Registered Nurse Case Manager
Resume:
COLLEEN MILLER RN
Natrona Heights, Pa 15065
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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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