Brandon Vanderhoff
White Bear Lake,MN
Summary
Skilled nursing professional with 7 years of nursing experience and 11 years healthcare experience with a passion for providing highest quality of behavioral and medical care. Compassionate and empathetic advocate for patients and families. Skillfully assesses patients and collaborates within the interdisciplinary team to provide excellent care to improve patient outcomes. Experienced in structured and unstructured environments both inpatient and home based, smoothly coordinating multiple activities and competing priorities. Strives to help clients age in place and maintain high quality of life.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Home Health Registered Nurse Case Manager
CareAparent
05.2022 - Current
- Managing caseloads of 30-60 clients while also collaborating with agency to provide skilled nursing visits to clients in adjacent service areas.
- Educated patients and families on disease processes, medications and treatment processes to promote improved independence.
- Worked with multidisciplinary team to formulate individualized care plan to best carry out successful treatments for diverse acute and chronic conditions.
- Served as an advocate for clients' rights, ensuring their needs were met while respecting their preferences and values.
- Determined and addressed individual home care needs by completing detailed assessments and reviewing documentation.
- Provided physical assessments, medication, and chronic disease management to home health patients.
- Observed and documented patient factors such as diets, physical activity levels, and behaviors to understand conditions and effectively modify treatment plans.
- Coordinated client care plans to ensure adherence to individualized health goals.
Nurse Clinical/Quality Assurance Manager
CareAparent
12.2024 - 12.2025
- Directed clinical operations to ensure high-quality client care and compliance with healthcare regulations.
- Promoted a culture of constant improvement by encouraging open feedback from staff members on processes or procedures that need adjustment.
- Cultivated collaboration within the healthcare team by fostering open communication channels and encouraging shared decision-making regarding patient care plans.
- Enhanced product quality by utilizing comprehensive QA process checklist to assure plan of care included appropriate goals and interventions to best improve client outcomes.
- Completed comprehensive reviews of client OASIS assessments, client skilled nurse visit documentation, and physician orders for agency clients, and provided feedback to staff nurses to improve quality of documentation and plan of care.
- Trained team members both in group and individually on quality assurance principles, fostering a culture of accountability and high performance.
- Collaborated with interdisciplinary teams to develop individualized patient care plans.
Registered Nurse
Presbyterian Homes And Services
02.2019 - 05.2022
- 3+ years clinical nursing experience in transitional care unit setting, with additional experience in long term care and memory care.
- Updated patient charts with data such as medications to keep records current and support accurate treatments.
- Routine assessment of care plan and updating care plan to meet current patient needs.
- Performed various nursing interventions such as wound dressing, vital sign monitoring , blood sugar monitoring, medication administration, and specimen collection.
- Administered medications via oral, IV and intramuscular injections and monitored responses.
- Gathered patient health data through interviews and observation, documenting all data in electronic records.
- Promoted patient independence by teaching self-care skills.
- Participated in active teaching of self administration of medications to patients including medications in intramuscular, intravenous, and subcutaneous routes.
- Worked as part of interdisciplinary teams including physicians, therapists, and social workers to further promote positive patient outcomes through effective care planning and interdisciplinary collaboration.
- Trained new nurses in proper techniques, care standards, operational procedures and safety protocols.
- Managed quality care for patients with heart failure, end-stage renal disease and coronary artery disease.
- Oversaw delivery of care for patients on transitional and long term care unit, providing direct care, delegating tasks, and supervising team comprised of nursing aides and trained medical assistants.
- Trained and responsible for efficient response to emergent situations such as change of patient condition, patient falls, and/or acute mental status changes.
- Completed annual and elective trainings aimed at enhancing quality and efficiency of care.
- Routinely collaborated with outside hospice providers to facilitate and promote effective care to patients receiving hospice services.
- Routine use of best practice infection control while facilitating effective care for patients.
Certified Nursing Assistant/Home Health Aide
Peaceful Living
03.2015 - 04.2019
- Assistance with personal cares (grooming, feeding, ambulation, bathing, toileting, etc.).
- Providing safe effective care that places client safety at top of priorities.
- Medication administration per doctor and nurse written orders.
- Adding orders to client treatment and medication logs based on written doctor orders.
- Use of infection prevention precautions to ensure clients' exposure to possible infections are reduced as much as possible.
- Assisting with therapy and exercise regimens per therapist orders.
- Daily charting of medications and cares administered.
- Behavior observation and charting.
- Observation and documentation of client health.
- Cooking and serving meals in accordance with specified diets for each client based on therapist orders.
- Client transport to and from appointments, day programs, jobs, and/or group outings.
- Encouragement of in home activities to promote group socialization (board games, movies, and other group activities).
- Promotion of client self-esteem and independence through positive reinforcement of positive gains and a ready to assist style of care.
- Light housework
- Management of potential hazards both in and outside of home which may pose threat to client safety.
- Emergency situation response management based on company policies and orders.
- Performed client assessments, documented vital signs and reported changes to supervisors.
- Supported various clients with mobility and ambulatory care.
- Tested and recorded blood glucose levels.
- Turned and positioned patients to maintain comfort and minimize problems.
- Established relationships with patients, caregivers and healthcare professionals to promote clients' personal care plan goal achievement.
Education
Associate of Science - Nursing
Century College
White Bear Lake, MN2018
Skills
- Direct client care
- Medical records management
- Companionship and emotional support
- Efficient and reliable team player
- Computer proficiency
- Wholistic client-driven care
- Adaptability and flexibility
- Care plan development, revision, and implementation
- Professional bedside manner
- Relationship building
- RN case management
- Documentation review and Quality Assurance
Certification
- Registered Nurse in Minnesota, License number 2470110, 2019 (Renewed 1/2025)
- AHA BLS Certification (Renewed 4/2025)
Clinical Experience
CareAparent- May 2022- Current
- Currently Employed with CareAparent Home Health.
- Experience in both front end client case management roles (2022-Dec 2024 + Dec 2025- Current) and back end administrative roles in both clinical and quality assurance management (Dec 2024-Dec 2025).
- Providing skilled nursing in home health setting with highly variable environments in single family, multi-family, and congregate living environments while also providing instruction and education to clients and family members to promote safe environment.
- Care being provided to population varying heavily from client to client ranging from chronic health management to highly acute treatment of wounds and conditions.
- Experience working with vulnerable populations including military veteran, persons on fixed/subsidized income, and persons experiencing home and food insecurity.
- Provides wide array of client centered skilled nursing treatments and skilled assessments for clients both on routine and episodic visits to review, evaluate, and carry out client driven care plan.
- Using best practices, educates clients and/or family members/assistive person within client's support network on plan of care and strategies to help client age in place while preventing unexpected injury or hospitalization.
- Collaborates with interdisciplinary team (both within agency and externally) to communicate new findings, changes in functional/physical abilities and conditions, and clinical findings of interest to necessary providers including physical/occupational therapists, PCP care team (Nurse case manager and primary provider), and social workers to best assist with collaborative approach to drive improved client outcomes.
Boutwells Landing- February 2019- May 2022
- Employed with Presbyterian Homes and Services at Boutwells Landing for 3.25 years as first employment experience as newly graduated and licensed registered nurse.
- Experienced in working primarily in a transitional care, with additional experience working in long term care and long term memory care settings.
- Providing full patient/resident care including medication administration, assessment of physical and functional abilities, reception and communication of new findings or new lab values to staff practitioner, documentation of progress in focused skilled nursing, assistance with activities of daily living, patient/resident education, and implementation with followthrough of collaborative patient/resident interventions.
Regions Hospital- January 2018- May 2018
- Completed 112 clinical hours in a culturally diverse setting which focused mostly on care in an acute care setting. The clinical experience used critical thinking and exploration to further develop assessment and care giving skills.
- Clinical experience took place on a neuro unit which focused on primarily on patients with neurological related symptoms and injuries. However this floor also had patients who were admitted with acute illnesses that were not neurologically exclusive.
- Provided full patient care which included medication administration, patient education, and implementation collaborative interventions in a fast paced environment.
- Practiced the skills of formulating and implementing plans of care based on assessment data collected during clinical hours.
Bethesda Hospital- February 2018
- Completed 24 hours of leadership based clinical experiences in a high acuity setting which included patients who were on ventilation support.
- The focus of this experience was directed towards analyzing the leadership styles of both the staff and charge nurses, and seeing how the different styles affected the delivery of care.
Regions Hospital- October 2017- December 2017
- Completed 144 clinical hours, in a fast paced environment focusing on care for chronic illnesses.
- Assessments, care-planning activities, and documentation in the electronic medical record were completed with the use of patient-centered care to guide care plans to appropriate outcomes and interventions.
Boutwells Landing- August 2017- October 2017
- Completed 24 clinical hours in the transitional care unit.
- The objectives focused on honing the concepts of care planning based on assessment data collected on the shift.
- Completed hands-on cares which were tailored to residents who were recovering in the transitional care unit.
Shalom Assisted Living Facility- January 2017- May 2017
- Completed 153 clinical hours focusing on chronic conditions which affect the daily living of the residents.
- Completed head to toe assessments on residents while practicing appropriate bedside communication and holistic care.
Timeline
Nurse Clinical/Quality Assurance Manager
CareAparent
12.2024 - 12.2025
Home Health Registered Nurse Case Manager
CareAparent
05.2022 - Current
Registered Nurse
Presbyterian Homes And Services
02.2019 - 05.2022
Certified Nursing Assistant/Home Health Aide
Peaceful Living
03.2015 - 04.2019
Associate of Science - Nursing
Century College