Overview
Work History
Timeline

Andrea RENAUD

Panton,Vermont

Overview

31
31
years of professional experience

Work History

Proprietor

Maple Leaf Foot Care, LLC
Middlebury, VT
01.2009 - 01.2014
  • Obtained my WOCN Certification on Foot/Wound Care.
  • Providing Skilled Foot Care for at risk individuals in our community.
  • Working with local residential facilities such as Shard Villa, The Lodge at Otter Creek, The Lodge at Shelburne Bay, EastView, and in my private business office.

Nurse Case Manager

Addison County Home Health and Hospice
Middlebury, VT
01.2006 - 01.2014
  • Nurse Case Manager managing 20-30 patients in community health.
  • Providing in home therapeutic nursing care, wound care, IV PICC line infusions, ongoing patient and family education, coordination with PCP, and medication management, lab draws, PCA and LNA oversite.
  • Nurse Manager for the SASH program serving families throughout Addison County.
  • Working closely with PT/OT/SLP/MSW.
  • Referrals to additional services such as Medical Social Work, Fuel Assistance and Caregiver Assistance.

Infirmary Nurse

Northlands Job Corps Center
Vergennes, VT
01.2002 - 01.2006
  • As the Wellness Center nurse, I provided health and wellness support to all students and staff, assisted with yearly physicals, medication distribution, health screenings, obtaining medical history, and closely worked with the NJCC MD, Dentist and Psychologist.
  • I regulated and maintained our immunization records with the Vermont Department of Health.
  • Triaging students daily with multiple health complaints.
  • I maintained our compliance with the Utilization Statistics, Chronic Disease Logs, and maintained monthly review of charts.
  • Making sure that our staff and center followed all the Department of Labor regulations.

Staff Nurse/Per-Diem

Burlington Health and Rehab
Burlington, VT
01.2002 - 01.2006
  • Per-Diem nurse dispensing medications to residents, providing wound care, ventilatory management, and at times assisting with call coverage.
  • Working with PCP and family related to the resident’s medical needs.
  • Supervisor of clinical aide staff while on duty.

Staff Nurse

Porter Medical Center
Middlebury, VT
01.1997 - 01.2002
  • Starting as a Medical Surgical floor nurse for my first year than I progressed to the nurse manager position on the Medical Surgical Unit for the following year.
  • Becoming ACLS certified I then became interested in Intensive Care and partook in the Critical Care Course independently through Porter’s Core Program and worked till 2002 in the Special Care Unit working with critical patients on ventilators and working directly with the hospital surgeons for the patients care withing that unit.

Per-Diem Nurse

Addison County Home Health and Hospice
Middlebury, VT
01.1995 - 01.2002
  • Per-diem as a High-Tech Pediatric home care nurse.
  • I worked independently within the client’s home as a one-on-night nurse.
  • Duties included tube feeding, chest PT, ventilator care, tracheotomy care, and skills in communicating with a child with limited abilities.

Nurse Surveyor

Department of Aging and Independent Living
10.2021 - Current
  • I have been working as a Nurse Surveyor for the Department of Aging and Independent Living.
  • I have completed my QSEP training and other mandatory online training courses for the Nurse Surveyor position.
  • I have participated in and completed onsite investigations related to Infection Control, assisted with the Covid -19 Infection Control Surveys and Offsite Infection Control Surveys.
  • On site Recertification Surveys with a team of nurse surveyors and health care professionals.
  • Worked closely with Medicare Fraud Unit on investigations and oversite on abuse and neglect.
  • Learning the state and federal regulations and applying them in practice.
  • Applying and understanding the implications of how these regulations affect the overall balance of quality of care.

Infusion Nurse, Per-diem ADMINIDTRATIVE SHIFT SUPERVISOR

Porter Medical Center
03.2020 - Current
  • Working with patients and providing them education on infusion therapies.
  • Education and administration of immunotherapies: IVIG, alpha 1 therapy, hemophilia therapy, enzyme replacement therapy, biologic therapy, biosimilars, monitoring levels and results, antibiotic therapy, steroid therapy, platelet and blood transfusions regularly, and many other various intravenous and injectable medications.
  • My role as part of the IV Team at Porter Medical Center includes ultrasound guided IV insertion throughout the hospital, PICC line dressing changes, Chemotherapy Pump removals, and working on the IV team for assistance with insertion of Central Lines.
  • In this role, due to being a very small clinic, I am responsible for the work queue referral system and managing the Prior Authorization’s to be sure they are being met prior to scheduling patients.
  • As a per-diem Administrative Shift Supervisor of the hospital and Helen Porter Rehabilitation my role includes shift call outs, emergency responses, safety and security issues, hospital transfers, emergent reports to the AOC with updates.

Director of Health Services

EastView at Middlebury
11.2016 - 01.2020
  • As the DHS I provided daily supervision and delegation to all clinical staff, developed and implemented nursing policies and procedures, ensured regulatory compliance and appropriate documentation, participated in retention and selection of quality staff.
  • I reduced call outs by greater than 85% within one year, education of staff on ongoing practices of care, medication technician training, established new hire orientation practices.
  • As the DHS I established and maintained successful relationships with families and physicians, ensuring the delivery of nursing care that supports the well-being of all our residents.

Nurse Manager

Shard Villa Residential Care Home
Salisbury, VT
05.2014 - 11.2016
  • I provided daily supervision and delegation to all clinical staff, developed care plans, updated, and implemented nursing policies and procedures, established, and ensured up to date state regulatory compliance, obtained state variances for retention of residents, established educational programs and initiated electronic charting.

Pediatric Nurse

Fletcher Allen Health Care
Burlington, VT
01.1995 - 01.1997
  • Working as an outpatient pediatric care nurse.
  • Duties included screening patients prior to seeing physicians, phone triage, well checks, and many immunizations.

Timeline

Nurse Surveyor - Department of Aging and Independent Living
10.2021 - Current
Infusion Nurse, Per-diem ADMINIDTRATIVE SHIFT SUPERVISOR - Porter Medical Center
03.2020 - Current
Director of Health Services - EastView at Middlebury
11.2016 - 01.2020
Nurse Manager - Shard Villa Residential Care Home
05.2014 - 11.2016
Proprietor - Maple Leaf Foot Care, LLC
01.2009 - 01.2014
Nurse Case Manager - Addison County Home Health and Hospice
01.2006 - 01.2014
Infirmary Nurse - Northlands Job Corps Center
01.2002 - 01.2006
Staff Nurse/Per-Diem - Burlington Health and Rehab
01.2002 - 01.2006
Staff Nurse - Porter Medical Center
01.1997 - 01.2002
Per-Diem Nurse - Addison County Home Health and Hospice
01.1995 - 01.2002
Pediatric Nurse - Fletcher Allen Health Care
01.1995 - 01.1997
Andrea RENAUD