Travel Nurse - SHIFTKEY
(2022-07 - 2024-09)
- Assisting patients with daily activities such as bathing, dressing, feeding, and mobility
- Documenting a patient's health issues and vital signs
- Reporting to the nurse on duty
- Transferring patients to and from bed
- Preparing rooms for admissions
- Interacting with a patient's family
- Keeping the environment clean
Staff Registered Nurse - ABBEY DELRAY - Delray Beach, FL
(2023-04 - 2024-04)
- Managing nursing services for a specific neighborhood or program
- Providing hands-on training to new staff members and retraining as needed
- Ensuring that physician orders are transcribed correctly into the electronic record system and treatment plan
- Administering medications and treatments as ordered
- Supervising and providing leadership to clinical and non-clinical staff
- Accurately and timely documenting a resident's condition and nursing needs
- Coordinating admissions, discharges, and transfers
- Planning resident admissions and performing assessments
- Reporting observations and reactions about residents to the next shift
Staff Registered Nurse - ENCORE - Boca Raton, FL
(2023-05 - 2024-05)
- Performing comprehensive patient assessments, identifying health needs, and developing individualized care plans
- Accurately administering medications and monitoring for potential side effects
- Managing wounds, providing necessary treatments based on patient conditions
- Informing patients and their families about health conditions, treatment plans, and self-care practices
- Working effectively with other healthcare team members like doctors, therapists, and social workers to ensure coordinated patient care
- Maintaining detailed patient records, documenting care provided, and following established charting guidelines
- Responding promptly to patient emergencies and providing necessary interventions
Staff Registered Nurse - UCP GROUP HOME: UNDER ATC - New York City
(2022-07 - 2022-09)
- Treat, and care for patient wounds, keeping them clean and free from infection
- Manage time well, as medications, drips, and evaluations are required at timely intervals
- Working with other nurses and medical professionals to provide comprehensive care to patients
- Performs medical tasks, including blood tests and administering shots
- Administers medication and other doctor-recommended treatment plans
- Communicate with patients, families, doctors, nurses, nursing aids, or managers
- Document all actions and any irregularities so that other nursing teams are aware of the current state of the patient
- Provide emotional and psychological support to patients
- Builds a cooperative relationship among healthcare teams by communicating information, responding to requests, and participating in team problem-solving
- Set up plans for patients' care or contribute information to existing plans
- Consult and collaborate with doctors and other healthcare professional
- Performing physical exams, recording health histories for patients, before making critical decisions
- Operating and monitoring medical equipment
Staff Registered Nurse - HOPKINS CENTER FOR REHABILITATION & HEALTHCARE - Brooklyn, NY
(2021-07 - 2022-07)
- Read physician orders and administered therapies, treatments, and medications
- Explained treatment procedures, medication side effects, special diets, and physician instructions to patients
- Collaborated with interdisciplinary healthcare professionals to create, implement, and adapt individualized care plans
- Reviewed physician orders and participated in medication management to optimize patient safety
- Maintained reports to provide oncoming shift with full patient status
- Prioritized patient care assignments based on patient conditions to achieve optimal outcomes
- Instructed patients, families and caregivers on diagnoses, chronic disease management, and medication self-management
- Facilitated strategic goals aimed at increasing satisfaction and improving outcomes through compassionate, precise, and high-quality nursing care
- Mentored new nurses on practices and procedures to drive patient outcome goals
- Monitored and recorded patient condition, vital signs, recovery progress, and medication side effects
- Oversaw patient immunization, supporting nurses through vaccine-specific training and supervising administration
- Promoted healthy lifestyle choices to reduce symptom or condition re-emergence
- Recorded patients' medical history, vital statistics and test results in electronic medical records
- Developed care plans complete with effective nursing measures to improve patients' mental and physical health
- Evaluated patients to develop and update treatment plans while anticipating day-to-day needs
- Conducted patient assessments and diagnostic tests to provide physician with important patient health information
- Developed and adapted individualized treatment plans according to patient recovery goals
Registered Nurse, Home Health Care - HOPE HOME CARE SERVICES - Staten Island, NY
(2020-12 - 2022-05)
- Participated in bedside reporting and handoff at change of shift and for patient transfers
- Assessed and prepared patients for procedures, performing initial and ongoing patient assessments
- Monitored and managed various treatment and care interventions
- Updated physicians on patient test results and assisted in developing care plans
- Conducted regular re-evaluations to address changes in needs and conditions and introduced revisions to care plans
- Addressed patient care needs, collected vitals, dressed wounds and managed catheters
- Assisted patients with activities of daily living and functional mobility to increase comfort and quality of life
- Assisted with client personal care needs to foster independence and well-being
- Administered prescribed medications and started intravenous fluids to address patient symptoms and underlying etiologies
- Developed care plans, covering goals based on nursing diagnosis and incorporating therapeutic, preventive and rehabilitative nursing actions
- Utilized learned nursing skills for wound care, vital sign checking and medication assistance
- Notified physicians of changes in patients' conditions
- Provided home health aide care providers with training, guidance, support and supervision to achieve objectives
- Asked open-ended questions and delivered a high level of attention to reliably assess patients' conditions
- Resolved issues in the field by notifying the supervisor immediately to determine course of action
Home Care Registered Nurse - GREATER NEW YORK HOME CARE - Brooklyn, NY
(2020-12 - 2022-12)
- Completed initial assessments of patients and family to determine and address individual home care needs
- Charted changes in patient conditions and discussed concerns with supervising healthcare provider
- Asked open-ended questions and delivered a high level of attention to reliably assess patients' conditions
- Verified consistent delivery of compassionate care to patients with back pain, arthritis, fractures, head injuries and strokes
- Worked with vendors on provision of medical equipment, supplies and services
- Administered compassionate care to patients with debilitating back pain, arthritis, fractures, head injuries and strokes
- Collected biological samples for routine laboratory testing to assist diagnostic processes
- Developed care plans, covering goals based on nursing diagnosis and incorporating therapeutic, preventive and rehabilitative nursing actions
- Conducted regular re-evaluations to address changes in needs and conditions and introduced revisions to care plans
