Lori Arnold
Hutchinson,US
Summary
Experienced nursing professional with a strong background in clinical expertise, leadership skills, and technical knowledge. Skilled in updating charts, monitoring medications, and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to optimize patient care. Committed to delivering high-quality and efficient healthcare services while demonstrating strong interpersonal abilities. Passionate about mental/behavioral health settings, thriving as an attentive psychiatric staff nurse who remains composed and polished even in high-stress situations. Collaborative leader and team player, always willing to pitch in and assist with any task. Dedicated to coaching and training other health team personnel to ensure the highest level of care is provided.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Mental Health RN
Supplemental Health Care (contract 6 Months)
Prairie Care Brooklyn Park, MN
11.2023 - Current
- I went PRN after contract ended
- Administered medications accurately and safely, reducing medication errors and adverse reactions.
- Enhanced patient satisfaction through effective communication, empathy, and timely response to their needs.
- Collaborated with interdisciplinary teams for comprehensive patient care plans, resulting in better health outcomes.
- Administered medications via oral, IV, and intramuscular injections and monitored responses.
Mental Health RN / Charge
Aya (contract 6 Months)
Regina Mental Health Unit Hastings, MN
03.2023 - 10.2023
- Administered medications accurately and safely, reducing medication errors and adverse reactions.
- Enhanced patient satisfaction through effective communication, empathy, and timely response to their needs.
- Educated patients, families and caregivers on diagnosis and prognosis, treatment options, disease process, and management and lifestyle options.
- Developed strong relationships with patients'' families, providing emotional support while addressing concerns or questions about care plans.
Mental Health RN
Aya (contract)
Abbott Northwestern Mental Health MPLS, MN
11.2022 - 12.2022
- *Broke my elbow in December*
- Company Overview: Adolescent mental health, Young adult mental health
- Administered medications to patients and monitored for reactions or side effects
- Used computers to complete necessary patient charts and documentation on patients' progress
- Monitored, recorded, and reported symptoms or changes in patients' conditions
- Created safe and supportive therapeutic milieu to promote recovery
- Conducted independent risk assessment for self-directed violence, analyzing risk factors, protective factors, mental status and current triggers
- Implemented evidence-based and best practice problem-solving interventions to establish protective measures for suicide prevention and self-harm
- Adolescent mental health, Young adult mental health
Mental Health RN
Staff Right (contract)
Hutchinson Mental Health Hutchinson, MN
08.2022 - 11.2022
- Administered medications accurately and safely, reducing medication errors and adverse reactions.
- Collaborated with interdisciplinary teams for comprehensive patient care plans, resulting in better health outcomes.
- Enhanced patient satisfaction through effective communication, empathy, and timely response to their needs.
- Managed patient caseloads effectively, ensuring timely interventions and thorough follow-ups to mitigate potential complications.
- Collaborated with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions.
Medical Surgical RN
Meeker Memorial Hospital
Litchfield, MN, US
10.2020 - 08.2022
- Company Overview: Medical Surgical RN
- Medical Surgical RN
Geriatric Behavioral Health Charge RN
Meeker Memorial Hospital
Litchfield, MN, US
02.2015 - 10.2020
- Company Overview: Behavioral Health Charge RN
- Documented observations, interventions and concerns in patient charts and electronic systems, sustaining continuum of care from admission through to discharge
- Conducted independent risk assessment for self-directed violence, analyzing risk factors, protective factors, mental status and current triggers
- Implemented evidence-based and best practice problem-solving interventions to establish protective measures for suicide prevention and self-harm
- Created safe and supportive therapeutic milieu to promote recovery
- Handled vital sign monitoring, medication administration and patient behavior assessments
- Assessed and prepared patients for procedures, performing initial and ongoing patient assessments
- Monitored and managed various treatment and care interventions
- Recorded patient condition, vital signs, recovery progress and medication side effects
- Maintained thorough, accurate and confidential documentation in electronic medical records
- Monitored patients prescribed psychotropic medications to assess medications' effectiveness and side effects
- Consulted with psychiatrists about client medication changes, issues with medicine compliance and efficacy of medications
- Implemented behavioral management interventions to defuse and de-escalate volatile situations
- Monitored behavioral and psychosocial responses to nursing intervention with assigned patient load
- Administered medications to patients to decrease risk of aggression and treat symptomology
- Behavioral Health Charge RN
RN
Oak Terrace Health Care Center
Gaylord, MN, US
10.2012 - 06.2017
- Built and maintained strong working relationships between nursing department and other disciplines
- Collaborated with multidisciplinary healthcare specialists to devise, implement and modify plans of care defining patient outcome goals
- Audited patient charts in real-time, verifying accuracy and completion of information
- Assessed and assisted patients with diverse range and comorbid chronic diagnoses
Education
Associate Degree - Nursing
Ridgewater College
Hutchinson, MN06.2012
Skills
- Reliable & trustworthy
- Organizational skills
- Epic
- Therapeutic Intervention
- Patient Observation
- De-escalation Techniques
- Monitoring Vital Signs
- Compassionate and Caring
- Accurate Documentation
- Creative Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
Certification
- BLS, 10/24/24
- Minnesota RN license
- Wisconsin RN license
Timeline
Mental Health RN
Supplemental Health Care (contract 6 Months)
11.2023 - Current
Mental Health RN / Charge
Aya (contract 6 Months)
03.2023 - 10.2023
Mental Health RN
Aya (contract)
11.2022 - 12.2022
Mental Health RN
Staff Right (contract)
08.2022 - 11.2022
Medical Surgical RN
Meeker Memorial Hospital
10.2020 - 08.2022
Geriatric Behavioral Health Charge RN
Meeker Memorial Hospital
02.2015 - 10.2020
RN
Oak Terrace Health Care Center
10.2012 - 06.2017
Associate Degree - Nursing
Ridgewater College