Workers Compensation, Medical Case Manager Resume Sacramento, CA - Hire IT People

SUMMARY:

Twenty - one years of career experience as a Registered Nurse in a wide variety of fields.
The last 2 years of experience have been as a Telephonic Medical Case Manager.
For approximately four years prior to that, I worked part-time/ full-time as an independent contractor/ Legal Nurse Consultant.
The previous eighteen years were in hospital settings in a wide variety of specialties including Emergency/ Trauma, Intensive Care Unit, Critical Care Transport, Endoscopy, Respiratory/ Telemetry and care of the incarcerated prisoner.
Responsible in the past for overseeing and managing staff RN’s, LVN’s and CNA’s in the following departments: Respiratory/ Telemetry, Intensive Care Unit and Endoscopy.
Throughout my career as a Registered Nurse, my core values and skills have served me well. I am very detailed oriented, compassionate and caring. I work well in a team while also being a fantastic self-starter and a quick learner to new challenges.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Sacramento, CA

Workers Compensation, Medical Case Manager

Responsibilities:

Responsible for overseeing the care of Workers Compensation Confidential ts. Duties involved Utilization Review; collaborating with physicians, employers, claim adjusters and Confidential ts; responsible for facilitating a return to work plan and for ongoing evaluation of treatment within established protocols, thus ultimately returning the injured workers to full duty as quickly and safely as possible.

Confidential

Owner/consultant

Responsibilities:

Provided full service legal nurse consultation services to attorney clients. Performed record analysis, comprehensive chronologies, summaries and identification of risk factors and pre-existing conditions for over eighty defense product liability cases.
Provided expert nursing consultation, screening of cases for merit, record analysis, literature research, identification of applicable Standards of Care and adherences to and deviations from such and gave verbal opinions in defense medical malpractice cases.
Attended, recorded observations and reported on over sixty Independent Medical Exams for multiple Plaintiff attorneys.

Confidential, Carmichael, CA

Responsibilities:

Entry level Registered Nurse, then promoted to afternoon charge nurse after one year. Responsible for overseeing staff Registered Nurses and Endoscopy Technicians caring for Confidential ts in the pre-op, peri-operative and post-operative care settings, acute care Confidential ts and out Confidential ts undergoing procedures requiring conscious sedation medication protocols such as endoscopy, colonoscopy, bronchoscopy, ERCP, cardioversion, lumbar and cervical epidural steroid injections.

Confidential, Sacramento, CA

Responsibilities:

Then promoted after six months to rotational charge nurse. Responsible for overseeing staff RN’s, LVN’s and CNA’s in caring for medical and surgical intensive care Confidential ts.

Confidential, Sacramento, CA

Responsibilities:

Often transporting Confidential ts requiring lifesaving interventions during transport. This was a part time position (1-2 shifts/ week) in addition to working at Confidential and Confidential .

Confidential, Carmichael, CA

Responsibilities:

Then promoted to rotational charge nurse. Responsible for overseeing staff RN’s and LVN’s in the care of critical medical and surgical Confidential ts. Became CCRN certified at this time. This hospital closed in 2000.

Confidential, Folsom, CA

Responsibilities:

Initially responsible for caring for incarcerated medical and surgical Confidential ts. This unit was often closed and I served as a float RN, floating to the medical/ surgical, out Confidential t surgery and intensive care units when those units were short-staffed.

Confidential, Sacramento, CA

Responsibilities:

Then promoted to day charge nurse after approximately 1 year. Responsible for overseeing staff RN’s, LVN’s and CNA’s in the care of complicated Confidential ts with respiratory, cardiac and internal medicine diagnoses. Became Medical/ Surgical Certified by ANCC.