Brittany Ames

•RN home health visits to include skilled visits, wound care, admissions, recertifications, resumption of care.

•communicating with the office, liaison, full time RN case manager, therapy to create a POC tailored to each patient.

•Medication reconciliation.

•MD and pharmacy communication.

•Community resources.

•Maintain home safety.

• Med-surge/ICU patients in an acute hospital setting with wound vacs, wound dressing changes, tracheostomy’s/trach collar, ET tubes, bipap, cpap, ventilators, airvo, suction, covid unit, pacemakers, telemetry, gastrostomy tubes, NG & OG tubes, central lines, FMS tubes, Foley catheters, colostomy, illeostomy & urostomy’s, PRCB's, IV therapy, bladder scans, critical drips (levo, epi, dopamine, precedex, propofol, etc), assist doctor/RT with sedation/paralytics while intubating in facility. After years of working both full time & PRN, I accepted the full time House Supervisor position in September 2023 to current. I am in a current leadership role.

• Neuro PCU with NIH certification.

•Care of many neurological conditions to include: acute CVA, emboli, Parkinson’s, Wernicke’s encephalopathy, epilepsy, and more.

•Placing IV’s/lab draws.

•Cardiac patients with cardiac drips such as amiodarone and cardizem.

•Wound care

•Management of different lines and drains to include wound vac, gastrostomy tubes, SCD’s, PICC & central lines, JP drains, & more.

•Continuum of care with family and MD.

• Worked float pool on PCU, Medsurge, and rehab unit. Responsible for care of patients administering meds, blood products, telemetry, pre and post care of many procedures, IV fluids/antibiotics/cardiac drips feeding tubes, different respiratory apparatus devices, working with the care team to improve patient care.

• Travel contract in Wisconsin in a hospital as a Med-surge/tele RN x11 weeks and floated to cardiac step down & covid unit.
• Skills to include, IV antibiotics, fluids, peripheral lines, central lines, PRBC's, platelets, heparin drips, Bumex drip, care of patient's before and after diagnostic procedures, tracheostomy's, trach collar, vapotherm (humidified high flow), purwick, FMS, foley catheters, and more.
• From 2020-2021 I also worked for Bluewater staffing doing Covid testing (PCR, rapids, and antigen) on the side.

• Responsible for care of adult patients in the home setting
• This includes care of obtaining vitals, assessment under RN supervision, patient education, verifying medications/administration, calling in refills if applicable, wound care, lab work, UA’s, communicating with doctors/transcribing doctor's orders, electronic charting via Kinnser

• Charge nurse on a designated hall in LTC setting
• This included responsibility of obtaining vitals, assessments under RN supervision, medication administration, care of gastrostomy tubes, assisting with ADL’s, care of tracheostomy patients, proper documentation, doctor communication/orders.

• Responsible of care for special needs children in a home setting
• This included care of gastrostomy tubes, tracheostomy's, medication administration, chest physiotherapy, ensuring parents are educated on medications, going to doctor appointments, doctor orders, obtaining vitals.