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LICENSED PRACTICAL NURSE /CHARGE NURSE
Summary

Effective Nurse offering 23 years of positive experience in leadership roles and floor nurse working with other staff and good team worker positive and fun attitude. Expert in all aspects of patient care with success in overseeing shift activities. Hard work and reliable with motivation.

Skills
  • Staff training
  • Patient assessments
  • Duty delegation
  • Communications
  • First Aid/CPR
  • Team building
  • Problem resolution
  • Relationship development
  • Customer service
  • Process improvement
  • Organization
  • Multi-tasking and prioritization
  • Assisting physicians
  • Samples collection Licensed Practical Nurse
  • Tracking symptoms
  • Educating families
  • Caring for wounds
  • Counting narcotics
  • Staff direction and task delegation
  • Documenting incidents
  • Rehabilitation techniques
Experience
Colonial Manor of Amana | Amana, IALicensed Practical Nurse /Charge Nurse03/2020 - Current
  • Organized and delegated tasks during rapid response and high-pressure code situations.
  • Documented patient intake and dietary requirements and assisted with feeding.
  • Responded to patient alarms and needs-assessment requests to identify course of treatment.
  • Collected biological specimens and packaged for laboratory transport to complete important diagnostic tests.
  • Managed wound care, gave respiratory treatments and helped with non-invasive procedures.
  • Documented patient intake information, including medical histories, current symptoms and vitals such as height and weight.
  • Researched and studied client diagnoses to identify care needs, effectively contributed to nursing plan developments and facilitated patient education.
  • Examined and addressed lacerations, contusions and other physical symptoms to determine need for further attention.
  • Promoted patient satisfaction by assisting with daily living needs such as bathing, dressing, toileting and exercising.
  • Used sterile techniques, to prepare patients for procedures.
  • Followed rehabilitation and treatment care plans to accelerate patient recovery, minimize pain and optimize patient outcomes.
  • Counseled clients, patients and families and provided emotional and psychosocial support.
  • Observed, charted and reported developments in patient health condition in 65-bed nursing home
  • Scheduled appointments for evaluations and scans for office active patients.
  • Started, monitored and managed intravenous medication to stabilize patient heart and blood pressure.
  • Answered patient and family questions to educate on optimal treatment procedures.
  • Assisted physicians with conducting examinations and patient scans during diagnostic processes.
  • Prevented drug interactions and contributed to correct diagnosis by recording patient health information, monitoring vitals and updating patient files pharmacy
  • Worked with healthcare team, including social workers, physical therapists and speech therapists, to assess patient needs, plan and adjust plans of care and actualize nursing interventions to promote and restore patient health.
  • Delivered high-quality direct and indirect nursing care to up to 45 patients per day.
  • Communicated concerns regarding clients' status, care and environment to nursing supervisors, clinical care supervisors and case managers.
  • Guaranteed exceptional care quality by correctly administering medication, inserting and caring for catheters, dressing and changing wounds and assisting with personal hygiene.
  • Monitored patient's respiration activity, blood pressure and blood glucose levels in response to medical administration.
  • Collected and documented vital signs to track current patient conditions.
  • Educated clients, patients and caregivers on medical diagnoses, treatment options, chronic disease self-management and wound management.
  • Evaluated patient status and re-assessed clients' nursing needs
Hiawatha Care center | Hiawatha, IALicensed Practical Nurse08/2008 - 08/2014

Worked as floor nurse in skilled nursing facility and long term care nursing home. Did assessments treatments and iv/injections as prescribed. Was floor charge nurse. Med pass and trach care.

  • Documented patient intake and dietary requirements and assisted with feeding.
  • Responded to patient alarms and needs-assessment requests to identify course of treatment.
  • Collected biological specimens and packaged for laboratory transport to complete important diagnostic tests.
  • Managed wound care, gave respiratory treatments and helped with non-invasive procedures.
  • Documented patient intake information, including medical histories, current symptoms and vitals such as height and weight.
  • Researched and studied client diagnoses to identify care needs, effectively contributed to nursing plan developments and facilitated patient education.
  • Examined and addressed lacerations, contusions and other physical symptoms to determine need for further attention.
nEW hORIZONS | Cedar Rapids, IALicensed Practical Nurse01/1990 - 05/2003

Worked as floor nurse with mentally and physically handicapped children and adults. Did pill pass and assessments. Tube feeding and g tube meds. Oral meds and injections as prescribed. Shift charge. Gtube tube changes. Worked with behaviors.

Education and Training
Kirkwood Community College | Cedar Rapids, IAAssociate of Science in Nursing 05/1999
Accomplishments

Lpn supervisory course certificate and LPN Iv therapy course certificate.

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Resume Overview

Companies Worked For:

  • Colonial Manor of Amana
  • Hiawatha Care center
  • nEW hORIZONS

School Attended

  • Kirkwood Community College

Job Titles Held:

  • Licensed Practical Nurse /Charge Nurse
  • Licensed Practical Nurse

Degrees

  • Associate of Science in Nursing

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