Registered Nurse Manager
Resume:
DEMETRICE SKINNER
GARLAND, NC 28441
TELEPHONE #: 910 990 - 0769 EMAIL: *************@*****.***
DEDICATED REGISTERED NURSE
* Medical – Surgical – Chronic Care – Acute Care – Long Term Care- Mental Health *
A dedicated professional benefiting from experience working effectively as part of multi-disciplinary teams. Resourceful,
responsive to change while achieving collective objectives in the caring and development of patients. Record of managing
busy caseloads, promoting services, increasing personal and professional standards, and highly committed to quality patient
care.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AND SIGNIFICANT ACHIEVEMENTS
RN HOME HEALTH NURSE (Home Health Case Manager) 10/11 –
Present
Carolina East; Lisa Whaley; Supervisor, Kenansville, NC
• Head to toe assessments to successful care for patient health care needs. This consist of mental, physically, emotional, and
spiritual assessments.
• Oasis admissions to consist of deciding what the patient needs as well as make the necessary appointment to physicians as needed
to provide the best care to promote baseline health.
• Assess and teach disease processes such as Diabetes, Hypertension, Mental disorders, chronic illness, and advanced age diseases.
• Wound care that consist of, but not limited to wound vacs, antibiotic beads, wet to dry dressings, silver dressings, and medihoney
placement.
• Prefill medication for patients that lack caregivers to ensure that medicines are taken per physician orders.
• Proficient in typing with the following programs Word, Excel, Mckesson, Allscripts programming and able to learn other
programs to achieve satisfactory patient care.
• Case manager tasks that consist of setting appointments to other disciplines and physicians to ensure all needs are being met,
communication with physicians on desired patient outcomes, addressing the patient needs and concerns, setting realistic goals
and implementing ways to meet them.
• Ensuring safety in the home environment and making sure that home is the most appropriate setting to provide adequate as well
as cost effective treatment.
• Mental evaluations to ensure that patient are capable of learning and making the necessary.
referrals if the need arises for further treatment. Mental health assessments conducted as well to check the effectiveness of
medications.
• Supervising LPNs to ensure that proper care is rendered and predictable outcomes are in place.
• Supervising of CNAs to ensure that assistance with Vital Signs, ADLs and IADLs are met and make the needed adjustments to
ensure that patient needs are being met.
• Educating on each visit the progression or regression in disease processes, medications, follow up appointments, and other goals
and treatments that may be needed.
• Discharge processes to home environment when goals are met or to a higher level of care if home concerns noted.
COLLEGE STUDENT (Pursuing BSN at Mount Olive College) 7/11 -
Present
Online Courses
RN HOME HEALTH NURSE (Oasis Admission Nurse)
6/09 – 7/11
Home Health & Hospice Care; Jamie Simmons, Supervisor, Clinton NC
• Duties includes head –to- toe assessments to include physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual care.
• Oasis admissions for quality services in the home environment to ensure that all the patient needs are being met in the most cost
effective setting.
• Supervision of LPNs to ensure that desired care is given with the proper response noted to treatments.
• Supervision of CNAs to ensure that Vital signs performed, repositioning patients as needed, ADLs and IADLs are properly
performed and patient satisfaction noted.
• Communicate with MD and promote patient independence to live in the comfort of their own home.
• Mental health assessments conducted to ensure that patient is capable of living in the home setting as well as the effect of the
medications that is rendered.
• Prefill the needed medicines per physician orders to ensure medicines are taken correctly.
• Ensure safety in the home at all times.
• Make the needed appointment and referrals as needed to care for all health care needs.
• Communications with other health care professionals on patient care
• Education on disease processes and changes on plan of care as needed.
• Knowledgeable of typing, Word, Mckesson, Allscripts, Computers, and able to learn other needed programs
RN STAFF NURSE (MEDICAL/SURGICAL & TELEMETRY DEPARTMENT)
5/08 – 6/09
Sampson Regional Medical Center; Wanda Holden, Manager, Clinton, NC
• Treating patients with fractures, heart conditions, diabetes, as well as patients with acute, chronic, and other surgical procedures
• Helping perform procedures such as chest tubes insertion, spinal tap, venipuncture, IVs, aseptic technique, and patient education
• Reading rhythm strips, administer medications, wound care dressing changes, document patient progress or regression during
hospital stay, fluent communication with patient, families, and physicians.
• Monitoring mental health patients in the ICU setting that are awaiting placement to ensure safety and medicines taken per
physician orders.
• Complete assessments to include mental, physical, spiritual, and emotional care.
• Knowledgeable in labs tests, mental status changes, pain assessments, and medication protocols
• Mental health mediations delivered while in acute setting and further referrals made as needed.
• Supervision of CNAs to ensure proper Vital Sign monitoring, turn and repositioning, and assistance given with personal care.
• Discharge plans per patient condition to home or other settings
RN HOSPICE NURSE (Hospice Nurse)
10/07 - 5/08
Advantage Hospice; Amy Wainwright, Supervisor, Clinton, NC
• Provide comfort care to terminally ill patients and caregivers until the end of life.
• Promote rapport and educated patient and families on disease processes and progression.
• Communicate with physicians to ensure that death and dying processes are peaceful and patient is at ease.
• Supervise CNAs to make sure that palliative care is rendered.
• Supervise LPNs to ensure that desired outcome is reached and treatment is performed satisfactorily
• Education on the dying process, medication and mental status changes that occurs with the end of life
• Proficient with typing and computer programs
COLLEGE STUDENT (Pre – Requisite Courses)
5/07 – 10/07
Online Courses
RN GERIATRIC NURSE (Retirement & Nursing Center)
7/06- 5/07
Southwood Nursing & Retirement Center; Jamie, Supervisor, Clinton, NC
• Complete patient assessments to include mental, spiritual, physical, and emotional care
• Medication administration to the elderly that may be mentally compromised and needs assistance with medicines.
• Wound care such as wet to dry dressings, wound vacs, silver placements, or per physician’s orders.
• Communicate with physicians on the patient’s status and desired treatment
• Supervise CNAs to ensure Vital signs are performed and assist with personal care.
• Frequent mental evaluations to ensure no further decline while in an inpatient setting.
• Capable of typing and performing needed documentation on computer programs.
• Make appointments to other disciplines as needed to promote patient stability.
• Discharge plans that consist of home settings, acute or inpatient placement for more patient care.
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