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Job Title
Registered Nurse
Key Responsibilities-Future Goals:
Presently work as a RN Supervisor at a sub-acute facility. Tasks
include supervise and management of staff; client care assessment /assist
with est. goals (nursing and client). Skills include Infusion therapy,
lab interpretation values and instituting/maintaining medical
regimen. Future goals include continuing education in medical coding accounting
and medical management of client population through teaching assessment via
computer skills.
Work Information and Brief Job History:
I currently work as a RN supervisor full time, in
which responsibilities are assessment of patient status, evaluating patient
care, staff scheduling and evaluation. This includes medical orders,
requisitioning of labs and interpretation with appropriate follow up of any
changes in pt. status and outcomes. ( This includes ventilator dependent
patients and sub acute care). Scheduling of staff and pt status changes.
Recently I have worked as a RN staff nurse- charge nurse on a skilled
sub acute unit. Responsibilities included, assessing of patient rehabilitative
goals, medical treatments, reporting clinical changes of improvement or
decline with appropriate intervention, which may include transfer to an
acute care facility. That facility had a skilled unit of 24 beds which are
sub-acute and 30 non skilled care. Although there were permanent residencies
many were 30-60 day pt. stays that include IV's, postoperative surgical
care and rehabilitative therapies in which the RN integrates with
other disciplines.
I have also worked as a staff nurse on a 32 bed sub acute
care ventilator unit. This unit also had telemetry capacity for all rooms
with 6-8 pts on EKG monitoring at any given time. Basic ekg/telemetry knowledge
was required. Experience was gained with ventricular assist devices for
potential heart transplant patients, RN responsibilities included monitoring
of pt left / right vad volumes every 4 hours.
Peritoneal dialysis patients were also a part of the patient population
on this unit; responsibilities were to maintain accurate daily weights for
scheduled peritoneal dialysis and to initiate/engage hookup to peritoneal
dialysis. Due to the nature of vent dependent patients experience with common
respiratory treatments, tracheotomy care and collaborative work with
respiratory therapists was essential on this unit.
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Agency Nursing
I also worked as an agency nurse in long-term and med-surgical facilities.
I was staffed on sub-acute units that require skills most comparable to
a medical-surgical unit in terms of acuity, care planning, meds and treatment
regimes. In addition note that I have worked concurrently for 2 agencies,
although at times difficult, this requires adaptability to many facilities.
Home Care/ Social Services
These responsibilities would include infusion therapy; also caseload
management and teaching of/and administration of IV therapy to home care
patients with HMO-based insurance. Vital responsibilities of home care nursing
included initial assessment of patient; status reports and clinical directions,
implementation of physicians orders, venipuncture skills, interpretation
and reporting of abnormal lab values; recognition of potential patient problems,
devising and implementing nursing care plans and completion of 485 Medicare
form and updates.
Many of the clients in the medical home care environment at present have
HMO based insurance programs. Due to this fact, I must note that I have
experience in Standards of Care with regard to Clinical Pathways that
were at times used as a guide for care or the care plan itself. Also, the
home care nurse routinely gave reports of patient care for visit approval.
I also coordinated care with other disciplines within the home care environment.
I also worked as a visiting nurse of the" " County Options
program. This program was formerly called L.A.M.P. The goal
of this program is to assist individuals within the county who are medically
eligible to enter a nursing facility to live at home. The county provides
a Home Health Aide free of charge. My responsibility was to assess patient
needs and the evaluation of the HHA. Recognizing the social
and physical needs (e.g. home equipment) was also a primary responsibility
of my work. My primary goal in this environment was to make the home environment
as medically conducive to patient health as possible. Many of the clients
did not see a
In this regard I also reported any potential or existing problems to the
client's doctor. Since the focus of care is not only on the patient's
medical problem, but also on the supervision of the aide and client environment,
I also worked along side of social workers who assisted in the needs of
the patient.
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SPECIAL SKILLS:
Venipuncture and use of EKG monitoring, IV therapy, (maintenance and starts)
care planning, completion of 485 and update forms. I am proficient
in use of Excel and Microsoft Word programs.
Contact Information
USA
Email dnurse2002@yahoo.com
Personal Interest:
Classical Literature,
Contemporary Alternative Music, Art, and of course Computers.
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