Objective
To continue employment in the healthcare field and enhance and strengthen my skills as a Registered Nurse
Experience
Pioneer of Choctaw GPU Sep. 1, 2012-present
•Senior Care Charge Nurse: Patient assessments to render determination of treatment, admissions nurse, discharge planning. Other duties include: Medication administration, observation logging, and 24 hour chart audits, Assessment of long term and short term effects of anti-psychotic medication use.
•Communication with MD (Psychiatry and Medical) regarding acute or abnormal changes in patient/client status. Also, referrals for other ancillary team members to promote positive outcomes for patients were made for outpatient and inpatient services.
•Nurse patient ratio, 1:8
Mississippi Homecare May 5, 2011-March 30, 2012
• Field RN: Made skilled nursing visits to client’s home to provide assessment and patient teaching of disease management and prevention, performed in home venipuncture and specimens for testing, monitored medication compliance and client and family understanding of medication regiment and purpose, assesses for safe and sanitary home living conditions
• Supervised Field LPN and Field CNA skilled and unskilled visits to ensure safe, effective, and knowledgeable patient care delivery
• Performed initial RN assessments and admissions, 60 day re-certifications if services were still warranted, resumptions of care module post hospital discharges, and also agency discharges
• Worked with interdisciplinary team to ensure adequate care delivery
Madison County Medical Center October 10, 2005-April 20, 2011
• Staff Registered Nurse- Medical/Surgical Unit: Provided acute and non-acute patient care to ensure safety, promote disease management and to prevent re -hospitalizations, performed initial RN assessment to implement necessary patient care services, to initiate MD orders as ordered, and begin discharge planning
• Performed Charge Nurse duties as assigned per unit manager to assist and monitor care provided to customers per RN, LPN, CNA to promote continuity of services without a failure to provide patient care as ordered
• Worked with interdisciplinary teams of: Doctors, Nursing staff, Therapy, Social Services, Dietary, Pharmacy
• ACLS certified: Care delivery was based on 1:7 Nurse: Patient ratio
Lexington Manor Nursing Home October 8, 2002-October 2005/ May 2008-May 2011
• Floor LPN
• Medication administration (PO, IM, GI, NG), performed wound care, communicated all pertinent changes of patient health status to supervisor, MD, and ancillary staff to promote continuity and recognize improvement or a declination in health status, identified at risk patents to prevent hospitalization and health decline
• Wound care nurse: rendered weekly skin inspections to identify at risk or unseen impaired skin conditions, Monitored direct care workers duties to promote adequate repositioning, hydration, and incontinency prevention, care and intervention with residents to prevent skin impairments
• Delivered patient care on a 1:37 nurse: patient ratio
Education
Holmes Community College, Grenada, MS 05/2008-05/2010
Obtained Associate Degree of Nursing
Holmes Community College, Goodman/ Kosciusko, MS 8/1999-5/2004
2000-2004 received Associate Degree of Arts Degree: 8/1999-8/2000 obtained Lice...
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