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Vocational Nurse

Location:
Houston, TX
Salary:
$35.00-40.00/hour
Posted:
May 02, 2022

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Resume:

Solange Nkoly

**** ********* *****

Houston, TX *7075

**********@*****.***

Experience Charge Nurse

Tuscany Village Skilled Nursing & Rehab Center, Pearland TX

July 2020-Present

Work with PCP and clinic staff to identify patients with high-risk conditions such as Diabetes, Pneumonia, UTIs, Pressure ulcers and worsening conditions of CHF, COPD, and Asthma.

Collaborate with MD, NP,DON and care team to ameliorate care procedures to better care for residents.

Apply individual reasoning and prioritization techniques to better care for residents.

Proficient in complete head to toe assessment

Assist in admission procedures.

Medication administration via PEG,GT and monitoring of residents’ tolerance to tube feeding.

Assigning of CNAs to various residents and ensuring care is provided.

Assist residents with ADLs such as grooming, eating, dressing.

End of shift report handing.

Liaison between MD,NP and residents’ POA/family.

Prepare designated lab work and/or specimens as directed by PCP.

Answer phone calls, write and impute physician orders in PCC.

Explain treatment and procedures to residents and family.

Provide discharge instructions to resident and/or family.

Keep records of residents’ health.

Follow HIPAA guidelines and facility protocol.

Follow-up residents’ medication refills and update families on any change in medications.

Treatment Nurse April 2021- present

Tuscany Village Skilled Nursing & Rehab Center & Windsong Care Center Pearland, Tx

Administer basic patient care including changing bandages and inserting catheters.

Perform wound care.

Patient suctioning.

Taking VS

Educating residents on physicians’ orders including exercise and diets.

Replacing of resident’s oxygen tank.

Performing weekly skin assessments to prevent/manage skin breakdown.

Administer breathing treatments, providing catheter care.

Scheduling residents’ doctor’s appointments and following up.

Monitoring residents’ intake and output especially for those with CHF, feeding tubes.

Report any change of condition to charge nurse and PCP.

Education San Jacinto College -South Houston

Licensed Vocational Nurse 2020

University of Bambili-Cameroon

Post Graduate Diploma in Guidance & Counseling 2017

University of Yaounde II- Soa Cameroon

Bachelor of Science Degree in Economics and Management 2009

EJED Medical Foundation Buea Road Kumba- Cameroon

Senior Nursing Assistant 2007

Licenses & Certifications

Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN): SANJAC South License # 1026986

Basic Life Support (BLS) certified by American Heart Association Expires March 2023

Skills

Knowledge and basic use of computer

Three years of working experience as a nurse (overseas and in the US)

Have experience as clinical care coordinator and counseling unit manager.

Fast learner and work well in fast paced environment.

Adaptive, flexible, excellent team member, detail oriented and dedicated.

Ability to identify and select appropriate instruments and equipment needed

Maintains professional demeanor in interactions with staff, residents and /or family.

Ability to problem solve and clarify necessary steps of logic and reasoning in professional manner.

Ability to operate medical equipment such as feeding tube machines, oxygen concentrators, oxygen mask, AED machine.



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