SARAH JEANNE MASON

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PALMYRA, PA 17078

TELEPHONE: Home 717-***-**** Cell 717-***-****

Email: acejec@r.postjobfree.com

Professional Objective

Updating personnel file for advancement

Summary

. Twenty four years experience with customer service. Twelve years

restaurant experience and fourteen years nursing experience with

patient care.

. Dedicated to quality patient care. Treating the entire patient

holistically and encouraging family involvement.

. A team player, conscientious of co-workers needs, strong work ethic,

and outgoing personality.

. Future focused and self motivated to pursue and continue higher

education.

Professional Experience

Lancashire Hall (Nursing Home) Neffsville, PA

Certified Nursing Assistant

1996-1998

. Provided patient care, performing and assisting patients with

activities of daily living.

. Learned to care for patient's basic needs while also providing

friendship and emotional support.

. Gained organizational skills, caring for up to thirty patients in a

given shift.

. Obtained meaningful experiences that would become the groundwork for

my future career as an LPN and then RN.

Cornwall Manor (Nursing Home)

Licensed Practical Nurse

1998-1999

. Hired as "Float" nurse. Working on five different wards, as needed.

Learned flexibility and adaptability.

. Worked as charge nurse of each floor assigned to. Responsible for

overseeing the nursing assistants and the patient care they provided.

. Responsible for all medication administration and treatments received

as well as paper documentation of both.

. This job further enhanced my organizational skills as well as

management and delegation of work assignments.

Lancaster General Hospital (Neuro Science Unit)

Licensed Practical Nurse

1999-2001

. Worked under the primary nurse model, being responsible for the entire

care of assigned patients.

. Responsible for patient care, medication administration, treatments

and documentation of above stated.

. Worked with covering RN and responsible for reporting critical changes

in patient status to both RN and Doctor.

. Received report from the Operating Room on patients coming to floor,

assessed patient on arrival.

. Received both verbal and telephone orders from doctors and documented

accordingly.

. Rounded with doctors, giving report and updates on patient status,

changing medications and treatments as ordered. Discharging patients

when appropriate.

. This medical/surgical floor experience enhanced critical thinking

skills, which would assist in my future emergency room experience.

Good Samaritan Hospital (Emergency Room)

Registered Nurse

2001-2004

. Responsible solely for assigned patient care/triage nurse/charge nurse. I.E. patient care,

medications, treatments ordered and documentation of such.

. Received and initiated both verbal and written orders by attending

physicians.

. Reported critical changes in patient status through observation,

assessment of patient, and through lab work and other test results.

Reported changes to both charge nurse and ER physician.

. Worked closely with co-workers, in assisting with their patient care

when appropriate, or in critical situations, in attempts to revive

patient.

. Worked in the triage setting, assessing and evaluating patients and

acuity of their illness and injury.

. Cared for all age groups, being certified in BLS, ACLS, and PALS.

. Called report to appropriate floors on patients being admitted to

hospital or going to OR, as well as the receiving hospital when

transferring patient.

. Performed thorough and confidential rape kits on qualifying patients,

following protocol and proper transferring of completed rape kit to

police who then sent kit to FBI.

Veterans Administration Hospital (Urgent Care)

Registered Nurse

2004-2006

. Primary Care of assigned patients/ triage nurse. I.E. assessments, medications,

treatments and admission protocol or discharge of patient as ordered.

. Assessing needs of psychiatric patient or homeless veteran and

contacting appropriate intervention, such as psychiatrist on call or

social worker.

. Triage nurse on alternating basis. Responsible for assisting acuity

of veteran's needs and directing veteran to either their primary care

provider or assigning classification for urgent care.

. Working with co-workers as a team to accomplish patient care or crisis

situation, such as respiratory or cardiac arrest.

. Received verbal and written orders from doctors, initiated the orders

as directed and reported critical changes in patient's status to

urgent care doctor.

. These emergency room experiences have enhanced my critical thinking

skills as well as organization, documentation, and focused

assessments. Learning to think quickly on my feet and recognize

changes in patient's status and to report them as quickly as they are

recognized, thus preventing further decline in the patient's health

status or even death.

These years have provided opportunity to care for a vast array of

health

problems; from colds to flu, diabetes, respiratory and cardiac arrests

to trauma

such as amputations, stabbings, and gun shot wounds.

I now have a wide range of experience with many different health

issues and

have learned to quickly adapt to any situation that may present

itself.

Veterans Administration Hospital (Ambulatory Surgical Unit)

Registered Nurse

June 2006 - June 2010

. Worked in pre-op and post-op areas in the Ambulatory Surgical

Unit/Post Anesthesia Care Unit and Endoscopy Suite as well as pain

clinic and was lead in the addition of the infusion

room. Worked closely with the pharmacy director, neurologist,

veterans, and pharmaceutical companies to coordinate that process.

While continuing to fill in as staff in the ED as needed.

Responsible for orienting all new staff, student nurses, and residents. CPR instructor for the ASU department.

. Sat on the Nurse Recruitment and Retention Committee, MRSA

Committee, and Tracking Committee at the VA Hospital in Lebanon,

PA.

. Coordinator for poster project for Nurse Practice Council April

2009 at VA Hospital in Lebanon, PA.

Education

. GED (General Education Diploma) 1995. I. U. 13 Building. Lebanon,

PA.

. Certified Nursing Assistant (Board Certified) 1996. Harrisburg

Area Community College, Lebanon, PA.

. Licensed Practical Nurse (Diploma) 1998. Harrisburg Area Community

College, Harrisburg, PA.

. Registered Nurse (Associate Degree) 2001. Harrisburg Area

community College, Harrisburg, PA.

. Registered Nurse (Bachelor Science in Nursing) January 8, 2009.

Immaculate University, Immaculata, PA.

. Masters of health administration/education 2013

. Past certifications in Basic Life Support and Advanced Cardiac

Life Support, and PALS.

. Cardiac Pulmonary Resuscitation Instructor 2009 for the ASU

department.

Community Service

. Volunteered weekly in a nursing home at fourteen and fifteen years

old,

1986-1988 that further fostered my desire to go into the nursing

field.

Volunteered with mission work in Monterey Mexico in 1987. Painting

a church and spending time with the youth in that church.

Support an army combat medic and soldier with care packages and

letters on a bi-weekly to monthly basis and provide a point of contact

for the local middle school six graders to write to this soldier as well

as the entire 307th the soldier is stationed with in Afghanistan.

And plan to volunteer for operation smile in the year 2013 as a

nurse in the pre-op or recovery areas.

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