➤ Effectively conducting admission and recertifications visits for both the Home Health and Hospice Departments, as well as performing routine visits as needed to cover other Nurses.➤ Assessing patients for hospice eligibility and recertification, including making recommendations and implementing symptom management to ensure patients have access to the appropriate medical care.➤ Collaborating with the healthcare team to assess, diagnose, plan, set priorities and realistic outcomes, and evaluate the effectiveness and cost efficiency of patient care.➤ Serving as a clinical resource to patients, their families, and the medical team for complicated end-of-life medical issues and side effects, including from palliative chemotherapy and radiation.➤ Accurately and safely administering prescribed medications and treatments to patients, including IV therapy, Port-a-Cath and PICC line care, as well as transcribing medication and treatment orders.➤ Expertly handling the application and removal of wound and wound vac care, in addition to conducting lab draws and reviewing results with patients and the healthcare team.➤ Documenting all relevant data in patients' charts using Allegany software, including diagnostic and laboratory results, patients' condition and response to therapies/interventions, as well as communications with supervising MD.➤ Assessing changes in status and instituting appropriate interventions, including initiating emergency treatments as needed in an effort to stabilize patients until Physician support arrives, in addition to pronouncing deaths.

➤ Internal Office Management for Chief of Cardiology /, Strategically owned the Chief of Cardiology's office, meeting, and on-call schedules, as well as managed the schedules for 7 Cardiologists and the service call scheduling for 11 Cardiologists.➤ Actively participated in shared governance and goal setting, serving as a highly engaged, full partner on the care team, while creating an environment which supported employee development and teamwork to ensure practice success.➤ Created systems and care standards to support care delivery in a fiscally sound environment, as well as implemented programs and software tools that improved patient safety, streamlined project management, and decreased expenditures.➤ Worked side-by-side with Cardiologists in providing direct, individualized nursing care to a diverse patient population, including triaging, hemodynamically stabilizing, and managing patients.➤ Performed comprehensive nursing assessments on all patients, inclusive of the biopsychosocial and medical history with consideration to age, mental, social and physical status, and response.➤ Managed prior authorizations for procedures and medications, and obtained full medical and family social histories, while consulting with health care team members to plan, implement, and evaluate patient care plans.➤ Prepared, administered, and recorded prescribed oral and subcutaneous medications, reporting adverse reactions, as well as ordered, interpreted, and assessed diagnostic tests to identify patients' conditions, including taking samples for labs.➤ Created a caring, compassionate, patient-focused experience, building healing relationships with patients and families, and explained post-treatment home care needs, diet, nutrition, and exercise programs, and medication administration.➤ Served as a resource and facilitated collaboration between nursing personnel and other health care disciplines throughout the organization and within the healthcare community.