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Professional Summary Seasoned LPN with more than 40 years of experience in fast-paced acute care hospital setting and busy fast paced internal medicine practices. Excellent communication with patients and families and nursing skills. Track record of achieving exceptional results in Cardiac nursing and care of the elderly and working under stressful situations and emergencies. Same Administer prescribed medications or start intravenous fluids, noting times and amounts on patients' charts. Observe patients, charting and reporting changes in patients' conditions, such as adverse reactions to medication or treatment, and taking any necessary action. Provide basic patient care or treatments, such as taking temperatures or blood pressures, dressing wounds, treating bedsores, giving enemas or douches, rubbing with alcohol, massaging, or performing catheterizations. Answer patients' calls and determine how to assist them. Measure and record patients' vital signs, such as height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, pulse, and respiration. Work as part of a healthcare team to assess patient needs, plan and modify care, and implement interventions. Prepare patients for examinations, tests, or treatments and explain procedures. Assemble and use equipment, such as catheters, tracheotomy tubes, or oxygen suppliers. Record food and fluid intake and output. Worked on telemetry unit for last 5 years of employment. duties as employment at Melrose Wakefield Hospital
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