Lorena Avila
LPN
Tooele,UT
Summary
Dedicated LPN Field Nurse with expertise in patient education, medication administration, and clinical judgment. Committed to ensuring patient safety and promoting compassionate care through comprehensive assessments and effective communication.
Compassionate LPN Field Nurse with a strong focus on patient safety and clinical judgment. Proven track record in medication administration and patient education, ready to enhance patient care quality and support healthcare teams.
Hardworking and passionate job seeker with strong organizational skills eager to secure entry-level LPN position. Ready to help team achieve company goals.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
Work History
LPN Field Nurse
Rocky Mountain Care
Tooele, UT
02.2024 - 11.2025
- Administered medications and treatments per physician orders, ensuring patient safety and compliance.
- Conducted comprehensive assessments to evaluate patients' health status and needs.
- Educated patients and families on health management, promoting understanding of medical conditions.
- Documented patient progress accurately in electronic health records, maintaining data integrity.
- Monitored vital signs and reported changes to healthcare providers promptly, ensuring timely interventions.
- Administered medications safely and effectively, preventing adverse reactions or complications.
- Maintained accurate documentation of patient assessments and treatments, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards.
- Dispensed and administered patients' medications following care plans and physician's orders.
- Delivered emotional support to patients facing challenging diagnoses or difficult treatments, fostering resilience during recovery processes.
- Assessed patients by observing and recording vital signs, gathering specimens and reviewing lab test results.
- Interpreted lab results and followed physicians orders to prescribe medications or other treatments.
- Administered medications and injections to patients.
- Assessed patients' temperature, pulse, and blood pressure and recorded in electronic medical records.
- Supported diagnoses by taking blood samples from patients for laboratory testing.
- Took samples to complete diagnostic and routine assessment tests.
LPN Field Nurse
Granger Medical Asthma and Allergy Clinic
West Jordan
01.2010 - 04.2019
- Coordinated follow-up care and resources, enhancing continuity of patient services.
- Assisted in training new nursing staff on best practices and protocols for patient care.
- Educated patients and families on healthcare management strategies, promoting self-care and wellbeing.
- Coordinated with physicians to implement prescribed treatment plans, ensuring consistency in patient care delivery.
- Organized and updated patient charts and records by reporting vitals, medical history, treatment plans, current medications, medication reactions, allergies and health status information.
- Served as a liaison between patients and their healthcare providers, advocating for their needs while promoting informed decision making.
- Supervised and monitored LPNs and CNAs daily to provide essential training.
- Collaborated with insurance companies to help patients receive prescribed medications and services.
- Complied with applicable legal requirements for HIPAA and documentation standards.
- Observed confidentiality safeguards for all patient-related information.
- Reviewed all medicines to identify possible adverse reactions, significant side effects, drug allergies and contraindicated medications.
- Monitored patient health conditions to report changes to assigned physician.
- Evaluated patient histories, complaints, and current symptoms.
- Provided patient education on health care issues and prescribed medications.
- Reviewed patient history to verify conditions and current medications.
- Coordinated patient transfers to other facilities.
- Managed various general office duties such as answering multiple telephone lines, completing insurance forms, and mailing monthly invoice statements to patients.
- Administered medications and treatments per physician orders, ensuring patient safety and compliance.
- Documented patient progress accurately in electronic health records, maintaining data integrity.
- Administered medications safely and effectively, preventing adverse reactions or complications.
- Maintained accurate documentation of patient assessments and treatments, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards.
- Administered medications and injections to patients.
- Assessed patients' temperature, pulse, and blood pressure and recorded in electronic medical records.
Education
Associate of Science -
College of Southern Idaho
Twin Falls, ID06-2006
High School Diploma -
Jackpot High School
Jackpot, NV06-2000
Skills
- Catheter care
- Nursing documentation
- Geriatric nursing
- Vital signs monitoring
- Diabetes management
- Clinical judgment
- Patient safety
- Respiratory care
- Rehabilitation nursing
- Cardiac care
- Quality improvement
- Pediatric nursing
- Medication administration
- Patient education
- Vitals collection
- Patient assessment
- Infection control
- Acute care
- Disease prevention strategies
- Compassionate care
- Documentation
- Progress monitoring
- Health education
- Physician collaboration
- Care plan development
- Medical equipment operation
- Resource referrals
- Patient charts
- Nurse training
- Dementia knowledge and care
- Responsible and dependable
- Wound care
- Attention to detail
- Strong clinical judgment
- Specimen collection
- Patient charting
- HIPAA compliance
- Critical thinking
- Patient observation
- Intravenous medications
- Call answering and assistance
- Patient support
- Conditions reporting
- Wound dressing and suturing
- Nursing staff supervision
- Recordkeeping and maintenance
- Inventory assessment
- Treatment room preparation
- ICD-10
- Epic systems
Languages
Spanish
Native or Bilingual
Timeline
LPN Field Nurse
Rocky Mountain Care
02.2024 - 11.2025
LPN Field Nurse
Granger Medical Asthma and Allergy Clinic
01.2010 - 04.2019
Associate of Science -
College of Southern Idaho
High School Diploma -
Jackpot High School