Amanda C. Flores
Corpus Christi,TX
Summary
Dedicated Vocational Nurse with a passion for providing exceptional patient care in a Health Care facility. Utilizing my nursing education, training, and strong interpersonal skills, I aim to deliver compassionate and efficient healthcare services. Committed to improving the well-being of individuals under my care, I bring comprehensive knowledge and the ability to work effectively within a team. Striving to create a positive impact on the overall patient experience by leveraging my expertise and dedication.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
LVN LEAD
Christus Urgent Care
05.2022 - Current
- Prepares and maintains quality control standards (HIPAA/OSHA) for the Urgent Care Clinic locations
- Maintains Urgent Care Clinics safety requirements and initiates quarterly Environment of Care inspections for the clinics
- Participates in competency-based training, continuing education activities, and meetings to maintain competence in nursing best practices
- Update, inform, instruct, and educate all clinical staff on nursing best practices
- Demonstrates knowledge of safety and infection control practices to ensure safe working environments
- Preforms monthly chart audits and competencies for all clinical staff
- Maintains clinical staffs' certifications for BLS and CLIA
- Interviews, Hires, and Precepts all new hire clinical staff associates
- Provides teaching and training to staff and individuals
- Assists with on-the-job nursing instruction and training of all LVNs, Paramedics, and MAs during assigned shifts by observing them perform their essential job duties and providing feedback to them in their performance of nursing and clinical protocols and treatments
- Develops and presents information for in service training or staff development, as assigned
- Serves as a direct point of contact and resource for all staff, receives calls for assistance from staff, and responds to all calls when in and out of the clinics
- Serves as a resource for other nurses and back staff by answering their questions about nursing and clinic protocols and providing information about where to seek additional information for their professional development such as the use of Internal online learning platforms
- Maintains laboratory CLIA certifications and documentation on all machines, lab equipment, and point of care testing kits
- Routinely runs Quality Control testing on all lab machines daily, monthly, and yearly
- Responds to emergency situations to ensure safety of individuals
- Demonstrates a working knowledge of emergency procedures and emergency equipment
- Supervises all clinical back staff for the Urgent Care Clinics, including the LVNs, MAs, Paramedics, and X-Ray Technicians
- Staffs the Urgent Care Clinics by creating all back staffs monthly clinical rotation schedules, and PTO requests
- Makes adjustments to clinics, staff schedules, and staff members based upon call-ins and the immediate needs of the clinics
- Delegates work assignments to back clinical staff
- Assists with handling patient complaints.
- Models appropriate interaction with patients, patients' family members, and with all staff
- Provides input to Clinical Manager to assist in the evaluation of employee's performances
- Preforms Clinical Manager duties when Manager is away from the clinic
- Performs Charge Nurse duties, LVN duties, as well as all other related duties as assigned by Provider, Clinical Manager, and Director of Operations for Urgent Care.
LVN
Christus Urgent Care
03.2017 - 05.2022
- Provides professional nursing care to clinic patients
- Works collaboratively with the Providers to facilitate quality care for patients
- Performs daily clinical duties per established policy and procedure
- Greets patients, rooms patients, triages patients, obtains well documented history, current medications, and collects vitals
- Assists Provider in emergent patient situations, assists the Provider in stabilizing the patient, and delegates to staff emergent plan of care
- Collects COVID19 nasopharyngeal specimen swabs for in house rapid PCR testing
- Provides education to patients regarding CDC guidelines for positive COVID19 diagnosis and positive exposure
- Prepares and administers vaccines such as COVID19 Pfizer and Moderna, Influenza, Hep B, TDAP, and Tetanus
- Educates patients on vaccine information, monitors patient post vaccine administration
- Preforms ear lavages, Morgan lens procedure, EKG's, phlebotomy, starts IV lines, and administers medications and fluids as ordered by the Provider
- Runs in house laboratory, COVID19 Antigen and PCR, Flu tests, RSV tests, Strep tests, Mono, Urine HCG, Cardiac enzymes, D-Dimer, Chemistries, and Urinalysis
- Prepares all other labs for send out
- Cleans clinic and patient rooms, Re-stocks and orders all supplies for clinic
- Routinely checks in house clinic medications and reorders as needed
- Administers oral medications, IM medications, and IV push medications
- Preforms in house drug screens as well as send out drug tests
- Administers TB testing and preforms TB reading results
- Preforms and certified to administer Breath Alcohol Tests and DOT drug testing
- Assists the Provider with any in house clinic procedures, orthopedic splints, incision and drainages, and lacerations
- Cleans all wounds, collects cultures, and dresses all lacerations and wounds
- Preforms administrative duties, patient follow up phone calls, return messages from patients with questions and concerns, calls in prescriptions as ordered by Provider, sends patient's medical records, schedules outpatient radiology exams, follow up appointments, patient referrals, and insurance authorizations
- Formulates patient care plans, posts tests and examination results, reviews test and examination results with Providers as well as Patients
- Instructs patients with regard to medication and treatment, under direction of Provider
- Works closely with Providers, Radiology Techs, and ancillary staff.
LVN
Corpus Christi Independent School District
08.2018 - 08.2019
- Manages and maintains adequate health rooms, and implements health services program under the general direction of the Administrative Officer for Student Health Services
- Provides emergency care, first aid for students and employees, and medication administration for students
- Conducts health screening procedures such as height/weight, vision, hearing, spinal, and Acanthosis Nigricans; and/or head-lice checks
- Assists in enforcing communicable disease control
- Gathers and maintains immunization information on all students, and keeps immunization records current as required by state immunization law
- Notifies parents of required immunization doses due and provides follow-up in a timely manner
- Maintains accurate records, and prepares reports as required by administrative policy, Texas Education Agency, state law, and Administrative Officer for Student Health Services
- Contributes to promotion of a safe and healthy school environment
- Works with parents and medical health care community to promote optimum delivery of health care services to students
- Anticipates supply and equipment needs appropriate to maintaining a continuous, functional, building-level program
- Participates in faculty activities
- Maintains confidentiality and adheres to Board policy
- Performs other job-related activities as assigned by the appropriate chain of command.
LVN
Texas Precision Surgery Center
11.2016 - 05.2017
- Caring for pre-op patients, doing assessments, administering pre-op medications, following pre-op orders
- Caring for post-op patients, preparing them for discharge, teaching of discharge instructions pertaining to procedure
- Starting IV's
- Pre and Post op phone calls
- Patient assessments, measuring and recording vital signs, such as height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, pulse, and respirations
- Assessing patient's needs, plans, and modifying care
- Answer patient's questions or concerns face to face and over the phone
- Documenting of all actions with patients
- Cleaning rooms and stocking supplies
- Works closely with Physicians, RNs, LVNs, MAs, CNAs, and all ancillary staff.
LVN - ENT Associates (Temp Position)
LK Jordan
07.2016 - 09.2016
- Performed various service administrative and basic patient care activities
- Checked patients in for appointments
- Brought patients back to exam rooms
- Worked up new patients and follow up patients, input health information, patient's history into the EMR system, and prepared them to see the physician
- EMR Charting, reconciliation of patients' medications, checked patients' vitals
- Provided patient education and gave injections
- Scheduled patients for any testing audiograms, ultrasounds, CT scans, or MRI's
- Sent faxes, orders, referrals, and electronic prescriptions to patient's pharmacy
- Scheduled patients for surgeries and took proper steps for insurance pre-certifications
- Took samples of any cultures the physician needed and sent off to laboratory
- Assisted physicians with patient care and any office procedures
- Washing and sterilization of all instruments
- Cleaned exam rooms and re-stocked
- Worked closely with Physicians, RNs, LVNs and CMAs.
Unit Secretary/ER Technician
Christus Spohn Hospital South-Emergency Dept.
12.2013 - 04.2016
- Preforms various service related activities in support of patient care and the patient care unit
- Responsible for direct and indirect quality care to assigned patients and in assisting during emergency situations
- Provides receptionist/clerical support for the physicians, nursing staff, and department
- Collects and transports diagnostic specimens to the laboratory
- Performs diagnostic EKG's
- Transports patients within the hospital
- Performs venipunctures as needed on patients
- Preforms urine straight catheterizations to obtain sterile urine specimens
- Processes medical orders and utilization of computer for input and maintenance of patient medical information, answer phones for the department, orders supplies, greets guests such as physicians, patient families, and visitors
- Records and completes all patient charges for the department
- Prepares, organizes, and files all patient's charts for the department
- Corresponds with ancillary departments and with pharmacy regarding patient care
- Works closely with Physicians, RNs, LVNs and CNAs.
Certified Nursing Assistant/Unit Secretary
Christus Spohn Hospital Shoreline-Outpatient Surgery
06.2011 - 12.2013
- Performed various service administrative and basic patient care activities
- Various services include conducting and documenting vital signs, changing and making beds, transporting patient and assisting with lifting in and out of bed
- Providing activities for daily living to the patient that included dressing
- Provided pre-op and post-op care of patients
- Prepped patients for different particular surgeries
- Processed medical orders and utilization of computer for input and maintenance of patient medical information, answered phones for the department, ordered supplies, greeted guests such as physicians, patient families and visitors
- Prepared and organized all patient's charts for upcoming surgeries
- Corresponded with ancillary departments and with pharmacy regarding patient care
- Worked closely with Physicians, RNs, LVNs and CNAs.
Education
Vocational Nursing Program -
Kaplan College
Corpus Christi, TXPatient Care Technician Program -
Kaplan College
Corpus Christi, TXSkills
- Compassionate Care
- Administrative Functions
- Performance monitoring
- Epic Systems
- Quality Assessments
- Inventory Assessment
- Critical Thinking
- Attention to Detail
- Strong Clinical Judgment
- Staff Supervision
- Clinical judgment
- Documentation accuracy
- Emergency Response
- Patient triaging
References
Upon Request
Certification
- Vocational Nursing License - May 19, 2016
- IV Certification, Pedagogy Continuing Nurse Education - January 2022
- DOT Urine Specimen Collector Trainer for Urine Specimen Collectors, Intoximeters, INC. St. Louis, MO - October 2023
Timeline
LVN LEAD
Christus Urgent Care
05.2022 - Current
LVN
Corpus Christi Independent School District
08.2018 - 08.2019
LVN
Christus Urgent Care
03.2017 - 05.2022
LVN
Texas Precision Surgery Center
11.2016 - 05.2017
LVN - ENT Associates (Temp Position)
LK Jordan
07.2016 - 09.2016
Unit Secretary/ER Technician
Christus Spohn Hospital South-Emergency Dept.
12.2013 - 04.2016
Certified Nursing Assistant/Unit Secretary
Christus Spohn Hospital Shoreline-Outpatient Surgery
06.2011 - 12.2013
Vocational Nursing Program -
Kaplan College
Patient Care Technician Program -
Kaplan College
- Vocational Nursing License - May 19, 2016
- IV Certification, Pedagogy Continuing Nurse Education - January 2022
- DOT Urine Specimen Collector Trainer for Urine Specimen Collectors, Intoximeters, INC. St. Louis, MO - October 2023
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