Cathi Smart
Comanche,TX
Summary
Compassionate, dependable Registered Nurse with experience in long term care, skilled care and working with hospice services to meet the daily needs of patients and their families including end of life and comfort care.
Overview
24
24
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Registered Nurse
Western Hills Nursing Home
06.2000 - Current
- Assigned care, delegated tasks and ensured nurse tech duties were completed and documented.
- Completed required assessments to ensure state compliance for medicare, medicaid reimbursement.
- Communicated with patients and families providing education along with answering questions and addressing concerns.
- Completed admissions and discharges.
- Provided wound care.
- Administered medications via oral, IV, and intramuscular injections and monitored responses.
- Advocated for patients wishes regarding treatment options, preserving dignity in their final days.
- Provided direct nursing care ensuring the highest level of comfort for patients facing terminal illness.
- Monitored patients health conditions closely, promptly reporting significant changes to families, physicians and other healthcare professionals.
- Communicated with healthcare team members to plan, implement and enhance treatment strategies.
- Communicated changes and worked with hospice services to ensure in house hospice patients received daily care while following hospice orders.
Education
Associate of Science - Associate Degree of Nursing
Texas State Technical College - West Texas
Sweetwater, TX01.2020
No Degree - Licensed Practical Nurse
Ranger College
Early, TX09.2003
Skills
- Compassion and Empathy
- Patient and family advocate
- Patient and family education
- Long term care nursing
- Medication administration
- Direct patient care
- Wound care
- Patient assessments
- Documentation and communication
- Patient admissions and discharges
- End of life care
- Working with hospice, hospice patients and their families
Certification
CPR
Timeline
Registered Nurse
Western Hills Nursing Home
06.2000 - Current
Associate of Science - Associate Degree of Nursing
Texas State Technical College - West Texas
No Degree - Licensed Practical Nurse
Ranger College
CPR
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