CONNIE BAKER MYERS

Caregiver for quadriplegic family member. Provided suprapubic catheter management, wound care management, bathing, transfers with hoyer, medication management. Other activities of daily living as needed. This was an unpaid position.

• Provided physical assessments, medication and chronic disease management to home health patients.
• Traveled to patients' homes on daily basis to assess health conditions and provide superior level of nursing care.
• Provided healthcare instructions to complex patient and to family to improve patient outcome.

• Was full-time student May 2015 to September 2017.
• Was a Personal representative for a court supervised estate case from November 2017 to November 2021.
• During this time, I hired and supervised a $60,000 renovation on the decedents home and $50,000 in renovation on a rental home in this estate.
• This position required paying the bills, keeping meticulous accounting records for the Probate court. Communicated with the estate attorney. Estate not adjudicated/finalized until November 2021.

• Medical Reviewer for DME and Medical Needs. Reviewed medical records to adjudicate claims to determine if they met medical policy.
• Health Coach: Assessed members healthcare needs, health care knowledge, helped members set and attain healthcare goals to maximize their health
• Triage Nurse: Contact members who were in the hospital and recently discharged members, assess for educational needs, resource needs and educate them on their medication knowledge deficits, troubleshoot problems and find solutions
• Refer to case management for ongoing needs.

• Primary care nurse in an extended care facility
• Focus was on Medicare patients convalescing and rehabilitating prior to returning home
• Per diem home care nurse for three years, and case manager for one year

• Did admitting paperwork, supervised home health aides, assess patient needs, did skills care like dressing changes, intravenous infusions, managed diabetic patients injections, on-call to put intravenous access into patients in contracted nursing homes when staff was unable to place an access, educated patients on their self-administration of IM, IV and oral medications.

• Provided management of quality home healthcare patients and assisted with community resources, assessed patient's/family's educational, and self-management skills
• Educated patients/families as needed
• Provided nursing care to manage wounds, administer intravenous, subcutaneous and intra-muscular medications
• Supervised home healthcare aides.

• Monitored and completed care of critically ill patients
• Worked with arterial lines, pulmonary artery catheters, ventilators, a dialysis machine, cardiac monitors, and intracranial pressure monitors

• (student nurse for 2 years), RN for 2 years
• As student nurse, provided all patient care under auspices of RN except did not administer blood products
• As RN, provided primary care nursing which involved administering intravenous medications into peripheral and central lines, phlebotomy, wound care, assessment of patients, discharge planning, patient education