Wound Care Nurse LPN-LVN at So cal Nursing Wound Care (2026-08 – Present)
- Provide Quality wound care management and prevention.
- Maintain WOC guidelines consistent with WOCN
- Develops competency education around wound, ostomy, continence and pressure ulcer.
- Timely and acuate documentation.
- Works cooperatively and actively participate with other members of the interdisciplinary team.
- Provide wound care (bandages, cleaning, applying medications) while assessing for appropriateness of bandage integrity between dressing changes.
- Ensure facility wound care physician notified of any new conditions or patients requiring services.
- Maintain equipment and supplies for treatments, including topical medications, and ensure treatment cart fully stocked at all times.
- Ensured HIPPAA compliance.
Treatment /License Practical Nurse at Reo Vista Health Care Center (2023-02 – 2026-08)
- Provide Quality wound care management and prevention in long term care setting.
- Maintain WOC guidelines consistent with WOCN
- Develops competency education around wound, ostomy, continence and pressure ulcer.
- Timely and acuate documentation.
- Maintain weekly documentation including, weekly wound assessment, IDT meeting, non-pressure, and pressure ulcer records, with accurate measurements and descriptions.
- Works cooperatively and actively participate with other members of the interdisciplinary team.
- Provide wound care (bandages, cleaning, applying medications) while assessing for appropriateness of bandage integrity between dressing changes.
- Ensure facility wound care physician notified of any new conditions or patients requiring services.
- Round with and prepare residents for weekly visit from facility wound care physician, to discuss current treatments, wound progression, and obtain new orders as needed.
- Maintain equipment and supplies for treatments, including topical medications, and ensure treatment cart fully stocked at all times.
Lead Treatment /License Practical Nurse at Hillcrest Height Healthcare Center (2022-01 – 2023-12)
- Provide Quality wound care management and prevention in long term care setting.
- Develops competency education around wound, ostomy, continence and pressure ulcer.
- Supervising and educating healthcare personnel regarding the management of wounds.
- Identifying nutritional deficiency coordinate with Registered Dietitian to solve nutrition problems and report to respective supervisors.
- Teaches staff and patient ostomy, wound, and pressure ulcer prevention through a variety of communication venues.
- Perform nursing assessments, develop, implement and evaluate nursing plans of care and instruct patient and caregivers in appropriate discharge instruction while following direction of nurse manager and medical director.
- Maintain weekly documentation including, weekly wound assessment, IDT meeting, non-pressure, and pressure ulcer records, with accurate measurements and descriptions.
- Performing head to toe assessments on all new admits, writing orders to be carried out by floor nurses and care plan.
- Ensure facility wound care physician notified of any new conditions or patients requiring services.
- Round with and prepare residents for weekly visit from facility wound care physician, to discuss current treatments, wound progression, and obtain new orders as needed.
- Developed and implemented nursing care plans.
- Ensured HIPPAA compliance.
Treatment/License Practical Nurse at Country Hills Post Accute (2020-01 – 2022-12)
- Provide Quality wound care management and prevention in long term care setting.
- Maintain weekly documentation including head to toe skin assessments, non-pressure, and pressure ulcer records, with accurate measurements and descriptions.
- Provide wound care (bandages, cleaning, applying medications) while assessing for appropriateness of bandage integrity between dressing changes.
- Performing head to toe assessments on all new admits, writing orders to be carried out by floor nurses and care plan.
- Ensure facility wound care physician notified of any new conditions or patients requiring services.
- Round with and prepare residents for weekly visit from facility wound care physician, to discuss current treatments, wound progression, and obtain new orders as needed.
- Dedicated; willing to work long hours, weekends and holidays.
- Developed and implemented nursing care plans.
- Ensured HIPPAA compliance.
Registered Respiratory Therapist at Villa Las Palmas Skilled nursing and rehabilitation (2015-01 – 2017-12)
- Work as part of a team of physicians, nurses and other health care professionals to manage patient care.
- Provide emergency care, including artificial respiration, external cardiac massage and assistance with cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
- Determine requirements for treatments, such as type, method and duration of therapy, precautions to be taken, and medication and dosage, compatible with physicians' orders.
- Enforce safety rules and ensure careful adherence to physicians' orders.
- Maintain charts that contain patients' pertinent identification and therapy information.
- Reports to relief personnel, condition of residents and treatments to be administered/conducted.
Certified Nursing Assistant at Villa Las Palmas Skilled nursing and rehabilitation (2014-01 – 2015-12)
- Provide nursing care in accordance with resident care policies and procedures.
- Ensure the safety and well-being of the residents.
- Protect and promote resident rights and assist the person to maintain independence.
- Assist residents with bathing, dressing, hygiene, and grooming in accordance with established care plan.
- Measure and record patient's fluid intake.
- Obtain specimens, weights, and vital signs.
