Verna Ferry

• Determined need for special assessment activities for complex cases, effectively handling care plans.
• Updated policies and procedures.
• Data entry into specialized computer programs for tracking and reporting purposes.

• Identified care needs of individual patients and coordinated responses based on physician advice, insurance limitations and procedural costs.
• Increased referral rates by providing excellent service and building meaningful relationships with patients and caregivers.
• Evaluated IEP for compliance with state and federal requirements regulations and rectified non-compliance issues immediately.
• Data entry into specialized computer programs for tracking and reporting purposes.

• Met with members of public and local leaders at various community events and discussed ways to reduce illness, food contamination and obesity.
• Prevented illness by education public on healthy practices to stop disease.
• Safely administered flu and pneumonia vaccinations, providing education to customers on vaccines, dosage, indications, precautions, contraindications and potential side effects

• Met with members of public and local leaders at various community events and discussed ways to reduce illness, food contamination and obesity.
• Prevented illness by education public on healthy practices to stop disease.
• Safely administered flu and pneumonia vaccinations, providing education to customers on vaccines, dosage, indications, precautions, contraindications and potential side effects.

• Traveled to patients' homes on daily basis to assess health conditions and provide superior level of nursing care.
• Provided physical assessments, medication and chronic disease management to home health patients.
• Advised and coached patients progressing from hospitals, rehab facilities and other medical organizations to at-home treatment settings.

• Conferred with physicians to discuss diagnoses and devise well-coordinated treatment approaches.
• Worked within interdisciplinary health care team to develop, implement and make adjustments to patient care plans, individualizing strategies and methods to improve health and meet recovery goals.
• Performed various nursing interventions such as wound dressing, vital sign monitoring and specimen collection.
• Gathered patient health data through interviews and observation, documenting data in electronic records.

Travel nurse. Cared for L&D patients at Rebsamen Hospital.

Delivered care to L&D patients at Rehoboth Hospital in Gallup, NM.

OB staff nurse. Providing care to L&D patients.

• Managed care from admission to discharge.
• Provided direct patient care for patients receiving hemodialysis.

Charge nurse for 7P to 7A shift.

• Provided physical assessments, medication and chronic disease management to home health patients.
• Advised and coached patients progressing from hospitals, rehab facilities and other medical organizations to at-home treatment settings.
• Took samples to complete diagnostic and routine assessment tests.

Drove and stocked AR Health Dept. WIC Van. Provided services to Southeast AR counties that did not have a local health unit.

• Provided physical assessments, medication and chronic disease management to home health patients.
• Advised and coached patients progressing from hospitals, rehab facilities and other medical organizations to at-home treatment settings.
• Took samples to complete diagnostic and routine assessment tests.

• Provided physical assessments, medication and chronic disease management to home health patients.
• Advised and coached patients progressing from hospitals, rehab facilities and other medical organizations to at-home treatment settings.
• Took samples to complete diagnostic and routine assessment tests.

L&D nurse. Provided care for L&D patients.

Assistant Director of Nursing

• Managed care from admission to discharge.
• Provided direct patient care, stabilized patients and determined next course of action.
• Administered medications via oral, IV and intramuscular injections and monitored responses.
• Advocated for patients by communicating care preferences to practitioners, verifying interventions met treatment goals and identifying insurance coverage limitations.