Sharon 'Mary' York

• Demonstrated skills and abilities within scope of LPN practice and in accordance with competencies and procedures.
• Monitored, tracked and conveyed important patient information to healthcare staff to help optimize treatment planning and care delivery.
• Prepare over 12 patients daily for surgery, educating patients and family members on surgical procedures.
• Assessed patients' temperature, pulse and blood pressure and recorded in electronic medical records.
• Answered incoming phone calls from patients to provide basic assistance and triage medical concerns.
• Comforted and counseled patients and families throughout care process.
• Inserted IVs
• Assisted with appointments and discharges.
• Collaborated with interdisciplinary team of healthcare and social service providers to address patients' needs through effective intervention and care planning.

As a clinic nurse, I delivered patient care, administered treatments, monitored VS, performing tests, wound care, lab draws, immunizations, documentation, answering patient questions within scope, handling medical emergencies.

Check in medication daily.

Daily count of narcotics along with documentation.

Check for expired medications.

Order medications daily as ordered by physician.

• Ability in managing critical situations and making care based decisions 
•  Patient focused
•  Medication administration, Injections, IV therapy, test glucose levels, IV insertion, Wound care
• Patient Education
• Provide comprehensive instruction on discharge
• Electronic Charting
• Nursing leadership
• Perform patient assessments and work with physicians to plan, implement, and evaluate plans of care for patients off all ages
• Patient load of 5-6
• Precept student nurses and new hires
• Record patients medical history, vital statistics
• Ability to stay calm under pressure

• Monitor patients' health such as checking blood pressure, blood sugar
• Administer basic nursing care
• Wound care, foley insertion
• Bathing and dressing patients
• Administering medications and IV infusions
• Communication with family
• Communication with doctors

• Helps health care providers and patients by greeting them in person and by phone
• Referring inquires to the pharmacist
• Maintains pharmacy inventory by checking pharmaceutical stock to determine inventory level; anticipation needed medications and supplies; placing and expediting orders; verifying receipt; removing outdated drug
• Maintains a safe and clean pharmacy by adhering to infection control policies and protocols
• Organizes medications for pharmacist to dispense by reading medication orders and prescriptions, prepare labels, calculating quantities
• Maintain records by recording and filing physicians' orders and prescriptions
• Prepares reports by collecting and summarizing information
• Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed