Patient Care Health Center
Resume:
Brenda Powers
Woods Rd
Meridian, MS, *****
**************@*****.***
Hiring Manager
Alliance Health Center
Dear Hiring Manager,
Thank you for the opportunity to apply for the LPN role at your company. After reviewing your job description, it’s clear that you’re looking for a candidate that is extremely familiar with the responsibilities associated with the role, and can perform them confidently. Given these requirements, I am certain that I have the necessary skills to successfully do the job adeptly and perform above expectations.
I am a hard-working professional who has been consistently praised as proactive by my co-workers and management. Over the course of my 15-year career, I’ve developed a skill set directly relevant to the LPN role you are hiring for, including continuity of care, treatment planning, and prescription verification. Overall, I have consistently demonstrated analytical, problem-solving, and multitasking abilities in every aspect of my LPN role at Brooksdale Cooperation, and I invite you to review my detailed achievements in the attached resume.
After reviewing my resume, I hope you will agree that I am the type of competent and competitive candidate you are looking for. I look forward to elaborating on how my specific skills and abilities will benefit your organization. Please contact me at 601-***-**** or via email at **************@*****.*** to arrange for a convenient meeting time.
Thank you for your consideration, and I look forward to hearing from you soon. Sincerely,
Brenda Powers
Meridian, Mississippi, 39305 601-***-**** **************@*****.*** Brenda Powers
Meridian, Mississippi, 39305
**************@*****.***
WORK EXPERIENCE
BROOKSDALE CORPORATION, Meridian, Mississippi
LPN, May 2018 – Present
Observe patients, charting and reporting changes in patients' conditions, such as adverse reactions to medication or treatment, and taking any necessary action. Provide basic patient care or treatments, such as taking temperatures or blood pressures, dressing wounds, treating bedsores, giving enemas or douches, rubbing with alcohol, massaging, or performing catheterizations.
Administer prescribed medications or start intravenous fluids, noting times and amounts on patients' charts.
Work as part of a healthcare team to assess patient needs, plan and modify care, and implement interventions.
Collect samples, such as blood, urine, or sputum from patients, and perform routine laboratory tests on samples.
Prepare patients for examinations, tests, or treatments and explain procedures. Assemble and use equipment, such as catheters, tracheotomy tubes, or oxygen suppliers. Evaluate nursing intervention outcomes, conferring with other healthcare team members as necessary.
Record food and fluid intake and output.
Help patients with bathing, dressing, maintaining personal hygiene, moving in bed, or standing and walking.
Inventory and requisition supplies and instruments. Sterilize equipment and supplies, using germicides, sterilizer, or autoclave. Answer patients' calls and determine how to assist them. Measure and record patients' vital signs, such as height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, pulse, and respiration.
SPECIALTY HOSPITAL, Meridian, Mississippi
LPN, Jun 2010 – May 2018
Observe patients, charting and reporting changes in patients' conditions, such as adverse reactions to medication or treatment, and taking any necessary action. Administer prescribed medications or start intravenous fluids, noting times and amounts on patients' charts.
Provide basic patient care or treatments, such as taking temperatures or blood pressures, dressing wounds, treating bedsores, giving enemas or douches, rubbing with alcohol, massaging, or performing catheterizations.
Sterilize equipment and supplies, using germicides, sterilizer, or autoclave. Answer patients' calls and determine how to assist them. Collect samples, such as blood, urine, or sputum from patients, and perform routine laboratory tests on samples.
Work as part of a healthcare team to assess patient needs, plan and modify care, and implement interventions.
Supervise nurses' aides or assistants.
Record food and fluid intake and output.
Evaluate nursing intervention outcomes, conferring with other healthcare team members as necessary.
Assemble and use equipment, such as catheters, tracheotomy tubes, or oxygen suppliers. Meridian, Mississippi, 39305 601-***-**** **************@*****.*** Help patients with bathing, dressing, maintaining personal hygiene, moving in bed, or standing and walking.
Inventory and requisition supplies and instruments. Prepare patients for examinations, tests, or treatments and explain procedures. Measure and record patients' vital signs, such as height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, pulse, and respiration.
Apply compresses, ice bags, or hot water bottles.
POPULAR SPRINGS NURSING HOME, Meridian, Mississippi LPN, Jan 2005 – Dec 2010
Administer prescribed medications or start intravenous fluids, noting times and amounts on patients' charts.
Observe patients, charting and reporting changes in patients' conditions, such as adverse reactions to medication or treatment, and taking any necessary action. Provide basic patient care or treatments, such as taking temperatures or blood pressures, dressing wounds, treating bedsores, giving enemas or douches, rubbing with alcohol, massaging, or performing catheterizations.
Sterilize equipment and supplies, using germicides, sterilizer, or autoclave. Answer patients' calls and determine how to assist them. Measure and record patients' vital signs, such as height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, pulse, and respiration.
Work as part of a healthcare team to assess patient needs, plan and modify care, and implement interventions.
Collect samples, such as blood, urine, or sputum from patients, and perform routine laboratory tests on samples.
Prepare patients for examinations, tests, or treatments and explain procedures. Assemble and use equipment, such as catheters, tracheotomy tubes, or oxygen suppliers. Record food and fluid intake and output.
Help patients with bathing, dressing, maintaining personal hygiene, moving in bed, or standing and walking.
Apply compresses, ice bags, or hot water bottles.
Set up equipment and prepare medical treatment rooms. Evaluate nursing intervention outcomes, conferring with other healthcare team members as necessary.
Inventory and requisition supplies and instruments. EDUCATION
Northeast High School, Lauderdale, Mississippi
High School Diploma, May 1988
Meridian Community College, Meridian, Mississippi
LPN Program, May 2001
ADDITIONAL SKILLS
Effective Communicator
Interpersonal Skills
Microsoft Word Processing
Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet
Efficient Leadership Skills
Impactful Group and Team Building
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