Highly skilled credentialed and diversely experienced Registered Professional Nurse with a comprehensive background and a broad range of healthcare experience. Combined clinical training and experience working in the community, medical/surgical, and psychiatric care environments.
Conduct unit intake assessments with patients.
Establish diagnosis appropriate treatment plans.
Administer medications to patients to decrease risk of aggression and treat symptomology, and crisis management.
Monitor behavioral and psychosocial responses to nursing intervention with assigned patient load.
Precept new RN orientee's.
Provided care for COVID positive patients. (COVID travel)
Detected emerging problems by monitoring patients' behavior, vital signs and fluid intake and output.
Managed vents, IV and critical drips, continious VS monitoring, and telemetry.
Comprehensive consumer evaluations utilizing the Uniform Assessment System for New York (UAS-NY) to determine eligibility for the New York State Managed Long Term Care program (MLTC).
Community based in-home evaluations.
Precept onboarding orientees.
Implemented and managed COVID-19 protocols. Maintained student
medical records. Health and safety protocols, acute medical treatments as ordered. (COVID travel)
Ensured member access to home based and healthcare services. Reviewed UAS evaluations to develop a plan of care in coordination with other disciplines. Implemented care plans by facilitating authorizations and referrals within the benefits structure. Evaluated the effectiveness of care plans and modified as necessary. Collaboration with other disciplines and providers.
Evaluated consumers for eligibility and member enrollment into the Managed Long Term Care program utilizing the UAS. Developed care plan in coordination with interdisciplinary providers. Collaboration with team members, consumers family, and caregivers to maximize services. Facilitated discharge planning as needed. Documented all findings and member related communications. Ensured compliance with all guidelines and protocols.
Client assessment and evaluation for long term homecare services. Integral member of multidisciplinary team as part of the CASA home attendant program. Reviewed all client cases from medical perspective and coordinated with case workers, supervisors, and physicians to develop an appropriate plan of care.
Admitted and case managed referred homecare patients for short term care. OASIS-C assessment. Developed plan of care, treatment orders, coordination of other healthcare disciplines as needed. Initiated discharge planning
Select Specialty Hospital of Atlanta, Long Term Care Hospital (LTAC), ICU
Admitted new clients to long term home attendant program, monthly supervision of home based staff.
Atlanta Medical Center; Dekalb Medical Center; Regency Hospital of South Atlanta (LTAC). Units worked: med/surg, trauma/ortho, telemetry, psychiatric, ED triage, rehab, LTAC/ICU.
Staffing for Georgia Regional Hospital (State psychiatric hospital). Charge nurse, medication nurse. Units worked: Adult, Adolescent, Forensic. Supervision of staff and milieu. Group therapy.
Admitted newly referred patients to home healthcare, devised plan of care, treatment orders, ordered others disciplines as needed, initiated discharge planning, assigned Case Manager. OASIS assessment.
Admitted new patients to short term home healthcare services per MD orders. Created care plan, initiated discharge planning. Interdiciplinary care coordination. OASIS proficiency.
Registered Professional Nurse Licensure in New York
Registered Professional Nurse Licensure in Georgia
CPI Nonviolent Crisis Intervention
BLS/ACLS