Provide comprehensive nursing care for patients of various ages from pediatrics to adults in an ambulatory care center, via in person and virtual telephone.
Identify normal and abnormal conditions while screening patients for their appointments.
Going over labs, referrals, medications and identifying abnormal test results.
Apply critical thinking with patient's illnesses and/or problems.
Report and record relevant patient information that is unique to the needs of acute illnesses and/or injured patients.
Implement provider orders and conduct nursing interventions as prescribed and within my scope of practice.
Observe and monitor patients' conditions, implement proper emergency/life saving measures.
LICENSE PRACTICAL NURSE
CENTRALCARE INCORPORATED
ANNANDALE, VA
06.2009 - 04.2011
Served as an LPN (part-time) working on various 24 bed inpatient units within WRAMC.
Implemented doctors' orders that were within a LPN scope of practice.
Able to perform medication administration, treatments, pre- and post-operative assessments and care, total patient care, tracheotomy care, EKG, tube feeding, oral and IV antibiotic administration of intravenous medications, documentation, reporting to doctors and nursing staff, and various other nursing duties as assigned.
LICENSE PRACTICAL NURSE
WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER
WASHINGTON, DC
05.2004 - 11.2009
Provided comprehensive nursing service as a Licensed Practical Nurse to adult patients on various inpatient 24 bed units.
Identified normal and abnormal patient conditions.
Patients with acute and chronic illnesses and injured soldiers.
Implementing nursing orders and treatments associated with patient care, phlebotomy, finger-stick blood glucose, initiated and maintained intravenous lines, administration of oral and IV medications, lab specimens, dressing changes as per doctor's orders.
Provide quality care in accordance with the department of nursing standards at WRAMC.
Collect and record nursing data; performed pre and postoperative assessments; managed and retrieved data from the Composite Health Care System (CHCS) and Computer Information System.
Physician orders are appropriately implemented; identifying abnormal findings and reporting them to the health.