Allison Van Pelt

• Prepared patients for examinations, tests or treatments and explained procedures.
• Documented patient medical histories, current symptoms and vitals.
• Measured and recorded patient height, weight and other vital signs.
• Charted changes in patient conditions and discussed concerns with supervising healthcare provider.
• Administered medications orally, intravenously or intramuscularly depending on the prescription given by the doctor.
• Took temperatures or blood pressures, dressed wounds and provided other basic patient care or treatments.
• Answered patient calls, identified issues and determined how best to provide assistance within parameters established by facility and supervisor.

Room patients, manage schedule, vitals, weights, prior authorizations, precertifications, secretarial duties, medication injections, diabetic teaching.

Primary care nurse with patient assignment,  telemetry interpretation and monitoring, critical care vent management,  assisted with PEG tubes, Trachs, IV medications, colonoscopies,  EGD, managed complex wounds and vac application.

At first I was and STNA and then completed my LPN in 2007. After I obtained my LPN I transferred to primary care bedside nursing on orthopedic floor.  Worked with fresh post op patient recovery, assisted with post op rehab, blood transfusions, and discharge planning.