Rachel Pulis
Walled Lake,MI
Summary
Experienced RN with over a decade of experience in providing high quality, compassionate skilled and long term care nursing seeking to diversify her nursing career. Excellent grammar and typing skills, meticulous attention to details, and strong patient assessment skills that will be an asset to a health care team. Ready for a new opportunity to apply nursing skills in a different environment and build successful patient-nurse relationships.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
Work History
Registered Nurse
Continuing Care, Fox Run
Novi, MI
11.2009 - Current
- Charge nurse in a nursing home/skilled rehab facility
- Job description includes various roles, including, but not limited to:
- Collaborating with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment, while managing rapidly changing conditions
- Meticulously monitoring patients' vital signs and reporting abnormal values to providers
- Medication administration (including via IVs, PICC lines, peg tubes, and SQ and IM injections) according to state guidelines
- Central line management (monitoring for s/s infection/displacement, patency, and performing sterile dressing changes, per protocol )
- Wound care (including wound vacs, pressure ulcers, and surgical incisions) and implementing personalized pressure ulcer prevention protocols
- Blood draws (as needed)/specimen collections
- Catheter insertions/intermittent straight catheterization
- Supervising CNAs (holding them accountable for ADLs/quality, compassionate patient care and delegating assignments)
- Assisting CNAs with ADLs
- Admitting new residents, per protocol
- Discharging residents to home, including educating residents related to their diagnosis to promote optimal health outcomes upon discharge
- Performing holistic assessments of residents with respect and caring
- Acting as a patient advocate/ promptly reporting clinical changes to NP/MD, as warranted
- Skillfully utilizing nursing process to assess, plan, intervene, and evaluate patient care
- Consulting and coordinating care with healthcare team members (such as dietician, social worker, nurse manager, and PT/OT/ST) to provide excellent patient care
- Documenting comprehensively, focusing on patient diagnosis, with excellent grammar and typing skills
- Managing quality care of post-op patients and those with conditions such as Covid, end-stage renal disease, congestive heart failure, diabetes, cerebral vascular accidents
- Ordering diagnostic exams such as x-rays, EKGs, echocardiograms, and venous dopplers, as warranted, per nursing assessments and under provider's directives
- Training new nurses in proper techniques, care standards, operational procedures and safety protocols
Fox Run Village
Novi, MI
03.2004 - 10.2009
- Fine dining server
- Dining room set up
- Dining room clean up
Education
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Grand Valley State University
Skills
- Hospice care
- Medication administration
- EMR systems
- Caregiving
- Phlebotomy
- Vital Signs
- Patient Care
- Computer Skills
- Administering Injections
Award
- Shining Star Award December 2016
- An award presented "for outstanding service and dedication to the residents and staff of Fox Run."
Timeline
Registered Nurse
Continuing Care, Fox Run
11.2009 - Current
Fox Run Village
03.2004 - 10.2009
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Grand Valley State University
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