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LPN with a diverse medical background.

Location:
Wheaton, IL, 60187
Salary:
40,000-50,000
Posted:
February 25, 2016

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Denise M. Sullivan

*N*** Elmwood St. Winfield Ill. 60190-1373 acto5g@r.postjobfree.com 630-***-****

Career Focus

A Licensed Practical Nurse accountable for working with severely profound handicapped students. Attending to their medical as well as educational needs. An organized individual with a strong diverse medical background highlighted by several years of experience in school, home, clinic and hospital environments.

Highlights

Provide one on one care for high school and elementary school students, as well as young adults.

Continued healthcare as the day nurse in the students home for 8 plus years

Acted as a visiting nurse providing health care to home bound patients.

Medical clinic and surgical nurse; accepting assignments in multiple departments.

Professional Skill Set

Familiar with equipment required to provide, breathing, feeding, and communication for profoundly handicapped individuals.

Maintain detailed documentation regarding the patient’s condition to provide to the attending doctor.

Interface with doctors and communicating his instructions to the patient and family.

Disciplines include Internal Medicine, Dermatology, Gastroenterology, ENT, Phlebotomy, Urology, Surgery, and Urgent care.

Assist physicians with surgical and endoscopy procedures.

Experience History

CUSD 200 8/2013 – 2016

One on one classroom Nurse in the Transition program

Classroom Nurse for profoundly handicap Elementary student. Assisting with their medical, and behavioral needs.

Dispensed medication and fed student via a gastro tube; and orally.

Maintained tracheostomy and suctioned it . As well as monitoring emergency medical equipment. When student pulled out tracheostomy tube I re inserted it and preserved stable respiratory status. Retained schedule a in a timely manner. Assisted with school work at the direction of the teacher.

Maxim Staffing Solutions – Education Division 6/2011-8/2013

Float throughout Chicago and Suburbs substituting wherever needed as a one on one nurse, school nurse, or in a multi needs classroom.

Niles North High School 8/2010-2/ 2011

Provided personal and educational care for a profoundly handicapped quadriplegic student.

Monitored vent observation, trach care and suctioning.

Provided Gtube, feeding and care.

Assisted student with a Dynavox computer to enable communication.

Assisted him to and from his home on bus ensuring his care and safety.

Interacting with parents and educational staff providing him the best possible learning experience.

Wheaton North High School and various agencies 1/2003-8/2010

Private duty nurse for handicap high school student. Continued care of individual in home post graduation.

Provided nebulizer meds and oral meds as needed.

Repositioning student [quadriplegic] in high powered wheel chair.

Taking notes during class time.

Monitored patients ventilator

Providing trach care, suctioning, and nebulizer treatments and dispensing of G-tube medications.

Ensuring patient comfort by repositioning patient in his wheel chair, toileting, and feeding. Assist with passive range of motion, and oral care.

Charting, ordering refill on medications, washing, and sterilizing supplies.

Assess patient’s state, execute plan of care, and contact Doctor for any new medications or changes in patient’s condition.

Clinic Nurse

Urology Associates of DuPage 2000 - 2002

Rooming patients, taking vitals and triage.

Assist MD’s in surgical procedures (Vasectomies, Cystoscopys, Prostrate biopsies, and Ultrasound).

Sunrise Assisted Living 1999-2000

Administered medication and individualized care to 75 residents.

Glen Ellyn Clinic 1996-1999

Dermatology, Gastroenterology, ENT, Phlebotomy, and Urgent care.

Started IV’s, and recovered IV sedated patients.

Phone triage, procedure scheduling, patient receiving, and patient callbacks.

Reorganized office environments to improve efficiency.

STAFF BUILDERS: 1994 - 1995

Home health care visits consisting of: Bedside treatments, Nursing care assessments, and High tech skilled nursing care

Humana Health Care Plan/ Michael Reese Health Care 1993 - 1996

Internal Medicine ● Pediatrics

Dermatology ● Surgery

GI endoscopy lab ● Allergy clinic

Hoffman Estates Medical Center /Humana Healthcare Registry 1990-1993

Surgical Orthopedic Unit

Michael Reese Health Plan: Internal Medicine 1987-1990

Coordinated patient flow and assisted internal medicine physicians.

Assisted in surgical procedures. Provided general and emergency ambulatory care, treatment and medications.

Set up pre-surgical testing, phone triage, EKG’s, and applied 24-hour holter monitors.

Performed allergy immunizations.

Oak Park Hospital 1977 -1987

Surgical Step-down Unit.

EDUCATION:

Triton College- River Grove, Illinois - Licensed Practical Nurse



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