District nurse - DES Arizona
(2024-03)
- provides nursing services to individuals with developmental disabilities in their homes or institutional settings, assessing their skilled nursing needs, creating care plans, and coordinating services with other providers and support coordinators.
- Works with Support Coordinators and qualified vendors to coordinate medically necessary home health services
- Monitors a member's progress related to their nursing needs and ensures compliance with prescribed treatments.
- Uses standardized tools, such as the H-NAT, to ensure consistent and accurate assessment of nursing service hours.
- Acts as a point of contact for members, families, and healthcare providers regarding skilled nursing services.
- Involved in care planning for members residing in Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNFs) or other institutional settings.
- Conduct beneficiary screenings and assessments to determine eligibility for case management services.
- Develop, implement, and monitor individualized care plans, ensuring effectiveness and timely adjustments.
- Advocate for beneficiaries by coordinating access to care, specialized services, and community resources.
- Process and review authorizations and referrals in compliance with policies and high-risk criteria.
- Maintain accurate and timely documentation within the medical management system.
- Collaborate with providers, internal teams, and guided non-clinical staff to ensure care plan alignment and operational success.
- Demonstrate consistent professionalism, reliability, and effective communication.
Psych Nurse - Copperspring Behavioral Hospital- Avondale AZ - Avondale, AZ
(2023-02)
- providing care that is safe, effective and efficient in a timely manner to mental health patients and patients detoxing from alcohol and opioids
- Monitored patients vitals signs and administered treatments for patients dealing with mental health issues and opioid and alcohol dependency in accordance with their plan of care.
- assess patients and get their Ciwa and Cows done according to the hospital protocol.
- responsible for different admission and assessment of patients and orienting them on the unit.
- responsible for patient intake by assessing the patient when they get in the building, determining if they are qualified to be in patient according to the hospital policies, calling the providers for patient intake orders.
- Collaborated with different physicians, psychiatrist, therapist, social worker, case managers, SMI teams and support techs to ensure continuity of care for patients.
- helping patients achieve their goal of getting sober
- help the patient set their goals by setting goals that are objective.
- help mental health patients identify their coping mechanism to overcome depression and anxiety.
- Offering patients and their families education and support in their illness management and home care.
- prepared patients for discharge by making sure they discharge paperwork is filled appropriately., served as a liaison between the discharge planner and the patients and the patient request is sent to the discharge planner
- responsible for chart audit. making sure all nurses, therapists, psychiatrists and physicians notes are up to date.
- oversee LPNs job and collaborate with them for optimum patient care.
- conduct charts audit to make sure treatment plans are up to date and all documents are being signed by all the teams members.
Licensed Practical Nurse - Copperspring Behavioral Hospital- Avondale AZ - Avondale, AZ
(2022-09 - 2022-12)
- medication administration to patients mentally ill or detoxing from substances abused
- providing safety care to patients.
- responsible of administration of all influenza vaccine to patient
- responsible for all blood sugar checks and insulin administration and collaborate with the registered nurse.
- verified all orders and making sure all the medications consent are signed by the patient
Licensed Practical nurse - case manager - Maxim Healthcare services - Tucson AZ - Tucson, AZ
(2022-01 - 2022-09)
- Coordinating and providing care that is safe, timely, equitable, efficient and effective to patients and caregivers in a variety of settings.
- Remote clinical manager responsible for continuous review of all aspects of every patient to include: appropriate utilization of services; ensuring continued skilled need; monitoring of homebound status; review of documentation in the medical record; maintenance of interdisciplinary communication and discharge planning.
- Helping patients achieve comfort and autonomy.
- Drafting schedules for the team, handling case assignments, drafting patient centered care plans, reviewing case progress and determining case closures.
- Admitting patients and establishing a comprehensive plan of care.
- Coordinate with pharmacies, DME and supply companies to get patients all the supplies needed for safe and effective care.
- chart review
- Ensure promotion of best practice for disease specific care.
- Participates consistently in phone communication to collaborate care and participates in staff meetings.
Licensed practical nurse - Bayada Home Health - Tucson AZ - Tucson, AZ
(2020-04 - 2021-05)
- Administration of the medication as prescribed by the provider
- Tracheostomy care
- Patient care and patient data collection
- Tube feeding
Licensed Practical nurse - Arizona State Prison Tucson Complex, Tucson AZ - Tucson, AZ
(2018-03 - 2021-05)
- Administration of the medication as prescribed by the provider
- Blood glucose check and insulin administration and monitoring
- Wound care
- Patient care and patient data collection
- Injections and immunizations
- Ostomy care
- Tube feeding
Caregiver and house manager - Arizona Mentor, Tucson AZ - Tucson, AZ
(2015-05 - 2017-12)
- Assistance with personal care such as dressing, showering, grooming, brushing, changing bed linens.
- Observing, reporting, and recording changes in residents' behavior and physical conditions, their reactions and concerns and reporting such changes to the nurse.
- Taking residents' vital signs like weight, temperature, pulse, respiration, BP,
- calling the pharmacies to refill the patient's prescription and ensuring the medications are picked up in a timely manner.
Direct Support Professional - Tucson Residence Foundation - Tucson, AZ
(2013-06 - 2015-05)
- Providing assistance to clients with activities of daily living.
- Assisting with medication administration as prescribed by their doctors.
- Attending Doctor's appointments with client
Student Nurse - Clinical Rotations
(2021-05 - 2022-07)
Collaborate with the registered nurse to provide patient centered care, up to two patients per day with different conditions and level of acuity. Applied critical thinking on the patient's status.
Skills included: wound care, medication administration, head to toe assessment, collaboration with different members of the healthcare team including doctors, social workers, psychiatrists providing education to the patients and their families, performing electronic charting using Cerner and Epic. excellent communication and grammar skills, critical thinking skills, and ability to manage time efficiently and meet stringent time frames.
- Long Term Care │ Sapphire Estates Rehabilitation Center: 40 Hours
- Labor and Delivery │ Banner University Medical center: 60 Hours
- Medical-Surgical │ St. Mary's Hospital: 240 Hours
- Pediatrics │ Tucson Medical Center: 48 Hours
- Acute Care Medical-Surgical │ Banner University Medical Center: 120 Hours
- psychiatry │ Palo Verde Behavioral Health: 80 Hours
