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Maureen E. Burkhardt

Career Objective

To obtain a position as a part – or full time Nurse

Delaware County Community College Media, PA 1990 - 1994

• Registered Nurse; GPA 3.9

• Associates’ Degree

Delaware Valley Academy of Medical Assistants Philadelphia, PA 1976

Medical Assistant; GPA 4.0

Professional Experience

RN; Ambulatory/ Triage Nurse [9.09 – 11.10] Downtown Women OBGYN New York, NY

Responsibilities as RN include administering patient contact, providing care and advice in person or via telephone, electronic communications (videoconferencing). Assessing caller’s symptoms, and ability to advise them in basic treatment or urgency of seeking immediate care in an Emergency room/ Physician office.

Nurse duties include performing initial consultation with patients; assessing their symptoms, prioritizing care for the purpose of providing immediate care to those in need. Ability to delegate tasks of other licensed and unlicensed health care providers; Indentifies patient/ family/ group strengths, and incorporates them into their plan of action and consults as needed with other members of healthcare team.

Other duties include, but are not limited to implementing the nursing process, utilizing advanced assessment skills to anticipate and correlate the patient population; identify strategies and evaluate standards; incorporate strategies into plans of action; participate on development of clinic standards, policies, and procedures.

Case Management Nurse Consultant [5.07 – 9.09] Aetna Blue Bell, PA

Duties are embracing focus on facilitating appropriate health care treatment, effective management of health care costs and improving efficiencies involving clinical issues. Basis on an interaction telephonically with patients, families, hospitals, home care providers, DME providers, physicians, and community resources. Job emphasizes need to perform a comprehensive assessment of patient’s healthcare needs and develop a Case Management plan to assist patient in achieving their healthcare goals. Coordinating, monitoring, and evaluating options and services to meet an individual’s needs, as well as providing guidance for the member, their families, caregivers, physicians, and other health care providers in selecting the best options to meet an individual’s needs.

Precertification Nurse Consultant [5.05 – 5.07] Aetna King of Prussia, PA

Responsibilities included utilizing clinical skills to support comprehensive coordination of medical services, including making initiative coverage determinations, screening, and referrals to Aetna Medical Services Programs. Promoting/ supporting quality effectiveness of Healthcare Services, and allowing Aetna to coordinate the patient’s transition from inpatient setting to the next level of care. Also include referring patients for specialized programs such as Disease Management, Case Management, or Prenatal Program.

Preoperative/Recovery Staff Nurse [7.02 – 5.05] Kremar Laser Eye Center King of Prussia, PA

Tasks included providing planned and highly skilled nursing care for the immediate pre and post operative patient. Supplying continuous patient surveillance, thus allowing early recognition and immediate emergency treatment of medical or surgical complications which may arise in any postoperative patient, no matter how simple the operative procedure.

Pediatric Charge Nurse [1.95 – 7.02] Drexel Hill Pediatric Associates Drexel Hill, PA

Responsibilities included supervision of staff, phone triage, nurse visits, all emergency case care, laboratory procedures, preparing patient medication, patient education, and coordinating patient flow.

Surgical Nurse [9.94 – 12.94] Arthur K. Balin, M.D., Ph.D. Philadelphia, PA

Assisted physician in all aspects of dermatological surgery, which included Mohs surgery and prepared necessary documentation relating to surgeries.

Nursing Assistant [5.92 – 5.93] Mercy – Haverford Hospital Havertown, PA

Responsibilities included performing various patient care activities and related non- professional services necessary in caring for the personal needs and comfort of the patients, functioning within the existing written policies and practice of Mercy – Haverford Hospital.

Medical/ Office Assistant [5.92 – 5.93] Dr. Richard Silver Assoc. Havertown, PA

Duties included providing medical assistance to the provider staff, coordinating patient flow, recording all medical data, performing Phlebotomy, Urinalysis, Electrocardiograms, Holter Monitor Testing, Inhalation Therapy, Injections, Infra-red and Ultra-sound treatments, Hearing and Vision screening, and assisting with in-house surgeries.

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