Clinic Nurse Follow Up
Resume:
Deborah L Strandlien
Alexandria, MN 56308
Mobile: 701-***-****
Email: ********@*****.***
Professional Highlights
ND Board of Nursing – LPN
License #- L10124– Expires 12/31/2024
MN Board of Nursing – LPN
License # - 591690 – Expires 10/31/2024
Education
Northland Community College - EGF, MN – August 2001
Major: Practical Nursing
University of Minnesota Crookston, MN - May 1990
Associate Degree of Applied Science in Business
Major: Legal, Executive Secretary Administration and Word Processing
Work Experience
Sevita Health
2/2021 – 4/2023 - LPN
Duties include: The Nurse is responsible to assure the people at Sevita have the best possible health. The nurse is to act as a liaison with the community medical personnel to assure continuity of care and promote quality public relations. The nurse is to provide training to our employees on medication administration and other health care tasks. To monitor and assess the health and well being of each person we support. Assure all medication and treatments and completed as ordered by the physician, to evaluate the effectiveness of and monitor for side effects and adverse reactions.
Altru Health System
6/2019 – 4/2020 - LPN – Clinic Nurse
Duties include: Rooming patients, taking vitals, updating medical history and medications, administer medications (oral and injections), schedule appointments, follow up on labs, phone calls, assist with a variety of procedures, computer documentation and other duties as needed.
Essentia Health
6/2014 – 6/2019 - LPN – Clinic Nurse (Allergy/Asthma, Family Medicine, Walk-In Clinic)
Duties include: allergy testing, record findings of testing, allergy injections, monitor patients, spirometry, patient education, scheduling appointments, triage phone calls, ordering supplies; and other duties in the Walk-In clinic consist of immunizations, fitting patients with durable medical equipment, nurse visits, lab draws, drug testing, follow up on lab results, prioritizing patients’ needs, computer documentation, injections, nebulizer treatments, assist with miscellaneous procedures such as laceration repair, skin tag/cyst removal, pap smears, STD testing, stitch removal and other duties as needed.
Valley Medical Clinic/Institute for Low Back Care
300 Main Avenue, Suite 212
Fargo, ND 58103
5/2013 – 5/2014 - LPN –Clinic
(Dr. only needed a RN therefore I was given notice that my position would be eliminated after a year of service)
Duties include: vital signs, scheduling appointments, processing prior authorizations, prescription refills, preparing charts for procedures, assisting with procedures, (example: epidural steroid injections, radiofrequency ablation, facet joint injections) answer and triage phone calls, ordering supplies, educating patients and families on procedures offered, deposit of funds and other duties as needed.
Sanford
2400 32nd Avenue South
Fargo, ND 58103
11/2011 – 4/2013 - LPN Clinic Nurse
Duties include: vital signs, computer charting, prior authorizations, scheduling appointments, process prescription refills, patient education, follow up on labs and imaging, help with nurse visits (shots), assist with thyroid biopsies, download blood glucose meters, compose letters and other duties as needed.
Dr. Erick Rath/Oral Surgeon
433 South Central Avenue
Pierre, SD 57501
12/2009 - 06/2011 - LPN - Dental Assistant
Duties include vital signs, assisting oral surgery, monitoring patients under sedation; monitoring patient after procedures, recording vital sign; sterilization of instruments, educating patients, scheduling appointments, ordering supplies/medications, and maintaining narcotic medication logs.
Sanford Mid-Dakota Clinic
300 Byron Blvd
Chamberlain, SD 57325
06/2008 - 12/2009 - Clinic Resource Nurse
Responsible for providing general nursing to patients, triage phone calls, assist with procedures, perform lab draws, complete prior authorization for procedures, process prescription refills, follow up on ER patients with labs/x-rays, clinic and referral patients, patient education, administer medications/shots, fill-in for other nurses as needed, make clinic and referral appointments as required, assist clinic director with QMI studies and work collaboratively with providers and staff to provide quality and efficient service to patients and clinic
MeritCare Health Care Accessories
1705 Anne Street
Bemidji, MN 56619
06/2007 - 06/2008 - LPN/Customer Care Specialist
Responsibilities including providing customer service to walk-in customers; provide customer service to retail and wholesale customers via telephone; assess customers for the off the shelf orthotic devices, compressions stockings and mastectomy products; maintain and expand professional knowledge through training and education; ordering supplies for clients and stock; educate customers on medical supplies and perform other related duties as assigned by management.
Clearwater Health Services (NKA Sanford Bagley Clinic)
123 4th Street NW
Bagley, MN 56621
2/2004 – 06/2007 - LPN Clinic Nurse
Provide clinical support to the physicians and mid-levels in a medical clinical setting; responsible for the efficient operation of the physicians’ office with patient care, comfort, safety as my primary concern; primary nurse responsible for injections and resource for other support staff, refill request and follow according to protocol, assist physician in general office practice and procedures, attend conferences and keep up with current education and nursing trends, inform patient of test results and education, vital signs, ordering supplies, making appointment for referrals, discard and log sample medications, performs basic lab tests, EKGs and other nursing duties as needed.
Altru Health System
1200 S. Columbia Road
Grand Forks, ND 58206
8/2002-6/2003 – Medical Surgical Floor
6/2003-2/2004 – Float Nurse - Clinic
12/1997-11/2000 – Secretary
Medical Surgical Nurse/LPN Clinic Float Nurse
Take accurate and complete phone messages for the provider, provide patient/patients' family with appropriate education and teaching information, identify changes or high-risk situations in patients condition, documentation in the computer all authorized medication refills and instructions, assures lab work, test, schedule and assist with procedures, prepare patients for exams and assist as needed, vital signs, and perform Dr. orders as prescribed for patient.
During my high school years and college, I worked at a certified nurses’ aid at Kittson Memorial Nursing Home (Hallock, MN) from 1/1986 – 8/1991
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