Sheryl Nichols

Travel Contract CNA, MST, CPI Tech duties included patient triage of vital signs, patient weights, performing EKGs, and assisting the RN with assessing patients and the reason for visiting the Emergency Room. Also responsible for cleaning dirty ER rooms, and making them available for the next patient. Tech duties consisted of splinting broken bones for comfort prior to surgery, placing ankle boots, velcro wrist guards, measuring patients for crutches, cleaning out minor wounds, bandaging minor wounds, stocking ER exam rooms, assisting patients with activities of daily living (ADLs) as needed, and assisting medical doctors and registered nurses with procedures and codes as needed. Bladder scans, POCT glucose testing, IV removal, Foley catheter removal, cut-off rings, earwax removal, procedure tray setup, etc. These were some of my duties.

CPI duties included CCI TV monitoring of mental health, crisis, and suicide watch patients. I was a liaison between the mental health patient, RN, MD, social worker, and ERIT counselor (Valley Medical Center Mental Health Intervention Team). Restraints, both soft and hard, were part of my duties, as well as monitoring patients for mental health and physical health needs.

Travel contract CNA duties for this 390-bed Level III trauma hospital included patient care for the critical care unit, progressive care unit, medical rehab, as well as emergency room patients. I was responsible for the usual activities of daily living, combined with the regularly added mental health patient-sitter duties. I was responsible for pre-op, as well as post-op patients, both before and after surgery, vital signs, CHG baths, ambulation of patients, etc. I was a mental health patient sitter quite often in various units of the hospital, as well as in the ER. I had patients in soft restraints and hard restraints some nights, and others were independent in the room while I sat in the doorway and charted their behavior.

Travel Contract CNA duties for this 473 bed Level 1 Trauma hospital to include both isolation and non-isolation Medical/Surgical Units, Emergency Room, Telemetry, ICU, CVICU, Neuro/Spine, Rehab, Mother/Baby as well as Patient Sitter duties. Responsible for patient care duties such as vital signs, hydration, hygiene, delivering specimens to the lab, patient transport within the hospital, suicide watch monitoring, etc.

Travel LTC/SNF contract CNA duties to include all ADL's of residents during night shift of 6p-6a. Also provided relief to the attached Memory Care Unit of approximately 30 residents with various forms of dementia as well as approximately patients on the Rehab Unit.

Travel Contract CNA duties to include all ADL's for approximately 38 residents of this Sanford Health senior living/skilled nursing facility. Day shift requirements included feeding, bathing, dressing, toileting, hygiene, assisting with activities, monitoring patients for a change in condition and reporting to the nurse on duty, Some night shifts were assigned which consisted of putting residents to bed as well as changing and turning every two hours. Charting via Point Click Care was completed on every resident.

Travel/Crisis Contract CNA duties to include all units of a 318 bed short-term acute care hospital. Worked ER as well in this Level 4 Trauma Center Hospital. Night shift duties included monitoring patient vital signs, changes in patients physical, emotional and symptomatic condition and reporting to the appropriate nurse assigned to the patient. Provided hygiene assistance, changing and turning every two hours as needed, one-to-one sitter duties as assigned for medical or suicidal reasons and feeding/hydration of patients as necessary.

Travel/Crisis Contract CNA duties to include non-CoVid Units of Rehab, Medical/Surgical, Emergency Room, Telemetry, ICU Orthopedics as well as Patient Sitter duties. Responsible for patient care duties as well as delivering specimens to the lab, patient transport within the hospital, suicide watch monitoring, etc.

Crisis Contract Travel CNA duties to include CoVid19 relief to the residents of Guam Memorial Hospital Authority. Duties included vital sign monitoring, telemetry placement and monitoring, feeding, bathing, ambulating, charting ADL's, etc. of both CoVid Units as well as non-CoVid Medical/Surgical Units.

Travel LTC/SNF contract CNA duties to include all ADL's of residents during night shift of 6p-6a. Also provided relief to a newly sanctioned CoVid19 Unit within the facility.

Travel/Crisis Contract CNA worked the CoVid19 Unit to provide much needed relief in a crisis situation. Short-term contract.

Per diem shifts alternating with Cascade Valley Hospital, Skagit Regional Health System's sister hospital. I was responsible for Med Surg pts as well as mental health pts both ADL's and restraint monitoring/charting.

Per diem shifts working both Cascade Valley and Skagit Regional Hospitals both day and night shifts. Regular CNA duties to include vital signs monitoring, ADL's, ambulation after surgery, incontinence care, collection of specimens, telemetry, etc. CoVid19 screening, mental health tech, patient sitting.

Travel CNA contract including resident care of approximately 70 patients within the facility. Worked to provide residents with help during all ADL's of day and night shifts.

Per diem assignments covering approximately a 150 mile radius of Lynnwood, Washington. Travel CNA assignments in hospitals, nursing homes, rehab facilities, hospice facilities, etc.

CNA responsible for ADL's of residents in a skilled care facility within a small county hospital in rural North Dakota.

Compassionate, dependable CNA working several jobs simultaneously while developing extensive patient-care skills. I worked as many as 4 jobs at one time before I became a traveler. The South pays poverty wages and one job won't pay the bills. I worked as much as I could until I became a traveler making a decent living.

Local Per Diem CNA taking assignments from area hospitals, nursing homes, psychiatric clinics, medicare certified patient in-home services, alzheimer units, assisted living facilities, VA facilities. Worked all shifts as they fit into my schedule.

Outpatient CNA working mainly on end of week and weekends to fill an employee shortage. Responsible for helping terminally ill patients with comfort care such as bathing, dressing, feeding, incontinence care, providing care-giving supplies for the home, etc.

Travel CNA contract responsible for patients on ICU, telemetry, orthopedics, bariatrics and general medical/surgical patients. Float pool assignments both day and night shifts.

Strike Contract CNA in a 365 bed nursing home owned by the county in Lebanon, Pennsylvania. Responsible for resident care during a peaceful strike by the facility workers.

First real travel assignment. Learned how to combine living and working while under a travel contract. Responsible for the daily care of various members of the Blackfeet tribe residents of this LTC/SNF. Worked both day and evening shifts.

Outpatient CNA responsible for an individual county in-home hospice care route. Generally regarded as patient, kind-hearted and caring among my patients. Responsible for approximately 30 hospice patients on a regular route.