Lorraine Hardy
Lake Wales,FL
Summary
Registered Nurse with over 26 years experience working in urgent and high patient volume settings. Highly motivated and focused on exceptional patient care. Driven to make team work everyone's top priority. Focused on providing patients with an outstanding experience.
Overview
26
26
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Registered Nurse
Heart Of Florida Advent Health
Davenport , Florida
2017.01 - Current
- Have held certification in Medical Surgical nursing
- TNCC - Trauma Nurse Core Course
- Skilled in conducting physical examinations
- Skilled cardiac care nurse
- Strong medical ethic
- Culturally sensitive
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) certification
- Enthusiastic caregiver
- Familiarity with disease management programs
- OR and ER experience
- Health and wellness expertise
- Medication administration expert
- Vascular care understanding
- Geriatric treatment knowledge
- Psych and mental health care proficiency
- Broad medical terminology knowledge
- Diabetes, Hospice and Stroke Patient Care
- Provided direct patient care, stabilized patients and determined next course of action.
- Collaborated with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions.
Registered Nurse/Interim Charge Nurse
LAKE WALES MEDICAL CENTER
2015.06 - 2016.12
- Worked as a staff nurse, managed care of the critically ill and acute care patients in a fast paced emergency department
- Served as interim charge nurse where needed
- Highly skilled in the triage of patients with minor to serious symptoms
- A member of the team that responded when a "Rapid Response or Code Blue" occurred in the hospital
- Exceptionally skilled in encouraging teamwork among the employees.
Registered Emergency Room Nurse
WINTER HAVEN HOSPITAL
Winter Haven , Florida
2010.02 - 2015.06
- Worked as a staff nurse in busy 41 bed emergency department
- Managed care of 4-5 critical and non acute patients
- Focused specifically in two of those years serving as triage nurse
- Proficient in telemetry and EKG interpretation.
Registered Nurse Case Manager
ALLIANCE HOME HEALTH CARE
Dundee , Florida
2007.10 - 2010.01
- Worked as case manager of home health patients requiring travel throughout Polk County, Florida
- Coordinated care, evaluated, and admitted patients requiring home health care nursing
- Performed nursing tasks such as wound care, disease process education, medication administration, management of LPNs and CNAs
- Assessed and implemented services as needed for physical, occupational, and speech therapies.
Registered Medical Surgical Nurse
WINTER HAVEN HOSPITAL
Winter Haven , Florida
2006.12 - 2007.12
- Worked as staff nurse on busy medical surgical telemetry unit
- Served as charge nurse where needed
- Cared for 7-8 medical surgical patients
- Oversaw duties of LPNs and Techs
- Achieved certification in Medical Surgical nursing.
Registered Labor and Delivery Nurse
BRANDON REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER
Brandon , Florida
2006.01 - 2006.10
- Worked as a staff nurse on a labor and delivery unit
- Cared for four to five patients
- Circulating nurse in OR during c sections
- Worked also in mother/baby unit.
Labor and Delivery nurse
BARTOW REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER
Bartow , Florida
2003.10 - 2006.01
- Registered Medical/Surgical and, Worked as staff nurse and interim charge nurse on Medical Surgical Acute Care unit caring for 5-8 telemetry patients
- Transferred to Labor and delivery to learn and care for the laboring patient, assisted with deliveries, cared for the newborn and postpartum mother.
Registered Nurse Team Leader Office Manager
CLARK AND DAUGHTREY
Lakeland , Florida
2000.10 - 2003.10
- Served as a team leader and office manager for twenty employees in a busy 6 practitioner cardiology office
- Primary goal was to serve and learn under Dr Sami Baddoura
- Performed stress tests, coordinated office staff duties, managed day to day office duties
- Developed an EKG course for employees and made it necessary for employees to take the course to remain in the office
- This was pertinent for patient safety.
Registered Nurse
LAKELAND REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER
Lakeland , Florida
1996.10 - 2000.10
- Worked as staff nurse on gynecology, oncology, urology unit caring for 5-7 patients
- After one year, transferred to medical cardiology unit learning and becoming proficient in telemetry and EKG interpretation
- Managed care of 4-5 cardiac and medical patients including preop and postop pacemaker/defibrillator patients
- Preop and postop care of cardiac cath patients and electrophysiology studies
- Held in high esteem Dr Sami Baddoura
- He was an exceptional teacher and leader inspiring a love for everything cardiac and opened an opportunity to manage his cardiology office.
Education
Bachelor's Degree. - undefined
NURSING
Florida Southern College
undefined
University of South Florida
ASSOCIATE OF SCIENCE - undefined
NURSING
Hillsborough Community College
1996
Skills
- Patient Care Assessment
- Patient Condition Monitoring
- Blood Draw and Sample Collection
- Accurate Documentation
- Compassionate and Caring
- Monitoring Vital Signs
- Medical Procedure Preparation
- Preventive Healthcare
- PICC Lines
- Medication Side Effect Knowledge
- Pulmonary Conditions
- Atrial Fibrillation
- Interpreting EKGs
- Heart Failure
- Patient and Family Advocacy
- Delegation and Motivation
- Patient Intervention
- Test Interpretations
- Pharmacologic Intervention
- Cerebrovascular Accidents
- Airway Management
- Acute Myocardial Infarction
- Acute and Chronic Pain
- Infection Control Procedures
- Diagnostic Test Evaluations
- Emergency Diagnostics
- Patient Admission
- Wound Management
- Intramuscular Injections
Certification
- PALS, ACLS, BLS, TNCC certified
Timeline
Registered Nurse
Heart Of Florida Advent Health
2017.01 - Current
Registered Nurse/Interim Charge Nurse
LAKE WALES MEDICAL CENTER
2015.06 - 2016.12
Registered Emergency Room Nurse
WINTER HAVEN HOSPITAL
2010.02 - 2015.06
Registered Nurse Case Manager
ALLIANCE HOME HEALTH CARE
2007.10 - 2010.01
Registered Medical Surgical Nurse
WINTER HAVEN HOSPITAL
2006.12 - 2007.12
Registered Labor and Delivery Nurse
BRANDON REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER
2006.01 - 2006.10
Labor and Delivery nurse
BARTOW REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER
2003.10 - 2006.01
Registered Nurse Team Leader Office Manager
CLARK AND DAUGHTREY
2000.10 - 2003.10
Registered Nurse
LAKELAND REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER
1996.10 - 2000.10
Bachelor's Degree. - undefined
NURSING
Florida Southern College
undefined
University of South Florida
ASSOCIATE OF SCIENCE - undefined
NURSING
Hillsborough Community College
- PALS, ACLS, BLS, TNCC certified
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