ELAINE HARRIS RN

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Sherman, Tx. 75090

advcrb@r.postjobfree.com

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EXPERIENCE

Omnicare Pharmacy

Infusion Nurse Educator

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Teaching educational classes to facilities on IV therapy. Certifying LVN’s and RN’s in Basic IV’s, CVAD’s, TPN, declotting catheters, pain Management, and infusion pumps. Case management of patients on IV Therapy. Chart audits and evaluation of facility needs for education. Amerita Infusion Pharmacy

Clinical Liaison

7-11 to 1-13

Infusions in the ambulatory infusion center. Teaching patients in area hospital how to infuse their medications/enteral foods via pump or other device. Teaching them how to maintain their IV’s and enteral access. Marketing our services and doing in-services pumps and IV maintenance to home health companies.

Heart of Texas Home Care Sherman, TX

4-10 to 7-11

RN case manager/field nurse

Doing home visits and coordinating care. Supervisory visits. Texas Neurology Dallas, Tx.

9-08 to 3-10

Infusion Nurse (On Assignment Staffing Agency)

Starting IV's, accessing ports and central lines.

Infusions of Gammaglobulin, Tysabri, solumedrol, and medications for migraines.

Select Pain Center, Richardson, Tx.

RN/Charge nurse. 8-04 to 9-08

Preparing patient for pain procedures, IV’s

Assessments, conscious sedation, monitoring

intra op and post op. Supervising all medical

staff. Ordering supplies. Preparing charts.

North Dallas Diagnostic Center, Dallas, TX.

RN 12-03 to 8-04. RN for interventional

radiology. Preparing patients for procedures,

consents, IV’s, both preop and postop care.

Injecting contrast and managing care of

patients with adverse reactions to dyes.

Core Medical Group Traveling RN 4-03 to 11-03

(East Texas Medical Center, Tyler

Tx.) 13 week contract. Pre-op RN. Preparing

Patients for surgery. IV’s, permits and consents

I-Stat labs, conscious sedation, preop medi-

cations. (Northern New Mexico Indian Health

Center, Bloomfiled, New Mexico) 13 wk

contract. Urgent care facility. Triage,

injections, immunizations, IV’s.

Pain Net RN Clinical Supervisor 02-02 to 02-03

Supervising nursing staff. Pre-op and post-op care Circulating for procedures (epidural

steroid injections, facet injections, rhizotomies, joint injections, trigger point injections, etc.). Starting IV’s. Ordering supplies and medications

for clinic. Managing and overseeing patient’s pain management responses. Performing monthly QI duties. Scheduling nursing staff. Monthly in-services.

Ambulatory Infusion Center Clinical Nurse

Manager 5-01 to 11-01

Coordinating care of patients with IV’s.

Supervising nursing staff. Developing procedures

for patient care. Administration of IV

medications. Care of central lines. Starting

peripheral IV’s and midlines. Maintaining patient

charts and evaluating patient’s response to

medications. Reporting patients response

to physician and pharmacist.

Case coordinator/Marketing from 2000-2001

Milestone Healthcare Dallas, TX.

Marketing physical rehabilitation unit for Denton

Regional Medical Center. Screen patients for

admittance into rehab unit.

Home Infusion R.N./Case Manager 1999 to 2000

Baylor Home Infusion Therapy (Baylor Home

Care) Dallas, TX.

Providing and maintaining IV therapy in the home

and at physicians’ offices. PICC and midline

insertion both in home and at physician’s offices. Synchromed pump programming and refills. Case

management of managed care, Medicare,

Medicaid, and private pay patients.

Area Program Manager/IV Nurse Consultant

1997-1998

National Institutional Pharmacy Services Inc.

(NIPSI) Dallas, TX.

Assessing patients in long term care facilities

for IV therapy needs. Inserting PICC lines and

midlines. Consulting with physicians, pharm-

cist, nursing, and other disciplines regarding

patients care and plan of treatment. Managing

nursing staff for assigned area. Hiring and

Orientation of nursing staff. Educating nursing

staff on new policies, procedures, and equipment.

Teaching IV certification classes for CEU

credits. On Call coordinator for Texas area

after hours. Scheduling of nursing visits and

coordinating times and orders with pharmacy.

IV Nurse Specialist 1995-1997 National Institutional Pharmacy Services. NIPSI) Dallas, TX.

Starting IV’s and administering IV medications.

Admissions and head to toe assessments.

Contacting physicians, pharmacist, and other

disciplines with any concerns. Inserting PICC

and midlines.

Home Health Care Nurse 1995-1996

Avalon Home Health, Sherman, TX.

Case manager. Coordinating care of patients.

IV’s in the home, drawing blood, teaching and

assessments. Performing ECG’s.

Emergency Room Nurse 1993-1995

Valley View Regional Hospital, Ada, Ok.

Triage, head to toe assessments of all types of

patients. Trauma care, cardiac emergency care.

ECG’s, fracture care, wound care, splints, codes.

Teaching patients. Assisting with recruiting of

nursing students into nurse tech program.

Nurse Tech 1993-1994

Valley View Regional Hospital Ada, Ok.

Head to toe assessments, trauma care, cardiac

care, wound care, splints, teaching patients,

ECG’s.

Education U.S. Grant High School

Oklahoma City, Ok. 1978 graduate

East Central University

Ada, Ok. 1988-1992

Murray State College

Tishomingo, Ok. 1992-1994

Associates Degree in Nursing 1994

References furnished upon request.

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