Alfreda Murphy

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Boca Raton Florida 33433

Mobile: 910-***-****

Email: adfz2a@r.postjobfree.com

Availability: Job Type: Permanent Work Schedule: Full-Time

Work Experience:

Complete Home Care

6853 SW 18th St. Suite 210

Boca Raton, FL 33433

03/2017 - Present

LPN- Field Nurse

Duties, Accomplishments and Related Skills:

Administer prescribed medications: IV, IM or SubQ, noting time, amount and site, documenting patient’s reaction in the EMR. Assess patients, report 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 catheterization's. Provides Home Health Nursing Care to Medicare patients, based on their medical needs. Providing verbal and written education, regarding their diagnosis, medication, diet, safety and or treatments as established in their plan of treatment. Assessed patient during each visit, communicating with the RN case manager and or the doctor as needed. Maintains and submits written clinical documentation, which includes, nursing notes, care plans, discharge summaries and reports as requested to the doctor. EMR documentation in Kinnser.

Supervisor: Elizabeth Summers, RN, DOCS 561-***-****)

Fayetteville, North Carolina VA Hospital

2300 Ramsey Street

Fayetteville, NC 28301

09/2013 – 06/2015

LPN –Charge Nurse

Duties, Accomplishments and Related Skills:

GS-7, Charge Nurse Position: Essential Job Functions.

Responsible for supervising, overseeing, and coordinating nursing assistants and other staff in providing direct care according to a residents care plan. Prepares daily assignments for the nursing assistants and other LPNs. Takes an active role in residents’ care. Assist nursing assistants in the performance of their essential job duties when needed. Provide a full range of care to residents utilizing the nursing process. Contributes to the formulation of the individualized nursing care plans. Help to develop and implement a plan of care and action to meet the residents’ needs. Assist the providers in discharge planning. Reviews Quality Improvement Plans and demonstrates knowledge of the quality improvement process, role and responsibility. Participates in activities to improve residents care. Attends and participates in resident care meetings, staff meetings and all mandated in-services. Accompanies the physician/provider on rounds to ensure the exchange of pertinent information. Ensures the physician orders are transcribed correctly. Provides prescribed medical treatment and personal care services tot he residents on a multi level/unit (short term rehab, hospice and long-term). Monitors meal times and food trays for prescribed diet and assist with feeding residents when needed. Assess resident's needs including but not limited to: medical, physical, educational, psychological, learning ability, preferences and readiness to learn. Administers medication and performs treatments: Wound care, trachea. Care, Feeding Pumps, Oxygen Equip., Nebulizer treatments, IV medications. Injections (IM, SUBq, Interdermal), Foley/external Catheters, Application of hot and cold compresses in accordance with the established Department of Veterans Affairs guidelines/policies and procedures. Collects samples, urine, stood, sputum, varies cultures. Performs Glucose monitoring. Monitors and observes residents and reports any adverse reactions to medications

Supervisor: Brandon Mason 910-***-****)

Okay to contact this Supervisor: Yes

St Andrews Estates South

6051 South Verde Trail

Boca Raton, FL 33433 United States

05/2009 - 08/2013

LPN- Resident Nurse

Duties, Accomplishments and Related Skills:

Administer prescribed medications, 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 catheterization's.• Observe patients, charting and reporting changes in patients' conditions, such as adverse reactions to medication or treatment, and taking any necessary action.

Supervisor: Marcia Michelson 561-***-****)

Allied Home Healthcare

1901 South Congress Ave. Suite 330

Boynton Beach, FL 33426

12/2008 - 11/2012

LPN (Perdiem Field Nurse)

Duties, Accomplishments and Related Skills:

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 catheterization's. Responsible for providing skilled nursing home visits for Medicare Patients. Provided instructions regarding disease process, medication and management. Administered simple and complex wound care, including but not limited to applying wound vacs. Administered medication, Iv and inhalation.

Firstat Nursing Service

5601 Cooperate Way Suite 404

Riviera Beach, FL 33407

12/2008 - Present

LPN- Field Nurse

Duties, Accomplishments and Related Skills:

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 catheterization's. Provides Home Health Nursing Care to Medicare, Private Insurance and HMO patients, based on their medical needs. Providing verbal and written education, regarding their diagnosis, medication, diet, safety and or treatments as established in their plan of treatment. Assessed patient during each visit, communicating with the RN case manger and or the doctor as needed. Maintains and submits written clinical documentation, which includes, nursing notes, care plans, discharge summaries and reports as requested to the doctor.

Supervisor: Claire Uhlfelder 561-***-****)

Whitehall Nursing and Rehab

7300 Del Prado Circle

Boca Raton, FL 33433

03/2004 - 12/2006

Sub-Acute Lpn

Duties, Accomplishments and Related Skills: :

Set up and monitor medical equipment and devices such as cardiac monitors, mechanical ventilators and alarms, oxygen delivery devices, transducers, and pressure lines. 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 catheterization. Sub-Acute Unit responsible for administer nursing care to patients on of Vent/Trach dependent patients, medication administration, (IV, IM, SUBQ, via Peg/J-Tube/G-tube and inhalation) 24hr chart checks, receiving and transcribing physician orders. Admissions and discharges, patient assessments, documentation, skin assessments, checking PT/INR, Blood sugars, venipuncture, Suctioning, trachea care, Vent setting. Chest Physiotherapy, neuro checks, Intake and out put recordings, EKG's.

Supervisor: MaryAnn Russell 561-***-****)

Coordinated Care Solutions Inc.,

12301 NW 39th Street

Coral Springs, FL 33065

10/2002 - 08/2006

Concurrent Case Manager (SNF and Home Care for various insurance providers)

Duties, Accomplishments and Related Skills:

Concurrent Reviewer SNF Case Manager for Aetna Police Holders. Responsible for receiving relevant information from various health care facilities to help substantiate a the need to for admitting or the continuation care in a skilled setting. Information was received via e-fax and reviewed to determine what if any skilled services were needed. After reviewing the information recommendations were made for either discharge or and alterative level of care. Also responsible for submitting information to the medical director for a medical review. Responsible for communication with facilities, policy holders/POA's/Doctors to gather information to ensure a safe and effective plan of care and discharge plan for each policy holder. Also set preliminary cost-effective and realistic goals from the evaluation. Work closely with the Facility case manager and the physician to develop a plan (short and long term) optimizing time frames. Evaluate the effectiveness of ongoing activities, amending the plan to reach desired outcomes and if the out come is guarded with the patient/family and seek to achieve stability and continuity using managed/Medicare guides.

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West Palm Beach VAMC

7305 North Military Trail

West Palm Beach, FL 33410 United States

01/1998 - 10/2002

Hours per week: 40

Duties, Accomplishments and Related Skills: Med/Surg. Tele Unit

Administer prescribed medications Using Bar Code Medication Administration. 24 hour chart/order checks. Starting and administrating intravenous fluids, noting times and amounts on patients' Electronic 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 catheterization. Apply clean dressings, slings, stockings, or support bandages, under direction of nurse or physician. Answer patient call signals, signal lights, bells, or intercom systems to determine patients needs. Administer medications or treatments, such as catheterization, suppositories, irrigations, enemas, massages, or douches, as directed by a physician or nurse.

Supervisor: Janet Villunuvena- Pruna 561-***-****)

Okay to contact this Supervisor: Yes

Avmed Home Care

Office Closed

Fort Lauderdale, FL 33308

03/1997 - 08/2000

Hours per week: 16

Intake Coordinator and Field Nurse

Duties, Accomplishments and Related Skills:

Responsible to receiving patient information from various sources to admit Avmed policy holders for skilled home care services, (Nurse/PT/OT/ST/Aide). Intake provided for a Palm Beach/Broward

and Dade Counties. Also insured all medications and or equipment was ordered.

Community Home Health

3250 N Andrews Ave. Ext.

Pompano Beach, FL 33064

09/1992 - 04/1998

QI Supervisior/Case Manager

Duties, Accomplishments and Related Skills: Reviewed Charts, responsible for educating the field staff, including, nurses, home health aides, OT, PT, ST and MSW on documentation required by Medicare

guidelines. Responsible foe formulating plans of treatment, coding diagnosis/treatments and procedures.

Supervisor: Gail Peterson 954-***-****)

VAMC Miami/Oakland Park

9800 W Commercial Blvd

Fort Lauderdale, FL 33351

06/1989 - 09/1996

LPN- Miami VA: 9A/B Medical

Duties, Accomplishments and Related Skills:

Miami VA: 9A/B Medical

Administered prescribed medications. Start and maintained IV’s. 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. Assisted the RN and or the doctor as needed. Provided wound care, administered medications or treatments, such as catheterization, suppositories, irrigations, enemas and other treatments as directed by a physician or nurse. Collected specimens from patients using standard medical procedures

Oakland Park Clinic

Floated to Various Nursing Clinics:

Triage: General Assessment, Documented patient’s general complaint, general assessment vital signs. Communicated any abnormal vital signs to the Screening nurse (RN) and or to the patient’s doctor or the doctor covering the walk-in clinic.

Treatment Room: (follow-up clinic) Rechecked Patients blood pressures, administered medications, various vaccinations, and other medications as ordered the doctor. Patient educations, on new

medications, new diagnosis and or preps for pending procedures. Wound care/dressing changes. Ear irrigations.

Life Support Room: Worked with a Registered Nurse. This was like a mini-emergency room, patients were stabilized and either discharged home, to the Miami VA or to a local hospital: Administered 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. Assisted the RN and or the doctor as needed.

Dermatology: Assisted the dermatologist with minor surgical procedures. Obtaining biopsies, cultures and other lab test as needed. Applied dressing. Documentation in patients’ medical record. Patient education.

Pulmonary Function: Performed Pulmonary Function Test

Minor Surgery: Assisted the surgeon with minor surgical procedures, cyst removal.

EKG: Performed EKG’s and Rhythm Strips and applied Holter monitors.

Code Blue Team: Responsible to taking the Crash Cart to Codes in the Clinic

and assisting as needed during the code.

Endoscopy: Assisted with all GI procedures. Also responsible to cleaning all equipment after procedures.

GYN: Assist the Gynecologist with GYN procedures,, pap-smears and or biopsies.

Urology: Assisted the Urologist with various procedures, Cystoscopy, dilatations, insertion and removal of foley catheters. Also responsible to collecting urine specimens and completing lab requisitions. Communication with the Urologist and the patient. Documentation in the patients’ medical record.

Supervisor: Judy Perez 954-***-****)

Education:

Central High Tuscaloosa, AL

High School or equivalent 05/1981

GPA: 3.2 of a maximum 4.0

Major: N/A Minor: N/A

Relevant Coursework, Licenses and Certifications:

High School

Shelton State Community College Tuscaloosa, AL

Technical or Occupational Certificate

Major: LPN Minor: N/A

Relevant Coursework, Licenses and Certifications:

12 Month LPN Course.

Language Skills: English

References:

Ruthana Gullet RN 561384942

Candy McCarthy RN 954-***-****

Diane Riles 954-***-****

Marjorie Faucette RN 678-***-****

Mayna Klein RN 561-***-****

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