Deborah Ellis

• Utilized time management skills to prioritize tasks effectively, allowing for efficient completion of daily responsibilities.
• Maintained accurate documentation of all relevant clinical data, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards.
• Implemented infection control measures, ensuring a clean and safe environment for patients and staff.
• Managed patient care through closely monitoring respiration, blood pressure, and blood glucose levels.
• Administered controlled narcotics, inserted IVs, and performed catheterizations.
• Obtained patient vital signs and input/output measurements from inpatients.
• Adhered to treatment plan instructions when administering medications and treatments to patients.
• Improved patient outcomes by providing high-quality nursing care and closely monitoring vital signs.

• Reduced medication errors by accurately administering medications and diligently verifying patient information.
• Documented accurate and complete patient information to address patient problems and expected outcomes.
• Participated in ongoing professional development opportunities to enhance knowledge base and skillset as an LPN.
• Demonstrated adaptability in working with diverse patient populations across various healthcare settings.
• Provided emotional support to patients and families during difficult times, fostering positive relationships built on trust and compassion.
• Reviewed patient history to verify conditions and current medications.
• Evaluated patient histories, complaints, and current symptoms.
• Monitored patient health conditions to report changes to assigned physician.
• Assessed patients' temperature, pulse, and blood pressure and recorded in electronic medical records.
• Administered medications and injections to patients.
• Minimized staff and patient infection risk by cleaning and disinfecting equipment instruments.
• Contributed to continuous quality improvement efforts by identifying areas for potential growth within the nursing practice.
• Supported the delivery of evidence-based interventions by staying current on best practices in the field of nursing.
• Comforted and counseled patients and families throughout care process.
• Assisted with feeding and monitored intake to help patients achieve nutritional objectives.
• Provided compassionate end-of-life care, ensuring that patients were comfortable and families felt supported during the process.
• Assisted in the management of chronic health conditions by providing education, support, and follow-up care.
• Accurately recorded interactions in medical charts, documenting accidents and interventions applied.

Medication distribution to patient according to MD orders. Vital signs according to parameters of medications. Communication with Nurse Practitioners if changes needed according to Lab results or hospitalization discharge.

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• Performed wound care treatments using sterile techniques, promoting healing and preventing complications.
• Cared for wounds, provided treatments, and assisted with procedures.
• Participated in ongoing professional development opportunities to enhance knowledge base and skillset as an LPN.
• Performed routine evaluations of each patient's status, needs, and preferences.
• Enhanced patient satisfaction levels through effective communication and empathetic listening skills.
• Used aseptic techniques to provide sterilized wound care and dressing applications.
• Monitored, tracked, and conveyed important patient information to healthcare staff to help optimize treatment planning and care delivery.
• Answered incoming phone calls from patients to provide basic assistance and triage medical concerns.
• Offered immediate assistance in emergency and routine paging situations to evaluate needs and deliver care.
• Educated patients and caregivers on medical diagnoses, treatment options, chronic disease self-management and wound management.
• Evaluated patients to identify and address wounds, behavioral concerns, and medically relevant symptoms.
• Gathered lab specimens, ordered testing, and interpreted results to diagnose patients.
• Assisted physicians during examinations or procedures as needed, playing a vital role in the overall patient experience.
• Delivered updates in patient status to charge nurse, recording changes in medical records.
• Protected patients and healthcare team members from infection by sterilizing equipment and reusable supplies.
• Helped patients complete bathing, dressing and eating.
• Provided compassionate end-of-life care, ensuring that patients were comfortable and families felt supported during the process.
• Assisted with feeding and monitored intake to help patients achieve nutritional objectives.
• Comforted and counseled patients and families throughout care process.
• Contributed to continuous quality improvement efforts by identifying areas for potential growth within the nursing practice.
• Administered medications and injections to patients.
• Minimized staff and patient infection risk by cleaning and disinfecting equipment instruments.
• Assessed patients' temperature, pulse, and blood pressure and recorded in electronic medical records.
• Evaluated patient histories, complaints, and current symptoms.
• Obtained patient vital signs and input/output measurements from inpatients.
• Adhered to treatment plan instructions when administering medications and treatments to patients.
• Documented accurate and complete patient information to address patient problems and expected outcomes.
• Reduced medication errors by accurately administering medications and diligently verifying patient information.
• Provided emotional support to patients and families during difficult times, fostering positive relationships built on trust and compassion.