Patient-oriented Nurse with 28 years of diverse experience in direct patient care and healthcare industry. Hardworking, passionate, detail-oriented team player. Skilled at multitasking and prioritizing patient needs and daily assignments.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
Work History
RN Case Manager/Field Nurse
TheraCare Home Health
07.2023 - 06.2024
Provided skilled nursing care under the orders of an MD in patients homes and case managed patients on caseload.
Director of Case Management
Pam Health Warm Springs Rehabilitation Hospital
08.2022 - 06.2023
RN, supervised Case Managers and Case Manager Assistant, completed monthly scorecard, attended weekly IDT’s, performed monthly closed audits, did partner rounding, ran multiple reports each month, attended multiple leadership meetings each month.
RN Case Manager
Pam Health Warm Springs Rehabilitation Hospital
04.2022 - 08.2022
Performed Initial discharge planning assessments on inpatient patients, attended IDT weekly, set patients up for discharge with either Home Health, skilled nursing facility, or Long-term care
Ordered and had DME delivered to room prior to dc home.
RN Case Manager/Field Nurse
Guardian Healthcare
08.2021 - 07.2022
Provided skilled nursing care under the orders of an MD in patients homes and case managed patients on caseload.
LVN-Field Nurse
Guardian Healthcare
08.2017 - 08.2021
Provided skilled nursing care under the orders of an MD and supervision of an RN in patients homes.
Nurse Auditor
Guardian Healthcare
07.2018 - 10.2020
Audited charts for required documentation and sent to billing.
Scheduler/Medical Records
Guardian Healthcare
01.2018 - 07.2018
Scheduled clinicians for skilled visits, checked on patients admitted to hospital, sent paperwork to MDs for signatures, ordered medical supplies, attached signed orders to charts, and answered phones.
Intake Nurse
Guardian Healthcare
08.2015 - 07.2017
Completed intake forms and processed referrals for Home Health from hospitals, physicians, rehabilitation centers, and assisted living centers for the State of Texas.
Executive Nurse Assistant
Eleos Community Care
07.2012 - 06.2015
Process and obtain authorizations for private duty nursing cases from managed care insurance, checked in nursing notes/time sheets weekly, nursing compliance, scheduling of nurses and on-call scheduling 24/7, care review, monitoring of nursing documentation, coordinate with physicians, process employment applications for nurses, skills check offs with new nurses, skilled nursing visits, intake coordinator for new PDN cases, chart audits, patient admission paperwork, and filing.
LVN
Eleos Community Care
06.2008 - 06.2012
Pediatric home health- cared for young ill children
Monitored for any problems, administered feedings via G-buttons, administered medications via G-buttons, bathed the patients, and attended to all their ADL’s
Experienced with traches, mickey buttons, and GJ tubes.
LVN
Medical Staffing Network
09.2006 - 02.2010
Pediatric home health- care of young ill children, most with special needs
Monitored for any problems, administered feedings via G-buttons, administered medications via G-buttons, and attended to all their ADL’s
Experienced with traches, and mickey buttons.
LVN
St. Luke’s Baptist Hospital
10.2006 - 01.2008
Mother/Babycared for women and infants after delivery
Monitored vital signs of mother, monitored mother for increased bleeding, patient teaching on fundus massaging, signs and symptoms of infections after C-sections
Monitored vital signs of infants, obtained labs from infants to check for jaundice and first newborn screening test
Teaching to parents regarding jaundice
Discharge paperwork and teaching for mother’s and infants.