Home Health Care Nurse Resume Example Always Best Care Senior Services

HOME HEALTH CARE NURSE

Professional Summary

Seeking a Nurse Case Manager Position that will benefit from years of experience of clinical expertise and professional knowledge of the healthcare program, improving the quality of medical care of our service members, retirees and family members by optimizing the use of resources and services available. Healthcare professional with strong history of providing support to patients and to deliver comprehensive administrative assistance. Providing knowledge of clerical tasks, project support, scheduling, time management, assignment prioritization and customer service. Quickly resolving issues, handling conflicting priorities, remaining flexible and striving to exceed organizational goals.

Skills

Care plan assessment
Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)
Hospital Experience
Progress documentation
Community integration
Case Management
Diagnosis and treatment

Patient consultation
English and Tagalog Fluency
Computer Skill: Word, Excel
Data Entry
Patient management
Chronic disease management
Patient privacy

Work History

Home Health Care Nurse, 01/2019 to Current
Always Best Care Senior Services – NORFOLK, VA

Developed rapport to create safe and trusting environment for care.
Monitored progress and documented any patient health status changes, keeping healthcare team updated.
Helped clients with managed home care, ensuring efficacy of care by monitoring health status.
Maintained records of patient care, condition, progress or problems to report, and discussed observations with supervisor or case manager.
Ensured safety and well-being of each patient in alignment with care plan.
Offered support for client mental and emotional needs to enhance physical outcomes and overall happiness.
Provided complete care to home health patients, including physical assessments, medication and chronic disease management.
Traveled to patients' homes on 3-6 months to assess health conditions and provide superior level of nursing care.
Performed triage on all incoming patients and determined severity of injuries and illnesses.
Communicated with healthcare team members to plan, implement and enhance treatment strategies.
Partnered with physicians, social workers, activity therapists, nutritionists and case managers to develop and implement individualized care plans and documented all patient interactions and interventions in electronic charting systems.
Recorded details regarding all therapies, including Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy to keep patient charts updated.
Educated patients, families and caregivers on diagnosis and prognosis, treatment options, disease process and management and lifestyle options.

Clinical Nurse, 10/2018 to Current
VESA, STERLING MEDICAL CORP – Cincinnati, OHIO

Evaluated nursing practices and processes and made changes
Evaluated patients' progress, plan of care and provides documentation and quality of services offered to patient responses to various treatments and their needs
Coordinated and provides compassionate and holistic medical management services to patient care for over 50 patients daily
Explained side effects from medications and provided in-depth education to patients on cardiac, diabetes, asthma, cancer and other diseases
Ordered lab tests and interpreted test results and maintained patient records
Interviewed patients to obtain medical information, weight and height measurements and vital signs
Maintained patient records and ensured patient privacy and clinical compliance
Assessed physical, emotional, socioeconomic and spiritual needsby performing thorough examinations and asking appropriate questions that will affect illness or their condition to meet their needs
Provided counseling to patients and families and referred patients to other treatment facilities
Maintained excellent attendance record, consistently arriving to work on time
Devoted special emphasis to punctuality and worked to maintain outstanding attendance record, consistently arriving to work ready to start immediately
Part of STEMI committee in delivery of 2018 Advancement Toward High Reliability in Healthcare project, resulting receiving award from DHA for Quality Symposium Chest Pain Center Accreditation
Collaborates with staff physicians, other ancillary members of health care team in assessment of patient's needs and evaluation of care. Provides level of nursing support and case management
Obtain history related to psychosocial system. Performs psychosocial assessment to include appearance, behavior, cognition, and thought process. Assess stress management (anxiety reduction, calming techniques, coping enhancement). Identifies emotional and coping support (spiritual, body image, dying patient)
Demonstrate awareness of Department and Command Process Improvement Program. Identifies system factors which detract from effective patient care delivery. Collaborate with all levels of clinic staff on matters of performance improvement. Participates in process improvement initiative (clinical pathway) to decrease variance and improve quality,
EXERCISE STRESS TESTING: Ensures provider/proctor is available and consent is complete. Demonstrate knowledge of three indications of exercise testing. Demonstrate knowledge of three cardiac risk factors. Documents patient history and determines that baseline EKG is treadable. Reviews procedure with patient. Demonstrate ability to set up exercise stress treadmill for testing. Appropriately initiates exercise stress test. Monitors and coaches patient during exercise stress test. Identifies EKG changes suggestive of ischemia/injury. Demonstrates knowledge of three reasons for stopping test. Monitors patients during recovery and states end points of recovering
DOBUTAMINE STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAM: Demonstrate working knowledge of equipment used for Dobutamine administration. Demonstrates working knowledge of 12 lead EKG machine set-up and use to include lead placement, patient data input, rhythm interpretation. Demonstrate working knowledge of Gemini Pump and dosing/programming of Dobutamine. Demonstrate knowledge of bedside monitors including patient connection and parameter set-up. Recognize inclusion and exclusion criteria for Dobutamine administration. Ensures clean , safe environment of care for patient. Provides patient education about procedure and answers patients questions. Demonstrate basic knowledge of cardiac medications,
THALLIUM/LEXISCAN STRESS TESTING: Demonstrate knowledge of equipment used for treadmill stress testin, Lexiscan stress testing. Ability to rapidly discriminate between normal and abnormal ECG as evidenced by recognition of supra-ventricular and ventricular dysrhythmia, correlation between leads and myocardial walls (lead II, III and AVF-inferior wall), recognition of ST-T wave changes associated with ischemia prior to and during testing process (V-fib, V-tach, 2nd and 3rd degree AV Block). Recognizes inclusion and exclusion criteria for treadmill and Lexiscan stress testing. Ensures clean, safe environment for patient. Provides patient education about procedure and answer patients' questions. Well versed in pretest and post-test patient instructions. Demonstrate working knowledge of cardiac medications. Communicates effectively and correctly document test results

Clinical Nurse, 10/2014 to 10/2018
Federal Staff Resources (FSR) – Annapolis, MD

Same job description as VESA/STERLING MEDICAL CORPORATION
Contract ended

Clinical Nurse, 10/2005 to 10/2014
ARORA GROUP – Gaithersburg, MD

Same Job description as FSR and VESA/STERLING MEDICAL CORP
Contract ended

Education

Bachelor of Science: Nursing, 08/1993
Norfolk State University - Norfolk, VA

Bachelor of Arts: Mass Communication, 06/1987
William Paterson University of New Jersey - Wayne, NJ

Certifications

ADVANCED CARDIAC LIFE SUPPORT (ACLS)

CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION (CPR)

Resume Overview

Companies Worked For:

Always Best Care Senior Services
VESA, STERLING MEDICAL CORP
Federal Staff Resources (FSR)
ARORA GROUP

School Attended

Norfolk State University
William Paterson University of New Jersey

Job Titles Held:

Home Health Care Nurse
Clinical Nurse

Degrees

Bachelor of Science : Nursing , 08/1993
Bachelor of Arts : Mass Communication , 06/1987

Home Health Care Nurse Resume Example

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