SUMMARY

To obtain a position as a Registered Nurse.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Lincoln, IL

Assistant Director of Nursing

Responsibilities:

• To assist the Director of Nursing in performing everyday Nursing Operations of the Long Term Care Facility.
• To ensure great resident care by all nursing and patient care staff, attend morning meeting daily,
• perform all investigation duties for falls and skin issues for risk management, maintain infection control logs for the facility and the employee sick log,
• ensure all vaccines are kept up to date, monitor TB skin test due dates for residents and employees,
• monitor PT/INR and Coumadin logs for all residents taking Coumadin, audit glucose machine control logs,
• hiring of Nurses and CNAs, maintain employee attendance logs, approve employee vacation time,
• scheduling for all Nursing and CNA staff, QI tool for hospital transfers.
• QA for monthly meeting, monitoring of narcotic counts, destroying of narcotics, filling in as a floor nurse when there are openings or call - offs, IV medication administration, PICC line and Infusa-port maintenance.
• To fill in as acting Director of Nursing when the DON is unavailable to perform their own duties.

Confidential, Lincoln, IL

Corrections Nurse

Responsibilities:

• Assess, plan, implement, evaluate, direct, and coordinate the nursing care of assigned patients in accordance with the medical plan and policies and procedures of the Healthcare Unit Administrator of Confidential Correctional Center.
• Job duties could include but are not limited to;
• popping meds and running a med line inside of the healthcare unit,
• delivering meds to the X house which is Maximum security, Segregation, and new intakes, unit 14 which all consists of Mental Health patients, Desk Nurse which would respond to all Code 3 (emergency calls),
• Running sick call line, working with the doctors or the nurse practitioner, working down in R & C doing PAP's with the PA to medically clear inmates,
• working R & C processing intakes as they come in from the county jails
• . Giving oral meds, IM injections, starting IVs, giving IV meds, accessing infusaports, giving TB skin tests, drawing blood, running rapid HIV tests,
• urine pregnancy tests are just a few of the responsibilities expected of the Corrections Nurse.

Registered Nurse

Responsibilities:

• Assess, plan, implement, evaluate, direct, and coordinate the nursing care of assigned patients in accordance with the medical plan and policies and procedures of the Nursing Home Administrator of Confidential, Confidential, Confidential .
• Job duties consisted of running the rehabilitation wing for all patients that were in transitional phase from hospital to home after surgery.
• Average team of patients was 40-50, with a healthcare team that consisted of 1 RN, 2 LPN's, and 4 CNA's. RN's job was to delegate everyone's duties for the day,
• get morning pills ready for the residents prior to breakfast, dressing changes, treatments,
• all paperwork that needed to be ready for all patients that had appointments for the day, assess all patients, document on all patients in the EMR before end of shift.

Confidential, Springfield, IL

Pediatric Nurse

Responsibilities:

• Worked in PICU, PIMC, PEDI-GEN, PEDI same day outpatient, PEDS Sedation and Charge Nurse. Performed a wide range of duties as assigned by the unit manager or charge nurse.
• Hanging and monitoring multi-drug drips, sedations, assisting with intubations, assisting with bone marrow biopsies, administration of chemotherapy, telemetry monitoring,
• setting up of arterial lines for monitoring, TPN, G-tube feeds and medication administration, insertion of NG and OG tubes, insertion of foley catheters, IV insertion,
• care for pediatric trauma patients that had been in accidents,
• primary care for PICU patients and Cancer or long term patients, care for burn patients, care for skin grafts, care of the ventilated patients, care of patients on BI- PAP or C-PAP,
• caring for patient families, charing, maintaining accurate records, and I also worked PRN in the NICU as well.

Mental Health Registered Nurse

Responsibilities:

• Assess, plan, implement, evaluate, direct, and coordinate nursing care of assigned patients in accordance with the medical plan and the policies and procedures of the hospital and Nursing Services Division,
• caring for patients that may be withdrawing from street drugs, prescription drugs, or alcohol, evaluation, medication,
• bservation of patients that are exhibiting symptoms of withdraw, administration of medication oral and IM, monitoring those on suicide watch,
• plan and implement according to Psychiatrists recommendation of treatment plan, de-escalation of situations that may quickly become violent,
• assess patients mentally and physically, delegate various tasks accordingly.
• When not needed in Mental Health, RN would work in Pediatrics/ Infusion covering random shifts there.
• Pediatric unit was very small, so they also did Adult Same Day Infusions.
• Job duties consisted of care of the sick Pediatric patient (General status only),
• lab draws, IV starts, IV infusions, administration of oral medications, assessing the patient, treatments, and dressing changes.

Confidential, Springfield, IL

Nursing Technician III;

Responsibilities:

• Performed many patient care related tasks as assigned by the RN.
• Experience in taking vital signs, accuchecks, Urine dip sticks, hemocults, gastric pH, inserting and taking out foley catheters, and helping patients with activities of daily living.
• Departments woiked in: Medical-Surgical, Intermediate Care, Intensive Care, Neurology, Oncology,
• Transitional Care Unit, Hospice, Cardio-Pulmonary Unit, Pre-Anesthesia, Cardiac, Psychiatric, Emergency, Pediatrics, Neonatal Intensive Care and Mother/Baby.

Laboratory Assistant

Responsibilities:

• Drawing blood, performing EKG's,
• Delivering lab results to in-house and outside physicians.

Confidential, Lincoln, IL

Phlebotomy Supervisor;

Responsibilities:

• Training new employees, scheduling for phlebotomists and clerks, venous blood draws, capillary blood draws,arterial blood gases, order-entry,
• Rapid-Response Team, delivering laboratory results to physicians