LESHA YERKA BSN, RN

*** ******** **., **********, ** 01301

413-***-**** cell

adlczg@r.postjobfree.com

I am looking to continue being a nurse as I retire this year. I am looking to help with CoVid testing and/or vaccination.

EXPERIENCE

DECEMBER 2009 - PRESENT

3-11 NURSING SUPERVISOR, FARREN CARE CENTER, MONTAGUE, MA

Overseeing the shift, evaluating any acute resident issues, helping with communications with medical and psych providers, assisting nurses with procedures and managing the staffing for 3-11 and for any absences that occur in the 11-7 shift.

SEPTEMBER 2009 – NOVEMBER 2009

STAFF RN, Charlene Manor, Greenfield, MA

Covered of a nursing unit administering medications and doing treatments. Communicating with medical staff regarding any resident issues. I worked on the long term care unit and memory unit.

JUNE 1983-SEPTEMBER 2009

ASSISTANT DIR OF NSG/INSERVICE COORDINATOR, Eden Park/Pine Heights, Brattleboro, VT

All employee mandatory education, CPR training, Nurse Aide Training classes. Wrote teaching plan for nurse aide training program, approved by Vermont. Policy writing as OBRA changes occurred including MDS, reduction of restraints, improvements with Elder Abuse policy to conform to new standards.

JANUARY 1980 – JUNE 1983

NURSING INSTRUCTOR, Thompson School for Practical Nurses, Brattleboro, VT

I maintained, updated the teaching plans and taught the classes for Anatomy and Physiology and Human Growth and Development. Cover Nursing Skills lab teaching basic nursing skills, sterile technique. Monitored clinical in the hospital with 5-11 students.

JANUARY 1978 – JANUARY 1980

STAFF RN ON THE SURGICAL UNIT, Brattleboro Memorial Hospital, Brattleboro, VT

Night nurse on the surgical unit for pre/post OP patients. Giving medications, doing treatments, managing and re-starting IV's and other kinds of tubes, documentation of care and patient condition. Transferred to day shift and help develop the first PRE-OP Check List for this unit for patient education.

JULY 1977 – JANUARY 1978

STAFF RN FLOAT, Wesson Memorial Hospital, Springfield, MA

Night nurse float, administering medications orally and IV, dressings, documentation of care and patient condition.

EDUCATION

JUNE 1977

BS - NURSING, UMass – Amherst, MA

JUNE 1973

HS DIPLOMA, Hamilton-Wenham Regional High school, Hamilton, MA

SKILLS

Organization of records and documentation

Nursing skills, giving shots, obtaining swabs for lab

Comfortable using a computer to do orders and documentation

Comfortable with Infection Control and use of PPE

ACTIVITIES

My hobbies include reading, making hand made cards, scrapbooking and many other craft types of projects. I like music. I played a coronet for 9 years, grade school to 1st year in college. I learned how to play and played handbells in group, ensemble, duet and solo at church which I participated in for 20 years. My church had a radio show for which I made the weekly tapes for 11 years. I was in charge of the church kitchen for 3 years, which included Sunday coffee hour, church dinners and community dinner like Ham and Beans open to the public for fund raising. I have been a Stampin Up Demonstrator for 5 years sharing the techniques for making handmade cards with others.