LVN
Resume:
Mary Olson
Fort Worth, TX 76148
**********@*****.***
Work Experience
LVN
Agency Local & Travel Nurse - From/Lives in Dallas, TX February 2011 to Present 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.
Prepare patients for examinations, tests, or treatments and explain procedures. 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.
Apply compresses, ice bags, or hot water bottles.
Supervise nurses' aides or assistants.
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. Prepare or examine food trays for conformance to prescribed diet. Staff LVN Med/Surg/ICU
Ethicus Hospital - Grapevine, TX February 2011 to June 2012 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.
Prepare patients for examinations, tests, or treatments and explain procedures. 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.
Apply compresses, ice bags, or hot water bottles.
Supervise nurses' aides or assistants.
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. Prepare or examine food trays for conformance to prescribed diet. LVN
PRN SERVICES - Dallas, TX April 2009 to December 2011 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.
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.
Assemble and use equipment, such as catheters, tracheotomy tubes, or oxygen suppliers. Evaluate nursing intervention outcomes, conferring with other healthcare team members as necessary. Inventory and requisition supplies and instruments. Set up equipment and prepare medical treatment rooms. Staff LVN- PCCU
Medical Center of Arlington - Arlington, TX August 2008 to January 2011 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.
Prepare patients for examinations, tests, or treatments and explain procedures. 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.
Apply compresses, ice bags, or hot water bottles.
Inventory and requisition supplies and instruments. Supervise nurses' aides or assistants.
Prepare or examine food trays for conformance to prescribed diet. Staff LVN
Kindred Hospital - Fort Worth, TX September 2006 to August 2008 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.
Prepare patients for examinations, tests, or treatments and explain procedures. 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.
Apply compresses, ice bags, or hot water bottles.
Supervise nurses' aides or assistants.
Prepare or examine food trays for conformance to prescribed diet. Education
College Degree in LVN Nursing
Concorde College - Arlington, TX
July 2006
ADN/BSN in Nursing
Tarrant County College/Tarlenton University - Fort Worth, TX
• Critical Care Experience
• EMR Systems
• Hospital Experience
• ICU Experience
• Laboratory Experience
• Medication Administration
• Assist with Procedures
• PCCU/CVICU
• TPN/ Tube Feeding
• Experience Administering Injections
• Med/Surg/Tele
• Supervising Experience
• Nurse Management
• Triage
• Venipuncture
• ER
• Phlebotomy/Central Lines
Licenses and Certifications
LVN
BLS
ACLS
Memberships
ANA
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