Romona Hinojosa
Pixley,CA
Summary
Passionate LVN with commitment to supporting clients in all aspects of cases. Excellent communication and relationship building skills with diverse audiences. Friendly and engaging with strong team collaboration abilities.
Highly-motivated employee with desire to take on new challenges. Strong work ethic, adaptability, and exceptional interpersonal skills. Adept at working effectively unsupervised and quickly mastering new skills.
Hardworking employee with multitasking, and time management abilities.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Discharge Advocate /Utilization Review Specialist
Kaweah health medical center
Visalia , CA
07.2017 - Current
- speak with family/patient about discharge planning
- collect basic information pertaining to patient's demographic sheet ( address, phone numbers, physicians etc)
- collect information pertaining to patient's home environment/assistance. What patient may need upon discharge pending progress of patients hospitalization.
- discussed rehabilitation options for patient (acute rehab, short stay rehab, home health services, sub acute, LTACS)
- arrange transportation for patient's for home ( Motivecare, price quotes if private pay, and utilize facility transportation for patient).
- schedule follow up appointments
- schedule specialist appointments
- work with team members to coordinate a safe discharge for patient's
- SNF placement, authorizations, and FOC for patient's and their family.
- work along the side of social workers, physicians, nurses, managers, palliative team, and peers
- worked the surgery schedule, verified insurance authorization present and correct for surgical cases. (day surgery, outpatient surgery that stay over night and inpatient surgeries.)
- obtained orders from NP to get medical equipment for patient's and have it delivered to patient/patient's home if safe to do so.
- complete reviews for patient's to justify the need for hospitalization and continued hospitalization.
- provide medicare letters, denials, and detailed notice of discharge.
- provide resources for family to make decisions for patient for their options ( Medicare.gov, IHSS information) Also reached out to Social workers and others for assistance when needed.
- communicate with all parties on a level that they will understand.
- speak with physicians about orders and needs of patient. Assisted with placing correct orders for physicians when given permission.
LVN /House Manager
Kelly and Scotts Care home
Delano And Porterville , CA
08.2005 - 07.2017
- normal house hold chores (cooking, cleaning, grocery shopping, and driving)
- cared for intellectually disabled residents ( come high functioning and able to ambulate to low functioning non ambulatory and nonverbal)
- transport patient to appointments, procedures, and specialist.
- communicate with families and transport patient's to visit their families.
- order medications from the pharmacy from the attending physicians orders.
- charted monthly notes pertaining to patient and everything that took place for them for the month ( appointment's, medication changes, etc).
- took patient's on outings to the store to make purchases, go recycling, or to the park to play games or enjoy the view. outings to the pumpkin patch and other holiday activities.
- changed indwelling foley catheters and gastrostomy tubes.
- did total patient care.
- assisted with documentation needed to obtain orders for physicians.
- verified order changes for Kelly to submit and make corrections
- spoke with house psychologist and assisted with notes that were needed.
- coordinated with staff and RN for patient care.
- administered medications to patient
Education
LVN Certification - Vocational Nursing
Porterville Community College
Porterville, CA 06-2005
High School Diploma -
Tulare Union High School
Tulare, CA06-2001
Skills
- CPR certified
- 1st aid certified
- mentorship/training
- able to type on computer well
- learn easily
- motivated
- punctual
- productive
Certification
- CPR certified
- 1st aid certified
- LVN VN 21995 state of Ca.
Timeline
Discharge Advocate /Utilization Review Specialist
Kaweah health medical center
07.2017 - Current
LVN /House Manager
Kelly and Scotts Care home
08.2005 - 07.2017
LVN Certification - Vocational Nursing
Porterville Community College
High School Diploma -
Tulare Union High School
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