Jennifer Armstrong
Registered Nurse - Advanced Correctional Healthcare
Chippewa Falls, WI 54729
ad4v6t@r.postjobfree.com
/ PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Registered Nurse with 20 plus years of experience in acute, long-term, and correctional healthcare, with excellent assessment and
triage skills.
Authorized to work in the US for any employer
Work Experience
Registered Nurse
Advanced Correctional Healthcare - Chippewa Falls, WI 2013 to Present
• Assessed, planned, and delivered quality nursing care to detained and committed clients
• Coordinated medical services
• Maintained infection control
• Demonstrated strong communication skills
• Ability to assess emergent and non-emergent needs within the detainee population
• Maintained accurate electronic documentation, communication, and security
• Maintained and followed agency protocol and standards RN Homecare Supervisor
Interim Healthcare - Eau Claire, WI
March 2012 to August 2012
• Assessed health problems and needs, developed care plans, maintained medical records.
• Administered nursing care to ill, injured, convalescent and disabled.
• Educated clients on health maintenance and management.
• Provided staff education.
RN Home Care Supervisor
ResCare Home Care - Eau Claire, WI
December 2011 to February 2012
• Assessed health problems and needs, developed care plans, and maintained medical records.
• Administered nursing care to ill, injured, convalescent and disabled.
• Case managed and educated clients and caregivers. Regional Nurse
Care Partners/Country Terrace of Wisconsin - Altoona, WI May 2009 to January 2011
• Regional Nurse/Case Manager for 4 CBRF facilities in Menomonie, Rice Lake, Spooner, Hayward.
• Maintained facilities in accordance with Administrative Code HSS 3 and HFS 83, OSHA regulations, policy and procedures of Care Partners Assisted Living, LCC and Country Terrace of Wisconsin, Inc.
• Assured health, safety, and welfare of residents.
• Provided staff in-service and education.
Nurse Clinician II
State of Wisconsin - Chippewa Falls, WI
September 1985 to May 2009
Registered Nurse/Education Director
Extendicare Health and Rehabilitation - Chippewa Falls, WI January 1998 to November 2002
• Primary Care Instructor/Director Longterm Care Facility responsible for CNA Program and Staff Inservice.
RN/ Nurse Clinician II
State of Wisconsin
September 1985 to February 1998
for Northern Center for Developmentally
Disabled.
• Provided nursing care as part of Interdisciplinary team member in assessment, intervention, care planning and ongoing monitoring and evaluation of individualized client needs. As clients, were mainstreamed to community living, this position was eliminated in 1998. I then reinstated 58
months later, when the Stanley Correctional Facility was opened. In December of 2002 I was reinstated as Nurse Clinician II.
• Assured quality health care through provision of skilled nursing care, to incarcerated individuals in both an infirmary and ambulatory health service setting within a medium security prison. In 2004 the Chippewa Falls minimum security correctional facility opened and I transferred there to work within the Health Service Unit as Nurse Clinician II, with emphasis on drug and alcohol rehabilitation and retired at age 55.
RN/ICCU Trauma Intensive Care
Sacred Heart Hospital - Eau Claire, WI
June 1981 to June 1983
Provided emergency, skilled nursing care, assessment, treatment, care management which included coronary, intensive surgical care, hemodynamic monitoring of the critically ill. RN ICU
Luther Mayo Hospital - Eau Claire, WI
June 1980 to June 1981
Provided surgical intensive nursing care to the critically ill, assessment of health care needs, development of nursing care plans and maintenance of medical records. CPR/ACLS certification. RN-Pediatrics
St John's Hospital - Saint Paul, MN
June 1979 to June 1980
Provided care to Infants and children which included assessments, treatments, management, family and patient education.
Education
Loma Linda University
1983
Associate Degree in Nursing
Western Wisconsin Technical College
August 1977 to May 1979
Nursing Licenses
RN
Skills
• American Red Cross (10+ years)
• Customer Service (10+ years)
• Red Cross (Less than 1 year)
• CPR (5 years)
• Infection Control Training
• Nursing
• Critical Care Experience
• Dialysis Experience
• Hospice Care
• Laboratory Experience
• Documentation review
• Medication Administration
• Vital Signs
• EMR Systems
• Employee Orientation
• Nurse Management
• Caregiving
• Hospital Experience
• Triage
• Case Management
• Phlebotomy
• ICU Experience
Certifications and Licenses
CPR/AED
June 2018
BLS Certification
ACLS Certification
Assessments
Clinical judgment — Familiar
January 2021
Assessing a patient's condition and implementing the appropriate medical intervention Full results: Familiar
Electronic health records: Best practices — Highly Proficient January 2021
Knowledge of EHR data, associated privacy regulations, and best practices for EHR use Full results: Highly Proficient
Medical terminology — Proficient
January 2021
Understanding and using medical terminology
Full results: Proficient
First aid — Proficient
January 2021
Treating common medical emergencies
Full results: Proficient
Verbal communication — Highly Proficient
January 2021
Speaking clearly, correctly, and concisely
Full results: Highly Proficient
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Additional Information
SKILLS
American Red Cross Health & Safety Trainer, CPR Instructor; Red Cross National Disaster Team volunteer, homecare/hospice.