Kendall Rodgers
Summary
Award winning Registered Nurse Specializing in Ostomy/Wound Care with 18+ years experience in a large tertiary health center. Eight years experience as a Registered Nurse in an Emergency Department.
Overview
28
28
years of professional experience
2
2
Certifications
Work History
Wound/Ostomy Nurse
OU Health
05.2023 - Current
- Provide ostomy care and teaching to new ostomy patients, as well as instruction and support to them, their family and staff.
- Updated patient charts with treatment and care provided. Document wound or ostomy description actions taken and services rendered.
- Assessed patients to determine individual needs and develop care plans in coordination with multidisciplinary healthcare professionals.
- Evaluated charting procedures for adherence to best practices.
- Identified and assisted with opportunities for performance improvement activities throughout 829 bed hospital.
- Participated in development of guidelines for Ostomy and Wound care service.
- Trained new, and not so new, nurses in proper techniques, care standards, operational procedures, and safety protocols.
House Supervisor/Charge Nurse
Mercy Rehabilitation Hospital South Campus
11.2022 - 02.2023
- Orchestrated staffing for hospital, developed staffing schedules, collected and distributed information concerning patient census and staffing, served as a resource and supportive leader for nursing team, provided patient care and interventions
Enterostomal Therapy Nurse
Integris Baptist Medical Center
03.2012 - 07.2022
- Completed required training to earn, receive, and maintain National Certification, earned trust and reputation as source of information and knowledge to all caregivers, identified educational opportunities and ways to optimize patient service and care, provided pre and post operative teaching to patients with new ostomies or considering surgery involving creation of an ostomy, identified best location and marked patients for ostomy site presurgery
Registered Nurse, Emergency Department
Veterans Administration Hospital
01.2004 - 03.2012
- Served as triage, charge, and unit nurse including care of ICU hold, psych
- ED/LSU
- Collaborated with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions.
Wound Care Nurse
Integris Baptist Medical Center
01.1996 - 01.2004
- Performed care of patients with wounds including , evaluated burns and wounds, V.A.C. placement and debridements, made recommendations to provider for treatment and product application and care, focused on pressure related wound prevention, provided care and education to ostomy patients and wounds requiring pouching.
- Instructed patients and caregivers on how to clean and dress wounds and how to prevent infections.
Education
Associates In Applied Science -
Oklahoma City Community College
Skills
- Skin, wound, and ostomy assessments
- Patient and family education after establishing trust and rapport
- Coordination of care with multi-departmental caregivers
- Communication with physicians concerning patients progress and needs
- Educational focus involving all levels of staff and surrounding training facility students
- Negative Pressure Wound dressing placement and maintenance
- Difficult wound/fistula and ostomy pouching and teaching of maintenance
- Debridement (autolytic, enzymatic, mechanical and sharps) as prescribed
- Pressure related wound prevention
- Presurgical ostomy marking
- Irrigation of colostomies and lavage of ileostomies
Certification
- Oklahoma Registered Nurse License
- Basic Life Support for healthcare providers
- Ostomy Management Specialist National Certification
- Wound Care Certified National Certification
- Angel Award 2013
Personal Information
Title: RN, OMS, WCC
Timeline
Wound/Ostomy Nurse
OU Health
05.2023 - Current
House Supervisor/Charge Nurse
Mercy Rehabilitation Hospital South Campus
11.2022 - 02.2023
Enterostomal Therapy Nurse
Integris Baptist Medical Center
03.2012 - 07.2022
Registered Nurse, Emergency Department
Veterans Administration Hospital
01.2004 - 03.2012
Wound Care Nurse
Integris Baptist Medical Center
01.1996 - 01.2004
Associates In Applied Science -
Oklahoma City Community College
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