Diane Griffin

• 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.
• Obtained patient vital signs and input/output measurements from inpatients.
• 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.
• Performed routine evaluations of each patient's status, needs, and preferences.
• Enhanced patient satisfaction levels through effective communication and empathetic listening skills.

• Assessment nurse, Medicaid/Medicare 60 day assessment visits
• 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.
• Managed patient care through closely monitoring respiration, blood pressure, and blood glucose levels.
• Improved patient outcomes by providing high-quality nursing care and closely monitoring vital signs.
• 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.
• Performed routine evaluations of each patient's status, needs, and preferences.
• Enhanced patient satisfaction levels through effective communication and empathetic listening skills.

• Collaborated with interdisciplinary healthcare teams to ensure continuous quality improvement in patient care delivery.
• Demonstrated excellent technical skills in wound dressing changes, IV therapy administration, catheter insertion, and other routine nursing procedures.
• Managed patient care through closely monitoring respiration, blood pressure, and blood glucose levels.
• Obtained patient vital signs and input/output measurements from inpatients.
• Performed routine evaluations of each patient's status, needs, and preferences.
• Adapted quickly to changing patient needs, adjusting care plans accordingly to ensure optimal outcomes in diverse clinical scenarios.
• Comforted and counseled patients and families throughout care process.
• Monitored, tracked, and conveyed important patient information to healthcare staff to help optimize treatment planning and care delivery.
• Gathered lab specimens, ordered testing, and interpreted results to diagnose patients.
• Used aseptic techniques to provide sterilized wound care and dressing applications.
• Assisted physicians with diagnostic testing and procedural support for optimal treatment decisions.
• Delivered culturally competent care that respected diverse patient populations'' unique values, beliefs, and traditions.
• Ensured regulatory compliance by adhering to infection control protocols and maintaining accurate documentation of patient data.

• Accomplish nursing human resource objectives by selecting, orienting, training, assigning, scheduling, coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees
• Communicate job expectations; planning, monitoring, appraising job contributions; recommending compensation actions; adhering to policies and procedures
• Meet nursing operational standards by contributing information to strategic plans and reviews, implementing production, productivity, quality, and customer-service standards; resolving problems; identifying system improvements Identifies patient service requirements by establishing personal rapport with potential and actual patients
• Maintain nursing guidelines by writing and updating policies and procedures
• Maintain patient confidence and protects operations by monitoring confidential information processing
• Computer skills, EMR, Microsoft Word, Pre-Certifications, Knowledge of CPT and ICD codes Triaged Patients, Phone Triage Accurately collected and labeled sterile and unsterile specimens
• Shared the responsibility of initiated and maintenance of clinical records by recording vital signs, height weight, observed patient's condition and reaction to medication, treatment, and nursing care given, reviewed patient records daily to assure accuracy and completeness, maintained comprehensive and completed nursing notes, completion and timely submissions of summary reports
• Knowledge and implementation of OSHA and HIPAA.Obtained laboratory specimens (i.e
• Blood, urine, sputum) Pre-Authorizations, Pre-Certifications Knowledge of CPT and ICD 10 codes Administered IV therapy, phlebotomy, IM injection, tuberculin testing, pre-employment physicals and drug testing, DOT physicals Assisting physician with patient care, Glucose testing, Hemoglobin A1C's, UA's, pregnancy test, EKG's Recruited and screened patients for research studies, obtained informed consents from patients that agreed to participate, assisted with collection, organization and maintenance of data files, assisted with preparation of progress reports for studies as needed, assisted with the collection of specimens like blood, nasal, swabs and other body fluids for examination, administered study drug.

• Clinical setting, Pediatric Clinic, Family Practice Clinic, Adult Care Clinic, Research Nurse- John Hopkins Compact License

As a nursing instructor I was responsible for teaching and training nursing students in the classroom. My main duties included developing curriculum, delivering lectures, leading labs and simulations, and overseeing students' clinical placements. I taught subject's that include anatomy, physiology, pharmacology, patient assessment, care planning, nursing procedures and interventions, evidence-based practice, and professional nursing issues.