RN
Resume:
Tracie Hamilton
Walhalla, SC *****
adygd6@r.postjobfree.com
Nursing is a part of who I am. I knew I wanted to pursue Nursing before graduating High School. I have a love of people and and find joy in helping and caring for people. Currently been nursing for almost 18 years. CNA to LPN then RN in 2006. I have experience with NICU and young adult to Geriatrics. Over the years I have had experience in different areas of nursing and feel that this has given me some strong skills and I am very adaptable to situations because of travel nursing, and home health. Learning new skills and keeping nursing skills I have already done up to date. I love doing wound care and one day I plan to obtain WOCN certification, as well and NP degree. Work Experience
RN Staff Nurse
Apella Health/Mary Black Hospital - Spartanburg, SC April 2021 to November 2022
Took care of patients on a medical surgical floor that also served as a Covid unit for Mary Black. Our unit was also a telemetry floor.
RN Case Manager Home Health
Interim Home Health Care - Seneca, SC
June 2020 to February 2021
Managing the care of patients at home including, wound care, education, blood draws, IV infusion, PICC line care.
RN Home Health Case Manager
Amedysis Home Health Care - Toccoa, GA
February 2018 to June 2020
Admitting patients to home health using oasis starts of care Readmitting using Resumption of care oasis
Daily home visits with patients that require teaching and educating on different diseases within the population.
Wound care
Blood draws
IV maintenance
PICC line maintenance
Medication management and teaching
INR checks
Glucose checks
G tube and J tube maintenance and teaching.
RN Med/Surg and Ortho
Supplemental Health Care - Chattanooga, TN
February 2017 to January 2018
Travel nurse for supplemental at Park Ridge in Chattanooga, TN RN Travel Nurse
Supplemental Health Care/ at Greenville Hospital 3B and 5B - Greenville, SC Present
Travel nursing at Greenville Memorial Hospital on Medical surgical renal unit and Transitional care unit RN
Magnoila Place - Greenville, SC
June 2016 to December 2016
Admitting patients to a Rehab unit
Assessments, Wound care, IV, Trach care, medications Staff Nurse
Majesty Health and Rehab - Easley, SC
September 2014 to May 2016
Responsibilities
Medication Administration
Assessments
Wound care
Charting
Picc line care
Supervising cna
Registered Nurse
Vibra Healthcare - Charleston, SC
February 2014 to August 2014
Worked In Long Term Acute care floor with ventilated Patients, Patients with chronic wounds and other illness. Also worked some in the 4 bed ICU at this hospital. I received Rookie of year award for best newcomer during nursing week.
Education
Associates in Nursing
Greenville Technical College - Greenville, SC
January 2002 to May 2004
Skills
• Excellent Assessment skills
• Hospital Experience
• Vital Signs
• Infant Care
• Laboratory Experience
• Use critical thinking on job everyday.
• ICU Experience
• Case Management
• Critical Care Experience
• Caring and considerate of patients and their parents, and co-workers. . Wound care . Blood draws and iv sticks . Caring of picc lines and broviacs . Hanging of iv medication including TPN and Lipids . Patient and family education . Care of ventilators, HFOV, o2, cpap and bipap
• EMR Systems
• Medication Administration
• Nursing
• Infusion Experience
• Cerner
• Phlebotomy
• Experience Administering Injections
• Venipuncture
• Epic
• Employee Orientation
• Order Entry
Awards
Rookie of the year award
May 2014
Award voted on by staff for best newcomer to facility and always being ready and willing to help other nurses and nursing assistances on the floor.
Certifications and Licenses
RN License
BLS Certification
ACLS Certification
Additional Information
Currently I have a disciplinary action on license that will go away once all criteria are met. I did not agree with this action but did not have the money to obtain proper help. I have taken the education units they wanted and just trying to finish paying fine. I have attached a letter of what happened and how I handled the situation. I still have good standing and my license has never been taken away or suspended in my 18 years of nursing. This is an embarrassment to myself and do not like that I have to tell anyone this when applying for jobs. I am a good nurse and my fellow staff and patients and their families have never had bad or negative things to say about my dedication and love of nursing. Please feel free to ask me any questions and again I have attached letter with my explanation. To whom it may concern,
For a period of time before going to the hospital to work, I was trying to still stay in home health at a different company as I could not stay at Amedisys after settlement for workers compensation came through for my injury of being attacked by a dog while on job at a patient's home. I started with Interim Healthcare and was glad because they were a good company and they used homecare home base to chart for patients like I was used to with Amedisys. Because we see patients in rural areas that there is not a lot around the internet with phone connections and our work tablets could go in and out depending on the weather, where you were for the visit and if the actual program was having problems on a certain day. There were times when I had to see patients with the system being down-charted on paper wound measurements and vitals and time in and out, then later when at home when I could use the tablet again I would put the information in at that time.
One of the days I was working one of my patients called and said they needed a visit and if someone could come. I had accidentally charted on the wrong person and turned my time in for the day and did not catch that it was the wrong patient due to similar areas of location and names. So it looked like I was falsely charted on people that were not seen and that is not the entire truth. I was let go and at the time I didn't know that I was turned in to the SC board on Nursing. Months later I was going through spam mail and saw an email form llr in SC but thought it was a scam because it was email and I never received a call or a letter in the mail. Couple months later I got another email, so I tried to call back the number on the email stating my name and that we could set up time to talk. I actually did this at least three times. I never received a call though or letter in mail, except months later when I had the court documents mailed to me for review to sign. In these documents it states that there was an investigation and that he talked to both parties involved and came up with his findings, when in doubt he actually never talked to me at all.
I did not have money for attorney and did not want to drag this out for years to come so negotiated what the board of nursing and lawyers for them that I would admit wrong doing and take online courses which I have completed and pay a fine which I'm still working on . When I get the fine paid it will be taken off record. Again I may have copied and pasted a nurse note sometimes, especially the first two sentences because sometimes it would be the same for the next patient, but turned in before I could add on to the note. I admitted to this and to the way I was documenting some visits when I got home so that this could end sooner.
I apologized for my mistakes and any complications that may have been caused. I did not manipulate and do anything on purpose.
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