EVON SMILEY
CINCINNATI,OHIO
Summary
Accomplished Licensed Practical Nurse with a proven track record in delivering exceptional patient care and fostering positive health outcomes. Recognized as a motivated leader with strong organizational and prioritization skills, adept at navigating complex healthcare environments. Expertise includes professionalism, medication administration, and health monitoring, complemented by a commitment to team collaboration and adaptability to evolving patient needs. Known for effective communication, problem-solving abilities, and a compassionate approach in high-pressure situations, ready to make a significant impact on healthcare quality and patient satisfaction.
Overview
26
26
years of professional experience
Work History
LPN
Cottingham Retirement Community
04.2016 - Current
- Long Term Care Facility.
- Recording patient history
- Giving medications as prescribed by the physician.
- Taking vital signs such as blood pressure, temperature, and weight.
- Injures areas
- Basic wound care including cleaning and bandaging.
- Giving injections of medications.
- Providing immunizations.
- Verifying patients are taking correct dosage of medications.
- Monitoring patients’ overall health during their shift and communicating with all ancillary staff, reporting to the RN and Physician with any and all changes.
Licensed Practical Nurse
Maximum Health Care Staffing PRN
03.2016 - Current
- Long Term Care facilities
Licensed Practical Nurse
Sojourner Rehabilitation Center PRN
03.2016 - Current
- Triage clients
- Instant Drug Screens
- Redwood Drug Screens
- Pregnancy tests
- Urine test
- Reconciled medications as ordered
- Give Intramuscular injections
- Order medications per Doctors order
- Verify insurance coverage
- Bill for services
- Venipuncture, lab requisitions, lab results
Licensed Practical Nurse
Cottingham Retirement Community PRN
03.2016 - Current
- Observe patients, charting and reporting changes in patient’s conditions, such as adverse reactions to medication or treatment, and taking any necessary action
- Provide basic patient care or treatments, such as taking temperatures or blood pressures, dressing wounds, treating bedsores, giving enemas or douches, rubbing with alcohol, massaging or performing catherization
- Answer patient calls and determine how to assist them
- Measure and record patient’s vital signs, height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, pulse and respiration
- Work as part of a healthcare team to assess patients’ needs, plan and modify care and implement interventions
- Supervise Nurses’ aides and assistants.
- Prepare patients for examinations, test and treatments and explain procedures
- Assemble and use equipment, such as catheters, tracheotomy tubes or oxygen suppliers
- Evaluate nursing intervention outcomes, conferring with other healthcare team members as necessary
- Record food and fluid intake and output.
- Help patients with bathing, dressing, maintaining personal hygiene, moving in bed, or standing and walking.
- Prepare or examine food trays for conformance to diet.
Anesthesia Technologist
University Hospital
01.2011 - 11.2015
- Stock operating rooms with equipment, medication, all supplies needed for the Anesthesiologist to prepare patients for surgery
- Assist as needed during surgeries
- Assist with patient transportation
- Gathered equipment for difficult intubations as requested
- Cleaned equipment after surgery
- Sent equipment and retrieved from sterile processing
- Prepared and set scopes with video towers for Anesthesiologist
- Keep track of equipment borrowed
- Assisted with intubations on surgical Intensive Care Units, Medical Intensive Care Units, Cardiac Intensive Care Units as requested.
Licensed Practical Nurse Monitor
University Hospital
02.2003 - 01.2011
- Place patients on Cardiac monitors per Physicians order
- Contacted Registered Nurse to confirm order, room number of patient, appropriate nurse for patient
- Monitored Blood Pressure, heart rate, heart rhythm, oxygen saturation level
- Collected equipment after discharge of patient, or monitoring was discontinued, cleaned and restocked.
- Educated patient regarding equipment.
- Prepared patients skin for placement of electrodes.
- Contacted Registered Nurse for abnormalities in heart in heart rate, oxygen saturation and Blood Pressure, Read and Interpreted rhythm strip for patients charts for Physicians, and Registered Nurses
- Charged patients appropriately for patient equipment
- Replaced equipment as needed3d, sent equipment for service as needed
- Trained new employees to the unit, how to read and interpret cardiac strips. Other responsibilities as needed
Licensed Practical Nurse
Blue Ash Nursing Home
08.2000 - 02.2003
- Observe patients, charting and reporting changes in patient’s conditions, such as adverse reactions to medication or treatment, and taking any necessary action
- Provide basic patient care or treatments, such as taking temperatures or blood pressures, dressing wounds, treating bedsores, giving enemas or douches, rubbing with alcohol, massaging or performing catherization
- Answer patient calls and determine how to assist them
- Measure and record patient’s vital signs, height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, pulse and respiration
- Work as part of a healthcare team to assess patients needs, plan and modify care and implement interventions
- Supervise Nurses’ aides and assistants.
- Prepare patients for examinations, test and treatments and explain procedures
- Assemble and use equipment, such as catheters, tracheotomy tubes or oxygen suppliers
- Evaluate nursing intervention outcomes, conferring with other healthcare team members as necessary
- Record food and fluid intake and output.
- Help patients with bathing, dressing, maintaining personal hygiene, moving in bed, or standing and walking.
- Prepare or examine food trays for conformance to diet.
Licensed Practical Nurse
Cedar Village Nursing Home
08.1999 - 07.2000
- Admission Nurse for new and returning patients from the hospital
- Transferred patients to hospital as Physicians ordered
- Conferred with Physicians concerning patient’s conditions
- Informed family members concerning patients as necessary
- Conferred with ancillary staff concerning patient care.
Education
Certificate Program Licensed Practical Nurse -
Great Oaks
06.1999
Skills
- IV Certified
- BLS Certified
- Medication administration
- Direct patient care
- Vital signs monitoring
- HIPAA compliance
- Wound care
Community Service
Matthew 25 ministries, Volunteered with Matthew 25 ministries, packaging toiletry items, clothes, along with other necessities for disaster victims
Timeline
LPN
Cottingham Retirement Community
04.2016 - Current
Licensed Practical Nurse
Maximum Health Care Staffing PRN
03.2016 - Current
Licensed Practical Nurse
Sojourner Rehabilitation Center PRN
03.2016 - Current
Licensed Practical Nurse
Cottingham Retirement Community PRN
03.2016 - Current
Anesthesia Technologist
University Hospital
01.2011 - 11.2015
Licensed Practical Nurse Monitor
University Hospital
02.2003 - 01.2011
Licensed Practical Nurse
Blue Ash Nursing Home
08.2000 - 02.2003
Licensed Practical Nurse
Cedar Village Nursing Home
08.1999 - 07.2000
Certificate Program Licensed Practical Nurse -
Great Oaks
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