Mary Brown, RN, BSN
ICU charge nurse on nights · Nine years at the bedside
Full-time · Day or night charge
I lead nights on a 14-bed medical ICU at Central Health, and I am looking for a charge role where teaching new nurses is part of the job, not an extra.
Before the ICU I spent three years floating Level I trauma at St. David's, which is where I learned to keep a room calm and organized when it is neither. I would like to bring both to your unit.
At a glance
Experience
- 2019 to present
Charge Nurse, Medical ICU
Central Health, Austin
- Lead a 14-bed medical ICU across night shift, coordinating staffing, ratios and rapid response.
- Precept new graduate nurses: 11 so far, with 98% retention at 12 months.
- 2016 to 2019
Staff Nurse, Trauma
St. David's, Austin
- Level I trauma float across the emergency department and the trauma ICU.
- Unit super-user for the electronic health record rollout.
How I work
Calm at 3 a.m. Nights show a unit's habits. I keep handoffs short, checklists honest and the charge phone answered.
Teach at the bedside. New graduates learn fastest on real patients with someone beside them, so that is where I precept.
Escalate early. I would rather call rapid response on a hunch than explain afterwards why I waited.
Education
BSN, Nursing, The University of Texas at Austin, 2016. Graduated with honors and inducted into Sigma Theta Tau.
Certifications
- ACLS
- BLS
- PALS
- CCRN
- TNCC
References
Mary is the charge nurse our new graduates ask to be scheduled with, and her nights are the calmest in the building.
She precepted eleven of our new hires. The ones she trained are the ones who stayed.
I would welcome a conversation
Available for day or night charge roles from January. License verification and references on request.