PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

SKILLS

EXPERIENCE

JACQUE LAWSON

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Accomplished and energetic [LVN] with a solid history of achievement in

[Nursing/Geriatric]. Motivated leader with strong organizational and prioritization abilities. Areas of expertise include[Medication Administration], [Acute/Chronic Care] and [Patient Advocate].

Therapy and Counseling

Active Listening

Service Orientation

Customer and Personal Service

Monitoring

Education and Training

Coordination

Critical Thinking

Reading Comprehension

Judgment and Decision Making

Instructing

Transportation

Time Management

Clerical

Administration and Management

Management of Personnel

Resources

Operation Monitoring

Education and Training

Instructing

Complex Problem Solving

Medication Administration

Peripheral/Central IV Cert.

CPR/IED Cert.

Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses 04/2014 to 08/2014 Stephenville Senior Care - Stephenville, TX

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. Observe patients, charting and reporting changes in patients' conditions, such as adverse reactions to medication or treatment, and taking any necessary action.

Answer patients' calls and determine how to assist them. Clean rooms and make beds.

Apply compresses, ice bags, or hot water bottles.

Prepare or examine food trays for conformance to prescribed diet. Record food and fluid intake and output.

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.

Supervise nurses' aides or assistants.

Make appointments, keep records, or perform other clerical duties in doctors' offices or clinics.

Clinical Instructor 08/2011 to 07/2013

Ranger College - Early, TX

Supervise students' laboratory and clinical work.

Evaluate and grade students' class work, laboratory and clinic work, assignments, and papers.

Keep abreast of developments in the field by reading current literature, talking with colleagues, and participating in professional conferences. Plan, evaluate, and revise curricula, course content, course materials, and methods of instruction.

Prepare course materials such as syllabi, homework assignments, and handouts.

Maintain student attendance records, grades, and other required records. Demonstrate patient care in clinical units of hospitals. Compile, administer, and grade examinations, or assign this work to others. Collaborate with colleagues to address teaching and research issues. Assess clinical education needs and patient and client teaching needs using a variety of methods.

Mentor junior and adjunct faculty members.

Maintain a clinical practice.

Maintain regularly scheduled office hours to advise and assist students. Perform administrative duties such as serving as department head. LVN 06/2009 to 11/2012

Rising Star Nursing Home - Rising Star, TX

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. Observe patients, charting and reporting changes in patients' conditions, such as adverse reactions to medication or treatment, and taking any necessary action.

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.

Supervise nurses' aides or assistants.

Make appointments, keep records, or perform other clerical duties in doctors' offices or clinics.

Prepare patients for examinations, tests, or treatments and explain procedures.

Provide medical treatment or personal care to patients in private home settings, such as cooking, keeping rooms orderly, seeing that patients are comfortable and in good spirits, or instructing family members in simple nursing tasks.

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.

Set up equipment and prepare medical treatment rooms. Prepare or examine food trays for conformance to prescribed diet. Apply compresses, ice bags, or hot water bottles.

Inventory and requisition supplies and instruments. Wash and dress bodies of deceased persons.

LVN 01/2009 to 04/2010

TRI Star Home Health - Cisco, TX

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.

Supervise nurses' aides or assistants.

Make appointments, keep records, or perform other clerical duties in doctors' offices or clinics.

Prepare patients for examinations, tests, or treatments and explain procedures.

Record food and fluid intake and output.

Help patients with bathing, dressing, maintaining personal hygiene, moving in bed, or standing and walking.

CNA 03/2006 to 09/2009

Rising Star Nursing Home - Rising Star, TX

Service, clean, or supply restrooms.

Gather and empty trash.

Clean building floors by sweeping, mopping, scrubbing, or vacuuming. Follow procedures for the use of chemical cleaners and power equipment to prevent damage to floors and fixtures.

Strip, seal, finish, and polish floors.

Notify managers concerning the need for major repairs or additions to building operating systems.

Set up, arrange, or remove decorations, tables, chairs, ladders, or scaffolding to prepare facilities for events, such as banquets or meetings. Drive vehicles required to perform or travel to cleaning work, including vans, industrial trucks, or industrial vacuum cleaners.

Clean and polish furniture and fixtures.

Dust furniture, walls, machines, or equipment.

Move heavy furniture, equipment, or supplies, either manually or by using hand trucks.

Mow and trim lawns and shrubbery, using mowers and hand and power trimmers, and clear debris from grounds.

Clean and restore building interiors damaged by fire, smoke, or water, using commercial cleaning equipment.

Complete physical checks and monitor patients to detect unusual or harmful behavior and report observations to professional staff. Record and maintain patient information, such as vital signs, eating habits, behavior, progress notes, treatments, or discharge plans. Maintain patients' restrictions to assigned areas. Work as part of a team that may include psychiatrists, psychologists, psychiatric nurses, or social workers.

Provide patients with assistance in bathing, dressing, or grooming, demonstrating these skills as necessary.

Clean and disinfect rooms and furnishings to maintain a safe and orderly environment.

Provide mentally impaired or emotionally disturbed patients with routine physical, emotional, psychological, or rehabilitation care under the direction of nursing or medical staff.

Serve meals or feed patients needing assistance or persuasion. Organize, supervise, or encourage patient participation in social, educational, or recreational activities.

Aid patients in becoming accustomed to hospital routine. Perform nursing duties, such as administering medications, measuring vital signs, collecting specimens, or drawing blood samples. Accompany patients to and from wards for medical or dental treatments, shopping trips, or religious or recreational events. Participate in recreational activities with patients, including card games, sports, or television viewing.

CNA 04/2006 to 08/2007

Girling Home Health - Brownwood, TX

Complete physical checks and monitor patients to detect unusual or harmful behavior and report observations to professional staff. Record and maintain patient information, such as vital signs, eating habits, behavior, progress notes, treatments, or discharge plans. Maintain patients' restrictions to assigned areas. Work as part of a team that may include psychiatrists, psychologists, psychiatric nurses, or social workers.

Provide patients with assistance in bathing, dressing, or grooming, demonstrating these skills as necessary.

Clean and disinfect rooms and furnishings to maintain a safe and orderly environment.

Restrain or aid patients as necessary to prevent injury. Provide mentally impaired or emotionally disturbed patients with routine physical, emotional, psychological, or rehabilitation care under the direction of nursing or medical staff.

Serve meals or feed patients needing assistance or persuasion. Organize, supervise, or encourage patient participation in social, educational, or recreational activities.

Aid patients in becoming accustomed to hospital routine. Perform nursing duties, such as administering medications, measuring vital signs, collecting specimens, or drawing blood samples. Accompany patients to and from wards for medical or dental treatments, shopping trips, or religious or recreational events. Participate in recreational activities with patients, including card games, sports, or television viewing.

Complete administrative tasks, such as entering orders into computer, answering telephone calls, or maintaining medical or facility information. Interview patients upon admission and record information. Hair designer/ Owner 06/2000 to 11/2002

Jacque's Family Styles - Irving, TX

Oversee activities directly related to making products or providing services. Direct and coordinate activities of businesses or departments concerned with the production, pricing, sales, or distribution of products. Review financial statements, sales and activity reports, and other performance data to measure productivity and goal achievement and to determine areas needing cost reduction and program improvement. Manage staff, preparing work schedules and assigning specific duties. Direct and coordinate organization's financial and budget activities to fund operations, maximize investments, and increase efficiency. Establish and implement departmental policies, goals, objectives, and procedures, conferring with board members, organization officials, and staff members as necessary.

Determine staffing requirements, and interview, hire and train new employees, or oversee those personnel processes.

Determine goods and services to be sold, and set prices and credit terms, based on forecasts of customer demand.

Keep work stations clean and sanitize tools such as scissors and combs. Cut, trim and shape hair or hairpieces, based on customers' instructions, hair type and facial features, using clippers, scissors, trimmers and razors. Analyze patrons' hair and other physical features to determine and recommend beauty treatment or suggest hair styles. Schedule client appointments.

Bleach, dye, or tint hair, using applicator or brush. Update and maintain customer information records, such as beauty services provided.

Shampoo, rinse, condition and dry hair and scalp or hairpieces with water, liquid soap, or other solutions.

Operate cash registers to receive payments from patrons. Demonstrate and sell hair care products and cosmetics. Develop new styles and techniques.

Apply water, setting, straightening or waving solutions to hair and use curlers, rollers, hot combs and curling irons to press and curl hair. Comb, brush, and spray hair or wigs to set style.

Shape eyebrows and remove facial hair, using depilatory cream, tweezers, electrolysis or wax.

Train or supervise other hairstylists, hairdressers and assistants. Administer therapeutic medication and advise patron to seek medical treatment for chronic or contagious scalp conditions. Massage and treat scalp for hygienic and remedial purposes, using hands, fingers, or vibrating equipment.

Shave, trim and shape beards and moustaches.

Recommend and explain the use of cosmetics, lotions, and creams to soften and lubricate skin and enhance and restore natural appearance. Give facials to patrons, using special compounds such as lotions and creams.

Receptionist/X-Ray Tech 10/1992 to 11/2000

Medical Surgical Clinic of Irving - Irving, TX

Manage staff, preparing work schedules and assigning specific duties. Establish and implement departmental policies, goals, objectives, and procedures, conferring with board members, organization officials, and staff members as necessary.

Determine staffing requirements, and interview, hire and train new employees, or oversee those personnel processes.

Answer telephones and direct calls to appropriate staff. Schedule and confirm patient diagnostic appointments, surgeries, or medical consultations.

Greet visitors, ascertain purpose of visit, and direct them to appropriate staff.

Operate office equipment, such as voice mail messaging systems, and use word processing, spreadsheet, or other software applications to prepare reports, invoices, financial statements, letters, case histories, or medical EDUCATION

records.

Perform bookkeeping duties, such as credits or collections, preparing and sending financial statements or bills, and keeping financial records. Complete insurance or other claim forms.

Interview patients to complete documents, case histories, or forms, such as intake or insurance forms.

Receive and route messages or documents, such as laboratory results, to appropriate staff.

Compile and record medical charts, reports, or correspondence, using typewriter or personal computer.

Maintain medical records, technical library, or correspondence files. Transcribe recorded messages or practitioners' diagnoses or recommendations into patients' medical records.

Arrange hospital admissions for patients.

Perform various clerical or administrative functions, such as ordering and maintaining an inventory of supplies.

Prepare correspondence or assist physicians or medical scientists with preparation of reports, speeches, articles, or conference proceedings. Ranger College Aug 2009

Early, TX

Lvn: nursing

Duncanville Nurse Aide Academy Jul 2006

Duncanville, TX

CNA: certified nurse aide

International Beauty College Aug 1997

Irving, TX

Cosmetologist: Hair design

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