Melinda Lukehart
Whitewright,TX
Summary
Skilled nursing professional with more than 32 years of experience and passion for providing highest quality of medical care. Compassionate and empathetic advocate for patients and families. Skillfully assesses health status, develops diagnoses and manages care for patients with acute and chronic concerns. Experienced in structured and unstructured environments, smoothly coordinating multiple activities and competing priorities.
Overview
33
33
years of professional experience
Work History
Staff RN
Texas Health Resources Plano Hospital
09.2011 - Current
- Provide complete care( to include fetal monitoring) for High Risk Antepartum patients on a high acuity women's services unit.
- Provide recovery care for post op cesarean section patients as well as gynecological surgery patients.
- Provide post partum care to mothers who delivered infants requiring NICU care and stay on Antepartum unit for local proximity to NICU.
- Coordinated patient discharge planning to provide post-discharge patient care, promoting healing and recovery.
- Improved patient satisfaction scores by providing compassionate, attentive, and empathetic care.
- Implemented appropriate interventions based on assessment findings to maintain or improve patients'' health status.
- Communicated with healthcare team members to plan, implement and enhance treatment strategies.
Navy Nurse Corps Officer
U.S. Navy
09.1991 - 08.2011
Active Duty Nurse Corps Officer
-Medical Surgical Nurse (1991-1994)
-Labor and Delivery (1995-2001)
-Division Officer of Family Practice Clinic (2002-2004)
-Med Surg/ Womens Services (2005-2008)
-Womens Health Clinic (2008-2009)
-Labor and Delivery (2009-2011)
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Education
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Texas Woman's University
Denton, TX05.1991
Skills
- Obstetrics and gynecology
- Patient Care
- Clinical judgment
- Patient Examination
- Medication Administration
- Perioperative nursing
- Neonatal Resuscitation (NRP)
- Women's health exams
- AWHONN Advanced Fetal Monitoring
- RQI ACLS
Timeline
Staff RN
Texas Health Resources Plano Hospital
09.2011 - Current
Navy Nurse Corps Officer
U.S. Navy
09.1991 - 08.2011
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Texas Woman's University
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