Experienced LPN offering expertise in geriatric and rehabilitative care. Strong assessment, clinical, and communication skills seeking a home health position.
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Provide in-home nursing care services to assigned clients.
Documenting vital signs, general assessments, progress notes in accordance with Medicare guidelines.
Perform daily breathing treatments including nebulizers, shaker vest, cough assist, suctioning, pulse ox, oxygen, bipap.
G-tube feedings, medication administration per g-tube, care of a mickey button including venting, g-site care, changing tube monthly.
Monitoring for seizure activity and responsiveness to medication. Recording and reporting any activity to the Neurologist.
Routine straight catheterization with monitoring of I&O and use of condom caths.
Providing full care in all daily activities including dressing, turning and repositioning, transferring per hoyer lift, incontinency, ROM's.
Corresponding with numerous doctors, taking orders, implementing care as dictated by the plan of care.
Provide general nursing care in a variety of medical facilities throughout the St. Louis area on a per diem basis.
Medicine administration, physician orders, glucose monitoring and insulin administration, various treatments, g-tubes, tracheostomies, admissions and discharges, documentation, vitals, ordering supplies, educating patients, supervising floor staff.
Delivered in-home nursing services that included: Wound Dressing & Care, Glucose Checks and Blood Pressure Monitoring, Respiratory Treatments and Assessments, G-Tube Feedings and Care, PT/INR's, Ordering Medications/Supplies and Filling Pill Boxes, Delivering Labs, Rehabilitation Therapy, Medicare Documentation.
Travelled throughout the St. Louis area providing in-home nursing care to adult and elderly patients with chronic/terminal conditions, rehabilitating from post surgery and hospital procedures, and recovering from serious illnesses.
Completed general assessments including vital signs, presence of edema, skin integrity, mental status, assessing wounds and incisions, respiratory auscultation, circulatory status, evaluating living arrangements and providing community resources, education, and informing the physician and the case manager of patient status and change in conditions.
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