Case Manager Health Care
Resume:
TERRI LYNNE PALAZOTTO
Terri Palazotto
Centerville, Ohio 45459
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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Registered Nurse
●Highly skilled career professional with over 20 years practical experience in hospital, home health, and primary care environments.
●Nurse Educator
●Infection Control Manager
●Case Manager for Homecare setting
●DON experience
●Utilization ReView
●Telephonic triage and education for Care 24 and United Health Care subscribers
●Established in managing the supports and needs of IDD individuals including assessment, phone triage, counseling, education regarding medications and treatment, patient referrals, attending doctor appointments, collaborating with doctors and their office staff regarding individuals, monitoring health conditions and needs, administration of treatment procedures, advocating for individuals, meticulous documentation to be compliant with state laws and rules.
●Managerial skills working with delegated nurses including teaching and education regarding the IDD population in general and our individuals in particular, disease and the disease process, health care needs, medications and treatments, medication administration and nursing health tasks system, and continuing education units.
●Computer skills, interpersonal plans for IDD individuals, managing staff
CREDENTIALS
Ohio Department of IDD RN Trainer
2005
Ohio Board of Nursing License, State of Ohio
American Heart Assciation – BLS, CPR and AED.ISSUED DATE: 03/06/25
1999
Suncrestcare Hospice Nurse Case Manager 02/2024 – present
-Case Manager and Assessment for patients in their home, nursing home and assisted living facilities for needs of end of life care.
-Supported families and patient through the dying process
-Show compassion and empathy to families and patient during the dying process
-Make sure comfort meds are in place
-Change level of care based on patient’s condition changes
Compassus hospice Nurse Case Manage Hospice 8/23 – 12/2024
-Case Manager and Assessment for patients in the home care setting/nursing home/assisted living/hospital for needs of ongoing health care until treatment/management of disease was no longer effective and end of life was advanced. \
-Educated family and patients on their disease process and assisted with activities of daily living and provided the patient and family with resources in the community that assisted with the patients’ health care needs.
-Coordinated care with community and physician as needed depending on medical needs.
-Completed documentation as required. Followed policy and procedures according to company guidelines.
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Compass Home Care/Stay Well Home Health 6/22 – 7/23
Nurse Case Management
-Home health
-After surgery care in patient’s homes
-Wound management
-Implement care for patients with advanced medical issues including but not limited to trauma, gastrointestinal disease, cardiac disease, endocrine diseases, cancer, and post-operative care.
-Assess patient status and update physicians on their progress,
-Educate patients and their families regarding the post-operative care, continue education to overall better the patients’ health on advance medical issues.
-Maintained patient confidentiality.
-Continued education to better care for the patient and to continue to grow and learn as a nurse Assisted with scheduling appointments with social workers and patients’ families after procedures and end of life care
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AGENCY WORK – Health Pro Staffing
HONDROS College of Nursing 12/21 to 6/22
-Lecturing Faculty and Clinical Faculty
-Teaching third term students to become LPNs
-Taught Medical/Surgical Nursing
-Taught IV Therapy
Laurels of West Carrollton 8/21 to 12/21
-ADON – Infection Control
- Assisted Director of Nursing with day to day problems
- Counseled staff
- Educated staff about updates in care and best practices
Health Pro Staffing
Assignment Hospice/Palliative Care 1/2021 – 2/2022
Brightstar Care. 3/2020 -12/2020
-Case Manager for Homecare clients
-DUTIES: Skilled Case Manager
-Supervised 50 Nursing and 25 patients.
-Evaluation of Nurse performance,
-Assessments of Patients every month,
-Completing 485 forms
Throughout
I took care of family members with Covid 2020
Experience Director of Nursing 2015- 1/2020
Choices in Community Living, Inc
Dayton, Ohio
DUTIES:
-Developed a Nursing Department.
-Supervised 3 Nurses
-Utilization Review for the IDD – will get Utilization Management Certification
-Took care of medical needs of 90 Individuals that were Intellectual and Developmental Disabled
-Triage Nursing
-Supervised all staff who administered medication, Insulin and Gtube
-Taught Medication Administration, Injection Insulin, Gtube med administration
-Recertification for staff every year
Pediatric OFFICE HUBER HEIGHTS 2009-2015
Triage Nurse
Nurse Line Nurse/Heath Coach
Optima Health, United Health Group, Kettering, Ohio. 2008-2009 DUTIES: Telephone Triage
2008-2009
Nurse Manager/IP Coordinator/Assistant Director 2007-2008
Preble County Resident Homes, Inc. Eaton, Ohio
DUTIES: took care of 4 IDD Homes with 20 clients per home, doing nursing care
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Nurse/Health Services Manager – MR/DD
2005-2007
Preble County Board of MR/DD, Eaton, Ohio
DUTIES: Nursing care for IDD patients in a workshop
Office Nurse/Allergy and Asthma Office
2002-2005
James A. Sims, MD, Kettering, Ohio
DUTIES: Making allergy shots based on the allergies of the patients, administration of allergies shots, answering patients
Questions
Home Health Nurse
2002-2002
Hospice of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio
DUTIES: Hospice and palliative care for clients in their homes
Nurse Specialist/Bone Marrow Transplant Unit
1999-2002
Miami Valley Hospital, Dayton, Ohio
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science in Nursing
1999
Wright State University/Miami Valley College of Nursing and Health, Ohio
Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts
Wright State University, Ohio
1989
Infection Control Prevention Certification 2023
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REFERENCES
DAVID ROUSTIO, EXEXUTIVE DIRECTOR 937-***-****
Renee Wilson Home Health LPN 937-***-****
Ashley Steelman. Office Manager. 937-***-****
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