Jeanne Furney

- Provide direct patient care for young adult with Chronic Pain

Syndrome and Quadriplegia

- Stabilized care R/T fluid volume balance and IV antibiotics

(for chronic UTIs) via single lumen central line, change Foley

and tubing per orders

- Manage autonomic dysreflexia and BP shifts

- Client/family education (i.e. the concept of synergistic pain

management with medications already on MAR)

- Administered all medications and treatments per orders,

with responses

- Accurate chart keeping

Worked with this client from 04/19-04/20 also

- Hired to screen guests and employees during Covid-19

- When screening ceased, was kept on to do pre-surgical

Covid-19 swabbing, which entailed:

- PRN rescheduling clients to come to drive-up testing site,

performing tests in full PPE handling potentially

contaminated material in all weather conditions, accurate

labeling of specimens, record keeping, and delivering

to lab for testing

- Worked on floors doing sitting and assisting nurses

- Circulated all services, scrubbed most

- Exceptional skills in team work, communications, sterile

technique, record keeping, advocacy, counting

- Excellent clent/patient rapport through compassion, great

listening skills, appropriate humor to put them at ease PRN,

answering questions, giving comfort while being induced

- Client care with same conditions when performing

Conscious Sedation

- Performed pre-operative visits for in-house clients

* Received Best Mentor Award by colleagues

* Received many Thank You cards after Conscious Sedation

- Caring with comfort for children with chronic, terminal, and unique illnesses such as various cancers, myelomeningoceles, cardiac defects, kidney disease, AIDS, Trisomy-21

- Medications/procedures include chemotherapy, peritoneal

dialysis, digoxin, assist with CNS and bone marrow sampling,

attempting to control DIC

- Educated client (age appropriately) and family