Sunny Bell
Carpentersville,IL
Summary
Highly skilled and motivated LPN Assistant Director of Nursing with an extensive background in skilled care, long-term care and dementia settings seeking a professional leadership role.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Assistant Director of Nursing
The Pearl Of Crystal Lake
Crystal Lake, IL
11.2019 - Current
- Managing 50-70 census
- Staffing over 30 employees
- Flu/Pneumonia tracker for staff and residents
- Performed Patient and Family education
- Psychotropic Coordinator
- Minimized falls as Fall Coordinator
- Assist with state surveys
- Incident tracking
- QAPI quarterly
- Performed rounds to observe care and interview staff, residents and families
- Evaluated work performance of 30 nursing personnel to determine wage increases and implement discipline
- Identified department issues to recommend corrective actions
- Recruited, hired and trained all staff, providing direct supervision, ongoing staff development and continuing education to employees
Director of Nursing
Autumn Leaves Of Crystal Lake
Crystal Lake, IL
01.2019 - 11.2019
- Established new policies and updated existing policies to improve standard of care for patients
- Long term care unit
- Dementia unit
- IV Certified
- Medication administration
- Wound care treatments
- State Survey
- Participated in management team meetings to discuss resident status, census changes, and resident complaints or concerns
- Planned and assigned workload to 25-person nursing staff to direct patient care
Transitional Care Coordinator and Nurse Manager
The Spring at Crystal Lake
Crystal Lake, IL
01.2013 - 01.2019
- Care plan meetings
- Greet and welcome new patients and families, re-visit within 48 hours and make sure all needs are being met
- Obtain a chair in the community for discharging Dialysis patients
- Educate patients and families on needs going home
- (ex
- DM teaching, G-Tube teaching, Diet teaching, foley, and colostomy care)
- Set up follow up appointments needed when home
- Tour facility for potential admissions
- On-call nurse manager
- Communicated with patients, ensuring that medical information was kept private
- Reviewed and evaluated test results to suggest care and treatment options
LPN/Nurse Supervisor
The Springs At Crystal Lake Rehabilitation Center
Crystal Lake, IA
01.2010 - 01.2013
- Oversee staff
- Oversee resident and family concerns on PM shift
- Tb tracking for facility
- Tour of buildings after business hours
- Monitored, tracked, and conveyed important patient information to healthcare staff to help optimize treatment planning and care delivery
- Offered immediate assistance in emergency and routine paging situations to evaluate needs and deliver care
- Assisted with admissions, appointments, transfers, and discharges
- Collaborated with interdisciplinary team of healthcare and social service providers to address patients' needs through effective intervention and care planning
LPN Floor Nurse
The Springs At Crystal Lake Rehabilitation Center
Crystal Lake, IL
09.2006 - 01.2010
- Administered basic patient care and treatments by dressing wounds, treating bedsores, giving enemas, and performing catheterizations
- Collaborated with healthcare team members to assess, implement and evaluate nursing care plans
- Maintained accurate records of residents' healthcare treatments and responses
- Worked under registered nurses to care for patients and manage basic care
- Administered medication such as insulin and monitored patients' responses to detect problems
- Clearly and thoroughly explained diagnoses, treatment options, and procedures to patients and loved ones, checking in to verify understanding
Education
Bachelor of Science -
Indiana State University
Terre Haute, IN2021
RN Associates Degree - undefined
Sanford Brown College
2006
Licensed Practical Nurse Program - undefined
Sanford Brown College
2004
Skills
- IV Certified
- CPR
- CHUG Team
- JACHO Accreditation Team
- Psychotropic Coordinator
- Fall Coordinator
- Scheduler
- Auditor
Timeline
Assistant Director of Nursing
The Pearl Of Crystal Lake
11.2019 - Current
Director of Nursing
Autumn Leaves Of Crystal Lake
01.2019 - 11.2019
Transitional Care Coordinator and Nurse Manager
The Spring at Crystal Lake
01.2013 - 01.2019
LPN/Nurse Supervisor
The Springs At Crystal Lake Rehabilitation Center
01.2010 - 01.2013
LPN Floor Nurse
The Springs At Crystal Lake Rehabilitation Center
09.2006 - 01.2010
Bachelor of Science -
Indiana State University
RN Associates Degree - undefined
Sanford Brown College
Licensed Practical Nurse Program - undefined
Sanford Brown College
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