Melissa Wardrop
Leavenworth,KS
Summary
Seasoned LPN Charge Nurse with considerable experience in providing primary patient care and managing nursing staff. Known for strong leadership skills, proficiency in patient assessment, and ability to develop effective care plans. Demonstrated success in fostering a collaborative, team-oriented environment that enhances patient satisfaction and outcomes.
Overview
25
25
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
LPN Charge Nurse
The Healthcare Resort of Kansas City
Kansas City, Kansas
07.2024 - Current
- Assessed patients' health conditions and monitored changes in their condition.
- Provided patient care plans, treatments, and medications according to physicians' orders.
- Maintained accurate medical records and updated them regularly.
- Supervised the activities of other nursing staff members and provided guidance when necessary.
- Ensured all safety protocols were followed during patient care.
- Performed routine checks on equipment used for patient care.
- Communicated effectively with patients, families, colleagues, and other healthcare professionals.
- Coordinated shift schedules and assigned duties to LPNs and CNAs based on qualifications.
- Identified potential problems or risks that could affect patient outcomes.
- Responded promptly to emergency situations as needed.
- Monitored medication administration for accuracy, compliance, and effectiveness of treatment plan.
- Developed strategies for improving quality of care standards within the unit or department.
- Collaborated with multidisciplinary teams to coordinate effective patient care delivery systems.
- Reviewed lab results and made appropriate recommendations for further testing or treatment.
- Evaluated patient responses to treatments and interventions and documented progress notes accordingly.
- Carried out physician orders accurately while adhering to hospital policies and procedures.
- Assisted in developing policies related to infection control practices.
- Participated in creating a safe environment by following fire safety regulations.
- Promoted positive relationships between patients, families, visitors, physicians, nurses, volunteers.
- Educated patients about their diagnoses and treatments while providing emotional support.
- Precepted new staff nurses to provide education on hospital policies and procedures, patient care skills, medical procedures and techniques and patient assessments and interventions.
- Collaborated with supervisor to prepare nursing assessment summaries and health care plans.
- Educated patients on wound and disease self-management techniques.
- Assisted physicians and nurses with special procedures.
- Delivered emotional, psychological and spiritual support to patients and families to promote compassionate environment.
- Documented adverse patient reactions to medications and reported findings to supervisors.
- Educated patients on conditions, medications and self-care skills.
- Observed and reported changes in condition of patients and signs and symptoms of deviations from normal health status.
- Administered medications in accordance with policies and legal limitations.
- Administered medications and therapies in accordance with physicians orders.
- Charted changes in patient conditions and discussed concerns with supervising healthcare provider.
- Addressed patient care needs, collected vitals, dressed wounds and managed catheters.
- Worked as part of healthcare team to assess patient needs, plan and modify care and implement interventions.
- Took temperatures or blood pressures, dressed wounds and provided other basic patient care or treatments.
- Documented patient medical histories, current symptoms and vitals.
- Measured and recorded patient height, weight and other vital signs.
- Answered patient calls, identified issues and determined how best to provide assistance within parameters established by facility and supervisor.
- Observed strict confidentiality and safeguarded all patient-related information.
- Guaranteed exceptional care quality by correctly administering medication, inserting and caring for catheters, dressing and changing wounds and assisting with personal hygiene.
- Communicated with patients with compassion while keeping medical information private.
- Worked with social workers, physical therapists and speech therapists to assess patient needs, plan and adjust plans of care and actualize nursing interventions to promote and restore patient health.
- Collected blood, urine or sputum from patients to perform routine laboratory tests.
- Communicated effectively with patients and loved ones to explain diagnoses, treatment options and procedures.
- Answered patients' calls to determine how to assist.
- Provided behavioral and emotional support and closely supervised patients suffering from dementia and Alzheimer's.
- Delivered high-quality direct and indirect nursing care to patients.
- Monitored infection control procedures to verify facility-wide health and safety.
- Educated clients, patients and caregivers on medical diagnoses, treatment options, chronic disease self-management and wound management.
- Assembled and used catheters, tracheotomy tubes or oxygen suppliers.
- Evaluated nursing intervention outcomes by conferring with other healthcare team members.
- Collaborated with multi-disciplinary staff to improve overall patient care and response times.
- Maintained strict patient data procedures to comply with HIPAA laws and prevent information breaches.
- Administered prescribed medications or started intravenous fluids, noting times and amounts on patients' charts.
- Prepared patients for examinations, tests or treatments and explained procedures.
- Administered prescribed medications and started intravenous fluids to address patient symptoms and underlying etiologies.
- Counseled clients, patients and families and provided emotional and psychosocial support.
- Evaluated patient care procedural changes for effectiveness and made necessary adjustments.
- Collected biological samples for routine laboratory testing to assist diagnostic processes.
- Provided pre- and post-operative nursing care.
- Performed triage to maximum team productivity and effectiveness.
- Collected biological samples from patients and performed routine lab tests to support diagnosis.
- Facilitated communication between patients, family members, and healthcare professionals.
- Collaborated with healthcare team to develop individualized care plans for patients.
Nurse Manager
Leavenworth County Sheriff Department
Leavenworth, Kansas
06.2024 - 03.2027
- COVID Testing Inmates through KDHE.
- Coordinate Transports from various facilities. *
- Supervised CMA under my direction - med pass, *
- faxing, and filing documents.
- Supervised Providers' schedules and care. *
- Supervised Mental Health schedules and care. *
- Supervised Dental schedules and care.
- Continue to perform Site Manager duties.
- Assist in medical billing with the jail accountant.
- Responding to and scheduling all sick call requests.
- Schedule and coordinate all outpatient care - labs, ER, referrals. Order all medical supplies.
- Update policies and protocols for our providers.
- Schedule and coordinate KDOC transfers In & Out.
- Completed and coordinated all competency at Larned State Hospital.
- Maintain medical accounts with Diamond Pharmacy, BTX, and Wealcan Advance Correction Healthcare.
LPN Team Lead
Corizon Health Inc.-Lansing Correctional Facility
Lansing, KS
04.2024 - 10.2024
- * Record Inmates' medical information and vital signs.
* Obtaining orders from Physician's and maintaining accurate medication records for Inmates.
* Maintaining Mental Health Inmates' as well as record medical information and vital signs.
* Transfer Inmates to proper facilities when medical necessary based on my personal judgment and the judgment of the on call Physician.
* Obtained accurate medication documentation as well as all medications given, by mouth, by inject able and or ritually.
* Obtained glucose monitoring on all Inmates' as patients.
* operating Emergency Room during my shift with an On call Physician. -
Answering phone calls from different cells houses.
- Making decisions on Emergencies case by case.
Running the emergencies for Inmates' using set protocols.
* Maintaining the Pill room, updating medications records for Inmates', checking on the expiration date's on medications in the room.
Accountable for all injectables, sterile items, any and sharp items, logging and counting in a record.
* Opening the pill lines and maintaining them per shift.
* Maintaining dressing changes and breathing treatments.
* Packaging medications for Inmates' upon release.
* Distributing AM medications throughout the Correctional Facility for the AM dose.
* Transfer Inmates to the proper facilities.
* Assessing Inmates' before and after forced cell moves.
* Assessing Inmates' upon entering the Correctional facility, obtaining correct medical information, documentation and immunizations per Inmates' and giving such if needed.
* Supervised CMA staffed during medication pass, ensuring proper medications distribution.
Site Nurse Manager
Advance Correctional Healthcare
Leavenworth, KS
06.2024 - 07.2024
- * Maintain accurate, detailed reports and records.
* Monitor, record and report symptoms and changes in patients' conditions.
* Record patients' medical information and vital signs.
* Modify patient treatment plans as indicated by patients' responses and conditions.
* Consult and coordinate with Physician on call.
* Order, interpret, and evaluate diagnostic tests to identify and assess patient's condition.
* Direct and supervise less skilled nursing/health care personnel, or supervise a particular unit on one shift.
* Prepare patients for, and assist with, examinations and treatments.
* Assist in admissions, transfers, and discharge of residents.
* Observe nurses and visit patients to ensure that proper nursing care is provided.
* Supervise/evaluate the work performance of direct care staff.
* Work directly with the Director of Nursing on issues and solutions.
* Make work assignments and see that they are carried out.
* Assist direct care staff to carry out the physician's plan of care for each resident.
* Assist in the ongoing education of direct care staff.
* Manage Employees payroll and scheduling
*Daily Jail statistics by reporting with CQI
* Managing charges and orders of supplies and medications
* Interviewing new staff for positions
* Maintaining Chronic Care
* Monitoring Medical Administration Record of all m
LPN Charge Nurse
Belle Fouche Healthcare Center
Belle Fourche, SD
02.2010 - 09.2011
- * Maintain accurate, detailed reports and records.
* Monitor, record and report symptoms and changes in patients' conditions.
* Record patients' medical information and vital signs.
* Modify patient treatment plans as indicated by patients' responses and conditions.
* Consult and coordinate with health care team members to assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient care plans.
* Order, interpret, and evaluate diagnostic tests to identify and assess patient's condition.
* Direct and supervise less skilled nursing/health care personnel, or supervise a particular unit on one shift.
* Prepare patients for, and assist with, examinations and treatments.
* Assist in admissions, transfers, and discharge of residents.
* Observe nurses and visit patients to ensure that proper nursing care is provided.
* Supervise/evaluate the work performance of direct care staff.
* Work directly with the Director of Nursing on issues and solutions.
* Make work assignments and see that they are carried out.
* Assist direct care staff to carry out the physician's plan of care for each resident.
* Assist in the ongoing education of direct care staff.
Pill Room Supervisor/ Emergency LPN
Correct Care Solutions, Correctional Facility
Lansing, Kansas
10.2006 - 09.2008
- * Record Inmates' medical information and vital signs.
* Obtaining orders from Physician's and maintaining accurate medication records for Inmates.
* Maintaining Mental Health Inmates' as well as record medical information and vital signs.
* Transfer Inmates to proper facilities when medical necessary based on my personal judgment and the judgment of the on call Physician.
* Obtained accurate medication documentation as well as all medications given, by mouth, by inject able and or ritually.
* Obtained glucose monitoring on all Inmates' as patients.
Pill Room/Emergency Room
*Maintaining and operating the Emergency Room during my shift with an On call Physician. - Answering phone calls from different cells houses.
- Making decisions on Emergencies case by case.
- Running the emergencies for Inmates' using set protocols.
* Maintaining the Pill room, updating medications records for Inmates', checking on the expiration date's on medications in the room.
Accountable for all injectables, sterile items, any and sharp items, logging and counting in a record.
* Opening the pill lines and maintaining them per shift.
* Maintaining dressing changes and breathing treatments.
* Packaging medications for Inmates' upon release.
* Distributing AM medications throughout the Correctional Facility for the AM dose.
* Transfer Inmates to the proper facilities.
* Assessing Inmates' before and after forced cell moves.
* Assessing Inmates' upon entering the Correctional facility, obtaining correct medical information, documentation and immunizations per Inmates' and giving such if needed.
* Supervised CMA staffed during medication pass, ensuring proper medications distribution.
Nursing Unit Secretary
Atchison Hospital
Atchison, KS
08.2002 - 02.2006
- * Reviewed and submitted physician orders.
* Was responsible for patient transfers and order completions.
* Responsible for assisting nurses with various tasks to include patient care when needed.
* Ensure lab results were correct and placed on appropriate charts for physician review.
* Submitted all medication orders to pharmacy to include submission into central computer system.
* Performed all other duties as directed by Nurse Managers. Emergency Room Dept. Unit Secretary/Emergency Tech. 2004-2006
* Entered all new patient complaints for physician review.
* Responsible for documenting all allergies, medications, and past medical history on charts.
* Ensure patients were placed in proper treatment areas.
* Maintained patient vitals and other pertinent information on physician flow sheets.
* Entered physician orders into central computer system.
* Responsible for ensuring on-call physicians and key staff were notified when necessary.
* Performed all other duties as directed by Nurse Managers.
Education
Associate of Applied Science - Practical Nursing
Northeast Kansas Technical College
Atchison, KS08-2006
Skills
- Vital signs monitoring
- Home Health Care
- Policy compliance
- Quality Improvement
- Pediatric Care
- Geriatric Care
- Disease Prevention
- Community health
- Emergency Care
- Care Plan Development
- Nursing Staff Supervision
- Patient support
- HIPAA Compliance
- Performance monitoring
- Patient Charting
- Needs Assessment
- Data Analysis
- Wound Care
- Patient Education
- Infection Control
- Specimen Collection
- Relationship Building
- Health assessments
- Task Prioritization
- Management Team Support
- Time Management
- Effective Communication
- Feeding Assistance
- Organizational Skills
- Goal Setting
- Immunization Administration
- Attention to Detail
- Healthcare platforms
- Patient Positioning and Transporting
- Wound Dressing and Suturing
- Patient Care
- Information Compiling and Auditing
- Staff Supervision
- Medication Administration
- Dementia Knowledge and Care
- Mental Health Support
- Emergency Response
- Team Collaboration
- Conflict Resolution
- Written Communication
- Palliative Care
- Problem-Solving
- Procedure Explanation
- Excellent Communication
- Teamwork and Collaboration
- Continuous Improvement
- Examination and Test Preparation
- Physical assessments
- Analytical Thinking
- Hospice Care
- Pain Management
- CPR Certification
- Conditions Reporting
- Medical Equipment Operation
Certification
- * South Dakota Practical Nurse # SD-LPN P010441 09/01/06-12/31/15
* Licensed Practical Nurse, Kansas State License # 23 – 35439
* Intravenous Therapy #23-35439-121 April 4, 2007
* Diploma in Practical Nursing, 2005- 2006 North East Kansas Technical College, Atchison, KS
* CMA License Dec. 28, 2005 License # 120008 North East Kansas Technical College, Atchison, KS
* CNA License April 23, 2001 License # 120008 North East Kansas Technical College, Atchison, KS
Timeline
LPN Charge Nurse
The Healthcare Resort of Kansas City
07.2024 - Current
Nurse Manager
Leavenworth County Sheriff Department
06.2024 - 03.2027
Site Nurse Manager
Advance Correctional Healthcare
06.2024 - 07.2024
LPN Team Lead
Corizon Health Inc.-Lansing Correctional Facility
04.2024 - 10.2024
LPN Charge Nurse
Belle Fouche Healthcare Center
02.2010 - 09.2011
Pill Room Supervisor/ Emergency LPN
Correct Care Solutions, Correctional Facility
10.2006 - 09.2008
Nursing Unit Secretary
Atchison Hospital
08.2002 - 02.2006
- * South Dakota Practical Nurse # SD-LPN P010441 09/01/06-12/31/15
* Licensed Practical Nurse, Kansas State License # 23 – 35439
* Intravenous Therapy #23-35439-121 April 4, 2007
* Diploma in Practical Nursing, 2005- 2006 North East Kansas Technical College, Atchison, KS
* CMA License Dec. 28, 2005 License # 120008 North East Kansas Technical College, Atchison, KS
* CNA License April 23, 2001 License # 120008 North East Kansas Technical College, Atchison, KS
Associate of Applied Science - Practical Nursing
Northeast Kansas Technical College
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