Mindy Duch
Jackson,WI
Summary
Diligent and detail-oriented Licensed Practical Nurse offering several years of experience preparing patients for procedures. Skilled at coordinating supplies, preparing fields and maintaining aseptic conditions. Knowledgeable about HIPAA requirements and industry standards. Works well in fast-paced, stressful environments.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Recovery Technician
Lion’s Eye Bank of Wisconsin
Madison, WI
03.2025 - Current
- Documented recovery processes accurately for compliance purposes.
- Participated in regular team meetings to discuss workflow improvements.
- Obtains adequate blood samples (pre- and/or post-mortem) for infectious disease testing.
- Adheres to any Coroner/ME requests or restrictions while ensuring LEBW’s Standard Operating Procedures are followed. Communicates any concerns from the Coroner/ME personnel to the Administrator on Call, or Quality Systems.
- Performs donor restoration.
- Packages tissue, blood samples, and documentation for transport.
- Provides transport of the transfer tissue, blood samples, and documentation to Lions Transporter drop-off, or other locations, as needed.
- Obtain patient medical records as required.
- Ensures effective and positive communications are maintained with hospital staff, ME/Coroners, tissue banks, OPOs, and funeral homes.
- Assists Quality Systems in the conduct of periodic internal audits, and assists Community Outreach and Hospital Development with projects and training.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
- Performs recovery of ocular tissue from donors.
- Prepared and maintained recovery kits for efficient operation.
- Documented recovery details accurately in patient records and databases.
Lead Licensed Practical Nurse
Sonobello Milwaukee
Milwaukee, WI
07.2023 - 03.2025
- Clinical Team Lead, driving an effective and efficient daily flow, managing quality care, while maintaining the 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.
- Maintaining quality assurance and quality improvement, along with all responsibility for QA/QI reporting and adherence to AAAHC guidelines.
- Assigning training guides for new hires, following up with onboarding, and ensuring new hire success, while having weekly touch-bases with them to be sure their needs are being met.
- Achieved a 20% increase in patient satisfaction by enhancing communication protocols.
- Raised team productivity by 20% by optimizing scheduling and resource allocation.
- Executed remarkable dexterity in assembling and monitoring tools to be used during surgical procedures.
- Used hemostatic clamps, suture ligatures, and electrocautery equipment to control bleeding.
- Managed and maintained surgical suites by sterilizing and organizing equipment.
- Provided surgical support to help the surgeon execute safe operations and procedures, resulting in positive patient outcomes.
- Used retractors, sponges, and suctioning and irrigating equipment to create unobstructed operating fields.
- Set up equipment, tools, and supplies for procedures, and organize instruments as directed in surgeons' preference cards.
- Exhibited confidence to work extremely well under pressure and with a variety of physicians of different temperaments.
- Follows complex, comprehensive verbal, and written instructions.
- Spearheaded training to instruct assistants and surgeons on innovative procedures and techniques.
- Sanitized and maintained surgical instruments and equipment to minimize infection risks.
- Pursued numerous learning opportunities in order to continuously expand core knowledge associated with surgical and technical procedures, to advance patient care.
Licensed Practical Nurse
Sonobello Milwaukee
Milwaukee, WI
02.2022 - 06.2023
- 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 preoperative and post-operative visits.
- Exhibits strong clinical judgment regarding wound assessment, including signs and symptoms of infection, bleeding, and proper healing.
- Can demonstrate a thorough knowledge of opening sterile supplies and setting up the operating room for sterile procedures.
- Physiologically monitor and document patient responses and physical symptoms.
- Able to demonstrate knowledge of surgical and medical instruments, and able to assist rotating surgeons as a surgical tech.
- Counseling patients on nutritional and medical weight loss.
- Showed the ability to manage pre-operative and post-operative care effectively.
Licensed Practical Nurse
Lake Country Health Services
Oconomowoc, WI
09.2021 - 02.2022
- Continuous patient care in the LTC unit, adeptly handling all aspects of treatment, including medication administration, wound care, treatments, and monitoring for 20 to 30 patients.
- Oversaw clinical and support staff in patient care activities, while maintaining a high level of professionalism.
- Closely monitoring acute conditions in a busy rehab unit.
- Counsel patients and families to provide education, so they may obtain optimal function, health, and adapt to an altered lifestyle.
- Provide end-of-life care.
- Work on the Covid-19 Unit as needed during outbreak status to ensure proper infection control procedures during any unit lockdown.
Licensed Practical Nurse
Franciscan Woods - Brookfield
Brookfield, WI
06.2021 - 09.2021
- Oversaw the LTC floor with 20 to 30 patients.
- Applied learned skills for medication administration, wound care, and treatment of conditions.
- Monitored COVID-19 patients.
- Identified and ordered appropriate lab tests.
- Operated as part of a multidisciplinary team, and coordinated patient care and team activities.
- Provide end-of-life care.
Education
Diploma - Practical Nursing
Herzing University
Brookfield, WI04.2021
Skills
- Surgical assistance for over four years
- Process improvement
- Attention to detail
- Training and onboarding
- Specimen processing
- Surgical instrumentation
Certification
- ACLS Certified
- BLS Certified
- IV Certified
- Multi State Licensed Practical Nurse Licence
Accomplishments
- Led clinical team achieving 95% patient satisfaction rate in 2023.
- Successfully trained 15+ new hires in clinical procedures and operations.
- Improved surgery room turnover by 30% reducing wait times for patients.
- Managed 30+ patients per shift ensuring 100% compliance with health protocols.
- Improved a dysfunctional environment by clarifying roles, open communication, appreciating diversity, and balancing the team's focus for our common goal.
Timeline
Recovery Technician
Lion’s Eye Bank of Wisconsin
03.2025 - Current
Lead Licensed Practical Nurse
Sonobello Milwaukee
07.2023 - 03.2025
Licensed Practical Nurse
Sonobello Milwaukee
02.2022 - 06.2023
Licensed Practical Nurse
Lake Country Health Services
09.2021 - 02.2022
Licensed Practical Nurse
Franciscan Woods - Brookfield
06.2021 - 09.2021
Diploma - Practical Nursing
Herzing University
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