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Career Focus RN with 40 years of experience in healthcare. Skilled in providing both direct and team nursing in healthcare. Skilled in providing medical/surgical nursing, labor and delivery, newborn nursing, Pediatrics, Orthopediatrics, Rehab, and Rheumatology, Long term care in the areas of Staff Development Coordinator, Assistant Director of Nursing, Lead Clinical Nurse for an Outpatient Medicine Clinic, serves on the Pain Management Committee, Diabetic Advisory Committee, on the Western Navajo Nation Penal Advisory Committee, Director of Nursing, Manager of Clinical Practice for home health agency, and Clinical Manager for Home Health Agency. I am also an educator who believes that every employee is salvageable if properly trained and educated. Mistakes get made every-day. Every manager should use those opportunities to turn a negative situation into a positive one if at all possible. As a nurse it is my responsibility to foster trust between the patient, their families and the staff. I am also responsible to establish a care plan that coordinates, implements and establishes care so that each individual patient is able to reach their maximum or highest level of functioning safely in order to maintain independence. Familiarity with disease management * programs * Demonstrated all areas of communication: verbal, phone and written. Ability to manage priorities and meet deadlines * Meticulous organizational skills * Solid clinical skills coupled with patient-focused people skills * Solid understanding of hospice philosophy * Patient- and family-focused * CPR Certified * Experienced in wound cleaning and care * Skilled NG tube insertion and removal * Physical assessments * Strong knowledge of infection control Excel * Electronic health record charting * Documentation * Interrelation of lab results * Certification to teach CNA and CMT courses. * HIV/AIDES certification * Trauma Certification. Acute and rehabilitative care * IV drug therapy management * Feeding assistance * Mobility assistance * Oxygen machine maintenance * Tracheotomy care provider * Colostomy care * Foley catheter insertion/removal * Insulin medication assistance * Alphabetical/Numerical filing * Body mechanics * Chart preparation and filing * CPR/BLS certified * Daily living activity assistance * Drug administration and dosage * Medical clinical procedures * Obtaining/charting vital signs * Patient and family advocacy * Patient positioning * Patient transporting * RN level dosage calculation * Specimen collection/processing * Venipuncture and blood draw Career Chronology Tender Heart Home Health Agency 3210 West Park Row Drive Arlington, Texas 76103 817-265-0066 12/26/2016 - 05/22/2017 Director of Professional Services: clinical manager of a team of clinicians making sure all discipline reports/evaluations are completed prior to the completion of the start of care OASIS before dropping that rap, review of all medication profiles for accuracy, completeness, that any major drug interactions have been reported to the physician on the correct form, reviewing all physician orders for accuracy and completeness, monitor all re-certs and discharges prior to discharge, running of case conference weekly, providing continuing education to all clinicians, assist with the clinical portion of all final claims reviews, responsible for the daily episode summary report, responsible for the calculation of assessments and evaluation numbers on a daily basis, complete the monthly on call schedule for administration, Skilled nurse, responsible for pulling back raps when needed, daily monitoring of all charts for accuracy, timely completion of documents, advising clinicians on how to word orders, documentation monitoring of wounds and the completion of wound conference in a timely manner. * Northern Arizona Homecare 203 Candy Lane, Bldg 5 Cottonwood, AZ 86326 928-639-6674 06/06/2016 to 12/01/2016 Team leader and Interim Director of Nursing: clinical manager of a team of clinicians making sure all discipline reports/evaluations are completed prior to the completion of the start of care OASIS before dropping that rap, review of all medication profiles for accuracy, completeness, that any major drug interactions have been reported to the physician on the correct form, reviewing all physician orders for accuracy and completeness, monitor all re-certs and discharges prior to discharge, running of case conference weekly, providing continuing education to all clinicians, assist with the clinical portion of all final claims reviews, responsible for the daily episode summary report, responsible for the calculation of assessments and evaluation numbers on a daily basis, complete the monthly on call schedule for administration, Skilled nurse, responsible for pulling back raps when needed, daily monitoring of all charts for accuracy, timely completion of documents, advising clinicians on how to word orders, documentation monitoring of wounds and the completion of wound conference in a timely manner. Gentiva Home Health 4401 Masthead Street NE Suite 105 Albuquerque, NM 87109 505-345-3754 10/29/14 to 06/01/16 MCP-clinical manager of a team of clinicians in the Santa Fe region, a branch out of the Albuquerque office making sure all discipline reports/evaluations are completed prior to the completion of the start of care OASIS before dropping that rap, review of all medication profiles for accuracy, completeness, that any major drug interactions have been reported to the physician on the correct form, reviewing all physician orders for accuracy and completeness, monitor all recerts and discharges prior to discharge, running of case conference weekly, providing continuing education to all clinicians, responsible for the quarterly QUACK/QUAPI audit and the assignment of staff to do chart reviews, assist with the clinical portion of all final claims reviews, responsible for the daily episode summary report, responsible for the calculation of assessments and evaluation numbers on a daily basis, complete all chart audits required by Presbyterian health insurance, complete the monthly on call schedule for administration, Skilled nurse and Physical therapy, responsible for pulling back raps when needed, completion of documentation for releasing 26 holds, daily monitoring of all charts for accuracy, timely completion of documents, using the episode analytic for checking re-certs, therapy analytic report to check for 30 day reassessment dates, daily checking of the integration log advising clinicians on how to word orders, documentation monitoring of wounds and the completion of wound conference in a timely manner. Final claims chart audit, charts for the quarterly QUAPI meetings, on call schedule, PPS billing, therapy reassessments, episode analytics and episode summary. Director of lab. Strafford Care Center 505 West Evergreen Strafford, Missouri 65275 417-736-9332
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