Malina Freeman
Circle Pines
Summary
Hard-working individual with great attention to detail Possesses strong communication, analytical, customer service, and leadership skills, multitasks. CPR, BLS/AED and first aid certified
Experienced with patient care, including administering medications and monitoring vital signs. Utilizes strong communication and interpersonal skills to foster positive patient relationships and efficient team collaboration. Track record of providing compassionate and attentive care, ensuring patient comfort and safety.
Overview
30
30
years of professional experience
Work History
Licensed Practical Nurse
Bayada Home Health
Maple Grove, MN
09.2025 - Current
- Duties include caring for medically fragile patients in their home
- Taking care of tracheostomies and ventilators
- Assisting with transfers, providing one on one care
- Charting, monitoring, critical thinking, customer service dealing with families and the patient
- Contacting the physician, gathering new physician orders when needed.
- Administered medications and treatments per physician orders, ensuring compliance with safety protocols.
- Walking, standing, bending, pushing and pulling
- Using a mechanical lift for transferring patients
- Assisting patient with bathing
Licensed Practical Nurse
St Paul's Monastery
Saint Paul, MN
09.2024 - Current
- Administered medications and treatments per physician orders, ensuring compliance with safety protocols.
- Monitored patient vital signs and reported changes to nursing staff for timely interventions.
- Serve food
- Laundry as needed
- Setting tables
- Activities such as puzzles and watching TV with the nuns
- Oversee the caregivers
Licensed Practical Nurse-Clinical Support Staff
Health Partners Como Clinic-St Paul Minnesota
St Paul, Minnesota
07.2022 - Current
- Working in EPIC, typing, obtaining vitals, rooming patients, walking, standing, talking, customer service, reading, phones, calling patients and other providers, responding to MyChart messages, putting labels on specimens and taking them to lab.
- Swabbing patients' throats and nose for illness such as COVID, strep and flu.
- Giving injections
- Making outreach phone calls to patients with chronic disease such as diabetes and high blood pressure to remind them of testing and follow up appointments needed.
- Prepping charts ie looking at them and getting them ready for the visit and ordering labs per standing orders when and if needed
Sales Associate
Scrubs and Beyond
Coon Rapids, Minnesota
02.2023 - 07.2024
- Walking, standing, reaching, and lifting.
- Selling scrubs to customers, talking to customers, taking their scrubs to the fitting room. Customer service, answering questions customers have and guiding them to where they want to shop in the store.
- Using the computer/registers, taking cash and credit cards. Taking special orders for customers as well as returns
- Cleaning the store including dusting, vacuuming, washing the mirrors in the fitting rooms, sweeping, and mopping floors, and cleaning the bathroom
- Sizing the scrubs to ensure they are in the proper place and customers are able to find what they want. Taking scrubs from the fitting rooms that customers do not want and put them back on the racks.
- Folding long sleeve shirts, scrub pants and tops for the table to make it presentable.
- Putting inventory on the racks when it arrives
Licensed Practical Nurse-Wellness Coordinator
Prelude Homes and Services
White Bear Lake, Minnesota
06.2021 - 07.2022
- Overseeing the caregivers, ordering, and reordering medications, charting, typing, talking, computers, phones, working with doctors and other providers such as hospice and therapies. Taking care of setting up wound care if needed. Performing staff supervision and continued training and education of staff, Covid testing, and administering vaccines. Attending meetings and care conferences with families. Taking part in on-call rotating with 2 other nurses. Updating service plans. Filing, scanning and faxing documents. Working in Rtask electronic medical record system.
Licensed Practical Nurse
Good Life Senior Living
Hugo, Minnesota
05.2021 - 06.2021
- Charting, typing, computers, assisting residents with dressing, toileting, and eating, transferring residents in and out of wheel chairs and beds. Talking to doctors and families, overseeing the caregivers. Filing, scanning and faxing documents. Working in Rtask electronic medical record system.
Licensed Practical Nurse
White Pine Advance Assisted Living Building 2
Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota
09.2020 - 05.2021
- Medication management ensuring the residents have and receive their medications, contacting physician's and families. Customer service, talking, typing, computers. Multi-tasking. Overseeing the caregivers and medication passers. Charting, performing assessments, taking vital signs.
Long Term Disability Ability Analyst
The Hartford
Bloomington, Minnesota
08.2017 - 06.2020
- Duties include taking calls for long term disability claims, answering phones and gathering medical information, contacting physicians, using the computer and entering the information in the claim. Customer service dealing with doctors, claimants and co-workers. Entering medical information obtained from the doctors into the computer. Multi-tasking. Typing and working through different computer screens within the systems, setting tasks, critical thinking and analysis. Emails and skype messages and meetings.
- Processing and managing a large volume of Long-Term Disability claims.
- Was a part of the professional women's network.
Clinical Intake Nurse
The Hartford
Bloomington, Minnesota
09.2011 - 08.2017
- Duties include taking calls for short term disability claims, answering phones and gathering medical information, contacting physicians, using the computer and entering the initial claim. Customer service dealing with doctors, claimants and co-workers. Entering medical information obtained from the doctors into the computer. Multi-tasking. Typing and working through different computer screens within the systems, setting tasks, critical thinking and analysis. Training of new staff. And mentoring.
- Worked with the employee club and currently a part of the professional women's network.
- Trained in handling inquiry calls, also was a member of the Supplemental Resource Group as a phase 1 handler this group is responsible for responding to large scale catastrophic events.
- Was part of the Paralympics fundraising committee from July 15, 2014-September 3, 2014, assisted with raising money for the Paralympics through employee activities, coordinating and running the activities, brainstorming and working with others in the committee to carry out the activities. Keeping track of money raised and reporting to leader.
- Was a member of an ambassador group—working with others in the group, brainstorming on ways to remove obstacles for claimants and employees.
Licensed Practical Nurse-home health care-casual work
Plateau Home Care
Brooklyn Center, Minnesota
10.2014 - 04.2015
- Duties include caring for medically fragile adult-geriatric patients in their homes, giving medications, taking care of tracheostomies and ventilators, assisting with transfers, providing one on one care, charting, monitoring, critical thinking, customer service dealing with families and their children, contacting the physician, gathering new physician orders.
Licensed Practical Nurse-home health care-casual work
Recover Health
Minnetonka, Minnesota
06.2014 - 10.2014
- Duties include caring for medically fragile pediatric and adult-geriatric patients in their homes, giving medications, taking care of tracheostomies and ventilators, assisting with transfers, providing one on one care, charting, monitoring, critical thinking, customer service dealing with families and their children, contacting the physician, gathering new physician orders.
Licensed Practical Nurse-home health care-casual work
Bayada Pediatric home health
Roseville, Minnesota
01.2014 - 07.2014
- Duties include caring for medically fragile pediatric patients in their home, giving medications, taking care of tracheostomies and ventilators, assisting with transfers, providing one on one care, charting, monitoring, critical thinking, customer service dealing with families and their children, contacting the physician, gathering new physician orders.
Licensed Practical Nurse-charge nurse
Lake Ridge HCC
Roseville, Minnesota
08.2005 - 08.2013
- Duties include checking vital signs, charting on the computer, making doctors calls, giving medications, hooking up IV's, changing and taking care of wound vac dressings, changing dressings, trach and catheter care, checking blood sugars and giving injections. Customer service-dealing with patients' families, doctors, and co-workers. Working as charge nurse at the desk making sure patients get to appointments, labs get taken care of and directing and overseeing the nursing assistants. Working in all different areas of nursing including short term-rehab, long term care, and Alzheimer's units. Charting medication administration in the electronic medication records. Critical thinking and multitasking, charting using point click care.
Licensed Practical Nurse
Presbyterian Homes
Arden Hills, Minnesota
08.2004 - 08.2005
- Duties include checking vital signs, charting on the computer, making doctor calls, giving medications including injections. Hooking up IV's, changing dressing. Checking blood sugars. Customer service dealing with patients, families, doctors, and co-workers. Multitasking and critical thinking
Nursing Assistant and Licensed Practical Nurse
Birchwood Health Care Center
Forest Lake, Minnesota
01.2000 - 01.2004
- Duties of a Licensed practical nurse includes checking vital signs, charting on the computer, making doctor calls, giving medications including injections. Hooking up IV's, changing dressing. Checking blood sugars. Customer service dealing with patients, families, doctors, and co-workers. Multitasking and critical thinking.
- As a nursing assistant job duties included transferring, bathing, grooming, toileting and feeding patients, providing any cares that the patient could not perform themselves. Assisting with brushing teeth, dressing and activities. Notify the nurse of any issues noted with the patients, charting and keeping track of patients' intake and output.
Nursing Assistant and Trained Medication Aide
Park Crest Baptist Care Center
Minneapolis, Minnesota
01.1996 - 01.2000
- As a nursing assistant job duties included transferring, bathing, grooming, toileting and feeding patients, providing any cares that the patient could not perform themselves. Assisting with brushing teeth, dressing and activities. Notifying the nurse of any issues noted with the patients, charting and keeping track of patients' intake and output.
- As a trained medication aide duties included giving medications, charting, notifying the nurse of any issues with the patients. Passing out nourishment's and snacks, assisting the nurses and nursing assistants as needed.
Education
Licensed Practical Nursing - Nursing
Hennepin Technical College
Brooklyn Park, MN01-2001
High school - undefined
Roosevelt High School
Minneapolis, MN01-1996
Skills
- Medication administration
- Direct patient care
- Vital signs monitoring
- HIPAA compliance
- Wound care
- Compassionate care
- Geriatric care
- Medication dispensing
- Immunization administration
- Infection control
- Pulse oximetry tracking
- Home health care
- Verbal and written communication
Timeline
Licensed Practical Nurse
Bayada Home Health
09.2025 - Current
Licensed Practical Nurse
St Paul's Monastery
09.2024 - Current
Sales Associate
Scrubs and Beyond
02.2023 - 07.2024
Licensed Practical Nurse-Clinical Support Staff
Health Partners Como Clinic-St Paul Minnesota
07.2022 - Current
Licensed Practical Nurse-Wellness Coordinator
Prelude Homes and Services
06.2021 - 07.2022
Licensed Practical Nurse
Good Life Senior Living
05.2021 - 06.2021
Licensed Practical Nurse
White Pine Advance Assisted Living Building 2
09.2020 - 05.2021
Long Term Disability Ability Analyst
The Hartford
08.2017 - 06.2020
Licensed Practical Nurse-home health care-casual work
Plateau Home Care
10.2014 - 04.2015
Licensed Practical Nurse-home health care-casual work
Recover Health
06.2014 - 10.2014
Licensed Practical Nurse-home health care-casual work
Bayada Pediatric home health
01.2014 - 07.2014
Clinical Intake Nurse
The Hartford
09.2011 - 08.2017
Licensed Practical Nurse-charge nurse
Lake Ridge HCC
08.2005 - 08.2013
Licensed Practical Nurse
Presbyterian Homes
08.2004 - 08.2005
Nursing Assistant and Licensed Practical Nurse
Birchwood Health Care Center
01.2000 - 01.2004
Nursing Assistant and Trained Medication Aide
Park Crest Baptist Care Center
01.1996 - 01.2000
High school - undefined
Roosevelt High School
Licensed Practical Nursing - Nursing
Hennepin Technical College