Joanne Lukstein

• Educated patients, families and caregivers on diagnosis and prognosis, treatment options, disease process, and management and lifestyle options.
• Managed care from admission to discharge.
• Organized and managed care of patients undergoing various therapies and procedures.
• Provided direct patient care, stabilized patients, and determined next course of action.
• Administered medications and treatment to patients and monitored responses while working with healthcare teams to adjust care plans.
• Trained new nurses in proper techniques, care standards, operational procedures, and safety protocols.
• Administered medications via oral, IV, and intramuscular injections and monitored responses.
• Collaborated with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions.

UW Health Hospital –Madison-RN

6/2017-2/2019

At UW hospital, I worked as a floor nurse on orthopedic and rehab floor. I performed all duties

of floor nursing including IV, NG, meds and trachs. On the rehab floor, majority of patients

were very complex, brain injuries, spinal cord injuries, strokes, multi trauma and medically

complex dialysis patients. I also would fill in as charge nurse and nurse liaison as PRN. EPIC

trained. I resigned due to moving.

Nurse Director-Eagle Hospital Physicians-RN

1/2014-6/2017

Eagle was a contracted company for the hospitalists at Swedish American Hospital in Rockford.

As a nurse director, I worked with the hospitalist physicians along with the hospital employees

to help facilitate discharges, talk with patients/families about plan of care, complete forms such

as; FMLA, home health forms, work notes, prior authorizations and encourage communication

between nurses and physicians; act as a resource to ease communication between hospital and

physicians. Expedite transfers to a higher level of care if needed. I was also on committees

within the hospital, review core measures, length of stays and re-admissions. I also helped with

new hire orientation of physicians and case managers within the hospital. I helped teach EPIC

to the hospitalist on hire. We used Meditech and EPIC programs.

Nurse Supervisor-Charge nurse-floor nurse-Liaison- VanMatre HealthSouth Rehab Hospital –

Rockford-RN

7/2002-1/2014

At VanMatre Rehabilitation Hospital, over 12 years, I went from floor nurse to supervisor. My

floor nurse assignments consisted of 8-10 patients including all wound care: wound vacs, lab

draws, meds, assessments, teaching, respiratory including trachs; Bi-paps/Cpaps. At VanMatre,

patients would stay for days to weeks, to get back home quickly; this is acute rehabilitation

hospital with multiple providers. These patients suffer from CVA’s, brain injuries, orthopedic

procedure and Neurologic disorders. In the supervisor role, I completed annual reviews,

scheduling, call ins, floor assignment , bed management, completing acute transfers for higher

level of care, codes or ERT’s, annual training/testing, committees and also helped as Liaison to

assess patients for qualifying admissions at all Rockford Hospitals and surrounding areas. I

completed pre-screens and prior authorizations. I learned different EPIC programs at the

hospitals and also became a CRRN(Certified Registered Rehabilitation Nurse)

Float Pool RN-Rockford Health System Clinics-RN

6/2010-6/2012

As a float RN within the clinics, I learned a lot. I floated in all clinics including PEDS and

adult. I performed EKG’s, labs, vaccines, physical’s, eye exams, procedure set up for the

providers, scheduling tests, calling in RX, discharge paperwork/teaching, call backs to patients,

setting up appts/making referrals and getting prior authorizations.

Rockford Memorial Hospital- E4 Cardiac-RN

2002-2004

I learned ACLS, EKG reading, along with cardioversions at bedside, codes, open heart patients

and time management skills. This floor is very fast paced with acutely ill patients. Daily duties

were multiple critical patients, admits/ discharges, medications, assessments, training,

communicating with multiple physicians throughout day.