Registered Nurse Practitioner
Resume:
B rigitta Panther
B oise ID, 83705
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Objective:
To obtain a travel position as a registered nurse in a behavioral health setting
Experience:
Pain Care Boise
Boise, Idaho
Registered Nurse, September 2013 - present
• Act as both pre-op and recovery nurse in the facility’s Ambulatory Surgery Center
• Administer sedation during procedures as directed by physician and monitor patients
w hile under and recovering from sedation
• Provide counseling and education to patients trying to wean off narcotics
• Routine insertion and removal of IV’s
• Manage medical assistants on shift and direct overall patient flow
• Room patients for clinic visits
• Prepare charts for next day visits
• Finalize patient encounters before they are posted to billing
• Maintain medical coding knowledge for chart finalization purposes
• Create flow-charts for facility protocols
• Create How-to sets of instructions for general employee use
• Routinely maintain/test clinic equipment
• Schedule new patients
• Add patients, their referring physicians, and insurance information to our billing
s ystem, Advanced MD
• Request prior authorizations from patients’ insurance companies
E merson House Memory Care
Garden City, Idaho
Med Tech and Registered Nurse, March 2013- September 2014
Registered Nurse
• Manage nurse-aids on shift
• Assess patients to determine patient status and appropriate/helpful interventions
• Create/edit patient care plans
• Order/administer medication as appropriate
• Communicate change in patient condition to a doctor or nurse practitioner
• Investigate/follow-up on incident reports
• Be on call to answer staff members’ questions and delegate administration of PRN
m edication.
Med Tech
• Administer medications or treatments, such as pills, suppositories, creams, eye drops,
e ar drops, breathing treatments, or inhalers as directed as directed by a physician or nurse
a nd charted on these activities
• Chart on medication administration
• Provide emotional support and comfort to both patients suffering from dementia and
t hese patients’ families.
• Cue and redirect patients who are acting out or exhibiting inappropriate behaviors
Grace Assisted Living
Boise, Idaho
Med Tech, May 2012 – March 2013
• Administer medications or treatments, such as pills, suppositories, creams, eye drops,
e ar drops, breathing treatments, or inhalers as directed as directed by a physician or nurse
• Cue and redirect behaviorally challenged residents
• Chart on medication administration
• Send medication orders to pharmacies
• Record vital signs, such as temperature, blood pressure, pulse, or respiration rate, as
d irected by medical or nursing staff.
• Collect specimens, such as urine, feces, or sputum
• Turn or reposition bedridden patients
Heritage Assisted Living Memory Care
Boise, Idaho
Caregiver, June 2010 – April 2012
• Care for behaviorally challenged residents with dementia
• Cue and redirect residents when exhibiting behaviors, ie: violence and
s exuality
• Management of residents during behavioral/emotional crises, ie:
h allucinations, panic attacks, etc
• Provide a warm, comforting, and stimulating environment for these residents
• Provide activities for residents to encourage memory stimulation
Credentials:
• Recipient of the ‘Outstanding Clinician’ award for my nursing class of 2013
• NIH stroke certified
• Experience managing medical assistants and nurse aids in clinic, ambulatory surgery
c enter, and assisted living facility settings.
• Three years of experience working with behaviorally challenged residents in memory
c are facilities
• Excellent IV skills cultivated during my experience as a pre-op nurse in an
a mbulatory surgery center and my 180 hour senior preceptorship in the ER
• Three years of experience as a certified nursing assistant caring for the elderly in
a ssisted living facilities
• Experience providing end of life care for residents transitioning while in facility
• Able to speak and read Spanish at an intermediate level
• Certified in CPR, first aid, and medication administration
• Completion of 630 clinical hours in various areas throughout nursing school
i ncluding Sunny Ridge Assisted Living and various units in St. Alphonsus and St. Luke's
i ncluding med surg, endoscopy, telemetry, pre-op, post-op, labor and delivery, pedes, NICU,
P ICU, CCU, and my 180 hour preceptorship in the ER at St. Lukes.
Education:
• Bachelor of Science in Nursing
• Northwest Nazarene University, Nampa Idaho
• Graduated May, 2013
Affiliations:
• Student Nurse Association
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