JEWEL PEARSALL

• Promoted a safe environment for both staff and inmates by adhering to institutional policies regarding contraband control, safety measures, and crisis intervention techniques.
• Administered medications and treatment to patients and monitored responses.
• Delivered compassionate nursing care while maintaining professional boundaries and upholding ethical standards within the prison setting.
• Provided emergency care to inmates by responding promptly to medical emergencies within the facility.

• Provided advanced-level transitional and rehabilitative care to infants and children coming from acute care hospitals Shock Trauma, Neonatal Intensive Care, Newborn Nursery or Pediatric Intensive Care with a broad range of illness, injury and congenital anomalies.
• Providing High quality nursing care promoting and maintaining health, preventing disease, and disability.

guidance and direction to the Patient Care Assistant

• Directly interface daily with physicians, patients, visitors, other health care team, and health care system staff.
• Used critical thinking to break down problems, evaluate solutions and make decisions.
• Assessment, planning, implementing, evaluation, activities of daily living, patient advocacy, delegation, communication according to scope of practice.
• Administered medications and treatments to pediatric patients to manage symptoms and promote healing.

• Performed scheduled patient safety checks and documented results to establish patients' well-being.
• Observed patient behaviors and mental status and notified RN of unusual or potentially dangerous occurrences.
• Identified behaviors that necessitated intervention and obtained assistance from qualified personnel to complete intervention.
• Applied de-escalation and limit-setting techniques to promote patient cooperation.

• Functions under the supervision of the RN in a cooperative effort with the health care team to directly observe and correctly redirect assigned patient
• Promptly and effectively communicates with patient, family, and visitors
• Remains alert and attentive to patient and patient safety
• Takes appropriate action to maintain a safe environment at all time
• Responsible for the receptionist and secretarial duties on the unit, while functioning as a communication source
• Ensures the quality of services rendered by the Nursing Department as it responds to the needs of its customers in accordance with the hospital's mission statement and SPIRIT values
• Carried out administrative clerk duties such as light typing, copying and scanning.
• Ordered and distributed office supplies while adhering to fixed office budget.
• Performed wide-ranging administrative, financial and service-related functions.
• Completed daily logs for management review.
• Increased customer service success rates by quickly resolving issues.

• Acts as receptionist
• Greets all persons coming to the nurses' station, answers inquiries, directs and assists them, takes and relays messages, assists with gifts, flowers and mail, runs errands for floor personnel
• Initiates and maintains a variety of records/reports, patient charges/classifications/census, activity logs, IV therapy sheets, etc
• Requisitions supplies and equipment, maintenance and repair service and prepares related forms
• Prepares diet lists and calls in orders
• Requests services such as Chaplain, barber, television, and social service, etc., as needed
• Implements new or revised work procedures to improve effectiveness or efficiency or to accommodate changes to operations or new functions
• Coordinates with other areas/personnel to achieve objectives and maintains good employee, interdepartmental and public relations
• Maintains patient rights and confidentiality of patient information, and abides by established communications codes
• Performs clerical duties related to procedures such as admission, discharge, transfer, death, etc
• Performs additional duties as assigned.