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Mindy Duch

LPN/Lead Clinician
Sussex,WI
Mindy Duch

Overview

23
years of professional experience
1
year of post-secondary education

Work History

Sonobello Milwaukee
Milwaukee

Lead Clinician
07.2023 - Current

Job overview

  • Clinical Team Lead, driving an effective and efficient daily flow, managing quality care with maintaining efficiency of clinical operations
  • Support day to day clinical activities in an accredited outpatient surgical facility
  • Build and communicate effective nurse schedules, establish clinical assignments, on time clinic starts, operating room turnarounds, and on time appointment starts
  • Enforce policy adherence consistent with AAAHC guidelines
  • Maintaining quality assurance and quality improvement along with all responsibility of QA/QI reporting
  • Participation in interviewing and hiring all clinical candidates with the Practice Manager
  • Assigning training guides for new hires, following up with onboarding, and ensuring new hire success, having weekly touch bases with them to be sure their needs are being met
  • Develop and maintain strong partnerships across all team members, clinical, operations, and sales to help build incredible team relationships with the whole of the building
  • Giving the whole team is involved approach
  • Work with facilitating onboarding all new surgeons to our center, giving support, and follow up and any follow that may be needed while they are here
  • Able to give accurate information to the clinical staff about surgeon preferences for ease of onboarding new doctors.

Sonobello Milwaukee
Milwaukee, WI

Licensed Practical Nurse
02.2022 - Current

Job overview

  • Ensured patient safety and an amazing patient experience while collaborating as a team to create a rewarding work culture
  • Delivered excellent patient care assisting in all pre and post-operative visits
  • Including patient education prior to and after having liposuction and skin removal procedures
  • Exhibits clinical judgement regarding would assessment including signs and symptoms of infection, bleeding, proper healing
  • Assisting in surgical procedures
  • Liposuction and Skin Excisions
  • Can demonstrate through knowledge of opening sterile supplies and setting up the operating room for sterile procedure
  • Physiologically monitors and documents patient responses and physical symptoms
  • Able to demonstrate knowledge of surgical and medical instruments
  • Accurately demonstrate surgeon preferences on daily of rotating surgeons
  • Explaining treatment procedures, medications and physician's instructions to patients and caregivers
  • Giving discharge instruction to patients' caregivers
  • Trained and onboarded new clinicians in center and during travel
  • Spent five months as the temporary Lead Clinician while covering a maternity leave for a fellow team member.

Lake Country Health Services
Oconomowoc

Licensed Practical Nurse
09.2021 - 02.2022

Job overview

  • Continuous patient care in LTC unit, adeptly handling all aspects of treatment from medication administration, wound care, treatments and monitoring for 20-30 patients
  • Oversaw clinical and support staff in patient care activities while maintaining a high level of professionalism
  • Pharmacological and non-pharmacological management and treatment of various disorders and diseases
  • Identified the need for, ordered, obtain and interpret appropriate lab tests
  • Closely monitoring acute conditions in a busy Rehab Unit
  • Take admissions and discharges
  • Counsel patients and families to provide education so they may obtain optimal function and health and adapt to an altered lifestyle
  • Guided patients to move toward independence by setting realistic goals and treatment plans
  • Operated as part of a multidisciplinary team and coordinated patient care and team activities
  • Provide end of life care
  • Work on Covid-19 Unit as needed during outbreak status to ensure proper infection control procedures during any unit lockdown.

Franciscan Woods
Brookfield

Licensed Practical Nurse
06.2021 - 09.2021

Job overview

  • Oversaw LTC floor with 20-30 patients
  • Applied learned skills for medication administration, wound care, and treatments of conditions
  • Monitored Covid-19 patients
  • Oversaw clinical and support staff in patient care activities
  • Identified and ordered appropriate lab tests
  • Input orders for medications, called pharmacy to work on getting stat orders placed
  • Guided patients to move toward independence by setting realistic goals and treatment plans
  • Operated as part of a multidisciplinary team and coordinated patient care and team activities
  • Provide end of life care
  • Learned to adapt to the fast pace of changing health care.

Self-employed
Sussex

Nanny/Babysitter/Caregiver
10.2004 - 03.2020

Job overview

  • Organized fun and educational games and activities that increased learning
  • Focused reading time that zeroed in on the children's attention of love of books and reading
  • Modeled continuous access to outdoor activities using gross motor skills running, jumping, various sports
  • And fine motor skills like chalk, water tables, sand play, and arts and crafts with an emphasis on learning
  • Prepared and served meals with balanced nutrition ensuring food safety for all children in my care, including breast milk warming or formula preparation for feeding children under age one and including safely feeding a child with severe peanut allergy and trained in emergency response for anaphylaxis treatment
  • Promoted good behaviors by using positive reinforcement programs and worked with parents to develop and implement discipline programs to promote positive behavior
  • Maintained accurate daily records of individual children's activities, behaviors, meals, naps, diapers, toileting, and bottles/ feedings
  • Experienced with potty training children that have not had previous success
  • Tutored older children up to age eleven in subjects of math, reading, and science.

Precise Underground Locating Company
Milwaukee

Trainer/Quality Control Manager
01.2002 - 12.2003

Job overview

  • Provided training and support to new employees with an emphasis on stellar customer service and damage prevention
  • Operated and trained employees on different electronic detection equipment to locate and mark underground facilities within prescribed accuracy limits
  • Read and interpreted utility map/prints, electronic quarter section, and plat maps to identify the type and size of underground utilities and the use of underground utility mapping software
  • Prepared written documents, took photos, verified utilities after damages to facilities occurred
  • Educated technicians at site faults to provide remediation, to learn how their damages happened and what they the locater could have done differently if they were at fault
  • Prepared clear and concise written reports and forms, including vehicle mileage reports, daily time sheets, work completed documents, call-out sheets, and vehicle maintenance records
  • Interacted with contractors, coworker, and the public to establish effective working relationships
  • Trained employees to organize daily locate assignments into routes designed to minimize backtracking to increase efficiency in covering an assigned area of the city
  • Maintained a high volume of work output and saved the company money
  • Ability to organize and assign responsibility to crew members in an efficient manner, functioned as a team while exhibiting strong leadership skills.

Summary

Seasoned LPN/Lead Clinician with expertise in Ambulatory Surgical care. Work effectively within interdisciplinary teams to develop, implement and adjust interventions. Adept at addressing patient needs with compassionate care and attention to detail. Diligent about maximizing satisfaction, safety and wellness while serving patients of all backgrounds.

Education

Herzing University
Brookfield, WI

Licensed Practical Nurse Diploma from Nursing
2020.04 - 2021.04 (1 education.year_Label)

University Overview

  • Member of Student Nurse Association

Skills

  • Wound Care
  • Family Communication
  • Health Education
  • Emergency Response
  • Patient relationship building
  • Patient Management
  • Geriatric Care
  • Medical office administration
  • Maintaining nutrition
  • Vital signs monitoring
  • Patient triaging
  • Clinical judgment
  • Documentation accuracy
  • Direct Patient Care
  • Medical Records Management
  • Regulatory Requirements
  • Medication Dispensing
  • Medication Administration
  • EMR / EHR
  • Writing reports
  • Caregiving skills
  • Physical Assessment
  • Clinical Documentation

Certification

  • Certified Infection Control Officer, SonoBello - 2024-2025
  • LPN License - 2021-2026
  • ACLS Training -2024-2026

Accomplishments

Accomplishments
  • Supervised team of 13 staff members.
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Work Preference

Work Type

Full Time

Location Preference

RemoteOn-SiteHybrid

Important To Me

Work-life balanceCompany CultureHealthcare benefitsWork from home optionPaid sick leaveCareer advancement

Quote

"The quieter you become, the more you hear."
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Software

Microsoft Word

Excel

Languages

English
Native language

Interests

Spending time with family

Boating

Anything Beach related

Yoga

Timeline

Lead Clinician
Sonobello Milwaukee
07.2023 - Current
Licensed Practical Nurse
Sonobello Milwaukee
02.2022 - Current
Licensed Practical Nurse
Lake Country Health Services
09.2021 - 02.2022
Licensed Practical Nurse
Franciscan Woods
06.2021 - 09.2021
Herzing University
Licensed Practical Nurse Diploma from Nursing
2020.04 - 2021.04 (1 education.year_Label)
Nanny/Babysitter/Caregiver
Self-employed
10.2004 - 03.2020
Trainer/Quality Control Manager
Precise Underground Locating Company
01.2002 - 12.2003
Mindy DuchLPN/Lead Clinician