Courtney Burge
Picayune,Ms.
Summary
Detail-oriented team player with strong organizational skills, and have the ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously with a high degree of accuracy.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
LPN
Picayune Family Health
05.2014 - 07.2015
- Intake patients
- Vital signs
- Input patients information into EMR
- Phlebotomy
- administration of vaccinations.
- scheduling referrals
- patients education
- ekg
- Performed routine evaluations of each patient's status, needs, and preferences.
- Documented accurate and complete patient information to address patient problems and expected outcomes.
- Monitored, tracked, and conveyed important patient information to healthcare staff to help optimize treatment planning and care delivery.
LPN
Covenant Health and Rehab
01.2007 - 05.2014
- Performed routine evaluations of each patient's status, needs, and preferences.
- Assisted with feeding and monitored intake to help patients achieve nutritional objectives.
- Gathered lab specimens, ordered testing, and interpreted results to diagnose patients.
- Answered incoming phone calls from patients to provide basic assistance and triage medical concerns.
- Minimized staff and patient infection risk by cleaning and disinfecting equipment instruments.
- Administered medications and injections to patients.
- Monitored patient health conditions to report changes to assigned physician.
- Assessed patients' temperature, pulse, and blood pressure and recorded in electronic medical records.
- Delivered emotional support to patients and families during challenging times.
- Reviewed patient history to verify conditions and current medications.
- Responded to patient requests with appropriate clinical and personal assistance.
- Evaluated patient histories, complaints, and current symptoms.
- Helped long-term care residents with bathing, dressing, feeding, and other daily living activities.
- Clearly and thoroughly explained diagnoses, treatment options and procedures to patients and loved ones, checking in to verify understanding.
- Coordinated patient transfers to other facilities.
- Developed and implemented individualized patient care plans.
- Documented accurate and complete patient information to address patient problems and expected outcomes.
- Monitored, tracked, and conveyed important patient information to healthcare staff to help optimize treatment planning and care delivery.
- Cared for wounds, provided treatments, and assisted with procedures.
- Evaluated patients to identify and address wounds, behavioral concerns, and medically relevant symptoms.
- Obtained patient vital signs and input/output measurements from inpatients.
- Comforted and counseled patients and families throughout care process.
- Assisted with admissions, appointments, transfers, and discharges.
- Delivered updates in patient status to charge nurse, recording changes in medical records.
- Offered immediate assistance in emergency and routine paging situations to evaluate needs and deliver care.
- Managed patient care through closely monitoring respiration, blood pressure, and blood glucose levels.
- Used aseptic techniques to provide sterilized wound care and dressing applications.
- Administered controlled narcotics, inserted IVs, and performed catheterizations.
- Educated patients and caregivers on medical diagnoses, treatment options, chronic disease self-management and wound management.
Office Manager
Body Parts Prosthetics
05.2001 - 12.2003
- Maintained computer and physical filing systems.
- Created, maintained and updated filing systems for paper and electronic documents.
- Updated reports, managed accounts, and generated reports for company database.
- Oversaw office inventory activities by ordering and requisitions and stocking and shipment receiving.
- Developed and maintained successful relationships with vendors, suppliers and contractors.
- Managed office operations while scheduling appointments for department managers.
- Established workflow processes, monitored daily productivity, and implemented modifications to improve overall performance of personnel.
- Controlled finances to lower costs and keep business operating within budget.
- Managed compliance to keep organization operating within legal and regulatory guidelines.
- Maintained positive customer relations by addressing problems head-on and implementing successful corrective actions.
- Maintained professional demeanor by staying calm when addressing unhappy or angry customers.
- Successfully managed budgets and allocated resources to maximize productivity and profitability.
- Opened and closed location and monitored shift changes to uphold successful operations strategies and maximize business success.
- Defined clear targets and objectives and communicated to other team members.
Education
High school diploma -
Bogalusa High school
Associate Degree in Nursing - Nursing
Northshore Community College
Bogalusa, LA12.2006
Skills
- Vocational Support
- Inventory Assessments
- Documenting Vital Signs
- Hygiene Support
- Care Planning and Modifications
- Specimen Results Interpretation
- Tuberculosis Testing
- EKG Administration
- Documenting Incidents
- Documenting Intake
- Medical Records Management
- Caregiving Skills
- Nursing Intervention Evaluations
- Patient and Caregiver Education
- Medication Administration
- Sample Collection
- IV Insertion
- Healthcare Platforms
- Direct Patient Care
- Sanitation and Sterilization
- Medical Office Administration
- Counting Narcotics
- Patient Assessments
- Patient Management
- Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS)
- Immunization Administration
- Medical History Documenting
- Transcribing Orders
- Medical Paperwork Processing
- Administrative Support
- Wound Care
- Intramuscular Injections
- Assisting Physicians
- HIPAA Protocols
- Patient Triaging
- Case Management
Timeline
LPN
Picayune Family Health
05.2014 - 07.2015
LPN
Covenant Health and Rehab
01.2007 - 05.2014
Office Manager
Body Parts Prosthetics
05.2001 - 12.2003
High school diploma -
Bogalusa High school
Associate Degree in Nursing - Nursing
Northshore Community College
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