Kristen Galvez
Fayette,AL
Summary
Ambitious Registered Nurse with 5 years of experience and a background in clinical documentation review, telehealth triage, Oasis documentation, and direct patient care. Committed to continuous improvement and contributing to team success.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
Work History
Registered Nurse Case Manager
Fayette Home Health Care
02.2023 - Current
- Coordinate with physicians, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other individuals in patients plan of care.
- Prospectively reviews all oasis assessments to ensure appropriateness, completeness, and compliance with federal and state regulations.
- Utilizes oasis variation or alert reports when reviewing oasis data.
- Ensures appropriate ICD 10 coding sequencing as it relates to admission summary.
- Examines standards and criteria to ensure medical necessity and appropriateness of admissions, treatment, level of care and length of stay. Performs prior authorization and concurrent reviews to ensure extended treatment is medically necessary and being conducted in the right setting.
- Reviews and interprets medical documentation to identify required services
- Assess and chart observations of the patient’s condition at each visit.
- Provide patient focused care and guidance on the phone and online, assessing needs, and delivering or directing to the appropriate level of care, identifying potential health problems, and discussing those findings.
Registered Nurse
Bolling Plastic Surgery
10.2019 - 02.2022
- Educate patient and family on operation and aftercare.
- First assistant for all cosmetic procedures in the OR and in office.
- Practice surgical procedures such as controlling bleeding, suturing incisions, draping, and handling tissue.
- Assisted patients with healing and recovery after surgery by closely monitoring and caring for wounds, answering questions and educating about continued care strategies.
- Perform physical assessment on each patient for signs of skin cancer and other conditions.
- Assists in obtaining biopsies of potential skin cancer.
- Implement physicians’ orders, administer medications, and document treatment.
- Order, interpret, and evaluate diagnostic tests.
- Discussed cosmetic surgery options with patients and addressed concerns.
- Sterilize medical equipment, maintain clean exam rooms, and maintain inventory.
- Provide knowledge and answered medical questions over the phone and via FaceTime / Zoom.
- Scheduled initial consultations and follow-up appointments per physician.
- Evaluated patient histories, complaints, and current symptoms.
Registered Nurse
Med 360 Primary And Urgent Care
01.2019 - 10.2019
- Evaluate patient needs, prioritize treatment and maintain patient flow.
- Self-directed with judgment skills.
- High level of personal accountability.
- Instructed patients and family members on proper discharge care.
- Provide a broad range of general nursing care services in areas of vital signs, EKG, respiratory treatments, oral and injectable medication administration, laboratory and radiology orders, and in office procedures.
- Collaborate with insurance companies to provide insurance covered testing.
- Prioritize and triage patient care.
- Mentor and train new staff.
- Telephone triage.
- Document patient information.
Registered Nurse, NICU
Regional Medical Center
09.2018 - 01.2019
- Identify needs and problems of neonate through clinical observation and physical assessment.
- Demonstrate excellent abilities for assessment, critical thinking, delegation to assistants and multi- tasking.
- Manage patients with oxygen therapy including high frequency oscillatory ventilation (HFOV), endotracheal mechanical ventilation (NIMV), biphasic positive airway pressure (BIPAP), and nasal canula.
- Manage patients with cardiac monitoring, pulse oximetry, isolettes, medication administration, intravenous infusions, PICC, arterial, and UAC / UVC lines, nasogastric / orogastric tubes.
- Provide physical comfort measures to infant including positioning, holding, and pain management.
- Create a welcoming, caring and safe environment for neonates and their families.
- Serve as the support system for newborns’ parents.
Education
Associate Degree - Nursing
Bevill State Community College
08.2018
Skills
- Chart review and medical management for a wide variety of patients with individualized medical needs
- Strong communication skills Demonstrated daily in practice collaborating with providers, coworkers, and other members of the healthcare team to relay time sensitive information
- Oasis / Quality review
- ICD 10 coding
- Data input
- Provide application support for physician documentation, orders and results interfaces
- EMR documentation
- Patient Care Planning
- Telephone Triage
- Microsoft Excel
Timeline
Registered Nurse Case Manager
Fayette Home Health Care
02.2023 - Current
Registered Nurse
Bolling Plastic Surgery
10.2019 - 02.2022
Registered Nurse
Med 360 Primary And Urgent Care
01.2019 - 10.2019
Registered Nurse, NICU
Regional Medical Center
09.2018 - 01.2019
Associate Degree - Nursing
Bevill State Community College
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