Dawn Piazza
CLINTON,CT
Summary
- Reliable and trustworthy Registered Nurse with over 13 years of experience, including nursing, case management and home health care.
- Demonstrated ability to successfully align experience, training, and education to provide the highest level of patient care and work effectively in a collaboration with other health care providers.
- Strong interpersonal skills, able to communicate effectively with patients, family members, physicians, and nursing staff for optimal efficiency and effectiveness. + Reliable self-starter with a keen ability to quickly adapt to new processes and multi-task in a dynamic, frequently changing, and fast-paced environment
- Training & Certification: CHF protocol teaching program, palliative care program, stages of change seminar, telemonitoring training, and CPR/Basic Life Support Certification.
- Awards: Received a Nightingale Award in Nursing in 2008. + Effective Case Management + Quality Patient Care
- Medication Administration KEY SKILLS & STRENGTHS + Home Health Nursing + Time Management + Patient Advocacy & Education + Regulatory Compliance + Patient Assessment + Attention to Detail
Effective and compassionate RN Case Manager with 14 years of experience and exemplary coordination ability. Offering reputation for working with patients to design care plan goals with available resources. Detail oriented and skilled in case research.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
Work History
RN Staff Nurse
Visiting nurses of the Lower Valley
Ivoryton, CT
02.2022 - Current
- Charted changes in patient conditions and discussed concerns with supervising healthcare provider.
- Read physician orders and administered therapies, treatments and medications.
- Collaborated with interdisciplinary healthcare professionals to create, implement and adapt individualized care plans.
- Prioritized patient care assignments based on patient conditions to achieve optimal outcomes.
- Coordinated care with physicians and other clinical staff to prepare for treatment, carry out interventions and enhance continuum of care.
- Developed care plans complete with effective nursing measures to improve patients' mental and physical health.
- Conducted regular re-evaluations to address changes in needs and conditions, and introduced revisions to care plans.
Registered Nurse Case Manager
Ledyard Regional Vna
Ledyard CT, CT
07.2020 - Current
- Collaborated with physicians on patient medications, medical needs and performance.
- Developed patient care plans, including overall patient health assessments and evaluations.
- Actively participated in family and patient planning processes.
- Assessed and reviewed patients for discharge and planning, including integrating services for patients requiring home care, home infusion and durable medical equipment (DME).
- Updated and maintained discharge plan of care with physician, members of healthcare team, patients, and families.
- Collaborated in consults, patient care plans development, patient monitoring and evaluations.
- Incorporated appropriate nursing methods to create individualized care plans.
- Determined and coordinated appropriate level of care to meet individual patient needs.
- Trained, guided and mentored home healthcare providers to ensure all objectives were met.
Home Care Nurse
Kindred Healthcare Inc.
Old Saybrook, CT
09.2018 - 06.2020
- Completed initial assessments of patients and family to determine and address individual home care needs.
- Developed care plans, covering goals based on nursing diagnosis and incorporating therapeutic, preventive and rehabilitative nursing actions.
- Charted changes in patient conditions and discussed concerns with supervising healthcare provider.
- Addressed patient care needs, collected vitals, dressed wounds and managed catheters.
- Notified physicians of changes in patients' conditions.
Registered Nurse / Case Manager
VNA COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE
Guilford, CT
08.2005 - 07.2018
- Provide quality patient care to ensure a safe home environment.
- Perform medication administration and patient education with optimal safety precautions.
- Perform weekly wound care assessments and educate caregivers on reportable signs and symptoms of diabetic conditions, cardiac and respiratory conditions.
- Provide education on methods for improving patient's quality of life in the home environment.
- Communicate effectively with physicians and specialists regard ing plan of care for patients to achieve optimal results in the home environment.
- Performed evaluations on a consistent basis to address changes in patient needs, conditions and medications, altering care plans when required.
- Initiated appropriate preventive and rehabilitative nursing procedures.
Education
Associate of Arts - Nursing
Excellsior College
Albany NY2012
Associate of Arts - Nursing
Vinal Technical High School
Middletown, CT2005
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Chamberlain University
Downers Grove, ILSkills
- diabetic, medication administration, patient care, quality, safety, plan of care, wound care
- Emotional intelligence
- Process improvement
- Direct patient care
- Data entry
- Staff management
- Charting and clinical documentation
- Medical evaluation
- Patient management
- Patient counseling
- Chronic disease management
- Indirect patient care
- Case management
- Care plan development
- Patient privacy and confidentiality
- Patient assessments
- Patient care planning
- Medical assessment
- Emotional awareness
- Cardiac monitoring
- Follow-up calls
- Patient discharging
Timeline
RN Staff Nurse
Visiting nurses of the Lower Valley
02.2022 - Current
Registered Nurse Case Manager
Ledyard Regional Vna
07.2020 - Current
Home Care Nurse
Kindred Healthcare Inc.
09.2018 - 06.2020
Registered Nurse / Case Manager
VNA COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE
08.2005 - 07.2018
Associate of Arts - Nursing
Excellsior College
Associate of Arts - Nursing
Vinal Technical High School
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Chamberlain University
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