Clinical Care Manager - Angels of Care Pediatric Home Health - Columbia, SC
(2023-11)
Work in a capacity to visit medically complex children and their families to build, nurture and foster medically appropriate care in home. Managing and educating LPNs and RNs to provide effective, quality, compassionate care to their patients.
- Recertification visits and assessments every 90 days, admissions and start of care, nurse orientation, skills education and electronic charting education
- Provide ongoing education and support for staff and families
- Training in home and in skills lab, in home check offs
- Gtube care and maintenance
- Feeding pumps, medication administration, trach care, suctioning, oxygen therapy
- Ventilator management, cough assist, CPT vest, vagal nerve stimulator, seizure management
- IV access and deaccess, blood draw, infusions, fluids, care and Maintenance
- Insertion of peripheral IV catheter, care and maintenance
- Catheterization (in & out, indwelling and suprapubic)
- Care and coordination with physicians, case workers, NPs and PAs
Acute Care Registered Nurse - Prisma Health - Columbia, SC
(2021-10 - 2023-11)
Caring for patients acute needs in a home setting. Hybrid program that allows patients who are inpatient to be cared for and treated at home with highly skilled registered nurses. NOT home health.
- Port access, infusion, PICC lines, Midline's, placing PIVs and maintaining them
- Blood draw, wound vacs, drains, foleys
- Medication education and administration, IV medications, IV therapies
- Disease process education, respiratory therapies, Injections
- Lab monitoring, electrolyte replacement
- Working closely with PT/OT, physicians and social work
- Providing a positive care experience in patients home
Clinical Manager, Registered Nurse (RN) - BAYADA Home Health Care - Columbia, SC
(2016-07 - 2021-10)
In home pediatric care nurse.
- Assessment, GJ tubes, IVIG infusion, IV fluids, blood draw, Power port access, O2 administration
- Medication administration
- Monthly infusion therapy of blood product, collection of labs from power port site
- Communication with doctors and therapists
- Attend all appointments and therapy sessions with patient
- Writing orders, using MARS/TARS
- Orienting nurses to new cases
- Communication with client service manager and director on client care and case openings
- Provide monthly visits to patients, develop care plans, emergency plans and communicate with physicians
- Train staff in home and in a lab setting
- Provide orientation to new staff and complete annual competencies on all skilled nursing staff
- Performed patient assessments
- Managed nursing care coordination
- Developed and implemented discharge plans
- Analyzed and completed electronic charting
- Transitioned to clinical nurse manager over seeing adult and pediatric patients as well as LPNs and RNs
- CPR instructor, performed annual clinical competencies with nurses and educational training throughout the year
- Was in this role for 2 years prior to leaving
Registered Nurse - Brian Center St. Andrews - Columbia, SC
(2016-04 - 2016-07)
Provide care to elderly residents in a rehab environment.
- Educate elderly residents and family members on care and medications
- Work with support staff to provide optimal care
- Work with treatment team toward discharge of the elderly resident home
- Work with doctors and nurse practitioners to provide the best care possible
- Receive and give report to hospitals and doctors offices
- Diabetic care, wound care, respiratory treatments
- Whole, crushed and liquid medication administration
- Injections and insulin given on sliding scale
- Tracheostomy and peg tube experience
- Experience with kangaroo pumps, lifts and assistive devices
- Registered Nurse in charge of 15+ residents and CNA
Triage RN - LEXINGTON MEDICAL - Columbia, SC
(2016-02 - 2016-05)
Provide distant patient and professional consultations and education, telephone triage and advice, teleradiology, and other applications. Speaks on the phone to patients, clients, or consumers, assisting them in determining the urgency of care needed, referring to or scheduling appointments with providers, and giving health information and advice to callers. The goal is to reduce unnecessary visits to the clinic and emergency department and provide information for self-care and symptom management.
- Knowledge of Allscripts and Vision software
- Experience calling and handling insurance claims and medical coverage
- Experience with many types of insurance agencies, private pay, Medicaid, Medicare, Tricare, workman comp, BCBS, etc.
- Experience handling medical claims and denials
- Experience handling issues between pharmacies and insurance companies
Special Care Nursery, Registered Nurse - LEXINGTON MEDICAL - Columbia, SC
(2012-09 - 2016-01)
Provide care to infants and their families in a level II special care nursery.
- Attend all high-risk deliveries and c-sections
- Use critical thinking and knowledge to plan care for infants without doctor supervision
- Transition late pre-term infants from special care nursery to well newborn nursery
- Assist in the administration of curosurf
- Assist doctors in placement of chest tubes, umbilical lines and endotracheal intubation
- Provide education and support to parents throughout stay and upon discharge
- Knowledge of EPIC computer charting system
Registered Nurse - NEONATAL INTENSIVE CARE UNIT - Alexandria, VA
(2005-07 - 2011-03)
Provided therapeutic care for neonates and their families in a level III NICU.
- Experience with high-frequency jet ventilators, conventional ventilators, nasal CPAP and Sigh PAP
- Attended all high-risk deliveries
- Served as charge nurse, preceptor to new graduate nurses and nursing students
- Participated in ventilator acquired pneumonia study
