Jennifer Armstrong

Registered Nurse - Advanced Correctional Healthcare

Chippewa Falls, WI 54729

ad4v6t@r.postjobfree.com

715-***-****

/ 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.

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