COLLEEN MILLER RN

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Natrona Heights, Pa 15065

C: 412-***-**** adtg68@r.postjobfree.com

Professional License

Registered Nurse RN #RN663875

Awards for Excellence in Nursing

Daisy Award for nursing excellence

Nomination for Spirit of Excellence

Great performance reviews. Employers always include my excellent nursing knowledge, ethics, and "being a team player" Always complimented on my true compassion for my patients, families, and co-workers. My last review included always going above and beyond for my patients, families, and co-workers. Achieved full pay raises at all increments. Great team leader. Current position:

Registered Nurse Case Manager

Home Health

Past:

Pediatric Care

Adult care

Rehabilitation inpatient hospital

Telemetry step down unit

Professional Experience:

Amedisys Home Health

Registered Nurse

Case Manager

05/2018 - current

● One-on-one skilled nursing care and treatment to patients in their home.

● Creating a comprehensive, individual, and patient-specific care plan

● Coordinate care including physical therapy, occupational therapy, social work, home health aide, physicians & families

● Education on disease processes including however not limited to COPD,CHF, & diabetes

● Education of medications, including IV administration and education to families to properly infuse IV medications

● TPN education on appropriately adding vitamins per MD order, appropriately administering, and infusion through the iv pump

● IM injections and education

● SUB Q injections and education

● PO medication education to patients, and families to ensure correct medications are given at appropriate times

● Nebulizer & inhalers

● Wound care for patients. When appropriate completed education to patient and families to appropriately perform care in their home

● Oversee all patient care and all available resources that may be available to patients

● Proving allcare while following medicare guidelines Veterans Affairs

● Start Covid injection on 4/1/21 prn

Registered Nurse

The Children's Institute

02/2016 - 05/2018

● Provided care to children in fragile state

● Education to patients and parents related to disease process & disability.

● Worked multiple holidays, evenings, and night shifts which included charge nurse when upper management were not in the building.

● Educating patients and families about changes that need to be made and coping with injury or diagnosis.

● This can include terminal diagnosis and/or paralysis.

● Worked with unfortunate situations where I had to notify children and youth services. I performed all nursing duties with professionalism, empathy with all parties involved while keeping the safety of the children as the main priority.

● Neonatal abstinence syndrome included constant observation, assessment, performing NAS scale to accurately dose newborn with morphine and clonidine going through withdrawal after birth.

● Ventilators (home ventilators were used), trach care, & airway management. Educating families to properly, appropriately triage, & troubleshoot complications while prioritizing care when they are at home after discharge.

● IV administration of iv fluids, antibiotics, or other iv medications that may be ordered by the physician.

● Obtain lab via venipuncture or PICC line

● G-tube care and feedings including education to families for appropriate care at home

● Ng tube insertion, verifying placement and appropriate feeding as ordered by MD

● Burn care usually 2nd & 3rd-degree care along with education to patients and families.

● Failure to thrive regardless of the cause

● Learning deficits

● Traumatic brain injury

● Spinal cord injury

● Coordinated care between patients, their families, physicians, social work, & therapies.

● Extensive education with patients and families on the injury/disease process regardless of new or old diagnosis/injury.

● The Children's Institute decided to close the inpatient unit in 2018. All RN's were laid off at that time.

Registered Nurse.

11/2014 - 02/2016

UPMC Presbyterian hospital

● Telemetry unit, step down, and observation floors. Frequency worked other floors per management request due to the nursing shortage

● Worked majority night shifts

● Blood transfusions

● Picc lines

● Central lines

● TPN

● Heparin drip & amiodarone drip along with coordination of appropriate labs to ensure safety

● Vancomycin iv

● Blood draws usually ordered on every patient at 4 am via venipuncture

● IV insertion on multiple occasions to decrease workload on iv team

● Po medications administered

● IM injections

● Subq injections

● Medical clearance for patients to be transferred to Western psychiatric hospital

● WAS scale to ensure safe, appropriate withdraw from substance Registered Nurse

Pediatric Alliance

Endocrine Office

● STIM testing which includes inserting an iv, inserting medications at timed intervals, and obtaining labs at certain intervals

● Administration of subq & im injections

● Educating patients and families on diabetes, glucose monitoring, and ensuring they understand how to administer the correct insulin per MD order, & when to call MD.

● Education on thyroid deficiency, growth hormone deficiency & other disease processes

● Insurance auth, communication with physician and families

● Patient and parent teaching on the disease process

● School forms and communication with school nurses to ensure appropriate care while in school

Registered Nurse

Continuum Pediatric

8/2014- 3/2018

● Caring for the medically fragile children in their homes

● Hydrocephalus

● VP Shunts

● Autonomic storming

● Uncontrolled epilepsy

● G-tubes

● CP

● Lissencephaly

● Myotubular myopathy

● Chronic Lung Diseases

● Plus numerous other conditions

● PICC lines

● TPN

● Ventilator at home

● Maintaining care at home as appropriate to increase quality of life to children and families

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Education and Training

Registered Nurse

Citizens school is nursing

New Kensington, Pa

Graduated 2014 with a 3.2 GPA

Obtained scholarships for grades

● Award Daisy Award in 2017 at

The Children's Institute

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