Heart Association
- Trauma Nursing Core Course (TNCC) — Emergency Nurses Association