Duties: Monitor Vital Signs, record and report symptoms or changes in patient’s condition. Maintain accurate, detailed reports and records.  Provide patients and families with emotional support and instruction in caring for their ill family member. Work as part of a healthcare team to assess patient’s needs, plan and modify care and implement interventions. Daily assessments. Knowledgeable in wound care dressings, wound vacs, respiratory treatments, Enteral feedings, insertion and maintenance of Foley catheters. Trach and Gtube care and changing of both as needed. Accu-checks and administration of insulin. Proper documentation and communication with MDs.

Traveled daily Monday through Friday for total care of 18yr old female with Cerebral Palsy, blind and non-ambulatory. Gtube dependent. Provided in-home and school care including but not limited to, activities of daily living, patient hygiene and pain control. Administered medications and respiratory treatments as ordered. Maintained proper documentation and reported to MD as needed. 

Duties: Assessments, Vital Signs and weekly Medication Reviews. Patient teachings on  meds and disease process. Accu-checks, wound care, wound vacs, insulin administration, venipunctures, insertion and care of male and female foley catheters, Supra-pubic catheters, straight catherization, care and changing of Trach and Gtubes. Enteral feeding, suctioning and respiratory treatments. PT-INR testing and proper documentation with communication with different MDs.

Duties: Daily assessments. Provided medical assistance to prison inmates. Administered treatments and medications as needed. Provided referrals to MDs. Checked medical equipment on a daily basis and coordinated with Medical staff. 

Duties: In charge of nursing wing (Azul) with approximately 30 patients, nurses and aides. Performed monthly assessments for MDS, PPS and TILES. Communicated with Doctors to implement changes and checked for proper documentation and complying of all MD’s orders. Handled complaints and met with families. Maintained accurate, detailed reports and records. Consulted and coordinated with healthcare team members to assess, plan, implement, or evaluate patient care plans. Assisted twice with well maintained records when Regent Care Center was audited by Medicare. Oversaw all aspects of care. Also did Private Duty for adults and worked the floor as staff nurse as needed. 

Duties: Reviewed patient’s records and lab tests for continuity of care. Requested authorizations for required medical procedures from multiple insurance companies. Communicated on a daily basis between patients, family members and medical staff. Observed nurses and visit patients to ensure proper nursing care.

Duties: Assured patient care was given to all patients as reflected in the nurse’s notes through specific and detailed documentation. Reviewed all RN admissions, recertifications and daily notes. Handled all Medicare denials and requests for additional information. Trained all new QA nurses. Directed and coordinated infection control programs, advising and consulting with specified personnel about necessary precautions.