Angela Canty
Villa Rica,GA
Summary
Proficient and caring nursing team member offering outstanding patient-facing experience. Adept at addressing patient needs with compassionate care and attention to detail. Diligent about maximizing satisfaction, safety and wellness while serving patients of all backgrounds. Well-qualified medical professional with experience triaging patients, capturing information and completing basic procedures such as wound care. Excellent communication, prioritization and multitasking abilities with sound judgment and compassionate nature. Background in clinic and hospital environments. Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals. Skilled Licensed Practical Nurse offering 29+ years of experience in the field. Knowledgeable about assisting with non-invasive procedures and performing respiratory treatments. Strong documentation skills and a firm grasp of compliance requirements.
Overview
29
29
years of professional experience
Work History
LPN
Atlanta VA Medical Center
03.2020 - Current
- Utilized time management skills to prioritize tasks effectively, allowing for efficient completion of daily responsibilities.
- Maintained accurate documentation of all relevant clinical data, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards.
- Implemented infection control measures, ensuring clean and safe environment for patients and staff.
- Managed patient care through closely monitoring respiration, blood pressure, and blood glucose levels.
- Obtained patient vital signs and input/output measurements from inpatients.
- Improved patient outcomes by providing high-quality nursing care and closely monitoring vital signs.
- Documented accurate and complete patient information to address patient problems and expected outcomes.
- Participated in ongoing professional development opportunities to enhance knowledge base and skillset as LPN.
- Demonstrated adaptability in working with diverse patient populations across various healthcare settings.
- Provided emotional support to patients and families during difficult times, fostering positive relationships built on trust and compassion.
- Enhanced patient satisfaction levels through effective communication and empathetic listening skills.
- Assisted in management of chronic health conditions by providing education, support, and follow-up care.
- Administered medications and injections to patients.
- Assessed patients' temperature, pulse, and blood pressure and recorded in electronic medical records.
LPN
Avenneana Healthcare
05.2016 - Current
- Monitoring of clients with vents
- Perform trach care as ordered by physicians
- Administration of medication via peg tube
- Monitoring clients for any changes and to emergency as needed.
- Maintained accurate documentation of all relevant clinical data, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards.
- Utilized time management skills to prioritize tasks effectively, allowing for efficient completion of daily responsibilities.
- Obtained patient vital signs and input/output measurements from inpatients.
- Performed wound care treatments using sterile techniques, promoting healing and preventing complications.
- Adhered to treatment plan instructions when administering medications and treatments to patients.
- Improved patient outcomes by providing high-quality nursing care and closely monitoring vital signs.
- Reduced medication errors by accurately administering medications and diligently verifying patient information.
- Participated in ongoing professional development opportunities to enhance knowledge base and skillset as an LPN.
- Demonstrated adaptability in working with diverse patient populations across various healthcare settings.
- Provided emotional support to patients and families during difficult times, fostering positive relationships built on trust and compassion.
- Performed routine evaluations of each patient's status, needs, and preferences.
- Accurately recorded interactions in medical charts, documenting accidents and interventions applied.
- Monitored, tracked, and conveyed important patient information to healthcare staff to help optimize treatment planning and care delivery.
- Collaborated with interdisciplinary team of healthcare and social service providers to address patients' needs through effective intervention and care planning.
- Delivered updates in patient status to charge nurse, recording changes in medical records.
- Increased nursing team cohesiveness through active participation in staff meetings and open communication with colleagues.
- Assessed patients' temperature, pulse, and blood pressure and recorded in electronic medical records.
LPN
Maxim Healthcare
05.2016 - 05.2016
- Monitoring of clients with vents
- Perform trach care as ordered by physicians
- Administration of medication via peg tube
- Monitoring clients for any changes and to emergency as needed.
- Implemented infection control measures, ensuring a clean and safe environment for patients and staff.
- Managed patient care through closely monitoring respiration, blood pressure, and blood glucose levels.
- Reduced medication errors by accurately administering medications and diligently verifying patient information.
- Participated in ongoing professional development opportunities to enhance knowledge base and skillset as an LPN.
- Performed routine evaluations of each patient's status, needs, and preferences.
- Offered immediate assistance in emergency and routine paging situations to evaluate needs and deliver care.
- Assisted with feeding and monitored intake to help patients achieve nutritional objectives.
- Delivered emotional support to patients and families during challenging times.
LPN Staff Nurse
Rainbow Omega
09.2015 - 03.2016
- Patient care for adults with intellectual, developmental, and physical disabilities
- Supervise Resident Assistants
- Reduced medication errors by accurately administering medications and diligently verifying patient information.
- Monitored, tracked, and conveyed important patient information to healthcare staff to help optimize treatment planning and care delivery.
- Offered immediate assistance in emergency and routine paging situations to evaluate needs and deliver care.
- Administered medications and injections to patients.
- Delivered emotional support to patients and families during challenging times.
- Helped patients complete bathing, dressing and eating.
- Circulated assigned floor to measure and record patients' fluid and food levels, implementing measures to promote healthy intake and output as necessary.
- Used first-hand knowledge and clinical expertise to advocate for patients under care and enacted prescribed treatment strategies.
- Quickly responded to situations impacting safety and security to unit, actualizing crisis prevention interventions to control and de-escalate situations.
- Wound Care
- Skin Assessments, Range of motion
- Assist with activities of daily living and therapeutic activities.
- Maintained accurate documentation of all relevant clinical data, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards.
- Utilized time management skills to prioritize tasks effectively, allowing for efficient completion of daily responsibilities.
- Managed patient care through closely monitoring respiration, blood pressure, and blood glucose levels.
- Obtained patient vital signs and input/output measurements from inpatients.
- Adhered to treatment plan instructions when administering medications and treatments to patients.
LPN
Dothan VA Outpatient Clinic
09.2013 - 08.2015
- Answer patient phone calls and report to Nurse Practitioner and Physician
- Assess patients and complete vital signs, and all clinic intake information
- Administer necessary medication as ordered by client's physician
- Administer shots and labs as ordered by physician
- Update patient records.
- Utilized time management skills to prioritize tasks effectively, allowing for efficient completion of daily responsibilities.
- Maintained accurate documentation of all relevant clinical data, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards.
- Implemented infection control measures, ensuring a clean and safe environment for patients and staff.
- Participated in ongoing professional development opportunities to enhance knowledge base and skillset as an LPN.
- Offered immediate assistance in emergency and routine paging situations to evaluate needs and deliver care.
- Collaborated with interdisciplinary team of healthcare and social service providers to address patients' needs through effective intervention and care planning.
Life Care Supervisor Assistant, LPN
Alabama Department of Public Health
01.2006 - 01.2013
- Provide skilled respite services including bathing, personal hygiene, and grooming, dressing, toileting, meal prep, transferring and ambulation
- Provide home support skills including cleaning, laundry, assistance with communication, and home safety
- Provide skilled nursing services as ordered by the client's physician.
- Oversaw daily operations of the department, ensuring smooth workflow and timely completion of tasks.
- Applied strong leadership talents and problem-solving skills to maintain team efficiency and organize workflows.
- Improved customer satisfaction with timely response to inquiries, addressing concerns, and finding effective solutions.
- Increased team productivity by implementing efficient workflows and setting clear expectations for staff members.
- Resolved conflicts among team members promptly, maintaining a harmonious working environment conducive to productivity.
- Reduced employee turnover by fostering a positive work environment and providing ongoing feedback to staff members.
- Evaluated staff performance and provided coaching to address inefficiencies.
- Gathered, organized and input information into digital database.
- Assisted with admissions, appointments, transfers, and discharges.
- Answered incoming phone calls from patients to provide basic assistance and triage medical concerns.
- Assessed patients' temperature, pulse, and blood pressure and recorded in electronic medical records.
- Delivered emotional support to patients and families during challenging times.
- Worked with multidisciplinary team to carry out successful treatment plans for diverse acute and chronic conditions.
- Helped patients complete bathing, dressing and eating.
LPN
Wiregrass Hospice
01.2002 - 01.2006
- Provide palliative end of life care to terminal patients
- Provide pain management, and monitor narcotic counts
- Draw labs when ordered, perform non-invasive procedures
- Take assigned call after hours
- Provide proper documentation per state guidelines.
- Utilized time management skills to prioritize tasks effectively, allowing for efficient completion of daily responsibilities.
- Maintained accurate documentation of all relevant clinical data, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards.
- Implemented infection control measures, ensuring a clean and safe environment for patients and staff.
- Managed patient care through closely monitoring respiration, blood pressure, and blood glucose levels.
- Administered controlled narcotics and performed catheterizations.
- Assisted with admissions, appointments, transfers, and discharges.
- Reduced medication errors by accurately administering medications and diligently verifying patient information.
- Participated in ongoing professional development opportunities to enhance knowledge base and skillset as an LPN.
- Demonstrated adaptability in working with diverse patient populations across various healthcare settings.
- Provided emotional support to patients and families during difficult times, fostering positive relationships built on trust and compassion.
- Enhanced patient satisfaction levels through effective communication and empathetic listening skills.
- Provided compassionate end-of-life care, ensuring that patients were comfortable and families felt supported during the process.
- Offered immediate assistance in emergency and routine paging situations to evaluate needs and deliver care.
- Collaborated with interdisciplinary team of healthcare and social service providers to address patients' needs through effective intervention and care planning.
- Delivered updates in patient status to charge nurse, recording changes in medical records.
- Comforted and counseled patients and families throughout care process.
- Increased nursing team cohesiveness through active participation in staff meetings and open communication with colleagues.
LPN
Southeast Alabama Medical Center-ER
01.2002 - 01.2004
- Draw labs, assist MD with bedside procedures, patient assessments
- Give medications, start IV's, perform resistive measures when needed.
- Utilized time management skills to prioritize tasks effectively, allowing for efficient completion of daily responsibilities.
- Maintained accurate documentation of all relevant clinical data, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards.
- Implemented infection control measures, ensuring a clean and safe environment for patients and staff.
- Managed patient care through closely monitoring respiration, blood pressure, and blood glucose levels.
- Administered controlled narcotics, inserted IVs, and performed catheterizations.
- Assisted with admissions, appointments, transfers, and discharges.
- Participated in ongoing professional development opportunities to enhance knowledge base and skillset as an LPN.
- Demonstrated adaptability in working with diverse patient populations across various healthcare settings.
- Performed routine evaluations of each patient's status, needs, and preferences.
- Offered immediate assistance in emergency and routine paging situations to evaluate needs and deliver care.
- Supported diagnoses by taking blood samples from patients for laboratory testing.
LPN
Extendicare Rehabilitation Center
01.2001 - 01.2002
- Utilized time management skills to prioritize tasks effectively, allowing for efficient completion of daily responsibilities.
- Monitored patient health conditions to report changes to assigned physician.
- Maintained accurate documentation of all relevant clinical data, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards.
- Implemented infection control measures, ensuring a clean and safe environment for patients and staff.
- Managed patient care through closely monitoring respiration, blood pressure, and blood glucose levels.
- Administered controlled narcotics and performed catheterizations.
- Performed wound care treatments using sterile techniques, promoting healing and preventing complications.
- Adhered to treatment plan instructions when administering medications and treatments to patients.
- Reduced medication errors by accurately administering medications and diligently verifying patient information.
- Participated in ongoing professional development opportunities to enhance knowledge base and skillset as an LPN.
- Offered immediate assistance in emergency and routine paging situations to evaluate needs and deliver care.
- Assisted with feeding and monitored intake to help patients achieve nutritional objectives.
LPN
Easterling Correctional Facility
01.1997 - 01.2001
- Utilized time management skills to prioritize tasks effectively, allowing for efficient completion of daily responsibilities.
- Demonstrated adaptability in working with diverse patient populations across various healthcare settings.
- Participated in ongoing professional development opportunities to enhance knowledge base and skillset as an LPN.
- Accurately recorded interactions in medical charts, documenting accidents and interventions applied.
- Administered medications and injections to patients.
- Maintained accurate documentation of all relevant clinical data, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards.
- Managed patient care through closely monitoring respiration, blood pressure, and blood glucose levels.
- Obtained patient vital signs and input/output measurements from inpatients.
- Assisted with admissions, appointments, transfers, and discharges.
- Cared for wounds, provided treatments, and assisted with procedures.
- Reduced medication errors by accurately administering medications and diligently verifying patient information.
LPN
Westside Terrace Nursing Home
01.1996 - 01.1997
- Utilized time management skills to prioritize tasks effectively, allowing for efficient completion of daily responsibilities.
- Implemented infection control measures, ensuring a clean and safe environment for patients and staff.
- Managed patient care through closely monitoring respiration, blood pressure, and blood glucose levels.
- Administered controlled narcotics and performed catheterizations.
- Assisted with admissions, appointments, transfers, and discharges.
- Performed wound care treatments using sterile techniques, promoting healing and preventing complications.
- Adhered to treatment plan instructions when administering medications and treatments to patients.
- Participated in ongoing professional development opportunities to enhance knowledge base and skillset as an LPN.
- Administered medications and injections to patients.
- Monitored patient health conditions to report changes to assigned physician.
- Helped long-term care residents with bathing, dressing, feeding, and other daily living activities.
- Maintained accurate documentation of all relevant clinical data, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards.
Education
General Studies -
Wallace Community College
Dothan, AL12.1995
Nurse's License -
Northview High School
Dothan, AL12.1993
Skills
Vital signs monitoring
Medical Documentation
Geriatric Nursing
Catheter Care
Tracheostomy Care
Compassionate Care
Diabetes management
End of life care
Nursing Ethics
Rehabilitation Nursing
Palliative Care
Respiratory Care
Home healthcare
Wound Care
Vital signs
Direct Patient Care
Clinical Documentation
HIPAA Compliance
Patient Assessments
Medication Dispensing
Immunization Administration
Breathing Treatments
Family Communication
Patient triaging
CPR/AED
Infection Control
Responsible and Dependable
Quality Assessments
Interdisciplinary Team Collaboration
Specimen Collection
Adaptable and Flexible
Attention to Detail
Patient Observation
Additionalinformation - Qualifications
- CPR & First Aid certified
- Phlebotomy experience- 10 years
- Certified to provide palliative end of life care, as well as provide community education of such.
- Qualified to perform head to toe nursing assessments and treatments per nursing protocols.
- Provided administrative support to include scheduling home attendants, reviewing home attendant documentation, and assistance with billing.
- Provided on-site supervision of home care attendants to ensure services are being provided that meet plan of care.
Timeline
LPN
Atlanta VA Medical Center
03.2020 - Current
LPN
Avenneana Healthcare
05.2016 - Current
LPN
Maxim Healthcare
05.2016 - 05.2016
LPN Staff Nurse
Rainbow Omega
09.2015 - 03.2016
LPN
Dothan VA Outpatient Clinic
09.2013 - 08.2015
Life Care Supervisor Assistant, LPN
Alabama Department of Public Health
01.2006 - 01.2013
LPN
Wiregrass Hospice
01.2002 - 01.2006
LPN
Southeast Alabama Medical Center-ER
01.2002 - 01.2004
LPN
Extendicare Rehabilitation Center
01.2001 - 01.2002
LPN
Easterling Correctional Facility
01.1997 - 01.2001
LPN
Westside Terrace Nursing Home
01.1996 - 01.1997
Nurse's License -
Northview High School
General Studies -
Wallace Community College