Carol Lingerfeldt
Bessemer City,USA
Summary
- Dedicated, service-focused professional seeking
- Highly motivated Registered Nurse Confident in my skills.
- Reliable worker with the ability to quickly learn new concepts and skills.
- Backed by a solid work history, reputation as a team player and passion for helping others.
- Background includes experience caring for pediatrics and elderly in hospital and nursing facilities.
- Up to date with all vaccinations including Covid 19.
- Training in Emergency, infant, labor and delivery, OR and Long Term Care.
Overview
3
3
years of post-secondary education
17
17
years of professional experience
Work History
Registered Nurse Supervisor
Gastonia Health and Rehabilitation Center
Gastonia, North Carolina
07.2023 - Current
- Hired, onboarded, directed, mentored, developed, and scheduled staff while communicating job expectations and conducting performance reviews to enhance team effectiveness.
- Managed nursing staff operations to ensure quality patient care and compliance with industry regulations. to ensure quality patient care and compliance with regulations.
- Conducted training sessions for staff on updated protocols and best practices to ensure adherence to current standards of care.
- Promotes and restores patients' health by developing day-to-day management and long-term planning of the patient care area.
- Collaborates with physicians and multidisciplinary professional staff to implement patient care.
- Completes patient care requirements by scheduling and assigning nursing and staff and following up on work results.
- Promotes patients' independence by establishing patient care goals, teaching and counseling patients, friends, and family to reinforce their understanding of disease, medications, and self-care skills.
- Provides physical and psychological support for patients, friends, and families.
- Establishes a compassionate environment by providing emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to patients, friends, and families.
- Resolves patients' needs by utilizing multidisciplinary team strategies.
- Meets nursing operational standards by contributing information to strategic plans and reviews; implementing production, productivity, quality, and customer-service standards; resolving problems; and identifying system improvements.
- Provides input on annual budget, monitors expenditures, performs research on possible investments in equipment or additional staffing, and identifies variances in departmental costs.
- Identifies patient service requirements by establishing personal rapport with potential and actual patients and other persons in a position to understand service requirements.
- Maintains nursing guidelines by writing and updating policies and procedures.
- Assured quality of care by developing and interpreting nursing philosophies and standards, enforcing compliance with state regulations, measuring health outcomes, and recommending adjustments for continuous improvement.
- Maintains documentation of patient care services by auditing patient and department records.
- Maintains safe and clean working environment by designing and implementing procedures, rules, and regulations, and by calling for assistance from other health care professionals.
- Protects patients and employees by developing and interpreting infection-control policies and protocols, and by enforcing medication administration, storage procedures, and controlled substance regulations.
- Maintains patient confidence and protects operations by monitoring confidential information processing.
- Ensures operation of medical and administrative equipment by verifying emergency equipment availability, completing preventive maintenance requirements, following manufacturer's instructions, troubleshooting malfunctions, requesting repairs, maintaining equipment inventories, and evaluating new equipment and techniques.
- Maintains nursing supplies inventory by studying usage reports, identifying trends, anticipating needed supplies, and approving requisitions and cost allocations.
- Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, reviewing professional publications, and participating in professional societies.
- Coordinated patient admissions, discharges, and transfers within the facility.
Registered Nurse
Novant Health Labor and Delivery
05.2023 - 07.2023
- Assess the needs of the patient during childbirth.
- Monitored vitals of expecting mother, including blood pressure, contraction timing, and heart rate, to ensure maternal and fetal well-being.
- Provide fetal assessments and monitoring.
- Provided physical, emotional, and medicinal support under physician or midwife guidance to enhance patient comfort and safety.
- If the birth needs to be induced, you'll have to administer the medication and provide support.
- Prepare the expectant mother for a C-section procedure if the situation requires it.
- Assisted in the preparation of the expectant mother for a C-section procedure.
- Educate the patient about medications, the delivery process, pushing, and so on.
- Provide postpartum care and advice. For example, should the new mother need a lactation consultant, you can connect her with a specialist.
- Coordinated communication with healthcare team members to ensure seamless patient care. with the whole care team: this may include physicians, Nurse Midwife, Nurse Anesthetist, Charge Nurse, Lactation Nurse.
- Chart procedures accurately and enter patient data in Electronic Health Records.
- Educated family on infant care techniques to promote healthy bonding and effective caregiving.
Registered Nurse
Atrium Emergency Department
Kings Mountain, North Carolina
02.2022 - 05.2023
- Administered medications as prescribed by physician, ensuring patient safety and adherence to treatment plans.
- Established intravenous access for patient treatment.
- Working with other emergency healthcare professionals to help patients.
- Assisting physician with stitches and sutures to injured patients.
- Monitored vital signs and reported changes to healthcare team.
- Coordinated the safe transfer of stable patients to other hospital departments.
- Assessed incoming patients to determine urgency and appropriate care needed.
- Maintaining up-to-date patient records.
- Monitored vital signs and communicated significant changes to healthcare team, facilitating timely interventions.
- Collaborated with multidisciplinary teams to develop comprehensive patient care plans, enhancing overall patient outcomes.
Private Client
Private Care Certified Nurse Aide
Gastonia, USA
11.2017 - 01.2022
- Measured and recorded patient vital signs, including temperature and blood pressure, to monitor health status.
- Assisted patients with dressing and bathing routines to promote personal hygiene and comfort.
- Administered medications to patients according to prescribed schedules, ensuring compliance and safety.
- Assisted with dressing and bathing to enhance personal hygiene and comfort.
- Prepared meals and maintained cleanliness in patient living areas to create a safe environment.
- Provided specialized care by assisting with feeding tubes and colostomy bags to ensure patient comfort.
- Helped patients with walking and toileting needs to promote mobility and independence.
Dialysis Tech
Fresenius
Gastonia, USA
07.2013 - 11.2017
- Collaborated with health care team to educate patients on adequacy measures, enhancing their understanding of treatment.
- Obtain necessary pre- and post- treatment vital signs and weight.
- Greeted patients upon arrival to create a welcoming environment. and inquire as to their wellbeing since their last treatment' reporting any complaints or observations to the nurse supervisor.
- Calculated and entered individual patients' dialysis machine programming for ultrafiltration (UF) goal, treatment time, and sodium (Na) modeling.
- Observed patient reactions to treatment to ensure safety and effectiveness. to dialysis therapy.
- Calculated and entered individual patients' dialysis machine programming for ultrafiltration (UF) goal, treatment time, sodium (Na) modeling, and UF modeling as prescribed.
Certified Nursing Assistant
Kindred Healthcare
Lincolnton, USA
03.2011 - 08.2013
- Provided compassionate care for terminally ill residents, addressing diverse health needs.
- Assisted in assessing patient vital signs, gaining foundational skills under guidance of Registered nurse.
- Helped to ensure residents last moments were as comfortable, dignified and enriching as possible.
- Helped to ensure residents' last moments were as comfortable, dignified and enriching as possible.
Certified Nursing Assistant
Peak Resources
Gastonia, USA
04.2012 - 07.2013
- Received 'exemplary' and 'exceeds an expectation' ratings on all performance reviews. Cited for excellence in interpersonal communications, teamwork, resident service, flexibility and reliability.
- Interacted effectively with residents from diverse cultures and backgrounds, enhancing their comfort and engagement.
- Managed multiple tasks efficiently while overseeing the largest project track.
- Delivered superior care and service, consistently going above and beyond to meet residents' needs.
Certified Nursing Assistant
Gaston Manor
Gastonia, USA
10.2009 - 03.2011
- Assisted patients with daily living activities, enhancing comfort and personal hygiene.
- Recorded vital signs, weights, and various other documents.
- Administered dialysis treatment to patients in a clinical setting.
Education
Associate of Science - Nursing
Gaston College
Dallas , North Carolina 08.2019 - 05.2022
Cherryville High School
Cherryville, NCSkills
- EPIC TRAINED
- MS Word
- MS Excel
- MS Outlook
- Patient Care Coordination
- TNCC
- Patient care quality
- Care management
- Staff scheduling
- Infection control
- Health records
- Patient training
- Regulatory compliance
- Critical thinking
- Unit supervision
Personal Information
Available: Available day shifts, extended hours
Timeline
Registered Nurse Supervisor
Gastonia Health and Rehabilitation Center
07.2023 - Current
Registered Nurse
Novant Health Labor and Delivery
05.2023 - 07.2023
Registered Nurse
Atrium Emergency Department
02.2022 - 05.2023
Associate of Science - Nursing
Gaston College
08.2019 - 05.2022
Private Client
Private Care Certified Nurse Aide
11.2017 - 01.2022
Dialysis Tech
Fresenius
07.2013 - 11.2017
Certified Nursing Assistant
Peak Resources
04.2012 - 07.2013
Certified Nursing Assistant
Kindred Healthcare
03.2011 - 08.2013
Certified Nursing Assistant
Gaston Manor
10.2009 - 03.2011
Cherryville High School