Sarah Nicholson
Amarillo,TX
Summary
Compassionate Registered Nurse with experience offering comprehensive patient care in outpatient environments. Works well with diverse patient populations and fosters trusting relationships to improve outcomes. Efficiently coordinate with healthcare professionals to advance patient care.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
REGISTERED NURSE / ADMISSION EVALUATION / BEHAVIORAL HEALTH
The Pavilion at Northwest Texas Healthcare System
12.2023 - Current
- Assess patient status
- Administer medications
- Monitor patient mental health
- Perform de-escalations and take downs as needed
- Assess for safety of patients and staff and take appropriate actions
- Monitor lab work and imaging as needed and report to physician as needed.
Pediatric Nurse
Children's Home Healthcare
10.2023 - Current
- Perform patient assessment
- Obtain vital signs as ordered
- Administer medications as ordered
- Perform therapies as ordered
- Perform personal patient care as ordered
- Communicate with parent, therapists, clinical supervisors, pharmacies, and physicians as needed
- Other duties as assigned.
Participant Nurse Manager
JAN WERNER ADULT DAY CARE CENTER
07.2023 - 10.2023
- Perform medical necessity assessments for pre-PACE enrollment
- Enter medical necessity documents to the TMHP website
- Perform clinic assessments, wound care, and pre-physician assessments
- Obtain vital signs, labs, and other specimens for testing as directed
- Perform 6 month and annual assessments
- Other duties as requested.
Nurse Care Manager
Included Health
08.2022 - 06.2023
- Enroll members in Connected Care Program (CCP)
- Contact members and conduct follow up assessments
- Educate members regarding various health conditions
- Educate members regarding current medications
- Offer referrals and expert opinions to members as appropriate
- Educate members regarding medical and behavioral health benefits
- Offer Doctor On Demand virtual primary and behavioral health care as appropriate
- Assist members with benefit navigation.
RN Case Manager Hospice
BSA Hospice of the Southwest
02.2022 - 08.2022
- Admit patients to hospice care post referral
- Assess and monitor patient status
- Administer medications and treatments as ordered
- Monitor and titrate medications per clinical guidelines
- Educate patients and families regarding hospice care
- Educate patients and families regarding the dying process
- Attend IDG meetings and report patient status.
RN Clinical Manager
HIGH PLAINS SENIOR CARE
08.2021 - 02.2022
- Review admissions, recertifications, discharges, and therapy documentation for accuracy
- Correct and initiate 485/POC for each admission and recertification
- Review and submit OASIS for processing
- Request visits and monitor number of visits allowed for certain insurance companies
- Maintain correct insurance information for patients
- Verify Medicare eligibility and verify information for accuracy
- Perform transfer OASIS for patients admitted to various inpatient facilities
- Communicate with patients, families, and insurance companies as needed
- Answer questions for patients, families, and field staff as needed
- Determine recertification or discharge status for each patient prior to end of episode
- Participate in on-call rotation as scheduled: triage phone calls and perform PRN visits as appropriate
- Participate in team meetings
- Assist other coworkers with their caseload as needed.
Field Nurse
BSA ComPassion Home Health Park Central
04.2021 - 08.2021
- Admit, discharge, and recertify patients using OASIS
- Perform skilled nurse visits including vital signs, assessment, wound care, teaching, and medication reconciliation.
Assistant Director of Nursing (ADON)
Prairie House Living Center
10.2020 - 04.2021
- Manage areas or programs to include carrying out, coordinating, or managing administrative functions and area or programs related to Nursing Services which may include departmental documentation or medical records, nursing supplies, ancillary supplies or services, facility QA, Care Plans, MDS, Infection Control Program, TILES, Restorative Care, Skin Care Program, Medicare, Special Restraint or Medication Programs, Light Duty or Safety Program, Staff Scheduling, Selection, Training, Orientation or related functions and such duties that may include supervision of other staff.
MDS Coordinator
Landmark of Amarillo
08.2020 - 10.2020
- Initiate care plans on new admissions
- Review care plans and update on current residents
- Assist with resident care as needed
- Assist with COVID-19 swabs as assigned
- Attend Standup and Stand Down meetings for updates
- Attend ITM on Thursdays with the providers and therapy to discuss residents and their care
- Enter PASRRs into SimpleLTC
- Enter restorative tasks into PointClickCare as assigned
- Assist with insurance updates as needed
- Help with MDS and learn assessments as assigned
- Other duties as assigned.
Alternate State Administrator/Alternate Supervising Nurse
Critical Nurse Staffing, LLC
05.2020 - 08.2020
- Maintain corporate plans such as emergency preparedness plan
- Maintain current contact information for community agencies in service areas
- Maintain and initiate relationships with community agencies in Amarillo area to develop relationships leading to possible patient admissions
- Supervise nurses and health aides in patient care
- Perform nursing visits and assessments as needed
- Follow up on leads, and assist with admissions
- Assist community outreach liaison with marketing as needed
- Other duties as assigned.
Staff RN
Amarillo Heart Group
06.2019 - 05.2020
- Assess and obtain clinically significant information from patients prior to seeing the physician
- Monitor vital signs and assess patient status
- Assist physician with visits and procedures as directed
- Refill medications as directed
- Return patient phone calls and triage symptoms appropriately
- Obtain medical records as appropriate
- Perform patient teaching for scheduled procedures
- Other duties as assigned.
RN Case Manager Home Health
Caprock Home Health Services
02.2019 - 06.2019
- Admit, recertify, and discharge patients using OASIS
- Perform skilled assessments of patients
- Perform patient teaching
- Collaborate with physical therapy, pharmacy, and other disciplines in patient care
- Perform wound care or intravenous infusions as directed
- Perform skilled nursing visits as directed
- On-call duties as directed.
Nurse Manager, PAMIO
TTUHSC CMHC
06.2016 - 01.2019
- Assess & monitor offender status
- Obtain vital signs & monitor status
- Notify provider as needed with abnormalities in vital signs
- Give medications as ordered & monitor for side effects
- Visually assess chainin offenders & chart appropriately
- Maintain current electronic charting
- Obtain fingerstick glucose, give insulin & monitor blood glucose as ordered
- Facilitate new employee orientation, including electronic health record training
- Maintain nursing schedules and facilitate leave requests
- Perform port flushes on offenders with port flushes
- Monitor offenders with pacemakers and facilitate clinics for interrogations
- Facilitate the cardiology clinic with the contracted physician
- Take administrative call and fill in for staff when necessary.
RN Unit Manager
Baptist Community Services
06.2015 - 06.2016
- Monitor resident status
- Assist with medication administration as needed
- Assist with wound care and management as needed
- Assist with admissions and discharges
- Complete admissions and discharges
- Give medications and monitor residents
- Call physician as needed with resident changes
- Monitor lab work and vital signs.
Staff RN
Nursefinders
11.2012 - 05.2016
- Travel to various sites as directed
- Assess and reassess patient status
- Give medications as ordered
- Obtain and monitor vital signs
- Monitor and order lab work
- Monitor diagnostic testing
- Contact physician for orders as necessary.
Contract RN
Lifeplans Inc
04.2014 - 12.2015
- Complete assessments for insurance companies such as post hospital assessments and cognitive assessments, in order to assist with benefit determination & identifying health issues.
RN Charge Nurse
Allegiance Behavioral Health
05.2015 - 06.2015
- Assess & reassess patient status
- Monitor vital signs & lab work
- Assist & direct mental health technicians with direct patient care
- Assist & monitor LVN during medication administration
- Contact physician with behavioral changes or patient issues.
Staff RN
Fresenius Medical Care
07.2012 - 11.2012
- Assess and reassess patient status
- Initiate and terminate dialysis treatments
- Monitor vital signs
- Administer medications as ordered
- Monitor lab work and draw labs as ordered.
Staff RN
Pampa Regional Medical Center
08.2011 - 07.2012
- Assess and reassess patient status
- Administer medications as ordered
- Monitor vital signs
- Enter orders for appropriate lab work and diagnostic testing as ordered.
Education
Bachelor's in Nursing -
Colorado Technical University
05.2019
Associate in Nursing -
Amarillo College
05.2011
Skills
- Behavioral Health
- EMR Systems
- Medical Office Experience
- Typing
- Windows
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Excel
- Order Entry
- Triage
- Infection Control Training
- Employee Orientation
- Phlebotomy
- Medical Records
- Google Suite
- Research
- Google Docs
- Documentation Review
- ICD-10
- Supervising Experience
- Customer Service
- Specimen Collection / Processing
- Medication and IV administration
- Direct Patient Care
- Patient Assessments
- Documentation and Charting
- Strong Clinical Judgment
- Patient education and counseling
- Patient and family advocacy
- Patient care planning
- Family Education
Certification
- BLS Certification, 01/01/25
- RN, TX 803032, 01/01/25
- RN, MI 4704396816, 02/01/25
- RN, CA 95326907, 11/01/25
- RN, NY 860453, 11/01/25
Timeline
REGISTERED NURSE / ADMISSION EVALUATION / BEHAVIORAL HEALTH
The Pavilion at Northwest Texas Healthcare System
12.2023 - Current
Pediatric Nurse
Children's Home Healthcare
10.2023 - Current
Participant Nurse Manager
JAN WERNER ADULT DAY CARE CENTER
07.2023 - 10.2023
Nurse Care Manager
Included Health
08.2022 - 06.2023
RN Case Manager Hospice
BSA Hospice of the Southwest
02.2022 - 08.2022
RN Clinical Manager
HIGH PLAINS SENIOR CARE
08.2021 - 02.2022
Field Nurse
BSA ComPassion Home Health Park Central
04.2021 - 08.2021
Assistant Director of Nursing (ADON)
Prairie House Living Center
10.2020 - 04.2021
MDS Coordinator
Landmark of Amarillo
08.2020 - 10.2020
Alternate State Administrator/Alternate Supervising Nurse
Critical Nurse Staffing, LLC
05.2020 - 08.2020
Staff RN
Amarillo Heart Group
06.2019 - 05.2020
RN Case Manager Home Health
Caprock Home Health Services
02.2019 - 06.2019
Nurse Manager, PAMIO
TTUHSC CMHC
06.2016 - 01.2019
RN Unit Manager
Baptist Community Services
06.2015 - 06.2016
RN Charge Nurse
Allegiance Behavioral Health
05.2015 - 06.2015
Contract RN
Lifeplans Inc
04.2014 - 12.2015
Staff RN
Nursefinders
11.2012 - 05.2016
Staff RN
Fresenius Medical Care
07.2012 - 11.2012
Staff RN
Pampa Regional Medical Center
08.2011 - 07.2012
Bachelor's in Nursing -
Colorado Technical University
Associate in Nursing -
Amarillo College
- BLS Certification, 01/01/25
- RN, TX 803032, 01/01/25
- RN, MI 4704396816, 02/01/25
- RN, CA 95326907, 11/01/25
- RN, NY 860453, 11/01/25
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