Marrilyn Coleman
RN, WCC
West Seneca, NY 14224
email: ************@*****.***
OBJECTIVE
To be gainfully employed as a Registered Nurse and utilize the education and skills to prevent, educate, promote wellness, treat clients, and families with ailments that prevent meeting their health care goals, utilizing evidence-based practice. With over 20 years in nursing, I can provide a vast amount of experience to the nursing field Majority of my career has been in home health and I enjoy the one-on-one patient care I am able to provide.
Licenses and Certifications:
RN NY #877939
●LPN NY
●LVN CA
●WCC #190948473
●Sharps debridement
●IV/Phlebotomy
●BLS
●Wound vac
EXPERIENCE
RN, Visiting Nurses Association, WNY
Buffalo, New York
2/2023- Present
Provide care and case management to home-bound, long-term, and short-term patients. Extensive wound care. Provided ongoing client and family education regarding disease processes, interventions, and lifestyle changes. Assess the home environment and recommend care delivery to increase safety measures in the home as well as community resources that may be needed. Extensive data collection and assessment based on Medicare guidelines and OASIS documentation. Liaison and patient advocate between patient, family, and the medical community. Utilized HCHB charting system and adhering to Medicare guidelines and best practice.
LPN, Visiting Nurses Association, WNY
Buffalo, New York
08/2021- 1/2023
LVN, Mission Home Health
San Diego, CA
05/2018- 3/2020
Home Health Nurse: Wound care consults. Instruct disease process, medication regimen, administer medications/injections, charting, implement the plan of care ordered by physicians, wound care, remove sutures/staples, report abnormal findings, and communicate with involved disciplines. Home Care Home Base documentation. Adhering to Medicare guidelines and best practice. Instruct and educate nurses on proper wound care. Precept new nurses. Educate staff in wound care and ostomies including nutrition, etiology, prevention, maintenance, health promotion, prevent recurrence, products, and cost efficiency.
LVN, Sharp Home Health Care
San Diego, Ca
06/2014 - 10/1/2016
Home health nurse. Allscripts program documentation.
LVN, Mission Home Health
San Diego, Ca
04/2014- 03/2015
Home health nurse. McKesson program documentation.
LPN, Family Home Health (United Healthcare)
Las Vegas, NV
03/2012 - 04/2014
Home health nurse. Allscripts program documentation
LVN, Sutter Medical Foundation
Vacaville, CA
01/2011 - 08/2011
Clinic nurse in depts- Primary Care, Internal Medicine, Allergy Clinic, Urgent Care, and Pediatrics. Performing physical assessments, medication administration (all routes), minor procedures: staple/ suture removal, irrigation, wound care, nebulizer treatments, EKGs, lab draw, IV insertion, administering fluids, administering and interpreting skin tests, mixing allergens per MD orders, and documentation.
LVN, Unique Home Health
Las Vegas, NV
06/2008 - 01/2010
Home health nurse.
LVN, Always Better Care Home Health and Hospice
Las Vegas, NV
01/2005-5/2008
Home Health and Hospice Nurse.
LVN, Intake Coordinator, Assistant Administrator, Administrator
Lorian Health Systems
San Diego and Las Vegas location
1998-2001
Home Health LVN was promoted to intake coordinator. Coordinating all referrals and scheduling. Trained as an assistant administrator in the San Diego location then transferred to Las Vegas to branch out a new home health agency as the administrator. Guided the company through licensure and certification. Oversaw day-to-day operations, billing, hiring, orientation of new employees, and community liaison.
EDUCATION
Roberts Wesleyan University
Currently attending
Pursuing BSN
Wound Guru
Sharps Debridement certification
2023
Genesee Community College
Associate Degree in Nursing
2020- 2022
Capstone- ECMC Emergency room
Clinicals at: Millard Fillmore Suburban Hospital. UMMC (med surg and L&D), ECMC 12Z3 (vents/trachs), Wyoming County hospital (in-patient psych). Capstone at ECMC ER/Trauma.
Wound Care Education Institute 2019
WCC certification
Southwestern Community College
Associate Degree- Liberal Arts with an emphasis in Math and Science
Completed all pre-requisites for the RN program, minored in Business Management
IV / Phlebotomy course
Sharp SRS
Maric College of Medical Careers
LVN Certification
1997-1998
SKILLS
●Assessment using OASIS - based on Medicare guidelines.
●Case management of patients requiring home health services.
●Perform venipuncture and IV insertion.
●Assess, recommend, treat, and monitor wounds of all etiologies as well as disease processes.
●Educate clients, families, and coworkers in prevention, health promotion, maintenance/ treatment, and healing of wounds and ostomies.
●Perform wound care with evidence-based practice and best patient outcomes.
●Educate and support staff in current wound care with positive outcomes, not only treating the hole in a patient but the whole patient.
●Educate management of chronic diseases.
●Educate and encourage community resources to improve client independence.
●Collaboration with all client-involved disciplines creating a client-centered approach.
●Computerized charting/ communicating with all disciplines involved in the plan of care utilizing HCHB.