Shera Rainer
Spring,TX
Summary
Vocational Nurse/Assessment/Charge Nurse/Wound Care/Strong Nurse with Excellent Patient Care, Leadership, task-efficient detail-oriented professional, whom thrives to use practical, safe, nursing judgment. Demonstrated strengths as a charge nurse, treatment nurse, as well as on call weekend manager. Consistently exceed expectations under high-pressure, fast-paced critical, nursing floor while delivering consistent, appropriate, patient care.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
HCA Healthcare Hospital
HCA Houston Healthcare Conroe
03.2023 - Current
- Interacted kindly with patients and families and displayed positive, outgoing attitude,
- Offered support for client mental and emotional needs to enhance physical outcomes and overall happiness.
- Monitored progress and documented patient health status changes to keep care team updated.
- Utilized universal precautions and infection control principles in all aspects of care.
- Administered medications via oral, IV, and intramuscular injections and monitored responses.
- Collaborated with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions.
- Administered medications and treatment to patients and monitored responses while working with healthcare teams to adjust care plans.
- Managed care from admission to discharge.
- Trained new nurses in proper techniques, care standards, operational procedures, and safety protocols.
- Updated patient charts with data such as medications to keep records current and support accurate treatments.
- Organized and managed care of patients undergoing various therapies and procedures.
- Collected blood, tissue, and other laboratory specimens and prepared for lab testing.
Independent Contractor
Maryland- Eastern Correctional Institute medium security
08.2021 - Current
- Provide care to inmates
- EKG
- Wound Care
- Work closely with MD’s
- IV administration
- Daily pharmacy Reconciliation
- Provide professional nursing care on secured lock down unit.
Agency Nurse (Med Surge)
Maxim Healthcare-Encompass &Memorial Hermann Hospital
11.2019 - Current
- Pfizer Vaccine Administration, observation, and patient teaching
- Provide patient care within scope of practice
- Administration of medication IV, PO, G-Tube
- Wound care
- Oversee/supervise CNA.
Desk Nurse-OB/GYN/Family Practice
Kelsey Seybold Clinic Medical Center
08.2019 - 11.2019
- Injection administration, phlebotomy, EKG
- Daily triage calls for appointments, problem calls, and clinic follow ups
- Work directly with MD to ensure clinic flow operations
- Assist patients for Pre-Op for surgery Post-Op care
- Work closely with insurance companies ensuring patient needs are met
- Work in basket daily providing lab results, answering patient calls, sort mail and calls per MD
- Ensure ordered labs have been completed
- Assist MD with daily clinic operations
- Give Highest level of nursing care to patient within scope of practice
- Assess patients to determine immediate plan of care
- Knowledge of obstetrics and gynecology
- Complete FMLA and paperwork for patient’s in a timely fashion per MD instruction
- Oversee daily office operations, triaging phone calls, faxing, and email.
LVN-Lymphoma/ Myeloma
M.D. Anderson Cancer Hospital Med Center
08.2016 - 08.2019
- Contact lab to expedite processing to decrease wait time
- Conduct nasal washes, Bacterial and Viral Swabs
- Administer chemo, growth factors, immunization injections
- Assist in Lumbar Puncture and Omaya procedures as scheduled
- Reconcile Pyxis in dual control
- Assess and monitor for side effects post chemo treatments, Notify MLP’s for change of condition, Vital signs, emergency center
- Work with the team to make sure orders are in for appointments and proper labs, Review labs, Confirm the correct labs are ordered
- Follow up clinical results per Mid-Level Provider orders
- Ensure clinic operations are functioning while minimizing patient wait time
- Opening, schedules are printed, assigned schedulers in the clinic, rooms are stocked
- Chart Auditing
- Work closely with PA’s and NP’s to ensure EKG’s, X-Ray, transfusions, and other orders are placed and completed
- Ensure patients have had correct labs prior to seeing a Mid-Level Provider.
Treatment Nurse (promoted)
Windsor Quail Valley Post-Acute Care
10.2015 - 02.2016
- Consulted and educated in-patients and their family regarding wound care management
- Educated bedside nurses in using advanced wound care therapies
- Monitored results of care and reported performance rate for quality management
- Maintained personnel protection per OSHA guidelines as it pertains to personnel safety protective clothing, eyewear, and gloves
- Made weekly rounds with Wound MD
- Assess and document wound changes
- Complete weekly wound reports
- Weekend manager on duty, oversee nursing floor.
Charge Nurse/Med Surg
Windsor Quail Valley Post-Acute Care
04.2015 - 10.2015
- Provided care for 26+ residents
- Ability to critically think in a fast-paced stressful environment
- Exceptional communication skills and communicated effectively with all members and insurance companies
- Prioritized & delegated daily operations on the nursing floor
- Observed patients, charted and reported changes in patients' conditions, such as adverse reactions to medication or treatment, and took necessary action
- Under the order of physician, administer vaccine, and other medication’s PO, G-tube, IV, or injection, Trache care, Cassette button suctioning, CPAP
- Collected samples such as blood, urine and sputum from patients, and performed routine laboratory tests on samples
- Observed and emptied drains
- Recorded fluid intake/output
- Measured and recorded patients' vital signs, such as temperature, blood pressure, pulse, respiration and blood sugar
- Aided in wound care, gave suppositories, enemas or douches, rubbed with alcohol, massaged, performed colostomy care, patient positioning and performed catheterizations
- Confidential record keeping
- Administered breathing treatments and neb treatments
- Motivated staff in delivering high quality care
- Coordinated with administration daily morning report.
Education
Fortis College of Nursing
01.2014
Bachelor of Science - Business Administration
University of Phoenix
01.2008
Skills
- Professionalism
- Leadership
- Safety
- Assessment
- Communication
- Teamwork and Collaboration
- Triage Nursing
- Maintain Confidentiality
- Information Technology in Nursing and Healthcare
- Problem Solving
- Charting
- Task Execution
- Epic
- Point Click Care
- Microsoft Word
- Excel
- PowerPoint
- Wound Expert
- Type 60 wpm
Awards Recognition
- MD Anderson Employee Recognition Award, 2018
- MD Anderson Awesome Job Award, 2019
- Kelsey Seybold (Highest number of outbound calls to ensure timely follow up/results/care plan), 2019
References
References available upon request
Timeline
HCA Healthcare Hospital
HCA Houston Healthcare Conroe
03.2023 - Current
Independent Contractor
Maryland- Eastern Correctional Institute medium security
08.2021 - Current
Agency Nurse (Med Surge)
Maxim Healthcare-Encompass &Memorial Hermann Hospital
11.2019 - Current
Desk Nurse-OB/GYN/Family Practice
Kelsey Seybold Clinic Medical Center
08.2019 - 11.2019
LVN-Lymphoma/ Myeloma
M.D. Anderson Cancer Hospital Med Center
08.2016 - 08.2019
Treatment Nurse (promoted)
Windsor Quail Valley Post-Acute Care
10.2015 - 02.2016
Charge Nurse/Med Surg
Windsor Quail Valley Post-Acute Care
04.2015 - 10.2015
Fortis College of Nursing
Bachelor of Science - Business Administration
University of Phoenix