Tammy L. Clark ***** Laraway Dr. Riverview, FL ***79

acriny@r.postjobfree.com Cell: 813-***-****

Professional

Nursing Professional with nineteen years of experience in supervision of medical staff, patient teaching with a strong emphasis on patient assessment, assisting physicians with procedures, administration and documentation of medications, and providing nursing care for adult and geriatric patients. Solid knowledge of comprehensive nursing care procedures and excellent direct patient care skills. Reputation as a self-directed professional with superior problem solving skills. Successful in time management, prioritizing tasks and organizing projects to improve quality of patient care. I am currently pursuing a challenging position where I am able to utilize my extensive background in nursing.

Experience

American Renal Association

Licensed Practical Nurse 2012-Present

Providing dialysis care in a chronic care setting.

Providing assessments of patients’ pre and post treatments.

Drawing up and giving IV medications during and post dialysis treatments.

Obtain laboratory specimens.

Monitor lab results.

Obtain orders from MD.

Providing dressing changes to patients with subclavian catheter ports.

Glucose monitoring, medication administration, patient education regarding disease process, diet, dialysis treatment process.

USF/DaVita Dialysis 2007-2012

Licensed Practical Nurse

Providing dialysis care in both the acute and chronic care setting.

Charge Nurse/Team Leading a staff of four for three shifts and up to 15 patients per shift.

Providing assessments of patients’ pre and post treatments.

Drawing and giving medications IV during and post dialysis treatments.

Calling and obtain orders from MD for dialysis patients.

Obtain laboratory specimens on patients.

Monitoring Laboratory results.

Initiating and discontinuing dialysis treatments.

Providing dressing changes to patients with subclavian catheter ports.

Access Manager

Kindred Hospital Tampa, FL 2008-2009

Licensed Practical Nurse

Provide oral, injections, I.V., and topical medications to long term acute care patients.

Provide skin and wound care, suctioning to ventilated patients.

Start I.V.s’, maintain and access PICC and CVL lines, draw and monitor labs.

Maintain chest tubes.

Initiated and monitored peg tube and NG tube placement, care and feeding.

Monitor patients in step down unit, ICU, med-surg unit, access telemetry.

Obtain history and physicals on new and established patients, vital signs, respiratory, neuro, cardiac assessments

Healthcare Professional Staffing 2006 to 2007

Licensed Practical Nurse

Travel nursing in Dialysis

Chicago, IL- Fresenius- Acute dialysis services to seven hospitals.

Initiated and completed one on one bedside dialysis treatments, cardiac and respiratory assessments, subclavian and perm- catheter care, AV fistula and synthetic grafts care and cannulation, maintained isolation precautions.

Obtaining MD orders off the computerized patient charts, call MD for orders or to report the patients assessment and status, and analyzing lab results.

Building, priming and setting up the dialysis machine in different patient areas, care and handling of connecting the dialysis machine to the hospital water system, assessment of water Ph and conductivity.

On call for 24 hours 1-2 times per week for Fresenius to provide acute dialysis services for the seven hospitals.

Paris, TX-Fresenius- Chronic dialysis

Initiating and completing dialysis treatments, respiratory and cardiac assessments, subclavian and perm catheter care, Av fistula and synthetic graft care and cannulation, maintaining universal and isolation precautions, building and priming dialysis machines.

Glucose monitoring, medication administration, patient education regarding disease process, diet, dialysis treatment process.

Heart Care Center, E. Syracuse, N.Y. 2001 to 2006

Licensed Practical Nurse

Obtain history and physicals on new and established patients, vital signs, respiratory and cardiac assessments, telephone triage with patients as well as other healthcare providers and facilities.

Perform EKG's both 12 lead and basic.

Assist MD with testing procedures such as TEE, tilt table tests, STE troubleshooting, IV insertion, phlebotomy, O2 Stats, glucose monitoring, blood test results, pacemaker and defibrillator interrogation setup.

Assist patients post testing in recovery

Initiate and monitor patients receiving I.V. chelation therapy, study medications, and lasix drips.

Administer medications: oral and injections.

Assist with ordering and maintaining medical supplies.

Provide patient education with diet and medication use and administration.

Assisted in setting up policy and procedure on tracking and monitoring laboratory visits and results on all established patients.

St Josephs Hospital, Syracuse, N.Y. 1999-2001

Licensed Practical Nurse/Anesthesia Tech

Assisted Anesthesiologists with insertion of arterial lines, Swan-Ganz catheters, IV insertion and assisted with intubations to patients in open heart surgery and abdominal aortic aneurysms and other emergent surgeries’.

Worked on-call with Anesthesia and assisted in all emergency cases.

Assisted with insertion of temporary pacemakers.

Assisted Anesthesia in giving blood and plasma via Level 1 rapid infuser and hand pump I.V. tubing.

Maintained and restocked medications, ventilator gases, intubations equipment, breathing equipment for the anesthesia machines.

Built quad and arterial lines for impending surgeries.

Completed and certified to hang blood and blood products under supervision of an RN by St. Josephs Hospital.

Completed and received a certificate in St Josephs Hospital medication course.

Completed a Cardiac Rhythm course given by St. Josephs Hospital.

Education

Excelsior College- 2012- Pursuing an AAS in Nursing

Columbia College of Missouri, Syracuse, N.Y. 2005

BA, Criminal Justice Administration

Columbia College of Missouri, Syracuse, N.Y. 2003

AA, General Studies

Madison-Oneida BOCES, Verona, N.Y. 1995

Certificate, Adult LPN

Licenses & Certifications

Licensed Practical Nurse-09/25/06-07/31/2015 Florida Board of Nursing

Licensed Practical Nurse-NCLEX PN 1995-2016

New York State Education Department

BLS Certification- 08/20/2013-08/2015

Florida IV Certified-2008

DaVita DSS Leadership Class-2010

Kindred Hospital Telemetry Certification-04/2009

Contact this candidate