Amanda Burns
San Antonio,TX
Summary
Hardworking Registered Nurse with success providing individualized patient care. Committed to delivering best-in-class patient care through effective education and counseling. Proven leadership focused on increasing and enhancing patient care and satisfaction. Streamline safety protocols for comprehensive patient care.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Registered Nurse/RN Manager
Amerita Infusion
11.2023 - Current
- Evaluates and manages patients within the infusion clinic through the use of nursing process
- Collaborates with the physician, nurse practitioner, physician assistant, and other members of the healthcare team
- Communicates patient history, current assessment findings, status, and response to care
- Assessing patients: Evaluating patients to develop care plans
- Inserting IVs: Inserting IV catheters and other types of lines
- Administering medications: Administering IV medications, vitamins, fluids, and chemotherapy
- Educating patients and caregivers: Teaching patients and caregivers about medications and how to manage chronic diseases
- Responding to adverse reactions: Responding to side effects, adverse reactions, or anaphylaxis during infusion
- Documenting: Recording medications, vital signs, and side effects in the medical record
- Maintaining equipment: Maintaining equipment used with patients
- Facilitates staff meetings, the hiring process, Attending infection prevention meetings. Manage and trains over 30 nurses
Registered Nurse
Aspen Infusion
01.2022 - 03.2024
- Assessing patients: Evaluating patients to develop care plans
- Inserting IVs: Inserting IV catheters and other types of lines
- Educating patients: Teaching patients about their medications and how to manage chronic diseases
- Administered medications safely according to established guidelines while closely monitoring for side effects or adverse reactions requiring intervention.
- Assisted in the training and mentorship of new nursing staff members, contributing to a positive work environment and high-quality patient care.
- Responding to adverse reactions: Responding to side effects, adverse reactions, or anaphylaxis during infusion
- Documenting: Recording medications, vital signs, and side effects
- Utilized critical thinking skills to prioritize nursing interventions based on patients'' acuity levels and individual needs.
Registered Nurse/Case Supervisor/Case Manager
Haven Home Health LLC
03.2021 - 01.2022
- Assists in the development of programs and functions for the Agency as related to clinical services
- Supervises responsibilities within the province of nursing
- Participates in QAPI activities and all activities relevant to the professional services furnished
- Provides for continuing evaluation of the nursing staff by case conferences and in-services
- Evaluating the job performance of other individuals in the division about established standards and the individual’s professional development
- Participates in periodic meetings with the administration and DON to ensure optimum communication and to discuss any mutual or agency problems
- Participate in all Agency in-service programs.
- Coordinates services provided by contract personnel
- Assist in the review of all logs, including but not limited to Infection Control, patient complaints, and incident reports, or at least every quarter, investigate problems/potential problems note; offer recommendations for resolution/change.
- Reports any suspected violations of Privacy Practices to the Privacy Official as soon as a breach/possible breach is identified.
- Provide initial and ongoing client needs assessment using the OASIS data elements incorporated into the overall evaluation.
Facility Administrator Premier Health
US Renal Care
12.2020 - 02.2021
- Manage decisions regarding the operations of the facility
- Ensure staff are current and up to date on policies and procedures; COVID-19
- Maintain current knowledge of trends and issues in health care
- Communicate and work effectively with all levels of staff throughout the facility
- Lead and coordinate interdisciplinary groups and report outcomes
- Develop, implement, and monitor performance improvement plans as identified
- Monitor and report effectiveness of change outcomes
- Correspond and report in an accurate and timely manner
- Utilize sound clinical judgment in making decisions
- Maintain current staff/physician/facility records
- Remain prepared for internal and external audits
- Anemia Management, QAPI, and Governing Body, EMR resource, CROWNWeb and NHSN data entry.
Clinical PD Dialysis Nurse Manager
Seasons Dialysis, LLC
09.2014 - 07.2020
- Manage decisions regarding the operations of the facility.
- Ensure patients and family members are trained properly.
- Maintain current knowledge of trends and issues in healthcare.
- Communicate and work effectively with all levels of staff throughout the facility.
- Lead and coordinate interdisciplinary groups and report outcomes.
- Develop, implement, and monitor performance improvement plans as identified.
- Monitor and report the effectiveness of change outcomes
- Manage dialysis lab, solutions, ancillary, and other office inventory supplies.
- EMR resource, CROWNWeb, and NHSN data entry
- Maintain current staff/physician/facility records
Education
Associate Degree Nursing - Nursing
Lone Star College
Kingwood, TX08.2010
Vocational Nursing Program - Nursing
Lone Star College
Kingwood, Texas12.1996
Skills
- PICC line management
- Wound Care
- Infection control measures
- Compassion and Empathy
- Patient education and counseling
- Patient Assessment
- Direct Patient Care
- Medication and IV administration
- Nursing staff leadership
- Lab result interpretation
- EMR Systems
- Proper catheter insertion/removal
- Intake and discharge
- Emergency Procedures
- Case Management
Certification
- Licensed Registered Nurse, TX
- Certified Dialysis Nurse (CDN), Expired
- BLS Certified
- Trained in Vascular Access and Anemia Management
- Licensed Vocational Nurse TX
Volunteer Experience
- ANNA Gulf Coast Chapter 204, President 2016 & 2017, President-Elect 2015, Liaison 2014
- National Kidney Foundation, Houston, Texas
References
References available upon request
Timeline
Registered Nurse/RN Manager
Amerita Infusion
11.2023 - Current
Registered Nurse
Aspen Infusion
01.2022 - 03.2024
Registered Nurse/Case Supervisor/Case Manager
Haven Home Health LLC
03.2021 - 01.2022
Facility Administrator Premier Health
US Renal Care
12.2020 - 02.2021
Clinical PD Dialysis Nurse Manager
Seasons Dialysis, LLC
09.2014 - 07.2020
Associate Degree Nursing - Nursing
Lone Star College
Vocational Nursing Program - Nursing
Lone Star College
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