Lawanna Powell
Cottondale
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Registered Nurse (RN)
Brookdale SNF
Homewood, AL
08.2023 - Current
- Oversee patient admissions, transfers and discharges
- Mentor and train new staff while providing support and guidance to all staff members
- Monitor medical charts and administer compassionate care and assistance to patients and families
- Liaise with doctors and administrators and communicate any protocol changes to staff
- Ensure compliance with all health and safety regulations
- Record and maintain accurate reports
Lpn/Rn
Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital
Homewood, AL
06.2022 - Current
- Administered medications and monitored patient responses to treatments in accordance with care plans.
- Assisted in daily living activities, promoting patient independence and comfort during rehabilitation.
- Collaborated with interdisciplinary teams to develop individualized patient care strategies and improve outcomes.
- Educated patients and families on health management, enhancing understanding of treatment protocols and procedures.
LPN Charge Nurse
DYS (AVESTA Medical Staffing)
Montgomery, AL
05.2021 - 08.2023
- Work in boys youth facility, administering meds, charting, weighing patients, put in orders, make Dr. appointments, call lab for specimens, schedule xrays, admissions, sick call, med call, assessing patients, writing orders, call MD
LPN Psychiatric Nurse
Mary Harper Starke (Premiere Staffing)
Tuscaloosa, AL
04.2023 - 07.2023
- Provide patient assessments, medication and related psychiatric care duties and documentation
- Administers and notes reactions to psychotropic drugs and other medications. Arranges further medical attention when necessary. Assists the client in understanding the nature of emotional disturbances and accepting the need for treatment. Assists in maintaining a safe and secure environment for staff and patients. patient support. Provide around the clock care for psychiatric patients
LPN (Licensed Practical Nurse)
Crowne Health Care
Greenville, AL
07.2014 - 09.2021
- Keeping a check on the eating habits of the patients and how many times they are using the washroom.
- Assembling the equipment like gastrostomy tubes, catheters, and oxygen supplies.
- Providing the basic bedside care like dressing wounds, changing bandages, inserting catheters, and giving injections.
- Taking the patient's vital signs such as respiration, temperature, blood pressure, and heart rate.
- Enter the data related to the record of patients in computer systems.
- Admitting and billing patients
- Interview patients and examine their medical history.
- Regulate vaccinations and injections.
- Educate and encourage patients to avoid unhealthy routine.
- Keep the health records updated.
- Inform the patients about the doctor's order or test results via mail or call.
- Assist registered nurses and other superior nurses to develop best care plan for the patients.
- Help the patients to understand documentation or paperwork.
- Talk to the patients about their present problems, allergies, medications and keep an eye on their medical records.
- Accomplish scheduled immunizations, visual acuity testing, nebulizer treatments, and regulate TB tests.
- Talk to the patients and their families about their treatment plan, tests, and diagnoses.
- Supervise certified nursing assistants and other non-licensed nursing professionals.
- Starting, monitoring, or discontinuing the intravenous catheters or the intravenous fluids.
- Taking verbal orders from the MD (Doctor of Medicine)
- Aid in phlebotomy - analyze patients, look over the requisition form for requested tests, and set equipment, patient, and puncture site.
- Assists in IV set-ups: validate solution to be regulated, analyzing infusion site, keep track of IV function and patient comfort, and terminate IV at an appropriate time, as ordered by MD.
- Manage adequate inventory of examination room supplies and set the rooms.
- Undertake various office responsibilities: answer calls and reply to messages and execute triage within the scope of licensed practical nursing practice in an accurate and precise way.
- Help to coordinate patient referrals and take part in the training and orientation of new employees.
- Call pharmacies for ordering prescriptions and store supplies in the rooms of patients
Education
Associate of Science - Nursing
George C Wallace Community College
Dothan, AL05.2022
Skills
- Patient care management
- Medication administration
- Patient assessment
- Charting and documentation
- Wound care management
- Vital signs monitoring
- Care plan development
- Staff training and mentorship
- Psychotropic medication administration
- Infection control practices
- Communication with healthcare teams
- IV therapy management
- Medication and IV administration
- Direct patient care
- Patient assessments
- Documentation and charting
- Strong clinical judgment
- Patient and family advocacy
- Patient care
- Compassion and empathy
- IV setup
- Intravenous therapy
- Professional bedside manner
- Physical assessments
Timeline
Registered Nurse (RN)
Brookdale SNF
08.2023 - Current
LPN Psychiatric Nurse
Mary Harper Starke (Premiere Staffing)
04.2023 - 07.2023
Lpn/Rn
Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital
06.2022 - Current
LPN Charge Nurse
DYS (AVESTA Medical Staffing)
05.2021 - 08.2023
LPN (Licensed Practical Nurse)
Crowne Health Care
07.2014 - 09.2021
Associate of Science - Nursing
George C Wallace Community College