April Bouzek
Waucoma
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.
Experienced nursing professional providing quality care to patients in variety of medical settings. Delivers excellent communication and task prioritization skills for effective patient care coordination. Proven ability to stay organized and prioritize tasks in fast-paced environment.
Successful geriatric healthcare experience. personable and compassionate with superior communication and rapport-building skills. Strong commitment to comprehensive and individualized patient care and education. Liaises with medical professionals, patients and family to provide continuous top-quality care and education.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
Work History
Med Aide/ CNA/ TCA/ Med MGR
Prairie Mason, Community Health Campus
09.2017 - 01.2024
- Administered medications safely according to established guidelines while closely monitoring for side effects or adverse reactions requiring intervention. As a med aide, Assisted with monthly changeover, worked on med cart with narcotics for end of life cares excedra.
- Utilized critical thinking skills to prioritize interventions based on residents'' acuity levels and individual needs. Ensuring ADL's are met, Based on diet, and working with speech and OT for best swallowing route for med admissions.
- Aided to identify changes in residents" condition, promptly notifying charge nurse, DON and initiating appropriate interventions instructed by charge nurse/DON/Physicians when necessary.
- Trained CNA/TCA on cares for residents, from handwashing, oral, peri cares, positioning. Educated them on care plans, gait belt usage, hoyer lift and when to notify their nurse.
- Worked with "non emergency" and "emergency" transfers to ER commuicated with family and POA's on changes to residents. Worked with hospice nurses around the clock with changes and suggestions for hospice cares.
- Prominent in Point click Care, POC, MAR, TAR, trained other staff in watching for med changes in MAR (some medications need BP, Pulse, or O2 stats taken to administer meds safely.)
- Collaborated with all staff to quickly assess residents and deliver appropriate treatment instructed by my charge nurse or DON while managing rapidly changing conditions.
- Made sure to sign and initial everything in communication logs to make sure no room for errors with the delicate community we cared for.
- I have a free spirit but remain very calm in urgent situations to ensure my residents vitals remained stable, and most importantly they were not fearful in the time of urgency.
- Treated my residents, how I would want my family treated.
- CPR cert, AED cert, wound care, catheter care, covid and many other certifications.
- Would take specimens to lab for DON
- Trained staff where the emergency kit was (red phone) and where the red outlets were for oxygen in an emergency, where we lost power
- Ordered meds per DON permissions when she was not available, by her orders
- Helped with monthly health care clinic, sit, lying, standing manual vitals
Education
No Degree - CNA/ MED AIDE
NICC
Calmar, IAAssociate of Arts - Human Resources Management
Upper Iowa University
Fayette, IA05.2004
High School Diploma -
Prairie Senior High School
Prairie Du Chien, WI05.2000
Skills
- Strong Communication Skills
- Vital signs monitoring
- Leadership Qualities
- Patient Confidentiality Compliance
- Healthcare Team Collaboration
- Stress Management Strategies
- Time management expertise
- Basic Life Support
- Patient Care
- Maintaining confidentiality
- Compassionate communication
- Direct Patient Care
Timeline
Med Aide/ CNA/ TCA/ Med MGR
Prairie Mason, Community Health Campus
09.2017 - 01.2024
No Degree - CNA/ MED AIDE
NICC
Associate of Arts - Human Resources Management
Upper Iowa University
High School Diploma -
Prairie Senior High School
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