Elise Ventrieri

Caring and compassionate nursing student with strong commitment to provide patient care. Developed extensive communication and critical thinking skills in the healthcare environment. Experienced with clinical assessments, building trusting relationships, and multitasking.

Basic Life Support (BLS)

Mental Health First Aid (MHFA)

• Laurelwood Mental Health Clinic (Northeast Georgia Healthcare System), Gainesville, GA.
• Rotations in the adult psychosis, detoxification, and pediatric inpatient units.
• Used therapeutic communication and built trusting relationships with patients suffering from schizophrenia, depression, substance use disorder, and other mental health illnesses.
• Assisted in leading group, outdoor, and activity therapy
• Encouraged patients to engage in therapeutic activities such as journaling, exercise, meditation, and games with other patients in the common area
• Supported emotional de-escalation and encouraged a safe milieu on each unit
• Northside Hospital Cherokee in Canton, GA
• Rotations in NICU, labor and delivery, postpartum, and medical surgical units
• Cared for newborns in the NICU by assisting with feedings, monitoring vital signs, and performing developmental assessments.
• Delivered patient care to women in labor, implemented fetal assessments, and provided comfort measures.
• Monitored women during the postpartum period, performed mental health assessments, assisted with newborn care in the nursery, and provided education before discharge about newborn care
• Passed medications, provided wound care, and assisted patients with activities of daily living on the medical surgical floor
• Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta in Atlanta, GA
• Rotation on the pediatric medical surgical unit
• Supported and educated families through the hospitalization period
• Collaborated with nurses to provide care for patients from infancy to adolescent age
• Comforted pediatric clients before surgery