JOHN COBO BSHA LPN
Woodbridge,NJ
Summary
Results-oriented mid-career professional with expertise in the areas of care management program efforts education, planning of admissions/discharge, case management and utilization review, social service, wound, hyperbaric nurse, and Healthcare / Medicare / Medicaid regulations. Willing to relocate anywhere. Dependable worker with knowledge of customer service, data entry, and records management. Highly organized and self-motivated, with excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Demonstrated ability to prioritize tasks and meet deadlines.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Advance Planning Specialist
Untied Wound Care Institute
07.2023 - 10.2024
- Evaluated existing processes and procedures for efficiency improvements.
- Identified gaps in current systems, processes, or operations related to planning tasks.
- Generated forecasts based on historical data and current market conditions.
- Participate in wound care rounds with our leading provider teams at Skilled Nursing Facilities and in the home.
- Careful recording of information on each patient into our national patient registry system.
- Management of all logistics of delivery of advanced wound care products and services to patients.
- Ambassador to patients, their families and staff at our facilities and partners promoting our brand and excellence of patient experience.
- Utilized problem-solving techniques to troubleshoot issues that arose during the course of a project.
- Developed effective communication protocols between teams working on different parts of a project.
- Assisted in developing long-term strategic plans that aligned with company objectives.
- Maintained comprehensive records of all planning activities including timelines, budgets, milestones.
- Prioritized operations to bolster maximum performance and minimum delay.
LPN Transition Educator
St Michaels Hospital
03.2023 - 07.2023
- Provides continued educational support, training and mentoring to new nurses in the clinical area. Ensuring a smooth transition to practice by providing unit-based support, and coordinating the needs and resources of each new nurse by follow-up during and after the orientation period.
- As a Transition to Practice Educator, I serve as a clinical liaison between education and clinical managers/coordinators to facilitate a timely release from orientation by assessing needs and performance in live time.
- Once needs are identified, targeted knowledge and skill deficits can be addressed through the coordination of available resources.
- Addressing the specific needs of each new nurse will ensure their role development success as well as enhance patient outcomes.
- Complied with HIPAA guidelines to protect privacy of patients.
- Followed medication management procedures to comply with state and company guidelines.
- Maintained patient charts and medical records in EMR software.
- Utilized time management skills to prioritize tasks effectively, allowing for efficient completion of daily responsibilities.
Case Management Nurse
Spiras Health
07.2021 - 09.2022
- Conducts detailed patient assessment, including vital signs, monitors for changes in status, reports findings, contribute to and implements care plans, collaborates with Nurse Practitioner, provides patient education.
- Helps patient accomplish treatment plan goals and identifies and seeks to resolve barriers to care.
- Evaluates effects of treatment plan by observing, noting, and evaluating patient's progress and recommending adjustments and modifications.
- Communicates with physicians, nurses, social workers, family caregivers, and other health care workers.
- Recommends assistive equipment and outpatient or home health follow-up programs.
- Accurate and timely documentation of patient care and services per policy.
- Always adheres to hygiene and safety standards (sanitizing surfaces, equipment, hands, etc.)
- Fosters a supportive and compassionate environment to care for patients and their families.
- Consistently adhere to documented policies, procedures, and standards.
- Other duties as assigned.
- You will be joining a market team.
- You may be asked to cover any patient within this market.
- However, your home territory will typically be a 60-mile radius from your listed home address.
- Standard scheduling procedures have been designed to limit drive time and increase our ability to provide patient care.
- Performed accurate documentation of patient assessments, interventions, and outcomes in compliance with regulatory standards.
LPN (Licensed Practical Nurse)
Restorix Wound Center / RWJNB
03.2014 - 07.2021
- LPN Wound Nurse/ Hyperbaric Technician.
- Substantial experience with wound care management procedures.
- Superb ability to prevent and identify infections.
- Ability to provide patients with wound care information.
- Strong ability to communicate with doctors and patients.
- Experience.
- Assisted with the removal of dead tissue and cleanse wound.
- Treated chronic wounds, including bedsores, abscesses and ulcerations.
- Performed additional duties as assigned by clinical nurse manager.
- Provided patients with follow-up care instructions.
- Ensured that all patient rooms were properly sanitized.
- Followed medical center's wound care procedures.
- Maintained updated records of patient conditions.
- Communicated with patients and their families and responded to inquiries.
- Updated patient records according to staff and federal regulations.
- Prepared patient and set up for procedures and specimen collection.
- Responsible for initial nursing assessment of all hyperbaric patients.
- Responsible for establishing a hyperbaric nursing care plan on all patients.
- Responsible for accurate documentation both written and by use of digital photography of patient's wounds on a regular basis.
- Responsible for conducting a nutritional assessment of hyperbaric patients.
- Responsible for educating the hyperbaric technical staff on wound care.
- Responsible for collaborating with the hyperbaric medical director to assist in the achieving the desired treatment goals.
Staff Nurse LPN
AEQOUR TECHNOLOGIES
03.2012 - 05.2021
- 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.
- 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.
- Prepare patients for examinations, tests, or treatments and explain procedures.
- Assemble and use equipment, such as catheters, tracheotomy tubes, or oxygen suppliers.
- Kept work areas clean, organized, and safe to promote efficiency and team safety.
- Established positive relationships with customers and other staff members.
LPN Care Specialist
Horizon NJ Health
10.2011 - 11.2012
- Conducts high level assessment and planning for selected population-based members.
- Collaborates with the member/family, physician and all members of the healthcare team, internal and external to the organization.
- Advocates for the member/family among various sites to coordinate resource utilization and evaluation of services provided.
- Interacts with the member/family, physician and healthcare team.
- Utilizes the care management process to set priorities, plan, organize, and implement interventions that are goal directed toward self-care outcomes, and the transition to independent status.
- Encourages member participation and compliance in the care management program efforts.
- Utilizes population-based case management process for goal directed member/family care.
- Documents accurately and comprehensively based on the standards of practice and current organization policies.
- Interacts and communicates, either telephonically and/or on site striving for continuity and efficiency as the member is managed along the continuum of care.
- Evaluates care by problem solving, analyzing variances and participating in the quality improvement program to enhance member outcomes.
- Provides telephonic and/or field-based population case management activities specific to the care management program.
- Trained 20 new junior colleagues in 2012
Case Manager / Discharge Planning
The Harborage
01.2011 - 09.2011
- Coordinate the integration of social services/case management functions into the patient care, discharge, and home planning processes with other hospital departments, external service organizations, agencies and healthcare facilities.
- Conducts review for appropriate utilization of services from admission through discharge.
- Evaluate patient satisfaction and quality of care provided.
- Assesses patient care required throughout continuum of care for diagnosis, procedures and DRG's.
- Communicates with physicians at regular intervals throughout hospitalization and develops an effective working relationship.
- Complete expanded assessment of patients and family needs at time of admission.
- Complete psychosocial assessment.
- Assess patient's progress through expected hospital course.
- Serve as a patient advocate.
- Enhances a collaborative relationship to maximize the patient's and family's ability to make informed decisions.
- Facilitates interdisciplinary patient care rounds and/or conferences to review treatment goals, optimize resource utilization, provide family education and identified post-hospital needs.
- Maintained accurate documentation on all cases, ensuring compliance with regulations and confidentiality requirements.
LPN
The Harborage
02.2007 - 12.2010
- Perform total patient care to residents, including medication, NG, gastro tubes, cast care, tracheotomy care, urinalysis, culture and sensitivity.
- Perform finger sticks and insulin coverage, wound vac and care.
- Responsible for scheduling the CNA's daily assignments.
- Managed received telephone orders from Physicians, including OT, PT, and Dieticians.
- Perform admissions and Discharges from residents with physical assessment.
- Utilized time management skills to prioritize tasks effectively, allowing for efficient completion of daily responsibilities.
- Maintained accurate documentation of all relevant clinical data, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards.
- Implemented infection control measures, ensuring a clean and safe environment for patients and staff.
- Assisted with admissions, appointments, transfers, and discharges.
- Adhered to treatment plan instructions when administering medications and treatments to patients.
- Performed wound care treatments using sterile techniques, promoting healing and preventing complications.
Education
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) - Health Administration Services
Keiser University
Fort Lauderdale, FL11.2023
Nursing - LPN
Eastwick College
Ramsey, US10.2006
Skills
- Patient Education
- Standards Administration
- Pain Management
- Wound Prevention
- Case Management
- Complex Wound Care Treatment
- Healthcare Management
- Family Education
- Staff Training
- Materials Requisition
- Scheduling proficiency
- Software utilization
Accomplishments
- Documented and resolved processing of reach patients which led to an increase in the volume of patients in 60%
Certification
- LPN
- CPR Certification
LANGUAGES
Spanish
Timeline
Advance Planning Specialist
Untied Wound Care Institute
07.2023 - 10.2024
LPN Transition Educator
St Michaels Hospital
03.2023 - 07.2023
Case Management Nurse
Spiras Health
07.2021 - 09.2022
LPN (Licensed Practical Nurse)
Restorix Wound Center / RWJNB
03.2014 - 07.2021
Staff Nurse LPN
AEQOUR TECHNOLOGIES
03.2012 - 05.2021
LPN Care Specialist
Horizon NJ Health
10.2011 - 11.2012
Case Manager / Discharge Planning
The Harborage
01.2011 - 09.2011
LPN
The Harborage
02.2007 - 12.2010
Nursing - LPN
Eastwick College
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) - Health Administration Services
Keiser University
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