B rigitta Panther

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B oise ID, 83705

208-***-****

acc8ns@r.postjobfree.com

Objective:

To obtain a travel position as a registered nurse in a behavioral health setting

Experience:

Pain Care Boise

Boise, Idaho

Registered Nurse, September 2013 - present

• Act as both pre-op and recovery nurse in the facility’s Ambulatory Surgery Center

• Administer sedation during procedures as directed by physician and monitor patients

w hile under and recovering from sedation

• Provide counseling and education to patients trying to wean off narcotics

• Routine insertion and removal of IV’s

• Manage medical assistants on shift and direct overall patient flow

• Room patients for clinic visits

• Prepare charts for next day visits

• Finalize patient encounters before they are posted to billing

• Maintain medical coding knowledge for chart finalization purposes

• Create flow-charts for facility protocols

• Create How-to sets of instructions for general employee use

• Routinely maintain/test clinic equipment

• Schedule new patients

• Add patients, their referring physicians, and insurance information to our billing

s ystem, Advanced MD

• Request prior authorizations from patients’ insurance companies

E merson House Memory Care

Garden City, Idaho

Med Tech and Registered Nurse, March 2013- September 2014

Registered Nurse

• Manage nurse-aids on shift

• Assess patients to determine patient status and appropriate/helpful interventions

• Create/edit patient care plans

• Order/administer medication as appropriate

• Communicate change in patient condition to a doctor or nurse practitioner

• Investigate/follow-up on incident reports

• Be on call to answer staff members’ questions and delegate administration of PRN

m edication.

Med Tech

• Administer medications or treatments, such as pills, suppositories, creams, eye drops,

e ar drops, breathing treatments, or inhalers as directed as directed by a physician or nurse

a nd charted on these activities

• Chart on medication administration

• Provide emotional support and comfort to both patients suffering from dementia and

t hese patients’ families.

• Cue and redirect patients who are acting out or exhibiting inappropriate behaviors

Grace Assisted Living

Boise, Idaho

Med Tech, May 2012 – March 2013

• Administer medications or treatments, such as pills, suppositories, creams, eye drops,

e ar drops, breathing treatments, or inhalers as directed as directed by a physician or nurse

• Cue and redirect behaviorally challenged residents

• Chart on medication administration

• Send medication orders to pharmacies

• Record vital signs, such as temperature, blood pressure, pulse, or respiration rate, as

d irected by medical or nursing staff.

• Collect specimens, such as urine, feces, or sputum

• Turn or reposition bedridden patients

Heritage Assisted Living Memory Care

Boise, Idaho

Caregiver, June 2010 – April 2012

• Care for behaviorally challenged residents with dementia

• Cue and redirect residents when exhibiting behaviors, ie: violence and

s exuality

• Management of residents during behavioral/emotional crises, ie:

h allucinations, panic attacks, etc

• Provide a warm, comforting, and stimulating environment for these residents

• Provide activities for residents to encourage memory stimulation

Credentials:

• Recipient of the ‘Outstanding Clinician’ award for my nursing class of 2013

• NIH stroke certified

• Experience managing medical assistants and nurse aids in clinic, ambulatory surgery

c enter, and assisted living facility settings.

• Three years of experience working with behaviorally challenged residents in memory

c are facilities

• Excellent IV skills cultivated during my experience as a pre-op nurse in an

a mbulatory surgery center and my 180 hour senior preceptorship in the ER

• Three years of experience as a certified nursing assistant caring for the elderly in

a ssisted living facilities

• Experience providing end of life care for residents transitioning while in facility

• Able to speak and read Spanish at an intermediate level

• Certified in CPR, first aid, and medication administration

• Completion of 630 clinical hours in various areas throughout nursing school

i ncluding Sunny Ridge Assisted Living and various units in St. Alphonsus and St. Luke's

i ncluding med surg, endoscopy, telemetry, pre-op, post-op, labor and delivery, pedes, NICU,

P ICU, CCU, and my 180 hour preceptorship in the ER at St. Lukes.

Education:

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing

• Northwest Nazarene University, Nampa Idaho

• Graduated May, 2013

Affiliations:

• Student Nurse Association

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