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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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