Angela Hopper

• Assisted other Nurses and Medical Assistants with problems, testing and teaching the system, EMR.
• Clinical nurse for Internist
• Team member for Hendricks Medical center
• Nurse Representative on team to start up new EMR system.
• Trained new employee’s office procedures.
• Phone calls, scheduling test, prior authorizations, test results, medications, B/P, stress test, injections.
• Nurse for Internist in clinical office
• Patient calls, scheduling test, prior authorizations, test results, medications, B/P, stress test, injections.
• Phlebotomy in office - blood draw, and preparation for send out.
• Dr. Williams joined with Hendrick Medical to start the first hospital owned clinical office which has now expanded into every specialty verse events and provided medications and oxygen to resolve symptoms.

• Administered nuclear stress tests, holter monitor, EKG, pacemaker analysis and chest x-rays.
• Clinical Nurse for an invasive Cardiologist
• Assisted in Coumadin clinic
• Assisted with patient care including B/P, phone calls, appointments, scheduling, IV’s, medication, finger sticks, etc.
• Documented patient vitals, behaviors and conditions to communicate concerns to supervising RN.
• Assessed patients' temperature, pulse and blood pressure and recorded in electronic medical records.

Assigned to various areas and specialties

• Medsurge
• Psych hospital
• Wound care clinic
• Long term care facility

Clinical and hospital setting

• Assisted with outpatient surgeries and was taught how to suture
• Screen for visual problems for out of prison ophthalmologist referrals.
• Rounded on each inmate pod
• Triage after riots

Nightime Medsurge floor nurse.

• Assessed patients' temperature, pulse and blood pressure.
• Documented patient vitals, behaviors and conditions to communicate concerns to supervising RN supervisor.
• Responded to patient requests with appropriate clinical and personal assistance.
• Worked with multidisciplinary team to carry out successful treatment plans for diverse acute and chronic conditions.
• Took samples to complete diagnostic and routine assessment tests.
• Helped long-term care residents with bathing, dressing, feeding and other daily living activities.
• Prepared patients for surgery, educating patients and family members on surgical procedures.
• Administered controlled narcotics, inserted IVs and performed catheterizations.
• Assisted with admissions, appointments, transfers and discharges.
• Managed patient care through closely monitoring respiration, blood pressure and blood glucose levels.

New nurse hired as Medsurge nurse

• Transferred to Emergency Department as primary nurse.
• Recommended by one of the other ER nurses. This was a 4 bed primary,
• 1 OB/GYN room and trauma room.
• Saint Mary’s had just taken over and said the only way a LVN could work the ER as a primary nurse was to have my ACLS , which I obtained.
• Multitask in very active settings.
• Running codes, NG tunes, IV’s, wound care, overdose, gunshot wounds, fractures, burns, etc.