Enthusiastic LPN with excellent people skills and dedicated work ethic. Demonstrated by 17 years of experience in healthcare.
worked as part of a team to assist in resident needs, plan and modify care, and implement interventions. Supervises nurse aides. Administer prescribed medications, chart using computerized charting, provide basic resident care and treatments, dressing wounds, performing catheterizations, giving enemas as needed. Measure and record vital signs, such as height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, pulse, and respirations. Collect samples , such as urine, for residents that are showing signs and symptoms of a urinary tract infection. Monitor residents for adverse effects to medications. Speak to Doctors when needed and put in Doctor orders in the computerized MAR/TAR. Provide emotional support to residents and there family members. Keep residents safe. Make sure medications are ordered in a timely manner and check that medications are not expired.
I worked as a float health assistant for the school district of Superior Wisconsin. Gave medications to children that medications were prescribed to for various reasons. Head checks on children which had signs of head lice. Charting on every child that came in to the nurses office. Applied band aids to abrasions and cuts and ice packs to effected areas. Counted carbs for diabetic children that are too young to do so and made sure children got right amount of insulin. Made sure that every child was treated the same and cared for the same.
Supervise PCA and CMA staff. Do treatments on residents. Put in Doctor orders in MAR/TAR and call for Doctor orders when needed. Answer phone calls after 4pm from family members/friends/Doctors. Do appropriate paperwork when residents fall or get injured ,fax Doctors, and call responsible party's about falls or injuries. Assist residents with any concerns. Chart using paper charting in MAR/TAR. Provide any help that PCA and CMA may need and with a positive attitude. Draw up all insulin needles for the next day as the CMA's cannot draw up insulin in Minnesota. Oversee that staff members are doing there jobs appropriately.
As a LPN supervisor on the rehabilitation floor I worked as part of a team to assist in resident needs, plan and modify care, and implement interventions. Supervises nurse aides and administer prescribed medications, chart using Point Click Care computerized charting. Provide basic resident care and treatments, dressing wounds and changing wound vacs, performing catheterizations, giving enemas as needed. Measure and record vital signs, such as height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, pulse, and respirations. Collect samples , such as urine, for residents that are showing signs and symptoms of a urinary tract infection. I also tested residents for Covid 19. Monitor residents for adverse effects to medications. Speak to Doctors when needed and put in Doctor orders in the computerized MAR/TAR. Provide emotional support to residents and there family members. Keep residents safe. Make sure medications are ordered in a timely manner and check that medications are not expired.
As a LPN I worked as part of a team to assist in resident needs, plan and modify care, and implement interventions. Supervises nurse aides and administer prescribed medications, chart using Point Click Care computerized charting. Provide basic resident care and treatments, dressing wounds and changing wound vacs, performing catheterizations, giving enemas as needed. Measure and record vital signs, such as height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, pulse, and respirations. Collect samples , such as urine, for residents that are showing signs and symptoms of a urinary tract infection. I also tested residents and staff for Covid-19. Monitor residents for adverse effects to medications. Speak to Doctors when needed and put in Doctor orders in the computerized MAR/TAR. assisted with admissions, discharges, and transfers out for emergencies. Provide emotional support to residents and there family members. Keep residents safe. Make sure medications are ordered in a timely manner and check that medications are not expired.