SANDRA FEILEN
Carver,MA
Summary
Highly trained LPN with strong clinical abilities and a successful career in both Long Term care and Home care facilities. Proactive and organized with passionate commitment to first-rate patient care. Licensed in MN with expertise in Nursing. Three years of fast paced Emergency Room experience
Overview
24
24
years of professional experience
Work History
LPN
GLC
California
11.2023 - Current
- Utilized time management skills to prioritize tasks effectively, allowing for efficient completion of daily responsibilities.
- Maintained accurate documentation of all relevant clinical data, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards.
- Implemented infection control measures, ensuring a clean and safe environment for patients and staff.
- Managed patient care through closely monitoring respiration, blood pressure, and blood glucose levels.
- Administered controlled narcotics, inserted IVs, and performed catheterizations.
- Obtained patient vital signs and input/output measurements from inpatients.
- Assisted with admissions, appointments, transfers, and discharges.
- Performed wound care treatments using sterile techniques, promoting healing and preventing complications.
- Adhered to treatment plan instructions when administering medications and treatments to patients.
- Improved patient outcomes by providing high-quality nursing care and closely monitoring vital signs.
- Cared for wounds, provided treatments, and assisted with procedures.
- Reduced medication errors by accurately administering medications and diligently verifying patient information.
LPN Charge Nurse
Ascendo
Florida
06.2023 - 11.2023
- Assessed patients' temperature, pulse, and blood pressure and recorded in electronic medical records.
- Delegated tasks effectively, optimizing staff productivity and maintaining a well-organized nursing unit.
- Assembled and used equipment such as catheters, tracheotomy tubes, or oxygen suppliers to effectively manage patient care.
- Utilized critical thinking skills to make sound clinical decisions in high-pressure situations, minimizing risks and ensuring patient safety.
- Analyzed patient assessments and laboratory data to bring any issues to attention of physicians.
- Served as charge nurse, caring for patients with serious illnesses.
- Provided compassionate end-of-life care, supporting patients and their families through difficult times.
- Documented vitals and medical histories in patient charts when assessing patients and communicated patient information to physicians and other nurses for care continuity.
- Promoted continuity of care by thoroughly documenting shift-to-shift communication in nursing reports.
- Promoted patient independence by teaching self-care skills and explaining conditions and medications.
- Managed complex wound care cases, applying advanced knowledge of wound healing principles to achieve optimal results.
- Developed strong relationships with patients'' families, keeping them informed of progress reports and collaborating on decisions regarding their loved ones'' healthcare plans.
- Assisted physicians during procedures, demonstrating strong clinical knowledge and attention to detail for successful outcomes.
- Maintained accurate medical records in accordance with established protocols, ensuring confidentiality of sensitive information at all times.
- Managed daily staff assignments and patient scheduling to guarantee clinic coverage and flow.
LPN
Maximum
Florida
06.2022 - 06.2023
- Utilized time management skills to prioritize tasks effectively, allowing for efficient completion of daily responsibilities.
- Maintained accurate documentation of all relevant clinical data, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards.
- Implemented infection control measures, ensuring a clean and safe environment for patients and staff.
- Managed patient care through closely monitoring respiration, blood pressure, and blood glucose levels.
- Prior auth
- Case management
LPN
Fairview Home Care and Hospice
Minneapolis, MN
07.2016 - 06.2022
- Observe patients, charting and reporting changes in patients' conditions, such as adverse reactions to medication or treatment, and taking any necessary action
- Provide basic patient care or treatments, such as taking temperatures or blood pressures, dressing wounds, treating bedsores, changing catheter and colostomy cares
- Measure and record patients' vital signs, such as height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, pulse, and respiration
- Work as part of a healthcare team to assess patient needs, plan and modify care, and implement interventions
- Collect samples, such as blood, urine, or sputum from patients, and perform routine laboratory tests on samples.
- Maintained accurate documentation of all relevant clinical data, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards.
- Adhered to treatment plan instructions when administering medications and treatments to patients.
LPN
Allina Health Home Oxygen & Medical Equipment
Saint Paul, MN
12.2014 - 07.2016
- Observe patients, charting and reporting changes in patients' conditions, such as adverse reactions to medication or treatment, and taking any necessary action
- Provide basic patient care or treatments, such as taking temperatures or blood pressures, dressing wounds, treating bedsores, Catheter and colostomy changes and cares, med machine set up
- Measure and record patients' vital signs, such as height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, pulse, and respiration
- Work as part of a healthcare team to assess patient needs, plan and modify care, and implement interventions.
LPN
Integrated Home Care
Saint Paul, MN
03.2008 - 12.2014
- Observe patients, charting and reporting changes in patients' conditions, such as adverse reactions to medication or treatment, and taking any necessary action
- Provide basic patient care or treatments, such as taking temperatures or blood pressures, dressing wounds, treating bedsores, complicated wound cares with wound vac system
- Measure and record patients' vital signs, such as height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, pulse, and respiration
- Work as part of a healthcare team to assess patient needs, plan and modify care, and implement interventions
- Collect samples, such as blood, urine, or sputum from patients, and perform routine laboratory tests on samples.
LPN
Southview Acres Health Care Center
West Saint Paul, MN
01.2000 - 02.2004
- Administer prescribed medications or start intravenous fluids, noting times and amounts on patients' charts
- Observe patients, charting and reporting changes in patients' conditions, such as adverse reactions to medication or treatment, and taking any necessary action
- Provide basic patient care or treatments, such as taking temperatures or blood pressures, dressing wounds, treating bedsores, giving enemas or douches, rubbing with alcohol, massaging, or performing catheterizations
- Answer patients' calls and determine how to assist them
- Measure and record patients' vital signs, such as height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, pulse, and respiration
- Work as part of a healthcare team to assess patient needs, plan and modify care, and implement interventions
- Collect samples, such as blood, urine, or sputum from patients, and perform routine laboratory tests on samples
- Supervise nurses' aides or assistants
- Evaluate nursing intervention outcomes, conferring with other healthcare team members as necessary
- Record food and fluid intake and output.
Education
Nursing -
Dakota County Technical College
Rosemount, MNHigh School Diploma -
Fairfax High School
Fairfax, VASkills
- Time Management
- Education and Training
- Computers and Electronics Troubleshooting
- Medicine
- Phlebotomist
- Vital signs monitoring
- Medical Documentation
- Geriatric Nursing
- Catheter Care
- Tracheostomy Care
- Compassionate Care
- Diabetes management
- End of life care
- Rehabilitation Nursing
- Home healthcare
- Neurological care
- Cardiac Care
- Vital signs
- Wound Care
- HIPAA Compliance
- Documenting intake
- Caregiving skills
- Patient relationship building
- Patient evaluations
- Care Planning
- Geriatric Care
- Preventive Care
- Epic Systems
- Medical Paperwork Processing
- Quality Assessments
- Nursing Intervention Evaluations
- Wound Dressing and Suturing
Timeline
LPN
GLC
11.2023 - Current
LPN Charge Nurse
Ascendo
06.2023 - 11.2023
LPN
Maximum
06.2022 - 06.2023
LPN
Fairview Home Care and Hospice
07.2016 - 06.2022
LPN
Allina Health Home Oxygen & Medical Equipment
12.2014 - 07.2016
LPN
Integrated Home Care
03.2008 - 12.2014
LPN
Southview Acres Health Care Center
01.2000 - 02.2004
Nursing -
Dakota County Technical College
High School Diploma -
Fairfax High School