Melanie Langdon
Sidney,NE
Summary
Organized Lpn with experience providing skilled care to diverse patient populations. Compassionate professional with great engagement skills. Prioritize tasks and maintains accurate documentation.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
Work History
LPN Field Nurse
Care Team Home Health
11.2017 - 12.2021
- Cared for wounds, provided treatments, and assisted with procedures.
- Documented accurate and complete patient information to address patient problems and expected outcomes.
- Performed routine evaluations of each patient's status, needs, and preferences.
- Managed patient care through closely monitoring respiration, blood pressure, and blood glucose levels.
- Obtained patient vital signs and input/output measurements from inpatients.
- Monitored, tracked, and conveyed important patient information to healthcare staff to help optimize treatment planning and care delivery.
- Used aseptic techniques to provide sterilized wound care and dressing applications.
- Collaborated with interdisciplinary team of healthcare and social service providers to address patients' needs through effective intervention and care planning.
- Delivered updates in patient status to charge nurse, recording changes in medical records.
- Educated patients and caregivers on medical diagnoses, treatment options, chronic disease self-management and wound management.
- Comforted and counseled patients and families throughout care process.
- Evaluated patients to identify and address wounds, behavioral concerns, and medically relevant symptoms.
- Minimized staff and patient infection risk by cleaning and disinfecting equipment instruments.
- Monitored patient health conditions to report changes to assigned physician.
- Assessed patients' temperature, pulse, and blood pressure and recorded in electronic medical records.
- Delivered emotional support to patients and families during challenging times.
- Reviewed patient history to verify conditions and current medications.
- Worked with multidisciplinary team to carry out successful treatment plans for diverse acute and chronic conditions.
- Provided patient education on health care issues and prescribed medications.
- Evaluated patient histories, complaints, and current symptoms.
- Provided diagnosis information, treatment possibilities, disease management tips and wound care advice to patients, loved ones and caregivers.
- Protected patients and healthcare team members from infection by sterilizing equipment and reusable supplies.
Education
Lpn Cerificate - Nursing
Northeastern Jr College
Sterling, CO07.1980
Skills
- Professionalism
- Electronic health records
- Patient education
- Time management
- Patient assessment
- Multitasking
- Vital signs monitoring
- Attention to detail
- Quality improvement
- Diabetes management
- Medication administration
- Clinical judgment
- Nursing documentation
- Decision making
- Critical thinking
- Health promotion
- Active listening
- Organizational skills
- Disease prevention
- Pain management
- Problem solving
- Patient safety
- Infection control
- Geriatric nursing
- Disease Prevention Strategies
- Progress Monitoring
- Documentation
- Healthcare Management
- Physician Collaboration
- Acute Care
- Needs Assessment
- Patient Observation
- HIPAA Compliance
- Wound Care
- Specimen Collection
- Dietary Requirements and Restrictions
- Adaptable and Flexible
- Sterilization and Sanitation
Timeline
LPN Field Nurse
Care Team Home Health
11.2017 - 12.2021
Lpn Cerificate - Nursing
Northeastern Jr College