JESSICA ECORD

Field Nurse/ HIU

• Administer prescribed medications or start intravenous fluids, 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
• 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
• 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
• Supervise nurses' aides or assistants
• 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
• Offered listening ear to both patients and loved ones to meet emotional and mental, as well as physical needs.
• Offered exceptional care and support to individuals recovering from acute incidents and dealing with chronic conditions.
• Established and maintained successful relationships with patients, families and physicians by utilizing exemplary communication and active listening skills.
• Leveraged feedback and process improvement opportunities to create safer and healthier environment and increase patient satisfaction.
• Provided high level of quality, compassionate care to patients and caregivers during each nursing shift.
• Quickly responded to situations impacting safety and security to unit, actualizing crisis prevention interventions to control and de-escalate situations.
• Recognized and understood specific stages of dying process, providing comfort-based care during vulnerable times.
• Taught family members and caregivers various ways to manage patients' pain, how to check for vital signs and proper methods for dressing changes.

• 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
• Inventory and requisition supplies and instruments
• Wash and dress bodies of deceased persons
• Teachings to families and clients over dying process
• Taking verbal orders, from physicians and updating patients charts
• Administer prescribed medications or start intravenous fluids, 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
• 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, PICC line care, IV medication administration
• 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
• 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
• Record food and fluid intake and output
• Help patients with bathing, dressing, maintaining personal hygiene, moving in bed, or standing and walking
• Set up equipment and prepare medical treatment rooms
• Prepare or examine food trays for conformance to prescribed diet
• Apply compresses, ice bags, or hot water bottles.
• Documented accurate and complete patient information to address patient problems and expected outcomes.
• Used aseptic techniques to provide sterilized wound care and dressing applications.
• Obtained patient vital signs and input/output measurements from inpatients.
• Worked with multidisciplinary team to carry out successful treatment plans for diverse acute and chronic conditions.
• Documented patient vitals, behaviors and conditions to communicate concerns to supervising nurse.
• Educated patients and caregivers on medical diagnoses, treatment options, chronic disease self-management and wound management.
• Managed patient care through closely monitoring respiration, blood pressure, and blood glucose levels.
• Gathered lab specimens, ordered testing, and interpreted results to diagnose patients.

• Inventory and requisition supplies and instruments
• Wash and dress bodies of deceased persons
• Clean rooms and make beds
• Administer prescribed medications or start intravenous fluids, 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
• 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, PICC line care/ IV administration, teachings over all DX
• 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
• 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
• Record food and fluid intake and output
• Help patients with bathing, dressing, maintaining personal hygiene, moving in bed, or standing and walking
• Set up equipment and prepare medical treatment rooms
• Prepare or examine food trays for conformance to prescribed diet
• Apply compresses, ice bags, or hot water bottles
• Inventory and requisition supplies and instruments
• Wash and dress bodies of deceased persons
• Clean rooms and make beds.

Managed crises care and on-call response coverage.