Nancy Grant
Saint Ignatius,MT
Summary
Proficient and caring nursing team member offering outstanding patient-facing experience. 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.
Overview
33
33
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
LPN Diabetes Nurse
CSKT Tribal Health
Saint Ignatius, MT
07.1989 - Current
- Monitored, tracked, and conveyed important patient information to healthcare staff to help optimize treatment planning and care delivery.
- Managed patient care by closely monitoring respiration, blood pressure, and blood glucose levels.
- Educated patients and caregivers on medical diagnoses, treatment options, chronic disease self-management, and wound management.
- Made valuable contributions to care-plan development and patient education processes backed by thorough research into client diagnoses.
- Documented accurate and complete patient information to address patient problems and expected outcomes.
- Monitored and tracked patient vitals in health care systems to keep team informed of changing conditions.
- Performed routine evaluations of each patient's status, needs, and preferences.
- Minimized staff and patient infection risk by cleaning and disinfecting equipment instruments.
- Answered incoming phone calls from patients to provide essential assistance and triage medical concerns.
- Comforted and counseled patients and families throughout the care process.
Education
LPN Certificate - Nursing
Missoula Vo-Tech
Missoula, MT12.1987
Skills
- Maintain diabetes registry for IHS RPMS and MT DM/DQCMS
- Data Entry RPMs
- Yearly chart audits for IHS DM grant and reported data
- Provides foot care clinics
- Provides diabetes education
- Ordering and Stocking Diabetes supplies for DM program
- Assist RD/CDE
- Lifestyle coach for diabetes program
- Needs Assessment
- Call Answering and Assistance
- Critical Thinking
- Responsible and Dependable
- Sterilization and Sanitation
Accomplishments
Served as a community health representative: provided outreach to prenatal clients for education and referrals to available resources for healthy pregnancy outcomes.
Assisted in well-child clinics for children in the WIC program.
Utilization and quality assurance nurse: Worked with surgery review and referral team.
Acquired medical information from referring medical professionals for surgery and medical procedures to be reviewed by medical advisor at tribal health.
Diabetes program nurse: provided health care checks and education for a diverse population.
Performed blood pressure tests and blood screening for community health outreach programs.
Provided a wide range of services, including scheduling clinic, and served as a clinic nurse for Dr. Ruth Sampson MD-Endocrinologist and DR. Nebauer-Podiatrist
Clinica nurse on call for tribal health clinics as needed.
Certification
Nurse Aid Training
Lake County Hospitals Regulation Training
IHS-CHR training
IHS Basic Information Technology
Lifestyle Coach Training in Diabetes Prevention\
CPR First aid Training
HIPAA Training
Health Steam training
Timeline
LPN Diabetes Nurse
CSKT Tribal Health
07.1989 - Current
LPN Certificate - Nursing
Missoula Vo-Tech
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