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Grand Island, Ne, Us

Englewood, Co, Us

Omaha, Ne, Us

Supervisory responsibilities: Using industry-specific software, responsible for the monthly schedule of up to 15 staff including nurses and certified nursing assistants. Coach and support five staff members; provide feedback on work performance, discover each employee’s support needs and ask relevant questions to help them feel connected and increase retention. Provide performance feedback when corrections are necessary. Responsible for monitoring time clock activity and making corrections when needed. Complete staff and nurse leader rounding to ensure high quality care. Assist with interviewing and hiring new employees. Selected to serve on the Magnet Champion committee in February 2016; provide guidance and insight as the organization pursues Magnet status. Encourage staff to secure bachelors’ degrees and various certifications, share information with staff to prepare them for Magnet site visit interviews. Promoted from staff nurse in April 2016. Nursing responsibilities: Supervisor Charge nurse as assigned; directing admissions, discharges, and general patient flow. Assign nurses and support staff each shift. Manage patient care, administer medications via all routes: oral, enteral, IV, central lines, injections, topically. Perform phlebotomy, respiratory treatments, and trach cares. Implement, evaluate, and document all patient care interventions and responses. Support patients’ healthcare team as advocate for patients and families in long-term and skilled nursing setting. Assess patients, obtain vital signs, chart in Meditech per policy. Administer medical treatment as prescribed by physicians. Communicate effectively and efficiently with care providers, patients, and families. Educate and teach patients and families in health maintenance, disease process, and prevention.

Washington, Dc, Us

Assisted in patient care as directed by the physicians. Ordered labs per physician and Medicare criteria. Submitted prescription refills requests for pharmacies. Welcomed patients and escorted to exam rooms; obtained vital signs, reconciled medications, reviewed health maintenance records, updated patients’ health histories using Allscripts EMR. Administered vaccines per CDC guidelines. Administered medications including IV, oral, respiratory treatments, and injections. Scheduled labs and tests for patients at a variety of locations. Relay lab and test results to patients after physician had reviewed. Educate patients and families about diseases, health maintenance, prevention, and medications. Developed meaningful relationships with each patient; served as a key resource for directing care in the absence of the physician.

Implement, evaluate, and document all patient care interventions and responses. Provided focused one-on-one health care within the home environment for patients who were at risk for illness or injury. Performed health assessments of patients by evaluating their physical, mental, and environmental status; provided nursing interventions based on assessment of needs. Made skilled nursing observations of patients’ health by monitoring, assessing, and documenting such things as vital signs, various body systems, obtaining blood and urine specimens, and assessing living situations. Set up medications, provided wound care, and assessed stability of patients. Coordinated health care services provided by ancillary services such as home health aides, physical therapist, occupational therapist, social work, chaplains, and physicians.

Managed patient care, administered medications via all routes: oral, enteral, IV, central lines, injections, and topically. Implemented, evaluated, and documented all patient care interventions and responses. Performed wound and trach cares. Supported patients’ healthcare team as advocate for patients and families in the acute care setting. Assessed patients, obtain vital signs; chart in Meditech per policies. Administered medical treatment as prescribed by physicians. Communicated effectively and efficiently with care providers, patients, and families. Educated and taught patients and families in health maintenance, disease process, and prevention. Read and assessed rhythm strips; followed up with physicians as needed. Administered and monitored cardiovascular medication drips per policies. Stabilized fractures until patients could have surgery for repair. Monitored patients post-operatively for complications; provide follow-up interventions as needed.

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