Licensed Vocational Nurse - Wound Care Nurse - Lodi Memorial Hospital (Outpatient) - Lodi, CA
(2025-09)
- Prepare patient for evaluation and ensure the provider has proper equipment per each case
- Document provider's findings and update orders
- Enforce provider's teachings to patients and ensure patient states their understanding of teachings
- Ordered appropriate supplies for patients within the Medicare approved guidelines
- Send referrals per provider's orders to recommended clinics and home health agencies
- Attend in-services for new products and adapt to new methods in medicine and nursing
Licensed Vocational Nurse - Case Manager - Covenant Care, Palo Alto Sub-Acute and Rehab - Palo Alto
(2021-06 - 2025-09)
- Collaborated with an interdisciplinary team (MD. NP, DOR, RD and MSW) weekly to discuss patient goals and outcomes.
- Worked as a liaison for resources after a patient's discharge. Communicated with various agencies to ensure patient transitional care.
- Communicated with family members weekly to discuss progress and interdisciplinary team recommendations such as caregivers or placement following discharge.
- Ensured quality management by inquiring feedback from patients and family members
- Provided resources and issued referrals for patient needs approved by physician or provider
- Knowledgeable with various private insurances, Medicare and Medical guidelines and informed families of patient's qualification
- Transparent and true information given to patient and family members
Licensed Vocational Nurse - Wound Care Nurse - Covenant Care, Palo Alto Sub-Acute and Rehab - Palo Alto
(2019-01 - 2021-06)
- Ensured provider's orders in place with correlating wounds upon admissions and with new wounds acquired in facility
- Organized weekly reports of patient's wounds and current progress
- Assisted wound care provider with rounds and implemented recommended orders
- Carefully studied patient charts to relate wounds to any underlying disease
- Collaborated with registered dietician and primary care provider to implement plans for internal care such as diet and antibiotics to optimize wound healing
Licensed Vocational Nurse - Floor Nurse - Covenant Care, Palo Alto Sub-Acute and Rehab - Palo Alto
(2018-10 - 2019-01)
- Evaluated and assessed patients throughout shifts by vital signs and understanding the patient's underlying disease.
- Collaborated with RN and charge nurse, primary care provider and wound doctor to establish personalized nursing plans per patient.
- Report to primary care provider per patient on changes of conditions due to assessments
- Use critical nursing judgement while following direct primary care orders within scope of practice
Licensed Vocational Nurse - Hospice Visiting Nurse - Promedica Hospice - San Jose
(2023-03 - 2023-12)
- Implemented nursing judgement and ensured patient symptoms are controlled
- Applied empathy and sympathy to grieving families
- Assessed daily changes in patients and reported to team to ensure patient and families are receiving all appropriate resources
- Educated families on signs of symptoms of the transitioning patient
- Assisted RN in post-mortem care
