Melanie Barnett
Sahuarita,ARIZONA
Summary
Compassionate Licensed Practical Nurse with hands-on experience in providing nursing care within diverse healthcare settings. Possess strong clinical skills bolstered by ability to maintain positive patient relations. Have made significant contributions in optimizing patient care through effective communication and collaboration with healthcare team members. Experienced professional well-versed in performing triage, collecting intake information and caring for wounds. Good communicator with organized nature and strong prioritization and multitasking skills. Sound judgment, caring nature and superior work ethic.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
LPN
Mariposa Community Health Center
Nogales, AZ
11.2016 - Current
- Administer medications orally, or intramuscularly depending on the prescription given by the doctor.
- Performs wound care including changing dressings, cleaning wounds, applying ointments and medications and providing other necessary treatments.
- Collects and documents vital signs to track current patient conditions.
- Interviews patients to obtain medical history.
- Monitors patient's respiration activity, blood pressure and blood glucose levels in response to medical administration.
- Administers prescribed medications or startes intravenous fluids, noting times and amounts on patient charts.
- Collaborates with multi-disciplinary staff to improve overall patient care and response times.
- Communicates with patients with compassion while keeping medical information private.
- Answeres patients' calls to determine how to assist.
- Documentes patient medical histories, current symptoms and vitals.
- Collects blood, urine from patients to perform routine laboratory tests.
- Measures and records patient height, weight and other vital signs.
- Evaluates nursing intervention outcomes by conferring with other healthcare team members.
- Works as part of healthcare team to assess patient needs, plan and modify care and implement interventions.
- Administers medications and therapies in accordance with physicians orders.
- Apart from working in adult medicine, have also worked in Pediatrics for 10 years and manged OB/GYN department for 2 years.
- Performs spirometry testing for patients needing pulmonary evaluations.
Education
Some College (No Degree) - Nursing
Pima Community College
Tucson, AZSkills
- Vital signs monitoring
- Pediatric nursing
- Clinical Documentation
- Patient Intake
- Wound Care
- Immunization Administration
- Patient triaging
- Medical Documentation
- Adult Medicine nursing
- familiar with NextGen EMR
- IV therapy
- Spirometry testing
Certification
- LPN license 10/2004
- CPR certified
- Received health coach certificate in 2022, working on to recertify.
Affiliations
- Enjoy outdoors, hiking and camping.
- Aim to stay health physically so exercise on a regular basis and well rounded diet.
- Have a garden and try to grow my own food.
- Mother of 5 young adults and grandmother to 1. So I like to travel to see all my kids.
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
LPN
Mariposa Community Health Center
11.2016 - Current
Some College (No Degree) - Nursing
Pima Community College
- LPN license 10/2004
- CPR certified
- Received health coach certificate in 2022, working on to recertify.
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