Joy Harris
Celina,TX
Summary
Compassionate nurse with background in fast-paced environments, prioritizing patient needs and delivering high-quality care. Strong communication abilities ensure effective collaboration with healthcare teams. Improved patient satisfaction through attentive service and advocacy.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
Work History
Rehabilitation Nurse
Post Acute Medical Hospital
Richardson, TX
01.2024 - Current
- Providing care to patients with strokes, fractures, cardiac, and pulmonary cases.
- Assuming responsibility for the care of assigned patients each shift.
- Administering oral and IV medications as prescribed.
- Obtaining specimens: blood, urine, and sputum.
- Feedings via nasogastric and/or gastrostomy tubes, as prescribed.
- Providing tracheostomy care, suctioning, vents, oxygen, and BIPAP therapy.
- Collects specimens, to include but not limited to blood, urine, and sputum.
- Electronically documenting all findings in the system and sending reports to the case managers and primary physicians.
Pediatric Nurse
Pediatric Home Services
Richardson, TX
12.2023 - Current
- Performing comprehensive assessments and comparing findings to baseline data.
- Administering medications and nutrition via G-tube.
- Providing tracheotomy care, suctioning, vents, oxygen, and BI-PAP therapy.
- Providing education to the patient's family based on their individualized care plan.
- Electronically documenting all findings and reports.
- Medication management and assisting in refilling medications.
- Contacting doctors with abnormal findings, entering, and carrying out any new orders.
Charge Nurse
Stonemere Rehabilitation Center
Frisco, TX
08.2022 - 06.2023
- Monitored vital signs, medication administration, and fluid balance for assigned patients.
- Administered oral, IV and intra-muscular medications and monitored patient reactions.
- Assessed and assisted patients with a diverse range of co-morbid chronic diagnoses.
- Daily rounds to assess patient conditions, evaluate progress toward goals, and document changes in status or plan of care as needed.
- Ensured compliance with infection control protocols throughout the facility.
Care Coordinator LPN
Molina Healthcare
Allen , TX
10.2021 - 12.2022
- Monitoring patients' vital signs remotely and recording them in patients' EMR.
- Complete outreach calls and post-discharge questionnaires within required, compliance-driven timelines.
- Providing patient education and health literacy on the management of chronic conditions.
- Collaborating with other patient care team members to decide the need for any additional therapies, or adjuvant care.
Wound Care Nurse
Carrara Rehabilitation
Plano, TX
06.2021 - 08.2022
- Cleaning wounds to eliminate bacteria, debris, and reduce infection risk.
- Choosing the best treatment for a wound, such as regular cleaning, antibiotics, hyperbaric oxygen therapy, or surgery.
- Bandaging the wounds by creating a barrier against microorganisms, and changing the dressings regularly.
- Collaborating with other patient care team members to decide the need for any additional therapies, or adjuvant care.
- Educating patients and caregivers on how to manage and dress wounds to aid healing following surgery.
- Documenting and photographing skin treatments required for hospital reimbursement
Education
Associate of Science - Nursing
Des Moines Area Community College
Newton, IA05-2013
Skills
- Adaptive equipment use
- Pediatric rehabilitation
- Stroke rehabilitation
- Interdisciplinary collaboration
- Physical therapy
- Speech therapy
- Amputee care
- Discharge planning
- Traumatic brain injury care
- Cardiac rehabilitation
- Orthopedic rehabilitation
- Spinal cord injury care
- Family education
- Geriatric rehabilitation
- Clinical judgment
- Neurological rehabilitation
Timeline
Rehabilitation Nurse
Post Acute Medical Hospital
01.2024 - Current
Pediatric Nurse
Pediatric Home Services
12.2023 - Current
Charge Nurse
Stonemere Rehabilitation Center
08.2022 - 06.2023
Care Coordinator LPN
Molina Healthcare
10.2021 - 12.2022
Wound Care Nurse
Carrara Rehabilitation
06.2021 - 08.2022
Associate of Science - Nursing
Des Moines Area Community College
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