Heather Woods
Watseka,IL
Summary
Possesses versatile skills in project management, problem-solving, and collaboration. Brings fresh perspective and strong commitment to quality and success. Recognized for adaptability and proactive approach in delivering effective solutions.
Overview
31
31
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Care Navigator Nurse
HealthSnap
01.2024 - Current
- Remote Patient Care and chronic core management Navigator
LPN Clinic Nurse
Riverside Healthcare
06.2023 - 01.2024
- Rooming patients
- Taking vital signs and recording in EPIC
- Referrals
- Medication refills
- Consulting with physician's
- Patient questions
- Injections
- Pharmacy questions
- Performing testing: A1c, Urine, blood sugar, hemoglobin, hematocrit, strep, flu and Covid
- Prior Authorizations
- Care coordination
Licensed Practical Nurse
Iroquois Memorial Hospital and Resident Home
11.2020 - 05.2023
- Assist with care plan assessments, developing and delivering a care plan assessment.
- Medication as prescribed by a physician
- Taking vital signs, such as blood pressure, temperature, and weight
- Basic wound care including cleaning and bandaging injured areas
- Giving injections of medication
- Immunizations
- Taking medical histories
- Entering information into patient charts
- Ensuring patients and their families understand release instructions
- Supervising CNAs (Certified Nursing Assistants)
- Monitoring fluid and food intake and output
- Moving patients safely
- Assembling equipment such as catheters, gastrostomy (feeding) tubes and oxygen supplies
- Dressing wounds, treating bedsores, giving enemas or douches
- Rubbing with alcohol, massaging, or performing catheterizations.
- Consulting with physicians about residential care and treatment.
- Consulting with family members about residents care and treatment plans.
Assistant Director of Nursing
Iroquois Memorial Hospital Resident Home
12.2021 - 05.2023
- Combined position.
- Assistant Director of Nursing/MDS Coordinator/Care Coordinator
- MDS Coordination. Care plan coordinator.
- Mentoring IDT team members through this process.
- Creating documents
- Scheduling CNA'S and Nurse's
- Conducting and assisting with IDT team meetings.
- Remote work from home as needed or required.
- On call nursing supervisor.
- Direct care plan assessments, developing and delivering a care plan assessment.
- Medical coding Entering into charts.
- Medication administration as prescribed by a physician
- Taking vital signs, such as blood pressure, temperature, and weight
- Wound care including cleaning and bandaging injured areas treatments and wound measuring
- Giving injections of medication
- Immunizations
- Taking medical histories
- Entering information into patient charts
- Ensuring patients and their families understand release instructions
- Supervising CNAs (Certified Nursing Assistants)
- Monitoring fluid and food intake and output
- Moving patients safely
- Assembling equipment such as catheters, gastrostomy (feeding) tubes and oxygen supplies
- Dressing wounds, treating bedsores, giving enemas or douches
- Rubbing with alcohol, massaging, or performing catheterizations.
- Consulting with physicians about residential care and treatment.
- Consulting with family members about residents care and treatment plans.
Licensed Practical Nurse/Charge Nurse
Petersen Health Care
11.2016 - 11.2017
- Assist with care plan assessments, developing and delivering a care plan assessment.
- Medication as prescribed by a physician
- Taking vital signs, such as blood pressure, temperature, and weight
- Wound care including cleaning and bandaging injured areas treatments and wound measuring
- Giving injections of medication
- Immunizations
- Taking medical histories
- Entering information into patient charts
- Ensuring patients and their families understand release instructions
- Supervising CNAs (Certified Nursing Assistants)
- Monitoring fluid and food intake and output
- Moving patients safely
- Assembling equipment such as catheters, gastrostomy (feeding) tubes and oxygen supplies
- Dressing wounds, treating bedsores, giving enemas or douches
- Rubbing with alcohol, massaging, or performing catheterizations.
- Consulting with physicians about residential care and treatment.
- Consulting with family members about residents care and treatment plans.
LPN Home Care Nurse
Advantage Nursing Services
03.2016 - 11.2016
- Homecare agency nurse for baby with developmental delays, brain injury, and seizure disorder.
- Baby has a tracheostomy and a g-tube. Baby is on a ventilator and uses oxygen per concentrator.
- Responsible for medication and feeding administration, personal care, household cleaning tasks.
- Accompany patient and family to medical appointments.
- Responsible for scheduling day shift nursing, monthly and weekly nursing documentation.
- Care planning, evaluation and treatment for client.
Licensed Practical Nurse (Homecare Nurse)
Advantage Nursing Services
06.2012 - 01.2016
- Homecare nurse for completely paralyzed elderly gentleman.
- Hospice care and medication administration.
- Administer prescribed medications, noting times and amounts on patients' charts.
- Observe patients, charting and reporting changes in patients' conditions, such as adverse reactions to medication or treatment, and taking any necessary action.
- Contributing to care planning, evaluation and treatment.
- 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 catheterizations.
- Sterilize equipment and supplies, using germicides, sterilizer, or autoclave.
- Answer patients' calls and determine how to assist them.
- Measure and record patients' vital signs, such as height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, pulse, and respiration.
- Work as part of a healthcare team to assess patient needs, plan and modify care, and implement interventions.
- Collect samples, such as blood, urine, or sputum from patients, and perform routine laboratory tests on samples.
- Provide medical treatment or personal care to patients in private home settings, such as cooking, keeping rooms orderly, seeing that patients are comfortable and in good spirits, or instructing family members in simple nursing tasks.
- 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.
- Apply compresses, ice bags, or hot water bottles.
- Inventory and requisition supplies and instruments.
- Clean rooms and make beds.
- G-tube care, changing, formula and medication administration.
- Lifting, moving, and transferring patient.
- Hospice care and medication administration.
- Support, educate, and instruct family of patient.
Licensed Practical Nurse
The Arc of Iroquois County
08.2005 - 08.2012
- Nurse for adults with Developmental Disabilities.
- Administer prescribed medications, noting times and amounts on patients' charts.
- Observe patients, charting and reporting changes in patients' conditions, such as adverse reactions to medication or treatment, and taking any necessary action.
- Care planning and follow up with residents and family.
- 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 catheterizations.
- Sterilize equipment and supplies, using germicides, sterilizer, or autoclave.
- Answer patients' calls and determine how to assist them.
- Measure and record patients' vital signs, such as height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, pulse, and respiration.
- Collect samples, such as blood, urine, or sputum from patients, and perform routine laboratory tests on samples.
- Supervise nurses' aides or assistants.
- Make appointments, keep records, or perform other clerical duties in doctors' offices or clinics.
- Prepare patients for examinations, tests, or treatments and explain procedures.
- Provide medical treatment or personal care to patients in private home settings, such as cooking, keeping rooms orderly, seeing that patients are comfortable and in good spirits, or instructing family members in simple nursing tasks.
- Assemble and use equipment, such as catheters, tracheotomy tubes, or oxygen suppliers.
- Evaluate nursing intervention outcomes, conferring with other healthcare team members as necessary, quarterly meetings with service coordinator, cila managers and DSP's.
- Assisting Q with implementation of developmental, health and behavioral programming for residents.
- Record food and fluid intake and output.
- Set up equipment and prepare medical treatment rooms.
- Apply compresses, ice bags, or hot water bottles.
- Inventory and requisition supplies and instruments.
- Support, instruct, and educate the patient, family, and caregivers.
- Primary nurse
- Perform drug testing
- Administer TB tests
- Maintain residents medical records
- Ensure medical appointments are scheduled as needed for residents.
- First aid care for residents and staff members.
- Weigh residents monthly and record data.
- Consults with resident's physician's.
- Updating and checking medication records as needed.
- Ordering resident's medications from pharmacy.
- Transcribing physician's orders.
Licensed Practical Nurse Clinic Nurse
Iroquois Memorial Hospital Satellite Clinics
06.2007 - 08.2009
- Record patients' medical history, vital statistics, or information such as test results in medical records.
- Prepare treatment rooms for patient examinations, keeping the rooms neat and clean.
- Interview patients to obtain medical information and measure their vital signs, weight, and height.
- Authorize drug refills and provide prescription information to pharmacies.
- Clean and sterilize instruments and dispose of contaminated supplies.
- Prepare and administer medications as directed by a physician.
- Show patients to examination rooms and prepare them for the physician.
- Explain treatment procedures, medications, diets, or physicians' instructions to patients.
- Collect blood, tissue, or other laboratory specimens, log the specimens, and prepare them for testing.
- Help physicians examine and treat patients, handing them instruments or materials or performing such tasks as giving injections or removing sutures.
- Perform routine laboratory tests and sample analyses.
- Contact medical facilities or departments to schedule patients for tests or admission.
- Operate, electrocardiogram (EKG), or other equipment to administer routine diagnostic tests.
- Change dressings on wounds.
- Set up medical laboratory equipment.
- Perform general office duties, such as answering telephones, taking dictation, or completing insurance forms.
- Greet and log in patients arriving at office or clinic.
- Schedule appointments for patients.
Clinic nurse- Licensed Practical Nurse
Hoopeston Regional Health
01.2008 - 01.2009
- Clinic nurse.
- Record patients' medical history, vital statistics, or information such as test results in medical records.
- Prepare treatment rooms for patient examinations, keeping the rooms neat and clean.
- Interview patients to obtain medical information and measure their vital signs, weight, and height.
- Authorize drug refills and provide prescription information to pharmacies.
- Clean and sterilize instruments and dispose of contaminated supplies.
- Prepare and administer medications as directed by a physician.
- Show patients to examination rooms and prepare them for the physician.
- Explain treatment procedures, medications, diets, or physicians' instructions to patients.
- Collect blood, tissue, or other laboratory specimens, log the specimens, and prepare them for testing.
- Help physicians examine and treat patients, handing them instruments or materials or performing such tasks as giving injections or removing sutures.
- Perform routine laboratory tests and sample analyses.
- Contact medical facilities or departments to schedule patients for tests or admission.
- Operate, electrocardiogram (EKG), or other equipment to administer routine diagnostic tests.
- Change dressings on wounds.
- Set up medical laboratory equipment.
- Perform general office duties, such as answering telephones, taking dictation, or completing insurance forms.
- Greet and log in patients arriving at office or clinic.
- Schedule appointments for patients.
DSP (Direct Support Professional)
The Arc of Iroquois County
08.1996 - 08.2005
- Maintain records of patient care, condition, progress, or problems to report and discuss observations with supervisor or case manager.
- Administer prescribed oral medications, under the written direction of physician or as directed by home care nurse or aide, and ensure patients take their medicine.
- Check patients' pulse, temperature, and respiration.
- Provide patients with help moving in and out of beds, baths, wheelchairs, or automobiles and with dressing and grooming.
- Care for patients by changing bed linens, washing and ironing laundry, cleaning, or assisting with their personal care.
- Plan, purchase, prepare, or serve meals to patients or other family members, according to prescribed diets.
- Accompany clients to doctors' offices or on other trips outside the home, providing transportation, assistance, and companionship.
- Direct patients in simple prescribed exercises or in the use of braces or artificial limbs.
- Provide patients and families with emotional support and instruction in areas such as caring for infants, preparing healthy meals, living independently, or adapting to disability or illness.
- Entertain, converse with, or read aloud to patients to keep them mentally healthy and alert.
- Perform a variety of duties as requested by client, such as obtaining household supplies or running errands.
- Massage patients or apply preparations or treatments, such as liniment, alcohol rubs, or heat-lamp stimulation.
- Change dressings.
DSP (Direct Support Professional)
ABRA
08.1994 - 08.1997
- Maintain records of patient care, condition, progress, or problems to report and discuss observations with supervisor or case manager.
- Administer prescribed oral medications, under the written direction of physician or as directed by home care nurse or aide, and ensure patients take their medicine.
- Check patients' pulse, temperature, and respiration.
- Provide patients with help moving in and out of beds, baths, wheelchairs, or automobiles and with dressing and grooming.
- Care for patients by changing bed linens, washing and ironing laundry, cleaning, or assisting with their personal care.
- Plan, purchase, prepare, or serve meals to patients or other family members, according to prescribed diets.
- Accompany clients to doctors' offices or on other trips outside the home, providing transportation, assistance, and companionship.
- Direct patients in simple prescribed exercises or in the use of braces or artificial limbs.
- Entertain, converse with, or read aloud to patients to keep them mentally healthy and alert.
- Perform a variety of duties as requested by client, such as obtaining household supplies or running errands.
- Massage patients or apply preparations or treatments, such as liniment, alcohol rubs, or heat-lamp stimulation.
Education
Advanced Certificate in Practical Nursing - NURSING LICENSES in Practical Nursing
Kankakee Community College
Kankakee, IL06.2005
Skills
- Pediatrics
- Nursing
- Vital Signs
- Teaching
- Catheter Care
- Specimen collection / processing
- MDS
- Problem Solving
- Staff Nurse
- Training
- Medication Administration
- ICD-10
- Epic
- Hospice Care
- Medical coding
- CNA
- Negotiation
- Clerical experience
- Tube Feeding
- Managed Care
- Time Management
- Mentoring
- Home Care
●Supervisor experience
- Experience Administering Injections
- Medical records
- LPN
- Supervising Experience
- Triage
- Patient Care
- Case Management
- Customer service
- Caregiving
- Training & development
- Infant Care
- Medical Records
- Management
- Home Health
- Transcription
- EMR systems
- Phlebotomy
- Cna Certified
- Medical terminology
- LVN
- Ventilator
- Laundry
- Laboratory Experience
- Medical Office Experience
Certification
- LPN, 01/01/27, IL
- CPR Certification
- Driver's License
Personal Information
Title: Licensed Practical Nurse
Timeline
Care Navigator Nurse
HealthSnap
01.2024 - Current
LPN Clinic Nurse
Riverside Healthcare
06.2023 - 01.2024
Assistant Director of Nursing
Iroquois Memorial Hospital Resident Home
12.2021 - 05.2023
Licensed Practical Nurse
Iroquois Memorial Hospital and Resident Home
11.2020 - 05.2023
Licensed Practical Nurse/Charge Nurse
Petersen Health Care
11.2016 - 11.2017
LPN Home Care Nurse
Advantage Nursing Services
03.2016 - 11.2016
Licensed Practical Nurse (Homecare Nurse)
Advantage Nursing Services
06.2012 - 01.2016
Clinic nurse- Licensed Practical Nurse
Hoopeston Regional Health
01.2008 - 01.2009
Licensed Practical Nurse Clinic Nurse
Iroquois Memorial Hospital Satellite Clinics
06.2007 - 08.2009
Licensed Practical Nurse
The Arc of Iroquois County
08.2005 - 08.2012
DSP (Direct Support Professional)
The Arc of Iroquois County
08.1996 - 08.2005
DSP (Direct Support Professional)
ABRA
08.1994 - 08.1997
Advanced Certificate in Practical Nursing - NURSING LICENSES in Practical Nursing
Kankakee Community College
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