Leanne L. Edwards

• Assess patients over the phone using critical thinking skills
• Use standing orders, experience, and education to properly instruct patient on proper care for current problem
• Schedule patients for appointments and refill medications

• Oversee the administration of phlebotomies, administer shots as ordered, triage walk-in patients, responds to emergencies as needed

• Team Lead-precepts new nurses, oversees that offsite clinic runs smoothly, manages issues/concerns at clinic between nurses, MOAs, and schedulers
• Work independently with physicians and mid-level providers
• Select care plans for diagnosis
• Put together teaching packets for patients
• Order molecular testing and genetic testing for patients
• Review diagnostic testing results and calculate chemotherapy drug doses
• Triage patient and physician calls
• Assist with arranging radiation therapy for patients needing radiation therapy with their chemotherapy
• Educate patients about their chemotherapy medications, disease process, infection prevention, safety, test results, and overall care

• Received ACLS certification
• Responded to and assisted in all code blues, stroke calls, trauma calls
• Rounded on floors and assist where needed
• Transported critical patients to procedures and testing
• Responded to hospital emergencies, fires, any issue that arises while on shift
• Assisted the nursing supervisor with assignments as needed
• Responded to, assisted, and used critical thinking skills to assess patients in all urgent assessment calls
• Used IV skills to assist with difficult IV sticks and lab sticks house wide
• Assisted in and helped organize staff/policies/procedures for imminent snow storms
• Assisted in code whites (missing child)
• Assisted in code pinks (infant/child in cardiac arrest)

• Floated to and helped fill all staffing gaps where needed for the shift
• Worked in a variety of settings including med/surg, pediatrics, cardiac, ICU's, respiratory, psychiatry, orthopedics, neurology, mother/baby

• Worked weekends only in a lead position
• Assigned patients to staff and patient care techs as needed
• Responded to floor emergencies
• Preceptor to new RNs
• Organized, facilitated and managed the care of a team of 5 to 6 patients
• Direct patient care including post op patients with gastric tubes, naso-gastric tubes, wound vacs, chest tubes, skin grafts, ostomies, continuous bladder irrigation, peritoneal dialysis, Jackson-pratt drains
• Received my Medical/Surgical Nursing Certification

• Administered chemotherapy and other cancer treatments, ensuring accurate dosing and proper patient education.
• Mentored new oncology nurses, sharing knowledge gained from years of experience in specialized cancer care settings.
• Established rapport with diverse patient populations by demonstrating empathy and understanding during difficult periods of illness or treatment.
• Provided emotional support for patients and families coping with the challenges of a cancer diagnosis.

Treatment Room Nurse

• Manage the treatment rooms as a lead RN.
• Review patients charts, review orders, review diagnostic testing, calculate chemotherapy medications, assign patients to other nurses, delegate tasks to the medical office assistants.
• Prep schedules and assign tasks to treatment room RNs.
• Precept and educate newer RNs/MOAs.
• Work with the research department to facilitate proper administration of research protocols. Respond to emergency situations in the practice.
• Educate patients on their current therapy regimen, including any side effects that may occur.
• Access ports, PICC lines, start IVs and administer chemotherapy and hematology medications as ordered.
• Assist in bone marrow biopsies.
• Assist all staff when difficult IV sticks and lab draws arise.
• Patient advocate/educator for their needs/concerns.

Triage Nurse

• Assess patients over the phone using critical thinking skills.
• Use standing orders, experience, and education to properly instruct patient on proper care for current problem.
• Schedule patients for appointments and refill medications.

Shot Nurse

• Oversee the administration of phlebotomies, administer shots as ordered, triage walk-in patients, responds to emergencies as needed.

Desk Nurse

• Team Lead-precepts new nurses, oversees that offsite clinic runs smoothly, manages issues/concerns at clinic between nurses, MOAs, and schedulers.
• Work independently with physicians and mid-level providers.
• Select care plans for diagnosis.
• Put together teaching packets for patients.
• Order molecular testing and genetic testing for patients.
• Review diagnostic testing results and calculate chemotherapy drug doses.
• Triage patient and physician calls.
• Assist with arranging radiation therapy for patients needing radiation therapy with their chemotherapy.
• Educate patients about their chemotherapy medications, disease process, infection prevention, safety, test results, and overall care.

House Nursing Supervisor

• Staffed all floors in the hospital according to census/needs.
• Reported to administrator on call for major emergencies/issues that needed further assistance.
• Responded to all code blues, fires, flooding, issues, problems/concerns that occurred during shift.
• Responded and professionally managed all staff, patient, and family complaints.
• Responded to and managed physician issues/complaints promptly and efficiently.
• Rounded on all floors, including emergency room, psychiatric floors.

Crisis Nurse

• Received ACLS certification.
• Responded to and assisted in all code blues, stroke calls, trauma calls.
• Rounded on floors and assist where needed.
• Transported critical patients to procedures and testing.
• Responded to hospital emergencies, fires, and any issue that arose while on shift.
• Assisted the nursing supervisor with assignments as needed.
• Responded to, assisted, and used critical thinking skills to assess patients in all urgent assessment calls.
• Used IV skills to assist with difficult IV sticks and lab sticks house wide.
• Assisted in and helped organize staff/policies/procedures for imminent snow storms.
• Assisted in code whites (missing child).
• Assisted in code pinks (infant/child in cardiac arrest).

Registry Nurse

• Floated to and helped fill all staffing gaps where needed for the shift.
• Worked in a variety of settings including med/surg, pediatrics, cardiac, ICU's, respiratory, psychiatry, orthopedics, neurology, mother/baby.

Med/Surg RN

• Worked weekends only in a lead position.
• Assigned patients to staff and patient care techs as needed.
• Responded to floor emergencies.
• Preceptor to new RNs.
• Organized, facilitated and managed the care of a team of 5 to 6 patients.
• Direct patient care including post op patients with gastric tubes, naso-gastric tubes, wound vacs, chest tubes, skin grafts, ostomies, continuous bladder irrigation, peritoneal dialysis, Jackson-pratt drains.
• Received my Medical/Surgical Nursing Certification.