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Registered Nurse (RN) with an extensive medical background, seeking a new and challenging, full-time opportunity. I am eager to learn new skills, while incorporating my knowledge and skill-sets obtained through my many years of experience working in healthcare. I am detail-oriented, organized, and utilize time-management skills in order to efficiently promote and provide effective, client-focused care. I work extremely well with others and thrive on working hard within a dynamic, constantly changing environment, where I am able to strive for excellence in everything I do. The Legacy Assisted Living in Lafayette 8/2014 - 10/2016 Weekend Supervisor/Facility Nurse Responsibilities: * Provided facility oversight acted as clinical resource to staff and residents communicated to resident families and their healthcare providers of change in status through fax phone, and EMRs. * Encouraged "teamwork" between care givers, QMAPs, and myself, in order to ensure excellent resident care. * Administered routine and prn Topical, PO, IM and SQ medications daily (per healthcare providers orders) took daily vital signs administered flu shots, birth control injections, TB tests inhalers/nebulizer treatments used capillary glucose monitors and gave insulin per sliding scale orders provided wound care to residents * Effectively communicated to families of residents and their assigned healthcare providers of resident's status through fax phone, and EMRs. Pediatric Emergency Response Training 3/2010 - 9/2014 NRP/BLS/First-Aid/CPR/AED/Medication Administration Instructor/Nurse Consultant Responsibilities: * Effectively and efficiently instructed healthcare professionals for certification in BLS and NRP skills, in accordance with AHA and the American Academy of Pediatrics guidelines for clinical practice * Instructed, certified, and acted as Nurse Consultant to lay-professionals in CPR/AED/First Aid/Medication Administration per state guidelines Front Range Community College 9/2011 - 12/2011 Westminster, CO RN Clinical Instructor Responsibilities: Served as "hands-on" educator, at the patient bedside, and resource to RN students during their pediatric rotations at Denver Health Hospital and Kaiser outpatient clinics Educated students on proper charting techniques using electronic medical records system (Epic EMRs within Kaiser clinics) Educated students on properly administering medications using the Pixis system, scanning medication with barcodes, and documenting medication administration, and patient progress/status, using the EMR system at the bedside (during Denver Health rotation) Instructed RN students on how to give PO, IM, SQ, IV medications to pediatric patients (immunizations, etc.) how to: clean trachs and perform sterile suctioning, G-Tube/G-Tube site care, operating Kangaroo Pumps, assessing IV sites, inserting and D/C'ing IVs, priming IV tubing, and operating IV pumps. Evergreen Home Healthcare 8/2010 - 8/2011 Fort Collins, CO Private Duty Nurse Responsibilities: Provided total skilled nursing care to complex, chronically-ill and ventilated pediatric patients, including: wound care, G-tube/trach care, Type 1 diabetes management, sterile deep suctioning, medication administration via all routes (performing all duties as described in above job description).
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