Case Manager Floor Nurse
Resume:
Theresa Mendez
Rio Rancho, New Mexico 87124
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Registered Nurse with 30+ years of experience providing quality care to a wide variety of patients. Dedicated, self-motivated individual with an effective approach to team-solving and problem resolution. Committed to performance excellence on individual, group, and organizational levels. Extensive knowledge and background in the nursing industry will be an asset to the company. SKILLS
• Knowledgeable in Medical Terminology
• Experience with wound vacs
• Dressing changes
• Medicare guidelines
• Medication management
• PointCare programing
• Team Skills
• Patient/Family Dialogue Expertise
EXPERIENCE Hospice Compassus and Hospice of the Sandias – Albuquerque, NM Sept. 2012-present Hospice Case Manager
• Informed families of end of care and disease process
• Instructed families on medication management and administration of narcotics to their loved ones.
• Complied with Medicare regulations regarding starts of care, resumption of care paperwork.
• Knowledge of wound care vacs and participated in set up and dressing changes as needed.
• Worked very closely with the care team which consisted of physician, social workers, chaplains, supervisors, home health aides, volunteers.
• Maintained the necessary documentation needed for Medicare regulations.
• Supervised the work of the LPN’s and HHA involved with patient care. Alliance Home Health Care and Hospice – Albuquerque, NM Nov. 2009-Sept. 2012 Home Health and Hospice Case Manager
• Responsible for excessive disease process teaching, medication management, wound care and dressing changes.
• Complied with Medicare regulations regarding starts of care, resumption of care paperwork.
• Maintained the necessary documentation needed for Medicare regulations.
• Assisted with starting the hospice program at company and helped acquired accreditation and passing state survey necessary for the program to begin. 2
Relevant Past Job Experience Gentiva Home Health Care, Albuquerque, NM, Case Manager, October 2008-October 2009
• Managed a caseload of patients to see on weekly visits to assess quality of life, pain management, and assist families in knowledge of care and what to expect as diseases progress. Maxim Health Care, Albuquerque, NM, RN Staff Nurse, August 2004-February 2011
• Worked with a family that had three children with mental and physical disabilities. Assisted with medical care of 4-year-old boy by G-tube feedings, suction of trach, bathing, administering medications.
Valle Norte Caring Center, Albuquerque, NM, Staff Charge Nurse, July 2004-March 2005
• Responsible for 29 residents with multiple needs such as wound care, tube feedings, lab draws, foley catheter care, dementia.
Dialysis Clinic Incorp., Albuquerque, NM, PD Nurse Coordinator August 1999-July 2004
• Responsible for coordinating clinic appts, running clinic, lab draws, and providing information to the physician on clinic days and triage patient phone calls with health problems that arose Dialysis Services of Central Ohio, Ohio, Nurse Manager/Charge Nurse August 1996- July, 1999
• Responsible for care of over 50 hemodialysis patients and 2 peritoneal patients. Manage and supervise 8 staff members within the organization with work schedules and cross train in vital areas of the field
Doctors North Hospital, El Paso, TX, Acute Dialysis Staff Nurse, August 1996-July 199
• Monitor and provide individual care for acute dialysis patients in a hospital and ICU setting. Assist physicians with femoral catheter access
Vivra Renal Care, Las Cruces, NM, Staff Hemodialysis RN, November, 1992-September 1993
• Managed care for patients in an outpatient unit with 14 chair capacity. Instructed and trained new patients on continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis Sun Towers Hospital/Columbia West, El Paso, TX, Staff Nurse, December 1989-September 1993
• General floor nurse assisted in invasive and noninvasive procedures. Delegated duties to nursing and non-nursing personnel
Education
• Associate Degree in Nursing
New Mexico State University
1989
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References Dawn Groves
Maureen Senko
Mary Bouquet
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