Teresa Griffith-Henley

*** ***** ****** ** - **********, KY 42721

acbsy4@r.postjobfree.com - 270-***-****

Registered Nurse looking to obtain employment at your facility as an RN, willing to work days or nights, with benefits PRN, Per Diem or Fill-time

Work Experience

Registered Nurse - Travel Contract

Assignment

AMN Contract -- Yale University Hospital - St Raphael's Campus, New Haven, CT

September 2013 to December 2013

Skilled nursing duties in medical surgical, ortho, medicine, neuro float pool. Duties included acknowledging, releasing orders from Physicians, shift charting and care plans on Epic System; Pyxis used for IV, IM, Subcutaneous and oral administration of medications, admitting, transferring and discharging patients, assessing, planning, implementing, analyzing and evaluating adult patients conditions and disease process and implementing care per MD orders. Teaching and educating patient and families on their disease process and ongoing care after discharge.

Registered Nurse - Travel Contract Assignments

AMN Contract -- Med West Harris Home Health Agency - Sylva, NC

May 2013 to August 2013

Job duties include: assess, monitor, instruct and teach patients and caregivers about disease process, medication management specific to patient’s needs. Duties include completing OASIS, recertification’s, resumption of care, transfers, discharges; pleurx, trach care and wound care wound vac, obtaining labs, assessing and managing patient care specific to patients disease process, preparing care plans and implementing them in the home setting.

Registered Nurse Home Health in rural Grayson county, KY

Twin Lakes Home Health Agency

June 2012 to May 2013

Job duties included: obtaining resources needed to provide patients skilled nursing needs and care in home care setting. 6/2012--5/2013. Assess, monitor, instruct and teach patients and caregivers about disease process, medication management specific to patient’s needs. Duties include completing OASIS, recertification’s, resumption of care, transfers, discharges; wound care, wound vac, obtaining labs, assessing and managing patient care specific to patients disease process, preparing care plans and implementing them in the home setting.

Registered Nurse

Extendicare - Fordsville Nursing Home and Rehab

July 2011 to June 2012

Charge nurse, medication pass, assessing and monitoring patients, tube feedings, trach care, wound care, admitting, transferring and discharging residents. Update care plans for residents. Obtain MD orders in the event patient conditions changed and notified family, daily charting on Medicare patients.

Registered Nurse on Medical/Surgical Floor

Twin Lakes Regional Medical Center - Leitchfield, KY

May 2011 to December 2012

Skilled nursing on Medical/Surgical floor at rural hospital. Duties included obtaining and noting orders from Physicians, starting IV‘s, administration of medications, admitting, transferring and discharging patients, assessing, planning, implementing, analyzing and evaluating patients from pediatrics to geriatrics. Conscious sedation for lung/liver biopsies 5/2011--12/2012.

KY Juvenile Justice Department

Corrections - Elizabethtown, KY

July 2010 to January 2011

Duties include following protocol orders, monitoring and managing care for Detention and Treatment youth. Administer medications, obtain labs, screen for physical exams, vaccinations, respiratory treatments, Snelling eye exams, flush and clean ears, urinalysis, pregnancy testing, first aide care for injuries, educate and teaching youth, maintain records. Obtain and noting orders from Physician, Psychiatrist and Nurse Practitioner 7/2010--1/2011.

Registered Nurse Home Health

Caretenders/Almost Family - Elizabethtown, KY

February 2010 to July 2010

Duties include managing care for patients in rural Breckenridge and Meade Counties. Obtained telephone orders from Physicians and labs, wound care. Assessing, planning, implementing, analyzing and evaluating the care for mostly elderly patients. 2/2010-7/2010.

Registered Nurse -- Corrections

Grayson County Detention Center - Leitchfield, KY

July 2009 to October 2009

Duties included following protocol orders, obtaining and noting orders from Nurse Practitioner, wound care, administering medications to inmates, assessing, planning, implementing, analyzing and evaluating care for inmates at Correctional Facility. 7/2009--10/2009.

Registered Nurse

Surgery - Ohio County Hospital

October 2009 to December 2009

Prepared patients for surgery, assisted in surgeries with OR techs, emergency surgeries, knee, hip, abdominal open and lap surgeries, cataract surgery. Recovered patients in recovery room. Very small hospital three surgery rooms usually one surgery at a time, one general surgeon and one orthopedic surgeon.

Registered Nurse

Springview Nursing Home and Rehab

September 2008 to December 2008

Every other weekend, Charge nurse part time, medication pass, assessing and monitoring patients, tube feedings, trach care, wound care, admitting, transferring and discharging residents. Update care plans for residents. Obtain MD orders in the event patient conditions changed and notified family, daily charting on Medicare patients.

Registered Nurse at Audubon 4-West/East Oncology Unit, Norton's Clinical Agency, Downtown Emergency Room

Norton's Healthcare Corporation - Louisville, KY

April 2007 to July 2009

Skilled nursing at in the following areas Med/Surgical, Orthopedics, Step-down, and Oncology Units at Audubon, Downtown and Suburban, Emergency Room-Downtown. Duties included obtaining and noting orders from Physicians, starting IV's, drawing labs, respiratory treatments, wound care, administration of medications, admitting, transferring and discharging patients, assessing, planning, implementing, analyzing and evaluating patient care. 4/2007--7/2009.

Registered Nurse on Medical Surgical Floor

Twin Lakes Regional Medical Center - Leitchfield, KY

October 2006 to April 2007

Skilled nursing on Medical/Surgical floor at rural hospital. Duties included obtaining and noting orders from Physicians, starting IV's, administration of medications, admitting, transferring and discharging patients, assessing, planning, implementing, analyzing and evaluating patients from pediatrics to geriatrics. 10/2006--4/2007. Also, worked as a Nurse’s Aide from 12/2002--9/2004

Registered Nurse on 3B Telemetry Unit

The Medical Center - Bowling Green, KY

January 2006 to September 2006

Duties included obtaining and noting orders from Physicians, starting IV's, administration of medications, admitting, transferring and discharging patients, assessing, planning, implementing, analyzing and evaluating patients on a cardiac monitored unit. 1/2006--9/2006.

Education

Associate of Science in Nursing

Western Kentucky University RN License #available upon request - Bowling Green, KY

2005, License issued 2/28/06

Skills

BLS Certification Exp. 7/31/2015; Computer Skills: McKesson, Care-Link, Medi-Tech, EMStat, Power Point, MS Works

Additional Information

Red Cross Volunteer

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