SUMMARY:
- Completed two successful surveys and Advanced Standing
- Excellent organizational skills and computer proficiency
- Interfaces well with patients, families, and nursing staff
- Nursing coordinator and supervisory experience
- Fast learner
- Meets financial and budgetary guidelines
WORK EXPERIENCE:
Assistant Resident Care Director
Confidential, Manahawkin, NJ
Responsibilities:
- Maintains standards in resident care services
- Responsible for hiring, training, supervising and assigning overall duties/ tasks of line staff
- Demonstrates independent judgment and discretion
- Participates in the interviewing/hiring process of line staff
- Assists with the orientation of new departmental employees
- Creates the staffing schedule in collaboration with the Executive Director and Resident Care Director
- Assists with tracking attendance
- Communicates to staff policies and procedures and follows through with appropriate retraining or discipline when needed
- Coordinates resident care plans with Executive Director and Resident Care Director
- Assists with completing event reports and implementing interventions
- Assists with third party providers such as pharmacy, therapy, home healthcare, and hospice
- Assists with the administration of the Personal Care Program
- Assists with supervising the medication administration program as required by state law
- Acts as Resident Care Director in her absence
- Monitors levels of care of the residents and effectively reports resident needs to staff
- Maintains compliance and understanding of resident’s rights
- Trains community staff in infection control procedures
- Assists Executive Director and Resident Care Director during licensing survey visit
- Assists Business Office Director with keeping the line staff up - to-date with health records
- Trains and supports licensed nurses in supervision of staff and delivery of care
- Maintains high customer service standards with the line staff
Registered Nurse
Confidential, Peapack, NJ
Responsibilities:
- Assessed patient status and notify physicians of clinical changes
- Performed clinical tasks according to hospital policies
- Oriented and trained new and current staff
- Reviewed charts for Medex reconciliation and complete monthly turnover
- Maintained confidentiality according to HIPPA guidelines
- Collaborated on an interdisciplinary team to provide competent client care
- Updated clinical requests for appointments
- Provided care for sports injuries and minor trauma
- Made sound clinical decisions independently
- Identified drug- drug/drug-disease/drug-food/drug-allergy interactions, notify primary care provider of the interaction and make appropriate recommendations
- Reviewed incoming admissions and maintain appropriate Medicare charting
- Counseled patients on administration of prescription drugs/over the counter drugs (OTC) and/or monitoring signs and symptoms of improvement or maintenance of a particular disease state
- Provided a broad range of nursing care including tube feedings, suctioning, and IV medication
- Acted as nursing coordinator, updated staff health records, and gave vaccines