Latoya Smith-Brooks,RN

Assistant Director of Nursing - APPLEWOOD NURSING AND REHABILITATION

CENTER

Dolton, IL

acemmb@r.postjobfree.com - 708-***-****

• To obtain a management position within a company that will utilize my experience and expertise while offering

room for professional advancement.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Assistant Director of Nursing

APPLEWOOD NURSING AND REHABILITATION CENTER - Matteson, IL - September 2012 to Present

Monitor and maintain the safety and well being of residents of 115 bed long term care facility.

• Evaluate nursing intervention outcomes, conferring with other health care team members as necessary.

• Supervise nurses and nurse aides.

• Audit all admission charts.

• Complete CNA and Nurse schedule monthly.

• Perform annual resident and staff TB audit.

• Complete annual Pneumococcal and Influenza Vaccinations for staff and residents.

• Complete all clinical documentation electronically using Matrix system.

• Assemble and use equipment such as catheters, tracheotomy tubes, and oxygen suppliers.

• Answer patients' calls and determine how to assist them.

• Conduct monthly staff inservices, training and competency courses.

• Psychotropic and Infection Control nurse

• Works with wound coordinator, implementing and evaluating new treatment therapies.

• Acted as the Psychotropic and Infection control nurse, monitored and track nonsocomial infections that require

antibiotic therapy and ensure staff has knowledge of what organisms require re culture per facility policy.

• Identify trends and Isolate acute infections in accordance to facility policy.

• Joint Commission experience:

-Educated on all policy and procedures in line with JCAHO requirements.

-Monitor all employees to ensure all staff is in compliance with JCAHO standards for personal hygiene

-Keep daily record of all wander bracelets to ensure compliance.

Asst Director of Nursing

JACKSON PARK SUPPORTIVE LIVING FACILITY - Chicago, IL - May 2012 to February 2013

Mar 2009-Feb 2013

Floor LPN/RN

- March 2009 to May 2012

Monitor and maintain the safety and well being of residents of 150 bed supportive living facility.

• Evaluate nursing intervention outcomes, conferring with other health care team members as necessary.

• Supervise nurses' aides and assistants.

• Inventory and requisition supplies and instruments.

• Audit all admission charts.

• Complete CNA and Nurse schedule monthly.

• Perform resident TB audit.

License Practical Nurse/ Nursing Supervisor

CERMAK HEALTH SERVICES - Chicago, IL - February 2006 to March 2009

Provided tracheostomy care and maintained airway patency.

• Administered all prescribed medications via by mouth, Gastrostomy tube and Nasogastirc tube.

• Performed wound care to patients with pressure ulcer and decubitus ulcers.

• Maintained the safety and well being of the Alzheimer and Dementia patients.

• Maintained medication compliance among the psychiatric patients.

• Collect samples such as blood, urine and sputum from patients, and perform routine laboratory tests on

samples.

• Record food and fluid intake and output.

• Supervise nurses' aides and assistants.

License Practical Nurse

CERMAK HEALTH SERVICES - Chicago, IL - September 2005 to March 2009

Provided diabetic care and counseling to Cook County Department of Corrections detainees

• Observe patients, charting and reporting changes in patients' conditions, such as adverse reactions to

medication or treatment, and taking any necessary action.

• Administer prescribed medications or start intravenous fluids, and note times and amounts on patients' charts.

• Perform triage for patients being admitted to Emergency Room

• Provide basic patient care and treatments, such as taking temperatures or blood pressures, dressing wounds,

treating bedsores, giving enemas or douches, rubbing with alcohol, massaging, or performing catheterizations.

AROUND THE CLOCK NURSE AGENCY

ATC - Palos Heights, IL - May 2002 to June 2006

Worked various shifts at various hospitals and long term care nursing facilities when they were not adequately

staffed.

• Maintained and promoted comfort to hospice patients with pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical

interventions.

• Assemble and use equipment such as catheters, tracheotomy tubes, and oxygen suppliers.

• Prepare patients for examinations, tests or treatments and explain procedures.

• Provide medical treatment and personal care to patients in private home settings, such as cooking, keeping

rooms orderly, seeing that patients are comfortable and in good spirits, and instructing family members in

simple nursing tasks.

• Collect samples such as blood, urine and sputum from patients, and perform routine laboratory tests on

samples.

License Practical Nurse

SACRED HEART HOSPITAL - Chicago, IL - May 2001 to September 2005

Set up equipment and prepare medical treatment rooms.

• Help patients with bathing, dressing, maintaining personal hygiene, moving in bed, or standing and walking.

• Assemble and use equipment such as catheters, tracheotomy tubes, and oxygen suppliers.

• Make appointments, keep records and perform other clerical duties in doctors' offices and clinics.

• Answer patients' calls and determine how to assist them.

• Administer prescribed medications or start intravenous fluids, and note times and amounts on patients' charts.

• Monitored patients and maintained safety on the detox unit.

• Prepare patients for examinations, tests or treatments and explain procedures.

EDUCATION

ASSOCIATE in NURSING

SOUTH SUBURBAN COLLEGE - South Holland, IL

May 2012

DAWSON TECHNICAL INSTITUTE - Chicago, IL

April 2001

College Prepatory

June 1995

LINDBLOM TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL - Chicago, IL

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Licensed Registered Nurse Expires 05/2014

CPR(BLS) Certified in Illinois Expires: 05/2015

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