Rhonda Pieprzyca
Registered Nurse
Hobson,Texas
Summary
Dedicated and compassionate Registered Nurse (RN) with progressive career history in direct patient care, triage and care coordination in fast-paced environment. Proven to remain calm under pressure and skillfully handle difficult patients and high-stress situations. Consistently developing strong relationships with patients and families through empathetic communication, respectful attitude and excellent customer service.
Overview
37
37
years of professional experience
5985
5985
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
Work History
Registered Nurse
Thrive Skilled Pediatric Care
08.2024 - Current
- Responsible for daily home health visits in the patient’s home
Registered Nurse
Exclusive Home Health and Hospice
06.2023 - 08.2024
- Responsible for daily home health visits in the patient’s home
- Assessed patient’s homebound status and need for home health care
- Admitted new patients, discharged patients when goals were met and resumptions of care after hospitalizations; completed OASIS assessments
- Responsible for skilled nurse visits for skilled assessment, teaching on medication and pain management, and disease process
- Administered IV medications, started IV’s, maintained midline catheters and PICC lines including weekly dressing changes
- Performed wound care as ordered by MD
- Communicated with the MD on a regular basis with any updates on patients and any abnormal findings
- Responsible for teaching and monitoring patient’s chronic care illnesses
Registered Nurse
The GEO Group
09.2014 - 06.2023
- Staff Nurse Duties: Responsible for intake screening, administering medications, communication with and carrying out doctor’s orders, providing nursing care to residents/detainees in our walk-in clinic as well as in our short stay unit, responding to medical emergencies, stabilization of resident/detainee and sending residents/detainees to the emergency room as necessary
- Collateral Duty: Responsible for our in-house pharmacy; ensuring prescription stock medications and patient specific medications were ordered and returning expired medication
- Communicated with Correct RX staff in obtaining non-formulary medications that may be needed; ensured the emergency stock box was maintained and checked monthly
- Admin Nurse Duties: Responsible for maintaining audit binders, updating local operations procedures, training and daily schedules for nurses, overseeing the Texas Vaccine for Children Program and vaccine clinic including sending monthly immunization reports to the state, making sure CPR and nursing licenses were up to date
- Responsible for all chronic care chart audits and ensuring all chronic care orders were carried out
- Also, responsible for reporting all suspected TB cases to the health department, sending sputum to the state lab and ensuring all health department recommendations were carried out
- Responsible for submitting MedPAR's (insurance authorizations) for labs, x-rays, ER visits, hospitalizations, and ambulance services; ensuring the accuracy and numbers of intake chest x-rays and miscellaneous x-rays done on a daily basis
Registered Nurse
Detar North
01.2006 - 01.2014
- Responsible for teaching and providing nursing care to newly delivered mothers and their babies
- Responsible for providing nursing care to infants on oxyhoods, nasal CPAP, high flow nasal cannulas
- Responsible for providing nursing care to infants with PIV's, PICC, UVC/UAC lines
- Responsible for providing nursing care to premature and other sick infants
- Responsible for nursing care of women with hysterectomies and other surgeries
Licensed Vocational Nurse
Floresville Primary School
01.1998 - 01.2006
- Responsible for approximately 500 first and second graders' health care needs, including assessments, medication administration and first aid
- Performed vision and hearing checks
- Referred and followed-up on students that did not pass their exams
- Assisted parents and students in outside referrals
- Responsible for making sure all students were up to date on their immunizations and making appropriate referrals for immunizations if needed
- Made reports to Child Protective Services as needed
- Parents referred to social services as needed
- Responsible for collecting data on my students for the annual immunization and vision and hearing state reports
- Continuous communication with parents regarding their child's health and health care needs
- Part of two-person team responsible for programming Immunization criteria used by the school district
- Proficient using Pentamation computer program for Immunization reports
Licensed Vocational Nurse
Medically Dependent Children’s Program
01.1997 - 01.2001
- Provided nursing and respite care for a child with spina bifida
Licensed Vocational Nurse
Wilson Memorial Home Health
01.1995 - 01.1997
- Scheduled visits between patients and nurses
- Quality Assurance
- Pediatric home health visits
- Communicated with patients/concerned family members
- Computer skills
Licensed Vocational Nurse
Women, Infants and Children’s Program (WIC)
01.1994 - 01.1995
- Assessed pregnant/postpartum women, infants and children's heights, weights, and hematocrits
- Depending on assessment results, clients were counseled on their diets, height and weight and other health related issues
Licensed Vocational Nurse
Southwest Texas Methodist Hospital
01.1988 - 01.1993
- Responsible for assessment and care of 15 newborn babies
- Responsible for noting and implementing doctor's orders
- Responsible for teaching new parents baby care and feeding
- Neonatal resuscitation/NICU experience
Education
Associate Degree in Nursing - Nursing
Victoria College
Victoria, TXLicensed Vocational Nurse - Nursing
Bee County College
Beeville, TXHigh School Diploma -
Tomball High School
Tomball, TXGeneral Curriculum - Biology
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 08.1986 - 05.1987
Skills
Patient management
Care planning
Chronic care
Pediatric/NICU care
Excellent computer skills
Medication and IV administration
Wound care
Certification
CPR
Timeline
Registered Nurse
Thrive Skilled Pediatric Care
08.2024 - Current
Registered Nurse
Exclusive Home Health and Hospice
06.2023 - 08.2024
Registered Nurse
The GEO Group
09.2014 - 06.2023
Registered Nurse
Detar North
01.2006 - 01.2014
Licensed Vocational Nurse
Floresville Primary School
01.1998 - 01.2006
Licensed Vocational Nurse
Medically Dependent Children’s Program
01.1997 - 01.2001
Licensed Vocational Nurse
Wilson Memorial Home Health
01.1995 - 01.1997
Licensed Vocational Nurse
Women, Infants and Children’s Program (WIC)
01.1994 - 01.1995
Licensed Vocational Nurse
Southwest Texas Methodist Hospital
01.1988 - 01.1993
General Curriculum - Biology
Texas A&M University
08.1986 - 05.1987
CPR
Associate Degree in Nursing - Nursing
Victoria College
Licensed Vocational Nurse - Nursing
Bee County College
High School Diploma -
Tomball High School
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