Lisa Kline Email & Phone Number

Elkton, Md, United States

Elkton, Md

Visit and evaluate terminally ill patients and their families to determine care requirements/hospice eligibility and forge positive relationships. Continuously assess patient condition and adapt care plan according to patient need and medicare standards. Recognized by CEO for outstanding documentation on patients charts Provide extensive and ongoing education and communication to patients and families on the disease process, co-morbidities, medications and side effects. Maintained comfort and quality of life, and alerted physicians about changes in patient's’ condition. Communicated all pertinent information and assessments through clear and concise documentation. Provided information and accurately filled out FMLA forms for patients’ family members with oversight by the medical director. Knowledgeable on short term and long term disability requirements. Managed physical, mental, emotional and spiritual needs of patients and families as they progress through end of life issuesCommunicated daily with interdisciplinary team including physicians, social worker, chaplain, nursing assistants, volunteer coordinator as well as other hospice nurses.

Assess patient health problems and needs, develop and implement nursing care plans, and maintain medical records. Administer nursing care to ill, injured, convalescent, or disabled patients. Manage patients’ pain relief and sedation by providing pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic interventions, monitoring patients’ responses and changing care plans accordinglyHead of Safety Committee on unit for 3 yearsAdminister blood and blood product transfusions or intravenous infusions Award winner 2011-2014 for outstanding reviews on patient surveysSupervise and train licensed vocational nurses and nursing aides.Administer medications intravenously, by injection, orally, through gastric tubes and other methodsPrecepted multiple new graduate nurses in developing and achieving professional expertise.

Associates Degree, Nursing, 3.89

Nursing Science