Registered Nurse Home Health

Deborah A. Banks

**** ************ ****** ****, *******, TN 38125 901-***-****

EXPERIENCE

Fresenius Dialysis Center, Memphis, TN: 4/2013-10/2013

• Dialysis Nurse

• Assessed/monitored pre-/intra-/post therapy care

• Educated patients on Vascular Access/ESRD/Dialysis therapy

• Administered medication/provided catheter care

• Delegated PCT to comply with policy

Fresenius Vascular Care, Memphis, TN: 2011- 4/2013

• Interventional Vascular Access Nurse

• Provide direct nursing care pre-/intra-/post-procedure care

o Thrombectomy,

o Fistulagram/angioplasty,

o Hemodialysis catheter insertion/exchange,

o Peritoneal dialysis catheter insertions,

o Infusion Ports insertions/removals

o Artherectomy

• Perform nursing assessment on dialysis accesses

• Educate patients and their families on procedures and outcomes

• Administer conscious sedation meds

• Assist physician with procedures as scrub tech

• Manage nursing supplies and inventory, including restocking & ordering

• Assist with Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI)

• Audit patient charts

• Excellent IV skills

• Communicate routinely with referral providers, patients, family members

• Able to respond and act in clinical emergency situations – ACLS certified.

Baptist Hospital: 2000 – 8/2011

• Registered Nurse

• Worked in GI Lab

• Worked in Echo Lab administering conscious sedation meds for TEE procedures and IV protein

solution for Echo studies

• Worked in Radiology assisting with Thallium stress test

• Worked in EP/Cath Lab

• Worked in Bronch Lab assisting with bronchoscopy procedures and assessing pulmonary patients

Criminal Justice Center: 1999 – 2000

• Assisted MD with inmate’s visits and assessments

• Performed EKG’s and first aid

• Operated Diabetic Clinic

Medshares Home Health: 1997 – 1999

• Educated patients on disease process and medication

• Evaluated patient status and managed patient care

• Interacted with doctors, patients and their family members

• Performed wound care

St. Francis Hospital: 1979 – 1996

• Critical Care Nurse

• Home Health Respiratory Therapist

• Educated patients on disease processes and maintenance of equipment

• Interacted with doctors and family members

• Taught Cardiopulmonary rehab exercises

• Supervised Respiratory Therapy technicians

• Assisted with intubations and ventilator weaning

EDUCATION

• Associate of Science in Nursing, Northwest Mississippi Jr. College, 1995

• Bachelor of Science in Health Art, College of Saint Francis, 1990

• Associate of Science in Respiratory Therapy, Northwest Mississippi Jr. College, 1984

CERTIFICATIONS/SKILLS

• Registered Nurse

• Registered Respiratory Therapist

• Licensed Arterial Blood Gas Analyst

• ACLS Certified

References available upon request

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