Laurie Holland
Springfield, IL 62702
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Qualifications:
Ability to focus on the task at hand, to in order to prioritize to ensure appropriate patient care.
Charge experience to include admissions and bedding of new patients, overseeing nursing staff, bed assignments, and communicating effectively with physicians.
Strong interpersonal skills, accuracy in patient history, charting, and other documentation.
Precept new grads, refresher students, and nursing students; certified as a Clinical Teaching Associate.
Professional Experience:
PICC nurse / Vascular Access Services Team
St. John's Hospital
Springfield, Illinois
September 2011 - present
Assess patient's specific vascular access needs; identify patients that have increased risk for complications of standard IV therapy; successfully insert PICC and midline catheters per hospital protocol using sterile technique; educate nursing staff on proper care and maintenance of central lines. Monitor and track hospital wide central line infections.
Case Manager
Baptist Hospital
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
June 2010 - September 2011
Functioned as an admission and discharge case manager to establish a POC and changes in POC, in order to coordinate appropriate discharge needs for patients. Coordinated services between local agencies to assure delivery of coordinated, comprehensive, safe, and reimbursable care in homes and / or community facilities.
Staff RN / Charge Nurse
Baptist Hospital
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
September 2006 - June 2010
Served as a staff nurse / charge nurse on a busy surgical oncology unit, tending to patients post operatively to assure safe and proficient patient standards of care were being met. Promoted health and supported patients and families in coping with illness. Provided education and teaching to those patients with newly created wounds and ostomies. Charge nurse activities in addition to included staff scheduling, patient/family patient relations, and assisted physicians and coworkers with procedures.
Staff Nurse
Lafayette General Medical Center
Lafayette, Louisiana
August 2005 - September 2006
Functioned as a member of a medical oncology team. Safely administered chemotherapy to patients, provided compassionate end-of-life care, praised by nursing administration for professionalism when speaking with joint commission officials.
Education:
Bachelor of Arts, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina, 2000.
Bachelor of Nursing, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2005.
Licensed as a Registered Nurse in Illinois.
ACLS certified.