David Kelly II, CNA/MA
Milwaukee,WI
Summary
Compassionate Nursing Professional demonstrating exemplary skills in direct patient care and healthcare team support. Communicative and collaborative demeanor cultivated over 10+ years of superior healthcare industry performance. Experience handling multiple, complex cases with accuracy and dignity.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
Travel - CNA/PCA
AYA Healthcare - Marshfield Medical Center
Marshfield, WI
10.2023 - Current
- Assessed all incoming triage patients with check-in & registration
- Notified triage nurse of incoming patient
- Managed charge sheets of supplies & procedures performed for each specific patient seen in the ER
- Provided assistants with emergent vital signs & monitoring along with procedures including EKG’s, IV-starts, blood draws, specimen collection, wound care, splints, stemi’s, stroke, and trauma codes
- Using POCT blood testing to capture rapid results during critical care with patients
- Provided physical support to assist patients to perform daily living activities, such as getting out of bed, bathing, dressing, using the toilet, standing, walking, or exercising etc
- Recorded vital signs, blood pressure, pulse, or respiration rate, while measuring and recording food and liquid intake or urinary and fecal output
- Assisted and leading in triaging patients, helping patients in the intake area, and fast-track during some of the busiest and critical ER times.
Travel - ED Tech
Aya Healthcare - Northwestern
Multiple Locations Throughout
06.2023 - 10.2023
- Assessed all incoming triage patients with check-in & registration
- Notified triage nurse of incoming patient
- Managed charge sheets of supplies & procedures performed for each specific patient seen in the ER
- Provided assistants with emergent vital signs & monitoring along with procedures including EKG’s, IV-starts, blood draws, specimen collection, wound care, splints, stemi’s, stroke, and trauma codes
- Using POCT blood testing to capture rapid results during critical care with patients
- Provided physical support to assist patients to perform daily living activities, such as getting out of bed, bathing, dressing, using the toilet, standing, walking, or exercising etc
- Recorded vital signs, blood pressure, pulse, or respiration rate, while measuring and recording food and liquid intake or urinary and fecal output
- Assisted and leading in triaging patients, helping patients in the intake area, and fast-track during some of the busiest and critical ER times.
Medical Assistant/ Surgical Tech/ Mohs Surgery
Forefront Dermatology
Milwaukee
08.2022 - 08.2023
- Assisting with patient rooming and collecting all information needed before exam or procedure starts
- Doing all documentation vital information, scribing information for the dermatologist, capturing pre/post surgical photographs
- Cleaning and stocking the exam rooms with vital equipment for each visit
- Drawing up aesthetics medication for injectables that include (botox, fillers), also using numbing medication that included lidocaine with epi, bupivacaine, and used kenalog
- Answers any inbound calls from the triage nurse station, while scheduling patient’s for future appointments and any canceled appointments
- Assist in setting up phototherapy, and blue light, patch testing, and dermabrasion during patient visits
- Assessing patient Rx refills and prior authorization for prescribed medications, communicating with both pharmacies and insurance companies using phone, fax, and email to help patients and fulfill their needs
- Assisting in procedures including: Biopsies- punch, DIF and shave
- Excisions, electrodessication and curettage
- I&D, Mohs micrographic skin cancer surgery
- Capturing pre/post surgical photographs, and providing post op wound care to patients, as well as blood draws and suture removal.
ED-Tech
Advocate Aurora Health Care St Luke’s Hospital
Milwaukee, WI
09.2022 - 03.2023
- Assessed all incoming triage patients with check-in & registration
- Notified triage nurse of incoming patient
- Managed charge sheets of supplies & procedures performed for each specific patient seen in the ER
- Provided assistants with emergent vital signs & monitoring along with procedures including EKG’s, IV-starts, blood draws, specimen collection, wound care, splints, stemi’s, stroke, and trauma codes
- Using POCT blood testing to capture rapid results during critical care with patients
- Provided physical support to assist patients to perform daily living activities, such as getting out of bed, bathing, dressing, using the toilet, standing, walking, or exercising etc
- Recorded vital signs, blood pressure, pulse, or respiration rate, while measuring and recording food and liquid intake or urinary and fecal output
- Assisted and leading in triaging patients, helping patients in the intake area, and fast-track during some of the busiest and critical ER times.
Traveling Patient Care Tech/ER Tech (PRN)
UW Health Hospital (Alliance Services LLC)
Madison
08.2020 - 12.2022
- Provided assistants with emergent vital signs & monitoring along with procedures including EKG’s, IV-starts, blood draws, specimen collection, wound care, splints, stemi’s, stroke, and trauma codes
- Provided physical support to assist patients to perform daily living activities, such as getting out of bed, bathing, dressing, using the toilet, standing, walking, or exercising etc
- Recorded vital signs, blood pressure, pulse, or respiration rate, while measuring and recording food and liquid intake or urinary and fecal output, while under the direct supervision of the medical or nursing staff.
Regional Resource Pool (ER-Tech//ER-HUC)
Ascension Hospital
Milwaukee
12.2020 - 08.2022
- Provided assistants with emergent vital signs & monitoring along with procedures including EKG’s, IV-starts, blood draws, specimen collection, wound care, splints, stemi’s, stroke, and trauma codes
- As a “HUC” communicated with all on-call specialist to help coordinate appropriate consults for the patients in ER, coordinated all calls with EMS & dispatch about incoming patient’s chief complaints, treatment, and drugs administered
- Assessed all incoming triage patients with check-in & registration
- Notified triage nurse of incoming patient
- Managed charge sheets of supplies & procedures performed for each specific patient seen in the ER.
Traveling Patient Care assistant
Select Specialty Hospital (Nursing Centers)
West Allis
02.2019 - 08.2021
- Provided and obtained information from supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, via e-mail, or in person while providing personal assistance, medical attention, emotional support, and other personal care to patients
- Provided physical support to assist patients to perform daily living activities, such as getting out of bed, bathing, dressing, using the toilet, standing, walking, or exercising etc
- Recorded vital signs, blood pressure, pulse, or respiration rate, while measuring and recording food and liquid intake or urinary and fecal output, while under the direct supervision of the medical or nursing staff.
Patient Service Representative-PSR / Medical Receptionist
QuadMed/ QuadGraphics
West Allis
02.2017 - 08.2019
- Answers any inbound calls from all QuadMed clinic’s operations around the U.S answering and assisting patients with scheduling appointments, questions they may have, and clinic inquiries and requests via EMR
- Checking in scheduled patients for appointments, maintaining accurate insurance of patients being seen, receiving any co-payment from patients
- Ensure patient / clinic needs are resolved
- Maintain difficult or priority issues with appropriate documentation in professional matters in a timely and accurate manner
- Assist with all RX refills, eligibility, website and account info, and any other QuadMed services.
Critical Care-ED Tech / Health Unit Coordinator-HUC / ED-Greeter
Froedtert- Community Memorial Hospital
Menomonee Falls
08.2017 - 03.2018
- Provided assistants with emergent vital signs & monitoring along with procedures including EKG’s, IV-starts, blood draws, specimen collection, wound care, splints, stemi’s, stroke, and trauma codes
- As a “HUC” communicated with all on-call specialist to help coordinate appropriate consults for the patients in ER, coordinated all calls with EMS & dispatch about incoming patient’s chief complaints, treatment, and drugs administered
- Assessed all incoming triage patients with check-in & registration
- Notified triage nurse of incoming patient
- Managed charge sheets of supplies & procedures performed for each specific patient seen in the ER.
System Float Pool/ CNA
Waukesha / Oconomowoc Memorial Hospital
Waukesha/Oconomowoc
08.2015 - 07.2017
- Provided and obtained information from supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, via e-mail, or in person while providing personal assistance, medical attention, emotional support, and other personal care to patients
- Provided physical support to assist patients to perform daily living activities, such as getting out of bed, bathing, dressing, using the toilet, standing, walking, or exercising etc
- Recorded vital signs, blood pressure, pulse, or respiration rate, while measuring and recording food and liquid intake or urinary and fecal output, while under the direct supervision of the medical or nursing staff.
Care Partner-CNA
Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin
Milwaukee
07.2015 - 08.2016
- Provided and obtained information from supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, via e-mail, or in person while providing personal assistance, medical attention, emotional support, and other personal care to patients and their families
- Provided physical support to assist patients to perform daily living activities, such as holding babies for comfort, getting out of bed, bathing, dressing, using the toilet, standing and walking
- Assembled feeding through NG, G, and J-tubes as well as feeding babies with bottles and pumps as needed
- Recorded vital signs, blood pressure, pulse, or respiration rate, while measuring and recording food and liquid intake or urinary and fecal output, while under the direct supervision of nursing staff.
Certified Nursing Assistant
Aurora St Luke’s Hospital
Milwaukee
10.2014 - 05.2015
- Provided and obtained information from supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, via e-mail, or in person while providing personal assistance, medical attention, emotional support, and other personal care to patients
- Provided physical support to assist patients to perform daily living activities, such as getting out of bed, bathing, dressing, using the toilet, standing, walking, or exercising etc
- Recorded vital signs, blood pressure, pulse, or respiration rate, while measuring and recording food and liquid intake or urinary and fecal output, while under the direct supervision of the medical or nursing staff.
Education
Bachelor of Science in Nursing -
Concordia University of Wisconsin
12.2026
Skills
Able to perform individually assigned tasks, in a lead role or as part of a team
Airway Management
Basic Life Support Certified
Collecting Specimens
Compassionate
Compassionate Care
Condition Monitoring
CPR
Direct Patient Care
Electronic Charting
Geriatric Care
HIPAA Compliance
Indirect Patient Care
Medical Terminology Knowledge
Monitoring Fluids
Patient Care
Patient Lifting
Patient Registration
Patient Relations
Patient-Focused Care
Proficient in programming including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Epic, Avatar, Cerner, eMMA
Taking and Tracking Vital Signs
Transporting Patients
Written and verbal Interpersonal communication and conflict management
Leadership Experience
- National Honors Society, 05/2010, Present
- Books for Botswana, Africa- Lead Advisor, 05/2011
- College Intramural coordinator/scheduler, 08/2010, 05/2011
Timeline
Travel - CNA/PCA
AYA Healthcare - Marshfield Medical Center
10.2023 - Current
Travel - ED Tech
Aya Healthcare - Northwestern
06.2023 - 10.2023
ED-Tech
Advocate Aurora Health Care St Luke’s Hospital
09.2022 - 03.2023
Medical Assistant/ Surgical Tech/ Mohs Surgery
Forefront Dermatology
08.2022 - 08.2023
Regional Resource Pool (ER-Tech//ER-HUC)
Ascension Hospital
12.2020 - 08.2022
Traveling Patient Care Tech/ER Tech (PRN)
UW Health Hospital (Alliance Services LLC)
08.2020 - 12.2022
Traveling Patient Care assistant
Select Specialty Hospital (Nursing Centers)
02.2019 - 08.2021
Critical Care-ED Tech / Health Unit Coordinator-HUC / ED-Greeter
Froedtert- Community Memorial Hospital
08.2017 - 03.2018
Patient Service Representative-PSR / Medical Receptionist
QuadMed/ QuadGraphics
02.2017 - 08.2019
System Float Pool/ CNA
Waukesha / Oconomowoc Memorial Hospital
08.2015 - 07.2017
Care Partner-CNA
Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin
07.2015 - 08.2016
Certified Nursing Assistant
Aurora St Luke’s Hospital
10.2014 - 05.2015
Bachelor of Science in Nursing -
Concordia University of Wisconsin