Dawn McGrade

Completes in home health assessments.

Evaluates Medicare/Medicaid patient needs.

Reviews current prescription medication lists and/or supplements.

Performs a review of medical and family history.

Performs history and physical.

Obtains vital signs.

Obtains routine measurements (ex: height, weight)

Obtains ordered lab work.

Validates diagnoses.

Gives health advice.

Performs screening reviews for age appropriate preventive services.

Advance care planning.

• Daily charge nurse duties including making staff assignments, daily charge nurse meeting, attending interdepartmental meetings, and staffing the unit
• Daily patient care including assessments, IV starts, fluid changes, lab draws, patient vital signs, plan of care, and documentation
• Care for and managed children ages newborn to 18 years of age
• Care for and manage IV lines such as peripheral lines and PICC lines
• Care for and manage trachs and buttons
• Completed PICU training
• GEM III RN duties which included tracking and calculating the monthly pain audits

• Daily charge nurse duties including making staff assignments, daily charge nurse meeting, attending interdepartmental meetings, and staffing the unit
• Daily patient care including assessments, PO/bolus feedings, IV starts, fluid changes, lab draws, patient vital signs, plan of care, and documentation
• Care for and managed airway of ventilated patients on SIMV, HFOV ventilators
• Care for and manage IV lines such as umbilical arterial and venous lines, PICC lines, CVL lines, and peripheral lines
• Attend deliveries including c-sections, meconium-stained fluid, high risk, and preterm gestation
• GEM III RN duties which included tracking and calculating the monthly infection report, and follow up communication with discharged patients

• Care for and recover post-op patients emerging from general anesthesia
• Vital sign monitoring and documenting, IV starts, fluid changes, and lab draws, patient vital signs, plan of care, and documentation
• Administration of IV, IM, and oral medications
• Provide patient education about home care discharge instructions
• Responsible for the unit staff schedule

• Daily care for the elderly population including assisting them with ADL’s
• Administered medications, performed assessments, put in catheters, lab draws, patient vital signs, plan of care, and documentation