JESSICA MALIZIA
**********@*****.***
***** ********* ***** ********, ** 92301
OBJECTIVE
To solidify a position with your company as a Licensed Vocational Nurse. Obtain a challenging occupation where I can objectively utilize my medical profession and gain experience through growth opportunities.
SKILLS
● Great knowledge of general nursing procedures and techniques involved in the care of
patients, disease processes and possible results, medical terminology, hospital routine, and equipment
● Ability to give medications prescribed by physicians.
● Excellent ability to recognize critical and significant changes in patients.
● Remarkable ability to keep records and prepare reports.
● Strong ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with the staff, patients and patients' families
● Sound knowledge in immunization skills
● Proficiency in basic computer data entry skills, and experience with email.
● Immense ability to accurately record patient information in the patient medical record and to notify appropriate personnel when deviations from the norm occur.
● Deep ability to accurately measure medication doses, weights, lengths, and count
vaccine/pharmacy inventory.
● Excellent ability to administer oral and injectable medications.
● Cultural sensitivity in serving patients of varied ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds is preferred.
● Ability to maintain confidentiality of patient's medical and personal information.
EXPERIENCE
Parkview Community Hospital Riverside, CA 02/2022-Current
LVN-Med/Surg
Duties: Reporting to physicians and case managers, coordinating care with outside facilities, administer medications (oral, sub-q, IM, etc.), Wound care and dressing changes, Assess the condition of patients, check vital signs, Update records, Insertion of I.V.s, NG tubes, and Foley catheters, Equipment operation (such as IVs, feeding tubes, catheters, and oxygen tanks), Running blood tests on patients.
CDCR Tehachapi/Lancaster, CA 08/2020-02/2022
LVN Strike Team/EHP LVN
Duties: Staff rapid testing, Visitor testing, Case investigations, Contact tracing, Patient Education, Vaccine clinics, Quarantine rounding/assessments, Collection of Nasal Covid-19 swabs, Collection and processing of Covid-19 rapid testing, Completing backlogs of tasks associated with Covid-19, Assisting RNs with isolation rounds, Patient education, Obtaining refusals from inmates/patients for any refused service, Reporting to RNs for any changes in the health of patients, Completing appropriate documentation for any services performed, Completing all effective communication paperwork for all inmates/patients who have disabilities.
Wellpath Adelanto, CA 04/2017-09/2020
LVN/QA
Duties: Assists in resolution of customer complaints and quality assurance issues as needed, Performs quality assurance review of peer review reports, correspondences, addendums or supplemental reviews, optimize patient outcomes with cost-effective care, identify, assess, correct and monitoring of important aspects of patient care designed to enhance the quality of Health Maintenance Services consistent with achievable goals and within available resources, Medication administration, Diabetic teaching, Glucose monitoring, Insulin administration, Administering of TB skin testing, Processing of new intakes, Processing of Deports/Flights, Vaccination administration, Obtaining new orders and ongoing orders, Noting of orders, Performing detainee assessments, Proper notification to RN and MDs, Monitoring of VS, Triaging sick call, Responding to codes, Coordinate care with medical professionals, Isolation Precautions, Performing EKG’s, Visual Acuity testing, Proper documentation, Scheduling appts, Managing special need patients and equipment, Audits of MAR’s and charts, Managing spreadsheets for H and P’s, and Assisting with interviews for all audits.
Visiting Nurses Association of CA Riverside, CA 06/2015-09/2017
LVN/Patient Service Coordinator
Duties: Reviewing and receiving referrals, Processing of all new referrals, Obtaining new orders and ongoing orders, Obtaining proper documentation needed for care and Medicare guidelines, Verifying Physicians and the signing of home health orders, Verifying demographics with patients, Communicating well with Physicians and patients, Coordination of care with Case Managers and Physicians, Coordination of care with pharmacies for home infusions, Proper documentation, Verifying Medicare and Medical eligibility, Patient assessments, Medication administration, Different types of wound care, Glucose monitoring, Foley catheter changes and maintenance, Lab draws, G-tube feeding, flushing, and medication administration, Maintenance of drains and recording of findings, Staple and suture removal, Telephone orders, Proper notifications to Doctors as needed.
EDUCATION
Los Angeles Pacific University San Dimas, CA 05/2020-04/2022
Associates of Health Science
Four-D College Victorville, CA 02/2012-02/2013
Vocational Nursing Program
* LVN with IV/blood draw cert. expires 09/30/2025
* CPR Certified expires 11/2025
* ACLS certified expires 10/2024