Vivian Trejo
Tucson,AZ
Summary
Dynamic Licensed Practical Nurse with extensive experience at La Posada at Park Centre, Inc., excelling in patient-centered care and strategic care planning. Proven ability to lead teams, enhance patient outcomes, and implement infection control protocols. Committed to fostering compassionate environments while ensuring compliance with HIPAA regulations and maintaining meticulous documentation.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Licensed Practical Nurse
La Posada at Park Centre, Inc.
Green Valley, AZ
02.2024 - 09.2024
- Assist physicians with acute medical problems while screening and performing procedures.
- Computerized patient chart entries made accurately and promptly via the Point Clink Care Program.
- Monitor and evaluate the patient's symptoms, reactions, progress, and changes, recorded in progress notes.
- Coordinated with PCP and outside agencies to develop care plans for patients.
- Modify patient treatment plans as indicated by the patient’s responses and conditions.
- Maintain patient privacy and confidentiality, interviewed patients and POAs to obtain medical information.
Memory Care Facility Supervisor
La Posada at Park Centre, Inc.
Green Valley, AZ
08.2015 - 02.2024
- Promotes and restores patients’ health by developing day-to-day management and long-term planning of the patient care area.
- Hire, onboard, direct, mentor, develop, and schedule staff, including communicating job expectations and providing performance reviews.
- Collaborate with physicians and multidisciplinary professional staff to implement patient care.
- Provide physical and psychological support for patients, friends, and families.
- Meets nursing operational standards by contributing information to strategic plans and reviews; implementing production, productivity, quality, and customer-service standards; resolving problems; and identifying system improvements.
- Provide input on an annual budget, monitor expenditures, perform research on equipment or additional staffing investments, and identify variances in departmental costs.
- Identifies patient service requirements by establishing personal rapport with potential and actual patients and others in a position to understand service requirements.
- Maintain nursing guidelines by writing and updating policies and procedures.
- Complete patient care requirements by scheduling, assigning staff, and following up on work results.
- Establish a compassionate environment by providing emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to patients, friends, families, and staff.
- Promote patients’ independence by establishing care goals, teaching and counseling patients, friends, and family to reinforce their understanding of disease, medications, and self-care skills.
- Provide information to patients, families, and the health care team by answering questions and requests.
- Resolve patients’ needs by utilizing multidisciplinary team strategies.
- Maintain a safe and clean working environment by designing and implementing procedures and rules and seeking assistance from other healthcare professionals.
- Protect patients and employees by developing and interpreting infection-control policies and protocols and enforcing medication administration, storage procedures, and controlled substance regulations.
- Maintain patient confidence and protect operations by monitoring confidential information processing.
- Maintain documentation of patient care services by auditing patient and department records.
- Ensure operation of medical and administrative equipment by verifying emergency equipment availability, completing preventive maintenance requirements, following manufacturer’s instructions, troubleshooting malfunctions, requesting repairs, maintaining equipment inventories, and evaluating new equipment and techniques.
- Maintain nursing supplies inventory by studying usage reports, identifying trends, anticipating needed supplies, and approving requisitions and cost allocations.
- Maintain professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, reviewing publications, and participating in professional societies.
- Maintain a cooperative relationship among healthcare teams by communicating information, responding to requests, and participating in team problem-solving methods.
Licensed Practical Nurse
La Posada at Park Centre, Inc.
Green Valley, AZ
09.2014 - 08.2015
- Assist physicians with acute medical problems while screening and performing procedures.
- Computerized patient chart entries made accurately and promptly via the Point Clink Care Program.
- Monitor and evaluate the patient's symptoms, reactions, progress, and changes, recorded in progress notes.
- Coordinated with PCP and outside agencies to develop care plans for patients.
- Modify patient treatment plans as indicated by the patient’s responses and conditions.
- Maintain patient privacy and confidentiality, interviewed patients and POAs to obtain medical information.
Education
Associate of Science - Register Nurse
Pima Community College
Tucson, AZ12-2025
Certified Dementia Practitioner -
National Council of Certified Dementia Care Practitioners
Phoenix, AZ04.2023
Skills
- Supervision and leadership
- Mentorship and teambuilding
- Physiological knowledge
- Patient-centered care
- Strategic care planning
- Geriatric care
- Infection control
- Record keeping
- Rehabilitative therapy
- Catheter care
- Feeding assistance
- G-Tube feeding
- Ambulatory assistance
- Immunizations and medication administration
- Respiratory treatments
- Glucose monitoring
- Patient hygiene and bathing
- Wound care and dressing
- Blood pressure monitoring
- Specimen collection
- Patient education
- Vitals monitoring
- Inventory management
- Sterile environment maintenance
- Prescription ordering and laboratory testing
- Charting and filing in EMR systems
- Pain management strategies
- Organizational skills and multitasking
- Patient care
- Care plan development
- Health assessment
- Team collaboration
- Communication skills
- Time management
- Documentation accuracy
- Direct patient care
- Equipment troubleshooting
- Medication reconciliation
- Cultural competence
- Medication administration
- Care planning
- Healthcare software proficiency
- Patient evaluations
- Medical records security
- Maintaining nutrition
- Indirect patient care
- Family communication
- Tracking symptoms
- Empathetic and compassionate
- Arizona licensed practical nurse
- Documenting intake
- Inpatient care
- Preventive care
- Caring for wounds
- Case management
- End-of-life care
- Patient relationship building
- ADL assistance
- Staff direction and task delegation
- Mental health support
- Emergency response
- Patient intake
- Documenting incidents
- EMR / EHR
- Staff supervision
- Vital signs
- Chronic disease management
- Caregiving skills
- HIPAA protocols
- Psychotropic medications
- NaphCare and PointClickCare EMR software
- Counting narcotics
- Patient triaging
- Charting and recording
- Neurophysiology
- Tuberculosis testing
- Medical office administration
- Wound care
- Samples collection
- Quality assurance
- Diabetes management
- HIPAA compliance
- Anatomy
- Writing reports
- Verbal and written communication
- Breathing treatments
- Patient safety protocols
- Pain management
- Physical assessment
- Patient assessments
- Behavioral assessment
- Palliative care
- Transcribing orders
- Health education
- Medical records management
- Multi-tasking and prioritization
- Clinical documentation
Personal Information
Title: LPN
Characteristics
- Organized
- Initiative-taker
- Adaptive Person
- Responsible and Dedicated
- Collaborator
Timeline
Licensed Practical Nurse
La Posada at Park Centre, Inc.
02.2024 - 09.2024
Memory Care Facility Supervisor
La Posada at Park Centre, Inc.
08.2015 - 02.2024
Licensed Practical Nurse
La Posada at Park Centre, Inc.
09.2014 - 08.2015
Associate of Science - Register Nurse
Pima Community College
Certified Dementia Practitioner -
National Council of Certified Dementia Care Practitioners