JOAN ANTONIO
Ewa Beach
Summary
Experienced and dedicated Registered Nurse with a proven track record of providing exceptional direct care to elderly patients. Skilled in pain management, injury rehabilitation, and assisting individuals in achieving their health goals. Committed to delivering compassionate and personalized care, I enhance the well-being and quality of life for each patient I serve. With five years of experience in the field, adept at building strong relationships with patients and their families, ensuring their comfort and promoting optimal health outcomes.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Unit Manager/Supervisor/Charge Nurse
Avalon Care Center
05.2016 - 06.2017
- Monitors and coordinates daily patient care activities in the unit
- Administering medications and rendering wound treatments
- Makes daily rounds on unit to ensure resident care needs and environmental standards are met
- Works collaboratively with other members of the interdisciplinary care team to provide holistic care
- Reviews clinical records for completeness and accuracy as necessary
- Ensures that significant changes in resident condition are communicated to the physician, family or responsible party
RN Supervisor/IV Nurse
TLC CARE CENTER
09.2015 - 12.2015
- Completes patient care requirements by scheduling and assigning nursing and staff; following up on work results
- Promotes patients independence by establishing patient care goals; teaching and counseling patients and family, and reinforcing their understanding of disease, medications and self care skills
- Resolves patient needs by utilizing multidisciplinary team strategies
- Protect patients and employees by developing and interpreting infection control policies and protocols, enforcing medication administration, storage procedures and controlled substance regulations
- Cooperating with other health care teams by communicating information, responding to request and participating in team problem solving method
- Insert IV medications, monitor for the reactions and removes an IV used medications, blood products and nutrition to a patient
- Monitor intravascular site including tubing and dressings, monitor for infections
- Drawing blood specimen via the peripheral vein or PICC line
- Changing heplock dressing and PICC line dressing
- Documents nursing actions and providing report to the next shift
Registered Nurse
Life Care Center of America (Ka Punawai Ola)
08.2013 - 07.2015
- Admitting new resident and doing initial assessment tool
- Conducting fully physical assessment
- Administering medications through Per oral, IM, SQ and IV Wound care and treatment
- Assisted patients with healing and recovery after surgery Feeding through NGT and TPN
- Taking residents Blood Glucose
- Provided health education training to patients and family members during discharge
- Accurately documented all elements of assessment, treatments, medications, discharge instructions and follow up care
- Coordinated with Physicians, Rehab personnel, Dietitians and Registered Nurses to develop care plans for patients
CNA
Life care Center of America (Ka Punawai Ola)
04.2012 - 08.2013
- Taking and monitoring vital signs
- Helping residents with ADL's
- Recording and reporting to License Nurse
- Collected urine and fecal samples for laboratory
- Positioned residents for comfort and to prevent pressure ulcer
- Assisted with transferring from bed to wheelchair and using adaptive devices
Education
BSN - Science in Nursing
Northwestern University
Laoag City, PhilippinesSkills
- Infection control
- Nurse scheduling
- Medication monitoring
- Documentation review
- Safety enforcement
- Medical records management
- Assignment delegation
- Patient safety
- CPR/AED
- Patient education
Certification
- CPR and AED
- Registered Nurse, Hawaii, 71140
Timeline
Unit Manager/Supervisor/Charge Nurse
Avalon Care Center
05.2016 - 06.2017
RN Supervisor/IV Nurse
TLC CARE CENTER
09.2015 - 12.2015
Registered Nurse
Life Care Center of America (Ka Punawai Ola)
08.2013 - 07.2015
CNA
Life care Center of America (Ka Punawai Ola)
04.2012 - 08.2013
- CPR and AED
- Registered Nurse, Hawaii, 71140
BSN - Science in Nursing
Northwestern University
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