Shela Andrews

• Maintained accurate documentation of all relevant clinical data, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards.
• Demonstrated adaptability in working with diverse patient populations across various healthcare settings.
• Implemented infection control measures, ensuring a clean and safe environment for patients and staff.
• Conducted thorough patient assessments to identify medical needs and develop appropriate treatment plans.
• Enhanced patient satisfaction levels through effective communication and empathetic listening skills.
• Provided emotional support to patients and families during difficult times, fostering positive relationships built on trust and compassion.
• Utilized time management skills to prioritize tasks effectively, allowing for efficient completion of daily responsibilities.
• Contributed to continuous quality improvement efforts by identifying areas for potential growth within the nursing practice.
• Participated in ongoing professional development opportunities to enhance knowledge base and skillset as an LPN.
• Documented accurate and complete patient information to address patient problems and expected outcomes.
• Comforted and counseled patients and families throughout care process.
• Evaluated patients to identify and address wounds, behavioral concerns, and medically relevant symptoms.
• Performed routine evaluations of each patient's status, needs, and preferences.
• Offered immediate assistance in emergency and routine paging situations to evaluate needs and deliver care.
• Adhered to treatment plan instructions when administering medications and treatments to patients.
• Accurately recorded interactions in medical charts, documenting accidents and interventions applied.
• Minimized staff and patient infection risk by cleaning and disinfecting equipment instruments.
• Responded to patient requests with appropriate clinical and personal assistance.
• Delivered emotional support to patients and families during challenging times.
• Provided patient education on health care issues and prescribed medications.

• Delivered updates in patient status to charge nurse, recording changes in medical records.
• Answered incoming phone calls from patients to provide basic assistance and triage medical concerns.
• Minimized staff and patient infection risk by cleaning and disinfecting equipment instruments.
• Assisted with admissions, appointments, transfers, and discharges.
• Educated patients and caregivers on medical diagnoses, treatment options, chronic disease self-management and wound management.
• Documented accurate and complete patient information to address patient problems and expected outcomes.
• Managed patient care through closely monitoring respiration, blood pressure, and blood glucose levels.
• Evaluated patients to identify and address wounds, behavioral concerns, and medically relevant symptoms.
• Performed routine evaluations of each patient's status, needs, and preferences.
• Collaborated with interdisciplinary team of healthcare and social service providers to address patients' needs through effective intervention and care planning.
• Cared for wounds, provided treatments, and assisted with procedures.
• Gathered lab specimens, ordered testing, and interpreted results to diagnose patients.
• Obtained patient vital signs and input/output measurements from inpatients.
• Monitored, tracked, and conveyed important patient information to healthcare staff to help optimize treatment planning and care delivery.
• Used aseptic techniques to provide sterilized wound care and dressing applications.
• Assessed patients' temperature, pulse, and blood pressure and recorded in electronic medical records.
• Administered medications and injections to patients.
• Provided patient education on health care issues and prescribed medications.
• Monitored patient health conditions to report changes to assigned physician.
• Delivered emotional support to patients and families during challenging times.
• Managed various general office duties such as answering multiple telephone lines, completing insurance forms, and mailing monthly invoice statements to patients.
• Took samples to complete diagnostic and routine assessment tests.

• Managed patient care through closely monitoring respiration, blood pressure .
• Performed routine evaluations of each patient's status, needs and preferences.
• Made valuable contributions to care-plan development and patient education processes backed by thorough research into client diagnoses.
• Documented accurate and complete patient information to address patient problems and expected outcomes.
• Comforted and counseled patients and families throughout care process.
• Collaborated with interdisciplinary team of healthcare and social service providers to address patients' needs through effective intervention and care planning.

Answered patient calls, identified issues and determined how best to provide assistance within parameters established by facility and supervisor. Performed triage to maximum team for the children. Performed hearing and vision screenings. Administered Immunizations and Bilirubin Tests. Utilized computerized Resource and Patient Management System (RPMS) and Electronic Health Record (EHR) system. Communicated effectively with patients and loved ones to explain diagnoses, treatment options and procedures. Monitored infection control procedures to ensure facility-wide health and safety.

Improved operations by working with team members and customers to find workable solutions. Charge Nurse for a skilled Geriatric facility that houses over two hundred members on the first shift. Providing direct care , administering medications, treatments etc..

Improved operations by working with team members and customers to find workable solutions. Charge Nurse for assistant living on a twenty three bed unit for the third shift. Administered medications, and offered direct care, treatments, care plans.

Knowledge of emergency based on staffing requirements.

Recorded patients' medical history, vital statistics and test results in medical records. Delivered high-quality and compassionate treatment to indigent and low-income patient communities. Provided necessary health education training for patients. Took and recorded patients' temperature, pulse and blood pressure. Provided quality nursing care in accordance with resident care policies and procedures. Prepared for HIPAA and JCAHO reviews, ensuring required brochures and pamphlets were available to patients in all clinics. Tested glucose and administered injections. Skillfully performed suture removals for patients of all ages. Maintained patient charts and confidential files. Immunized children, as well as adults. Current on skills: Glucose monitoring,

EKG's, bilirubin checks.

Recorded patients' medical history, vital statistics and test results in medical records. Delivered high-quality and compassionate treatment to affluent and middle class population. Provided palliative care in outpatient settings ranging from assessment to development and implementation of care plans. Implemented new floor assignments based on evaluation of staffing requirements. knowledge of emergency equipment.

Equipment: oxygen, ambu-bag, nebulizers, O2 sat machine, airway

and suction machines. Performed all tasks with a patient-centered

focus while seeking opportunities for improvement of processes

and treatments.

Provided care for residents in a 90 bed unit

Charge nurse for the third shift

Administered medications, treatments, tube feedings etc..

Offered direct care to the handicapped elementary school children in the

CDC class. Breathing treatments, oral and tube feedings. Assisted

with the CDC teacher with projects for children who could not complete

for themselves. Administered medication, and initiated care plans.

Offered direct care to surgery and medical patients within a 397-bed

hospital. Administered medications, and I.V. therapy, Interpreted

physicians orders, and carefully monitored vitals signs and recorded.

Experienced in care with multi-lumen catheters, Quinton catheters,

shunts for dialysis.