Registered Nurse Manager
Resume:
Valerie Gandar
Bend, OR **701
Cell: 209-***-****, ******@*****.***
Professional Summary
Dependable professional that is focused on patient safety with combined total of twenty years of nursing experience and has worked the past four years as a Registered Nurse in a growing fast-pace outpatient Oncology/Infusion Clinic.
Skills
Chemotherapy Certified
Oncology Certified Nurse
Case Management
BLS/ACLS
Work History
06/2008-06/2011 Oncology/Infusion Nurse
Kaiser Permanente, Modesto California
Provided various I.V. Chemotherapy agents as well as biotherapy agents in a fast-paced outpatient Oncology/Infusion Clinic.
Assessed/monitored for side effects and/or reactions and reported findings to covering Oncologist.
Provided pt/family teaching regarding chemotherapy agents, chemotherapy side-effects, required lab monitoring, and foods/liquids to avoid and those that should be encouraged.
Scheduled patients for future infusion appointments and follow up appointments with Oncologist utilizing CIPS.
06/2011-08/2012 Oncology Case Manager
Kaiser Permantente, Modesto California
Coordinated patient care for seven covering Oncologists in the Modesto/Stockton area.
Managed and scheduled oral chemotherapy patients for telephone follow up and consultation. Scheduled patients for routine follow up with Oncologist per protocol.
Followed up with other departments as needed to ensure tests/procedures are scheduled in a timely manner.
Assist Oncologist with bone marrow biopsies that could be done in the clinic instead of through IR.
Coordinated an Oral Chemotherapy Orientation Class for new patients that was given once a month.
01/2007-06/2008 Staff Nurse
Nightengale Nurse Services, Turlock California
Provided nursing care as a relief Nurse utilizing the nursing process for various settings such as ; Med/Surg, Sub-acute, ER triage, and SNF.
06/2006-05/2007 Travel Nurse
American Traveler Staffing Professionals, Boca Raton, Florida
06/2006-01/2007
Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital, Santa Barbara California
Provided nursing care for patients in an Oncology Unit utilizing the nursing process. Supportive care provided for cancer patients that were experiencing side effects related to chemotherapy treatment; delayed nausea that required aggressive I.V. antiemetics and fluids, anemia that required blood and platelet transfusions, and neutropenic fevers that required reverse isolation, I.V. antibiotics and close lab monitoring and reporting any abnormal findings to the covering MD. Maintained I.V. access per protocol that included initiating I.V.’s, accessing Lifeports, and PICC line dressing changes.
02/2007-05/2007 Travel Nurse
Mercy San Juan Medical Center, Carmichael California
Provided nursing care for patients utilizing the nursing process in various departments as well as other Mercy facilities in the Sacramento area.
01/2003-05/2006 Staff Nurse
Memorial Medical Center, Modesto California
Provided nursing care for patients in an Oncology Unit as well as other Units as needed utilizing the nursing process. I.V. management that included initiating peripheral I.V’s, Lifeport access, and PICC line dressing changes.
Education
Associate Degree in Nursing 2002
Modesto Junior College, Modesto California
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