Dana M. Lords
Albuquerque,NM
Overview
27
27
years of professional experience
Work History
Adjunct Clinical Faculty
Herzing University
Brookfield, WI
10.2024 - Current
- All clinical levels
- Simulation lab
- Skill lab
- Clinical lab
Director of Nursing
Santa Fe Recovery Center
Santa Fe, NM
09.2023 - 07.2024
- Santa Fe, NM and Gallup, NM
Nursing Faculty
Carrington College
Albuquerque, NM
07.2023 - 11.2023
- BSN Program
- Didactic, Virtual Online, Skills Lab and Clinical
Nursing Faculty
Brookline College
Albuquerque, NM
07.2019 - 05.2023
- BSN Program
- Didactic, Virtual Online, Skills Lab and Clinical
Staff Educator
Spanish Trails
Albuquerque, NM
02.2019 - 07.2019
- Company Overview: Rehabilitation Facility
- Rehabilitation Facility
- Infection Control
- ON-Call Triage Nurse
- Case Manager
- MDS
Staff Educator
Alliance Home Health Care
Albuquerque, New Mexico
09.2018 - 02.2019
- Created skill check-off for staff competencies
- OASIS Review
- MDS
Compasses Home Health
Albuquerque, New Mexico
12.2017 - 07.2018
- OASIS Audits/Review MDS
Nursing Faculty
Grand Canyon University
Albuquerque, New Mexico
07.2016 - 11.2017
- BSN Program
- Dietetic, Skills Lab, Clinical
Director Quality and Director of Infection Control
AMG Specialty Hospital
Albuquerque, New Mexico
06.2016 - 11.2017
- Quality Control, Reports, Audits
- CDC Data
- Education
- Collaborate with physicians
- Develop Process Improvement Projects
Nursing Faculty
Pima Medical Institute
Albuquerque, New Mexico
02.2014 - 05.2015
- ADN Program Didactic, Skill Lab, Clinical
- Curriculum review
Staff nurse/Charge nurse —Day shift - PRN
Camelot of New Mexico
Albuquerque, New Mexico
04.2010 - 04.2012
- Support services of children with psychiatric disorders
- Medication administration
- Therapeutic Crisis Intervention restraints
- De-escalate behaviors
- Work with collaborative teams of therapists and psychiatrists
- Disease processes Autism, Asperger’s disease, abuse, PTSD, and multiple other psychiatric disorders
- Admission client, Discharge procedures including working with community resources
- Complete history and physicals
- Triage children for medical conditions and work with outside medical care facilities and staff psychiatrists to maintain the overall health and well-being of the child
- Immunization records through NMSIS
Clinical Nursing Instructor
Apollo College
Albuquerque, New Mexico
01.2007 - 04.2010
- Clinical instructor for ADN program
- Medical-surgical levels
- Advisor Student Nurses Association
- Facilitate student resource group
- Prepare the student to practice in a safe competent manner
- Instilling critical thinking skills
- Teaching tools to implement the nursing process
- Lecture in theory on an intermittent basis
- Additional duties and activities upon request
- Proctor tests for students’ final exams
Occupational Health Nurse
INTEL Corporation/Kelly's Nursing Services
Rio Rancho, New Mexico
01.2007 - 01.2009
- Occupational health clinic
- Assessment and triage of employees with work-related and personal injuries
- 3000 employees
- Responding and implementing care in all emergency response circumstances, use of AED and critical triage skills if required, as well as having an external medical response team deployed to the site
- Responsible for adhering to safety practices and protocols of corporation and OSHA guidelines
- Provide support to employees with mental health exacerbations including suicidal ideation, homicidal ideation, job re-deployment and mental health collapse
- Provide acute assistance and provide resources with external collaborative teams in the community
- Suicide prevention
- Accomplishments: Received company Kudos from the Kelly Services 'Kudos Program' related to assisting in staffing and for excellent customer service
Instructor Nursing Assistant
Central New Mexico College
Albuquerque, New Mexico
07.2002 - 01.2011
- Certified nursing assistant program and with the contractual workforce training site
- Instructional delivery of education for students entering the Associate Degree nursing program
- Instruction of 100 hours of theory and 50 hours of clinical practice
- Instruction of anatomy and physiology, dosage and calculations, foundations in nursing theory and clinical setting
- The clinical setting conducted in the hospital and home setting
- Testing of students in written, oral, and hands-on environment
- Grading and processing grades, counseling students, and providing educational resources for future career plans
- Assist in working with the curriculum and collaborate with other instructors and educational counselors and resource personnel to reach positive outcomes for the student
- Accomplishments: Nomination of Nursing Excellence award 'Touch of Excellence'
- Workforce training center instructor duties include visiting Native Indian Reservations in the rural setting
- Provide education related to preventing disease, diabetes, bowel and bladder care, child safety, heart health and nutrition, the plague, sexually transmitted disease, emergency plans, creating family safety, and a majority of topics that address the health of the individual tribe members as well as the community of the reservation, as well as a majority of other topics
Staff nurse Intermediate care
Presbyterian Hospital
Albuquerque, New Mexico
01.1998 - 08.2006
- In charge of 5-6 critical care patients per 12-hour shift
- Nursing duties and implementation of care, including assessment of the patient, passing medicines, calculations of critical care dosage and calculations, intervening and preventing escalated medical status changes with patient, interpreting EKG strips, and collaboration with medical team, therapists, medical departments, nursing staff, clergy, patients and patient family to provide excellent quality care for positive patient outcomes
- Specialized duties: Basic EKG monitoring, cardiac monitoring, wound care, tracheotomy care, rectal tubes, nasogastric tubes, j-tubes-tubes, PICC line and specialized IV care, starting IVs
- Discharge planning for patient satisfaction, chart audits, Facilitator and Champion in 'First Touch' program
- Specialized patients: Alcohol and substance abuse, domestic violence, dialysis patients, GI bleeds, and patients suffering from medical trauma
- Accomplishments: Nomination for the Nursing Excellence Award for the 'Touch of Excellence'
- 10 'Catch Me' Awards and recognition for excellent patient care and service
Staff nurse Medical- Surgical
Albuquerque, New Mexico
01.1998 - 08.2006
- In charge of 5-10 medical-surgical patients per 12-hour shift
- Nursing duties and implementation of care, including assessment of the patient, passing medicines, calculations of medication dosages, intervening and preventing escalated medical status changes with patient, collaboration with the medical team, therapists, medical departments, nursing staff, clergy, patients and patient family to provide excellent quality care for positive patient outcomes
- Advanced wound care, hospice skill set, oncology patient care, advanced care of alcohol and substance abuse patients, variety of disease processes including advanced liver and pancreatic cancers
- Specialized duties: Preceptor for new nurses and nursing graduates
- Discharge planning for patient satisfaction, chart audits, Facilitator and Champion in 'First Touch' program, advocate for domestic violence
- Relief charge nurse
- Accomplishments: Multiple 'catch me' awards
- Worked on discharge planning program and chart audit program
Timeline
Adjunct Clinical Faculty
Herzing University
10.2024 - Current
Director of Nursing
Santa Fe Recovery Center
09.2023 - 07.2024
Nursing Faculty
Carrington College
07.2023 - 11.2023
Nursing Faculty
Brookline College
07.2019 - 05.2023
Staff Educator
Spanish Trails
02.2019 - 07.2019
Staff Educator
Alliance Home Health Care
09.2018 - 02.2019
Compasses Home Health
12.2017 - 07.2018
Nursing Faculty
Grand Canyon University
07.2016 - 11.2017
Director Quality and Director of Infection Control
AMG Specialty Hospital
06.2016 - 11.2017
Nursing Faculty
Pima Medical Institute
02.2014 - 05.2015
Staff nurse/Charge nurse —Day shift - PRN
Camelot of New Mexico
04.2010 - 04.2012
Clinical Nursing Instructor
Apollo College
01.2007 - 04.2010
Occupational Health Nurse
INTEL Corporation/Kelly's Nursing Services
01.2007 - 01.2009
Instructor Nursing Assistant
Central New Mexico College
07.2002 - 01.2011
Staff nurse Intermediate care
Presbyterian Hospital
01.1998 - 08.2006
Staff nurse Medical- Surgical
01.1998 - 08.2006
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