Dedicated RN with clinical practicum experience and passion for delivering quality healthcare. Skilled at establishing care plans and educating patients and families. Offering caring bedside manner, patient-centric focus and expertise in discharge management.
Skills
Medical screening
Patient monitoring
Health and wellness expertise
Culturally sensitive
Home visits
Emotional awareness
Medication and IV administration
Strong medical ethic
Excellent verbal communication skills
Work well with teams
Work well under pressure
Critical thinking
Easily adjust to work environment
Time management
Basic arrhythmia
Charge nurse
Experience
Home Care Registered Nurse, 11/2020 - Current Trinity Health Corporation – Newark, DE,
Review the home health referral, updating & communicating any changes to other disciplines and to customer service center.
Perform assessments within 24-48 hours of receiving a referral.
Complete Start of care papers and forward to the office promptly.
Develop rapport with the client and family ensuring privacy and confidentiality while obtaining accurate client history.
Complete a physical assessment and communicate the findings and plan of care to the physician.
Initiate evaluations to other disciplines (PT,OT,HHA,SLP,MHRN,MSW) or support services when indicated.
Conduct Home health aide supervisory duties as required by state regulations.
Document accurately and appropriately on the laptop during each visit, uploading by midnight.
When appropriate, enter insurance authorization requests within 24 hrs of initial evaluation and continue to enter additional requests at the end of each authorization period.
Organize daily assignments, setting priorities based on individual and overall needs of the clients while traveling to each home as scheduled.
Ensure the clients have prescribed medications and/or treatment supplies, updating file as changes occur.
Identify appropriate actions that will provide for continuity of care, an individualized teaching plan and the involvement of the individual and family/caregiver whenever possible.
Formulate a plan of care to achieve expected outcomes through short and long term goals that are realistic and feasible in terms of resources, time, material, people and cultural relevancy. Revise the plan of care in response to changes in the individual's status or to adjust to the individual's response to care, and communicate and update with all disciplines, including PPL.
Coordinate discharge planning with direct involvement of client, family/caregiver.
Document any communication and/or orders from the physician.
Attend PCH/ALF case conferences as scheduled providing weekly client reports to team and provide PCH/ALF monthly educational inservices as requested by facility.
Maintain a high level of competency, growth and development, including ensuring license and CPR are current and in good standing at all times.
Perform on-call duties per agency requirements/assignment for non-business hours. Position may require after hours patient visits to achieve positive patient outcomes.
Adhere/assist with company outcome goals as indicated by QI/home health compare tracking.
Participate in QA/OBQI initiatives with problem-solving via action items.
Registered Nurse, 07/2018 - 11/2020 Accentcare – East Bernard, TX,
Monitored and recorded patient condition, vital signs, recovery progress and medication side effects.
Treated patients using pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatment modalities to address various disorders, diseases and injuries.
Improved patient outcomes and quality of care by determining and suggesting changes to processes.
Updated physicians on patient test results and assisted in developing care plans.
Counseled patients and caregivers, providing emotional, psychological and spiritual support.
Provide safe and effective care for the age population served according to the regulatory requirements.
Professionally directs and manages the activities of the patient care delivery by the team members.
Collaborates with the multidisciplinary team for the plan of care from admission through discharge.
Assess learning needs of the patient and family and provide education based on age, culture and willingness to learn.
Advanced Patient Care Technician, 02/2015 - 04/2018 Spectrum Health – Belding, MI,
Assisted and supported physicians performing procedures.
Notified senior staff of patient emergencies to optimize outcomes.
Responded to bell or light signal calls to assist patients with needs.
Delivered outstanding patient care based on physical, psychological, educational and related criteria.
Kept instruments and equipment clean and sanitized.
Bathing/showering patients, cleaning soiled patients and beds, walking patients in the room, to the bathroom and in the hallway.
Re-positioning patients in bed, assisting them in and out of beds, bedside chairs and wheelchairs.
Helping patients to walk with canes, walkers, and crutches.
Assisting with post-life physical care.
Performing basic clinical skills such as weighing patients, taking blood pressures/pulses/ respirations, emptying urine collection bags and measuring the urine, as well as emptying and measuring the fluid from drains.
Testing blood sugars by finger stick
Performing EKG's, changing simple wound dressings, removing bladder catheters, and removing IV catheters from veins.
Interpreting rhythm strips.
Conduct training for new staff member
Education and Training
Diploma of Nursing: Registered Nurse, Expected in 05/2018 - Citizens School of Nursing - New Kensington, Pa, GPA:
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