Kristen Brown, RN

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Evansville, IN 47712

ad2gec@r.postjobfree.com

812-***-****

PROFILE

I am an experienced Registered Nurse looking for full-time employment in an energetic and fast-paced atmosphere. I am a quick learner and naturally curious in nature. The nursing field is very diverse and I am always open to the next learning opportunity. I am dependable and reliable and consistent with my work and strive to be the best in my role.

EXPERIENCE

—RN Case Manager, Deaconess Home Health, Evansville, IN 2/2023-present Duties Include: Rotating daily home visits to established patients, managing care plans and performing supervisory visits for LPN and HHA employees, providing education and teaching on new medications, diagnoses, prognosis, and safe care at home, dressing changes and wound care including wound vacs, communication with physicians, Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Speech Therapy, and Registered Dieticians to develop an optimal care plan for successful and timely results. Participate in weekly Case Conferences to maintain open dialogue between all disciplines, and perform Medicare/Oasis Start of Care admissions, recertifications, resumption of care, and discharges. Teamwork is essential in this role. All Medicare and Oasis guidelines are followed for every patient.

— RN, Milan Laser, Evansville, IN 4/2022-1/2023

Duties Include: Knowing and following protocol of laser escalation according to RN assessment and skin type, Recognizing and Initiating change in protocol if necessary, Candela Laser Certification- the ability to operate laser safely and effectively, know and perform maintenance, ability to troubleshoot and treat client effectively, recognizing treatment burns, hypo/hyper pigmentation, and histamine reactions based on assessment and symptoms, maintaining positive relationships with clients, assisting in reaching monthly clinic sales goals, any other tasks or goals assigned by clinic

-Registered Nurse, OR First Assist, Flannagan Plastic Surgery, Newburgh, IN 8/2015-1/2022

Duties Include:First Assist in Operating Room 3 days weekly, submitting codes for insurance patients and obtaining approval, creating physician orders, H&P, surgical consents, and supply orders for all new surgical patients, providing extensive teaching including explaining specific surgery and post-op care to all surgery patients, coordinating and scheduling surgery cases with other surgeons, scheduling all insurance cases as well as calculating and providing patient with specific deductible information, ordering medications and pre-testing for all pre-op patients, spending sufficient amounts of time in pre-op so patient feels confident and comfortable heading into surgery and has all questions and concerns addressed, producing and mailing all pre-op paperwork to surgical patients in a timely manner, assisting in office with procedures and clinic as needed.

— Registered Nurse, Franklin Family Physicians, Evansville, IN 10/2014-8/2015 Duties Include: phone nurse- communicating with physician/ Nurse Practitioner on patient issues received through phone calls or email, answering patient questions and concerns, refilling prescriptions, completing referrals to specialists, running lab work at times, scheduling, assisting physicians/nurse practitioner as needed. Required significant multi tasking, use of EPIC, and a broad range of knowledge in prescription medications.

— RN, Deaconess Comprehensive Pain Center 6/2012-10/2014 Duties Included: intake and pre-procedure prep of patients for procedures, IV starts, entry of physician orders for procedure, sterile procedure set-up, assisting physician during procedures, administering IV sedation during procedure- ie: Fentanyl and Versed during procedure and monitoring vitals, transferring patients to recovery, monitoring and recovering patients immediately post procedure, post-procedure discharge teaching and recovery duties, performing patient call backs weekly, assisting Nurse Practitioner as needed. Duties Included: outpatient admission for GI procedures, IV starts, post procedure reports to floor nurse for inpatient cases, post-op recovery and discharge teaching.

— RN, Deaconess Endoscopy/GI Lab, Evansville/Newburgh IN, 1/2011-7/2012 Duties Included: outpatient admission for GI procedures, IV starts, post procedure reports to floor nurse for inpatient cases, post-op recovery and discharge teaching.

—RN, Deaconess Cardiovascular Care Center, Evansville IN, 5/2008-6/2012 Duties Included: managing care of 5-8 patients per shift, medication administration including multiple IV/PICC lines and continuous drips as well as the monitoring necessary for such cardiac drips, maintaining patient care plans, contacting physicians for any change in condition or care, prepping and recovering patients from multiple cardiac procedures- ie: cardiac caths/ stent placements, coronary artery bypass grafting, placement of pacemakers/ICDs. Management of multiple types of drains- mainly JP drains and chest tubes. Wound and dressing care, reading cardiac telemetry strips and identifying the current rhythm or any rhythm changes, patient admission- either Direct Admit or ER admission, transferring to and from other units depending on patient stability, discharge teaching and resources for patient, report on each patient at shift change to incoming nurse as well as charge nurse.• BLS/ACLS Certified

—Clerical Associate/Telemetry Monitor Technician, Deaconess Hospital, Evansville IN, 4/2003-5/2008

Duties Included: data entry of physician orders into electronic database, answering telephones, scanning and faxing documents, reading and interpreting telemetry strips every 4-8 hours for all cardiac-monitored patients at both Deaconess Main Campus as well as Deaconess Gateway as well as immediately reporting any rhythm changes to RN, recouping and maintaining patient paper charts and Medication Administration Records, scheduling patient appointments upon discharge, prioritizing the urgency of orders and completing most critical orders first.

EDUCATION

8/2000-3/2002

Kentucky Wesleyan College, Owensboro, KY- Political Science/Pre-Law 8/2006-5/2008

Henderson Community College, Henderson, KY- Nursing SKILLS

-Sterile Procedure Set Up

-Moderate IV Sedation Administration

-Medication Management and Teaching

-Post Procedural Monitoring/ Recovery/Teaching

-First Assist Scrub- OR

-Submitting ICD-10 codes to insurance, gaining insurance approval

-Calculating deductible information and providing to patient

-Scheduling with other surgeons or scheduling staff for all OR cases

-Pre/Post Op Care and Teaching

-Incision and Drain Care

-Pre/Post Op Medication Instructions/Side Effects

-Referrals to Outside Doctors/ Specialists

-Organizing Home Health care if needed

REFERENCES

Amie Hillyard, FNP- 812-***-****

Arianna Nathan, CST-812-***-****

Wendy Peter, RN- 812-***-****

Nancy Weiss, CST- 812-***-****

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