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Andrew Smith

287 Custer Street, Hopewell, PA 00000
[email protected]
(000) 000-0000

Professional Summary

Registered LPN (Licensed Practical Nurse) equipped with 20+ years of experience serving adult patients in in-home settings and facilities.  Expert in providing exceptional care to the developmentally disabled and medically fragile.  Current valid license, CPR and IV Therapy, and extensive knowledge of clinical and patient practices and guidelines.

Employment history

Hospice Nurse, Lowe, MacGyver and Runte. Randystad, California
Dec. 2018 – Present
  • Observe patients, charting and reporting changes in patients’ conditions, such as adverse reactions to medication or treatment, and taking any necessary action.
  • Provide basic patient care or treatments, such as taking temperatures or blood pressures, dressing wounds, treating bedsores, giving enemas or douches, rubbing with alcohol, massaging, or performing catheterizations.
  • Answer patients’ calls and determine how to assist them.
  • Measure and record patients’ vital signs, such as height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, pulse, and respiration.
  • Work as part of a healthcare team to assess patient needs, plan and modify care, and implement interventions.
  • Provide medical treatment or personal care to patients in private home settings, such as cooking, keeping rooms orderly, seeing that patients are comfortable and in good spirits, or instructing family members in simple nursing tasks.
  • Assemble and use equipment, such as catheters, tracheotomy tubes, or oxygen suppliers.
  • Evaluate nursing intervention outcomes, conferring with other healthcare team members as necessary.
  • Evaluate nursing intervention outcomes, conferring with other healthcare team members as necessary.
  • Help patients with bathing, dressing, maintaining personal hygiene, moving in bed, or standing and walking.
  • Wash and dress bodies of deceased persons.

Hospice Nurse/Clinical Liasion, Klocko-Turner. Bartonburgh, Florida
Jun. 2016 – Sep. 2016
  • Administer prescribed medications or start intravenous fluids, noting times and amounts on patients’ charts.
  • Observe patients, charting and reporting changes in patients’ conditions, such as adverse reactions to medication or treatment, and taking any necessary action.
  • Provide basic patient care or treatments, such as taking temperatures or blood pressures, dressing wounds, treating bedsores, giving enemas or douches, rubbing with alcohol, massaging, or performing catheterizations.
  • Answer patients’ calls and determine how to assist them.
  • Measure and record patients’ vital signs, such as height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, pulse, and respiration.
  • Work as part of a healthcare team to assess patient needs, plan and modify care, and implement interventions.
  • Provide medical treatment or personal care to patients in private home settings, such as cooking, keeping rooms orderly, seeing that patients are comfortable and in good spirits, or instructing family members in simple nursing tasks.
  • Evaluate nursing intervention outcomes, conferring with other healthcare team members as necessary.
  • Help patients with bathing, dressing, maintaining personal hygiene, moving in bed, or standing and walking.
  • Wash and dress bodies of deceased persons.

Education

Ledner College, South Tamathaborough, Pennsylvania
LVN, Nursing, Jul. 1995

Skills

Pain Management

Wound Care

Evaluate patients for Hospice

hospice nurse

  • Work with terminally ill or dying patients to help ensure their comfort and quality of their remaining days, help patients who no longer respond or want medical treatment to live out their final days in comfort, and prepare themselves and their families for their death.
  • Work as part of a team to provide care, monitor health conditions, administer medication, use medical equipment, advise patients and their families on current prognosis.