Charge Nurse - Cottonwood Nursing and Rehab - Denton, TX
(2025-05 - 2025-12)
- Provide guidance to Nurse Aides to ensure appropriate care for residents
- Properly and safely administer resident medications as prescribed
- Execute resident care plans in compliance with company policies, federal guidelines, and physician orders
- Deliver treatments as required to ensure resident health and comfort
- Accurately and promptly transcribe physician orders
- Maintain timely and accurate documentation in resident charts and complete required nursing assessments
- Participate in shift reports to ensure seamless communication and care continuity
- Implement nursing policies and procedures, educating staff on the care needs of residents
- Promote a safe working environment by complying with infection control and body mechanic procedures
- Respond to staffing shortages by arranging replacement staff as necessary
Agency LVN - Denton State Supported Living Center - Denton, TX
(2024-08 - 2025-05)
Provides the care, treatment, and general welfare of individuals residing at the State Supported Living Center who have complex medical, mental health and/or behavioral health issues. Performs basic and advanced routine and non-routine nursing tasks to promote the health of the individuals within the assigned areas and assigned shift.
- Collects specimens for lab work and performs health screenings
- Instructs direct support professionals and other staff on how to provide service and care that support the individual's medical needs
- Performs technical nursing procedures according to facility and state regulations
- Keeps informed of and follows all agency, SSLC and unit/home policies and procedures
- Provides direction and assists with on-the-job training to others such as newly hired LVNs and direct care staff
- Provides on-the-job nursing instruction and training for new LVNs, within their scope of practice, as requested by RN Supervisor
- Monitors, oversees the work of, and assigns work to, LVNs as needed
- Evaluates nursing intervention outcomes and provides input to other members of the healthcare team
- Assists RNs with implementation of protocols, procedures and programs to improve overall health and safety of staff and individuals
Charge Nurse - Vista Ridge Rehabilitation - Lewisville, Texas
(2024-01 - 2024-08)
- Conduct patient assessments and develop individualized care plans
- Administer medications and treatments according to established standards
- Monitor and record patient vital signs and medical information
- Collaborate with healthcare professionals to provide comprehensive patient care
- Assist in medical procedures such as gastric lavage, suturing, and pain management
- Provide education and support to patients and their families
- Ensures delivery of high-quality, positive clinical outcomes, and resident/family satisfaction during supervisory shifts
- Serves as a resource to all staff within the facility regarding the quality of services provided
- Provide direct resident care when required
- Demonstrates the ability to administer medications and treatment timely and according to facility policy
- Demonstrates ability to receive, transcribe, and carry out physician orders, if allowed by Nurse Practice Act
- Effectively manages nursing personnel on shift to limit use of overtime and agency personnel
- Assesses the work performance of nursing staff as it relates to unit standards of care and goals
- Conducts regular staff meetings on each shift and provides updates to DON
VSR (Veterans Service Representative) - Veterans Benefits Administration - FT. Snelling, MN
(2023-02 - 2023-07)
Veterans Service Representative (VSR) explains benefit programs and entitlement criteria, analyzes claims material, identifies issues, gathers relevant evidence, conducts interviews to adjudicate claims and inputs data necessary to generate the award and notification letter to the veteran describing the decision.
- Make determinations as to the eligibility for the type of benefit sought to include questions relating to adequacy of military service, medical evidence, and the evaluation of evidence of income, employability, dependence, and relationship
- Request examinations, re-examination, or opinions to evaluate disabilities resulting from diseases or injuries
- Review claims cases to assure all issues have been addressed, applies, and interprets VA laws, including veterans' case law, existing statutes and procedures, precedent rulings, and state law in the adjudication process
- Conduct interviews in person or by phone with veterans, representatives, and advocates to explain the full range of VA benefits and related programs
- Prepare and release correspondence for use by other federal, state, and local agencies
- Utilize various electronic data processing (DEPP) systems to input data for processing claims and generating automated correspondence
PSM/NEPHROLOGY LPN - Veterans Health Administration - St. Cloud, MN
(2022-05 - 2023-02)
Delivers safe, basic physical and emotional care to patients with simple needs while developing technical skills. Adheres to VA and Nursing policies, procedures and standards.
- Gathers data to provide input to the accountable nurse to assist in developing and updating plans of care
- Obtains and records objective and subjective data relevant to a bio-psychosocial profile under the supervision of the accountable nurse
- Performs 24-hour chart check for transcription/verification of all written, active medication and treatment orders
- Performs support duties for diagnostic procedures including preparing the patient, assisting in the diagnostic examination, and monitoring the patient's condition
- Cleans RME (Reusable Medical Equipment) per SOP (Standard Operating Procedure)
- Administer medications per proper procedures and protocol
- Chart medications and patient reactions with technical accuracy
- Recognize and respond to emergency situations per established protocol
- Perform suture removals and wound care according to established guidelines
- Utilize knowledge of human behavior, motivations, and reactions to effectively work with patients, families, significant others, and staff
PCMH LPN - Bayne-Jones Army Community Hospital - Fort Polk, LA
(2019-05 - 2022-05)
Obtain information from patients and/or family to identify major complaints, symptoms, or reason for seeking healthcare. Provide individualized nursing care to patients of all ages based upon the physician's medical plan, the nursing assessment, and the physical, mental and emotional needs of the patient.
- Assist physician with various examinations and diagnostic procedures including rooming patients, obtaining weight, height, and vital signs, EKGs, bladder scans, completing clinical reminders, documenting medication reconciliation, performing ear lavages, wound care, applying sterile dressings
- Administer medications including immunizations, injections, and oxygen
- Assist providers with specialized injections, pap smears, application of liquid nitrogen, and other minor procedures as applicable to clinics
- Screen and review immunization records to select required immunizations, correct dosages, and administer oral, intradermal, subcutaneous, intramuscular immunizations to all age groups
- Prepare and release correspondence for use by other federal, state, and local agencies
- COVID-19 vaccination nurse, screens and provides COVID education to vaccine recipients, administers the COVID-19 vaccine and documents administration in the appropriate records
- Conducts chart audits to identify and provide staff identification needs
- Recognizes signs and symptoms of potential anaphylaxis and promptly notifies Allergy Provider, RN and/or Provider on Call via Vocera of observed condition and initiates Standing Orders and prescribed interventions
- Schedules appointments, coordinates outside records
- Conducts telephone and/or face to face patient appointments to collect data to address or route appropriately, facilitates medication renewals, answers questions and provides information within scope of practice
- Perform teaching to patients and/or family regarding immunizations, self-care procedures and documents teaching
- Immunization and COVID-19 Preceptor
LPN (FCU-PCU-ICW-MED-SURG) - Winn Army Community Hospital - Fort Stewart, GA
(2014-11 - 2019-05)
Provide nursing care to a variety of services on a population varying from pediatric to geriatric to include ENT, gynecology, urology, medical, surgical and orthopedic. Provide individualized nursing care to patients of all ages based upon the physician's medical plan, the nursing assessment.
- Perform a wide range of treatment procedures that include venipuncture, EKGs, bladder scans, phlebotomy, catheter insertion, NG tubes, JP drains, accordion drains and respiratory therapy
- Perform a wide range of diagnostic support duties that include but is not limited to taking vital signs, collecting specimens, applying sterile dressing, wound care, performing ear lavages, bladder scanning, performing glucometer control tests and calling and recording laboratory reports
- Experience providing pre- and post-operative patient care
- Administer medications via various routes
- Performed Insulin drips and Heparin Drips
- Performed various immediate post-surgical recovery, post-surgical care, and post-surgical education
