Wound Care Nurse - ECRH Gracewood
(2024-04)
- Assess and evaluate patient wounds to determine the most effective course of treatment
- Develop and implement individualized wound care plans tailored to each patient's needs
- Clean and dress wounds per physician's orders. Complete daily treatment tasks.
- Monitor and document patients' progress, adjusting treatment plans as necessary
- Educate patients and their families on wound care practices, infection prevention, and self-care techniques
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, including physicians, therapists, and other healthcare professionals to optimize patient care
- Perform debridement and other advanced wound care procedures as required
- Stay current with the latest research, techniques, and wound care products to ensure optimal care
- Ensure wound care supplies are well-managed and available
- Provide emotional support to patients and families, addressing concerns related to healing and treatment
- Conduct regular follow up appointments to assess healing progress and adjust care plans as needed
- Maintain adherence to healthcare regulations, safety standards, and best practices
- Participate in weekly rounds with the Wound Physician
- Complete and submit weekly wound care report
- Write weekly physician rounding progress noted and wound documentation, including measurements and assessments
- Complete weekly skin/wound assessments on all residents with a Braden score of >9 or those with exiting wounds
School Nurse - RCSS - Augusta, GA
(2021-08 - 2024-04)
- Perform emergency medical procedures, such as basic cardiac life support (BLS), advanced cardiac life support (ACLS), and other condition stabilizing interventions
- Document data related to patients' care including assessment results, interventions, medications, patient responses, or treatment changes
- Manage patients' pain relief and sedation by providing pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic interventions, monitoring patients' responses, and changing care plans accordingly
- Discuss illnesses and treatments with patients and family members
- Medicaid billing
- Education on Chronic Care Management
LPN - Family Healthcare Clinic - Brandon
(2020-08 - 2021-07)
- 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
- Sterilize equipment and supplies, using germicides, sterilizer, or autoclave
- 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
- Collect samples, such as blood, urine, or sputum from patients, and perform routine laboratory tests on samples
- Prepare patients for examinations, tests, or treatments and explain procedures
- Evaluate nursing intervention outcomes, conferring with other healthcare team members as necessary
- Inventory and requisition supplies and instruments
- Make appointments, keep records, or perform other clerical duties in doctors' offices or clinics
- Set up equipment and prepare medical treatment rooms
- Assist with medication refills
- Call insurances for prior authorization on procedures
Charge Nurse, LPN - Highland Home - Ridgeland, MS
(2020-01 - 2020-07)
- Record, and report symptoms or changes in patients' conditions
- Maintain accurate, detailed reports and records
- Record patients' medical information and vital signs
- Monitor all aspects of patient care, including diet and physical activity
- Assess the needs of individuals, families, or communities, including assessment of individuals' home or work environments, to identify potential health or safety problems
- Direct or coordinate infection control programs, advising or consulting with specified personnel about necessary precautions
- Administer medications orally, via NG tube, G tube and enteral feeding
- Changing colostomy bags
- Assisted clients with morning care and daily needs
- Set up equipment and prepare medical treatment rooms
- Provide medical treatment or personal care to patients in private home settings, such as cooking, keeping rooms orderly, seeing that patients are comfortable and in good spirits, or instructing family members in simple nursing tasks
- Inventory and requisition supplies and instruments
- Administer prescribed medications or start intravenous fluids, noting times and amounts on patients' charts
- Collect samples, such as blood, urine, or sputum from patients, and perform routine laboratory tests on samples
- Assemble and use equipment, such as catheters, tracheotomy tubes, or oxygen suppliers
- Evaluate nursing intervention outcomes, conferring with other healthcare team members as necessary
- Record food and fluid intake and output
- Help patients with bathing, dressing, maintaining personal hygiene, moving in bed, or standing and walking
LPN - St. Dominic Clinics
(2020-01 - 2020-07)
- 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
- Sterilize equipment and supplies, using germicides, sterilizer, or autoclave
- 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
- Collect samples, such as blood, urine, or sputum from patients, and perform routine laboratory tests on samples
- Prepare patients for examinations, tests, or treatments and explain procedures
- Evaluate nursing intervention outcomes, conferring with other healthcare team members as necessary
- Apply compresses, ice bags, or hot water bottles
- Inventory and requisition supplies and instruments
- Clean rooms and make beds
- Make appointments, keep records, or perform other clerical duties in doctors' offices or clinics
- Set up equipment and prepare medical treatment rooms
