Registered Nurse Care
Resume:
Kelly G. Farmer RN.
Mount Juliet, Tennessee37122
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Professional Summary
Compassionate and professionally trained Registered Nurse with 25+ years’ experience in health care. Skilled in providing exceptional care to diverse patient populations in health care. And has a passion for many areas of medicine with a variety of experience with most recent listed below. Compassionate and loyal. Would love to become a member of your team.
Skills
Successful diagnosis/treatment of various clients with usual and unusual diseases.
Patient/family focused
Proficient in IV therapy and management.
Medication administration
Detail oriented
People person
HIPPA compliant
Fast learner / Intense love of medicine
Work History
Alive Hospice Inpatient Unit, 08/03/2020 to 09/03/2021 1710 Patterson Street Nashville TN
Staff Nurse RN
Educate pt and family as to what hospice is and why they are here.
Customize Pt teaching. Monitor Vital signs and for signs and symptoms for pain crisis.
Ensure comfort and as pain free environment that hospice can safely allow.
Pt has complete control and can withdrawal from hospice at any time.
Implementation of various treatments for end of life care according to physicians' orders and appropriate interventions as needed for pt in end of life such as : catherization.
Pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic interventions
Incorporate other hospice team members as needed such as Chaplin and social worker.
Help pt complete goals before end of life for sense of completion.
Hickory Hills Memory Care, 02/2019 to Present Hendersonville Tennessee United States
Management of caregivers for proper interventions & activities for individuals According to plan of care and policy. Customized teaching and support for pt and family.
Management of individuals with end of life Diagnosis
Pharmacologic & non-pharmacologic interventions.
Re-direction
Medication administration.
Incorporated Plan of action with extended members of Palliative/hospice team as needed.
Adoration Home Health and Hospice, 07/2017 to 10/15/2019
Primary care of individuals in their own home in accordance to the guidance of the primary care physician.
Performed physical assessment & evaluations of individuals as needed for specific diagnosis.
Communicated results of said assessment & evaluation to attending physician.
Performed certain labs as ordered by attending physician & sent to ordered laboratory for analysis.
Reported said results to attending physician & team as needed for proper intervention & medical need.
Pharmacological & non-pharmacological management as needed.
Customized teaching & emotional support.
Monroe Carrell Jr. Children\'s Hospital at Vanderbilt – Nashville, Tennessee, United States 2017 to 2008
Primary care, assessment and evaluation of neonatal and pediatric patients.
Chronic patient care in med-surg unit, adeptly handling all aspects of treatment from medication to wound care to monitoring for 2-4 patients per shift.
Developed patient care plans, including assessments, evaluations and nursing diagnoses.
Specialized in the nursing care of patients born with chemical dependency known as neonatal abstinence syndrome. (Nast.)
Provided on-call care at night.
Managed care for post-operative patients through discharge.
Instructed patients and family members on proper discharge care.
Participated in unit-based Quality Assurance Program.
Strong leader for nursing personnel assigned to the unit/shift.
Managed Neonatal and pediatric patients on life support with patient centered focus, drug management therapy, customized patient teaching for family and care givers for quality patient care.
Experience with infant interventions for various traumatic head injuries such as Hypoxic Ischemic Events with body and head cooling. Experience with Ganglia Shunts.
Chronic Congenital Heart Disease and other abnormalities of the heart.
Pulmonary diseases and syndromes of the newborn and neonate.
Various Gastrointestinal and abnormalities of the Urinary Tract.
Experience with infants with various bone and skeletal anomalies. Management with internal and external repair.
Head of primary care team for consistency of interventions and information given to family other care givers by staying in contact with attending physicians reporting need for change in interventions and changes in infant condition. Reporting off to on-coming nurse the interventions, needs, changes and areas of concern for infant. Making sure needs and concerns of family and care givers are addressed.
Participated as a member of committees such as Chronic Care and care of the addicted born baby.
Registered Nurse., 09/2005 to 11/2007
TriStar Summit Medical Center – Hermitage, Tennessee, United States
Education
Associate of Science: Nursing,
Tennessee State University – Nashville Tennessee
Continuing education in Cardiology of the Neonate, Newborn and pediatric patient.
Coursework in Hospice and Palliative Care of the Neonate, Newborn and Pediatric patient.
Certifications
Registered Nurse in Tennessee License
Completed Elnec 1 and 2 in 2021.
BLS current
Accomplishments
Patient Care
Delivered compassionate care that exceeded hospital requirements.
Successfully provided quality care to Number of patients in different types of environments.
Received certifications in Cardiology of the neonate, newborn and pediatric patient.
Received certification in neonatology and stable.
Received continuing education in Palliative care of the neonate, newborn and pediatric patient.
Completed Elnec 1 And 2 for end of life care for children and adults.
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