Scarlet VanZandt
Winters,TX
Summary
Compassionate LVN with nearly 20 years expertise in patient assessments, wound care, documentation, pain management, patient care, including end-of-life care. Committed to delivering high-quality care and enhancing patient comfort in collaboration with interdisciplinary teams. Proven ability to assess patient needs and implement effective interventions, ensuring patient centered care, in long-term healthcare settings.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
Work History
LVN Floor Nurse
Bronte Health And Rehab Center
Bronte, TX
10.2024 - Current
- Demonstrated strong clinical judgment when assessing patients, prioritizing needs, and initiating appropriate interventions.
- Monitored patient vital signs to identify changes in condition.
- Administered medications and treatments according to established protocols.
- Managed patient care through closely monitoring respiration, blood pressure, and blood glucose levels.
- Take lab samples to complete diagnostic and routine assessments.
- Use aseptic techniques to provide sterilized wound care and dressing applications.
- Evaluate patients to identify and address wounds, behavioral concerns, and medically relevant symptoms.
- Evaluate patient histories, complaints, and current symptoms.
- Collaborate with various hospice teams to care for hospice residents in long-term care setting, ensuring comfort, quality of life , administering prescribed medications, communicating when/if change of condition occurs.
- Maintain accurate documentation of patients'' conditions, progress, and care interventions for informed decision-making among healthcare professionals.
- Collaborate with interdisciplinary team to address residents' needs through effective intervention and care planning.
LVN Floor Nurse
Shift Key
San Antonio, TX
03.2021 - Current
- Collect and documented vital signs to maintain current records of patients' conditions, as well as monitoring for change of condition
- Communicate effectively with patients and family members to convey important instructions and discuss treatments.
- Demonstrated strong clinical judgment when assessing patients, prioritizing needs, and initiating appropriate interventions.
- Administer basic patient care and treatments by dressing wounds, treating bedsores, giving enemas and performing catheterizations.
- Improve patient satisfaction scores by consistently delivering compassionate, high-quality care tailored to individual needs.
- Manage medication cart and dispensed pills, oral therapies and intramuscular injections to patients on long term care halls as well as SNF halls.
- Exhibit excellent communication skills when interacting with diverse populations of patients across various age groups.
- Provide care for hospice patients in long term care facilities. Assessing their needs, communicating with their hospice care team. Administer medications as need as well as education for the patient and their families.
LVN Floor Nurse
North Runnels Healthcare and Rehab
Winters, TX
01.2024 - 09.2024
- Administered medications and treatments according to established protocols.
- Monitored patient vital signs to identify changes in condition.
- Documented patient care activities in electronic health record systems.
- Collaborated with healthcare teams to develop individualized care plans.
- Prevented medication errors by meticulously reviewing physician orders and administering medications as prescribed.
- Managed patient care through closely monitoring respiration, blood pressure, and blood glucose levels.
- Took samples to complete diagnostic and routine assessment tests.
- Used aseptic techniques to provide sterilized wound care and dressing applications.
LVN Charge Nurse and Wound Care Nurse
Legend Oaks/Senior Care Centers/Caraday
San Angelo, TX
05.2007 - 12.2020
- Supervised nursing staff to ensure high-quality patient care and adherence to protocols.
- Developed and implemented individualized patient care plans based on assessments and needs related to wound care.
- Trained and mentored new hire nurses in best practices and compliance standards.
- Supervised nursing staff to ensure compliance with wound care standards and protocols.
- Developed and implemented patient care plans based on wound and skin care needs.
- Collaborated with interdisciplinary teams to to carry out successful treatment plans, for acute, chronic, or terminal conditions, as well as performing effective communication with patients, families, and physicians, to enhance overall outcomes.
- Promoted continuity of care by maintaining medical documentation on patients' vitals, behaviors, and conditions , and updating physicians on patients' condition.
- Administered medications and treatments, and monitored patient responses effectively.
- Provided excellent wound care management, cared for wounds, provided treatments, used aseptic and sterile techniques to enhance wound healing.
- Collaborated with various hospice providers to provide excellent end of life care. Providing comfort medications in a timely manor. Effectively communicating changes of condition with the patient to the family and to the hospice care team, Ensuring patient's comfort is priority.
Education
Nursing
Howard Junior College
San Angelo, TX05-2007
No Degree - Psychology
Angelo State University
San Angelo, TXSkills
- Compassionate care
- Catheter care
- HIPAA compliance
- Geriatric care
- Preventative care
- IV care
- Wound Care
- Clinical documentation
- Patient assessments
- End-of-life care
- Pain management
- Direct patient care
Timeline
LVN Floor Nurse
Bronte Health And Rehab Center
10.2024 - Current
LVN Floor Nurse
North Runnels Healthcare and Rehab
01.2024 - 09.2024
LVN Floor Nurse
Shift Key
03.2021 - Current
LVN Charge Nurse and Wound Care Nurse
Legend Oaks/Senior Care Centers/Caraday
05.2007 - 12.2020
Nursing
Howard Junior College
No Degree - Psychology
Angelo State University