Sandra Arthur

• Assessed patients' temperature, pulse, and blood pressure and recorded in electronic medical records.
• Monitored, tracked, and conveyed important patient information to healthcare staff to help optimize treatment planning and care delivery.
• Worked with multidisciplinary team to carry out successful treatment plans for diverse acute and chronic conditions.
• Educated patients and caregivers on medical diagnoses, treatment options, chronic disease self-management and wound management.

Started nursing career in 1996 at Larkin Chase in Bowie, Maryland, then moved to Westminster, Maryland in 2007 and worked at Golden Living Center for 6 years before transitioning to Lorien of Taneytown as floor nurse, providing as-needed nursing coverage to support patient care needs.

Provided floor nursing care for 20 to 26 patients as charge nurse, administering oral, transdermal, sublingual, intravenous, gastro tube, and other prescribed medications.

• Advanced into 3-11 supervisor role in 2015, supervising staff, residents, and families within 60-bed rehab skilled nursing unit and 3-floor assisted living setting.
• Participated in care plan meetings and admissions, communicated with physicians, clients, family members, and friends, ordered labs, reported results to physicians, and assisted with weekly wound rounds and MDS data collection.
• Coordinated aide staffing to enhance patient safety and facilitate daily living activities and treatments, including wound care and indwelling catheter services.
• Supported facility operations during COVID by managing testing protocols, interpreting results, and implementing patient isolation measures.
• Transitioned from Lorien to Amedisys in 2024 for change of pace in home health care.
• Advocated for home health by contacting physicians for lab orders to prevent or treat infections; performed blood draws, collected urine specimens, and managed wound care.
• Completed 31-hour self-paced skin and wound management training and preparation for exam.
• drawing blood and obtaining urine specimens and wound care management
• - Completed 31-hour self-paced skin and wound management training ; preparing for exam.

• Collaborated with interdisciplinary team of healthcare and social service providers to address patients' needs through effective intervention and care planning.
• Gathered lab specimens, ordered testing, and interpreted results to diagnose patients.
• Comforted and counseled patients and families throughout care process.
• Obtained patient vital signs and input/output measurements from inpatients.
• Administered controlled narcotics, inserted IVs, and performed catheterizations.
• Assisted with admissions, appointments, transfers, and discharges.
• Monitored, tracked, and conveyed important patient information to healthcare staff to help optimize treatment planning and care delivery.
• Delivered updates in patient status to charge nurse, recording changes in medical records.
• Assessed patients' temperature, pulse, and blood pressure and recorded in electronic medical records.