Board Certified Psychiatric Mental Health RN
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Essential tremor, use both hands for writing, cannot perform phlebotomy
Board Certified Psychiatric Mental Health RN - Las Cruces Recovery - Las Cruces, New Mexico
(2026-01)
Working with Alcoholics and Addicts- Admission/Discharge. Administer prescribed medication. Document daily on EMR. Educate (hygiene, sobriety, health, activities of daily living).
School/Clinical Nurse - Alamo Navajo School Board
(2025-06 - 2025-12)
300 kids (K-12) Administer prescribed medications. Assessed and treated daily bumps, bruises, and malaise. Community education. Clothing drive, food drive. Documentation EMR.
High school Nurse (underserved population) - Denver Public Schools
(2024-11 - 2024-06)
Vaccine Nurse - Specialty Medical Staffing
(2024-09 - 2024-09)
Licensed Massage Therapist - Elements Massage Broomfield CO - Broomfield, Colorado
(2024-08 - 2025-03)
Licensed Massage Therapist (since 1992) Massage clients, document S.O.A.P. Notes.
Basic Life Support Instructor - American Heart Association
(2023-12)
Teach life support skills to professionals and others who want to save lives.
Correctional Nurse - Adams County Detention facility - Brighton, Colorado
(2024-05 - 2024-07)
Home Health/School Nurse - Team Select
(2023-11 - 2024-01)
Met lovely nonverbal 17-year-old female Daily (M-F) at Rocky Mountain high School Pushed her in her wheelchair and assisted her with Programmed learning IPAD. Bolus feeding, changed her brief. Over Christmas break she got quite ill, Her feeding tube was leaking- causing skin breakdown and pain. This reduced her nutritional intake. Her mother informed me she required surgery to move her feeding tube. She was in the hospital most of Jan/Feb and had a stroke mid-March. I pray for them daily.
Nurse (SNF/Hospice) - Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society
(2023-09 - 2023-11)
Administered medication to residents and documented on "point/click/care" EMR. Overstaffed, Personally and professionally too religious for me.
Assistant Vitamin Manager - Sprouts Longmont - Longmont, Colorado
(2022-11 - 2023-09)
Educated customers about Nutritional supplements, Stocked, sold, cleaned, cashiered, store ambassador. First Colorado job after relocating to Colorado to live geographically closer to my remaining family. Worked here to earn enough to pay for my Colorado Nursing and Massage credentials.
Travel Nurse - Garda Federal World Services - Dona Ana, New Mexico
(2021-08 - 2021-12)
Recruited as a travel nurse, part of operation OAW. Welcomed, Triaged, COVID tested, went on rounds with MD's and documented their findings. Administered prescribed medications. Worked woman's clinic- delivered babies, psych, men's clinic, and pharmacy. HYGIENE education. Distributed sanitary products and educated, treated and cared for 10,000 Afghan refugees. On 12/28/2021 Garda ran out of funding. The U.S. government shut down OAW and dispersed the refugees.
Board Certified Psychiatric Mental Health RN - Palm Shores Behavioral Health Center - Bradenton, Florida
(2016-06 - 2021-07)
Senior Nurse in charge of adolescent boys' unit. Initial head to toe assessment. Transcribed MD notes to patient chart. Administered prescribed medication and monitored for side effects/adverse reaction.
Documented 3 times each shift: Affect, interaction with peers and staff, hygiene (sleep, self, space), participation in onsite school and treatment. Height/weight. Milieu activities I taught included stretching/yoga, relaxation techniques, ADL's, life-skills.
I mentored my patients to recognize the difference between REACTION and RESPONSE. Prepared for and attended treatment team meetings. Each patient (census 64), every 28 days. MD, therapist, discharge planner, nurse, patient, family/GAL discussed patient progress and readiness for discharge.
Admission through discharge and aftercare planning. Fierce patient advocate. Mentored new nurses, taught CPR/FA, and new employee orientation Monthly. Only left this job for emergent surgery. Upon my recovery I was recruited as a travel nurse.
Instructor/Supervisor - Sarasota School of Massage Therapy - Sarasota, Florida
(1999-01 - 2015-07)
Taught Anatomy & Physiology, Pathology, hydrotherapy, myology, massage therapy, Florida Laws, rules, ethics, allied modalities. Supervised the student massage clinic. Observed the massage and corrected posture to prevent injury. Read student notes and offered constructive feedback. Demonstrated how to communicate professionally with the public.
LPN/Advocate/Care Manager - Advocare - Delray Beach, Florida
(2015-01 - 2015-12)
Trained with Geriatric Care Managers. MD's, lawyers, RN's LPN's, appointment setters and respite providers all work as a team to provide the gold standard quality end of life care for families whose loved ones are terminal. My mother, diagnosed in 2009 with frontal lobe dementia was cared for by this team. The care she received was excellent. Empowering me to complete my nursing education to become the kind, compassionate, educated, nurse, woman, teacher I am today. I pray this forward.
LPN - Help at Home - Sarasota, Florida
(2014-02 - 2014-09)
Several in home hospice clients. Advanced training in Hoyer lift and bowel care.
Summer Camp counsellor/Aquatic Director - Camp Timberlane - Haliburton, Ontario, Canada
(1979-01 - 1984-01)
Supervised female youth (ages 12-16) at overnight camp. Designed swimming and watersafety classes. 200 youth/and families.
MSN - Health/Nutrition - Clayton College of Health (2000-01 - 2005-01)
ASN - Nursing - State College of Florida/Sun Coast College of Health (2012-01 - 2015-01)
Vocational Degree - Massage Therapy - Sarasota School of Massage Therapy (1992-01)
BA - Communication/Advertising - SUNYAB (1979-01 - 1981-01)
