Human Service
Resume:
SHARON PARKS
**** *** *** *****, *******, Iowa **441
*.***@*******.***
HUMAN SERVICE ADVOCATE
Dedicated, self-motivated, and considerate healthcare professional, equipped with years of extensive and progressive background in nursing, facility administration, and healthcare management honed over success at each level and advancement to positions of increasing accountability. Exemplify outstanding planning, prioritizing, and goal-setting abilities to achieve the best facility and hospital outcomes. Expert in creating positive working environment and working effectively with interdisciplinary team of healthcare professionals. Additional strengths include:
- Demonstrates effectiveness to provide superior patient care in stressful, rapidly changing environments while constantly considering patients’ needs, personal concerns, and safety
- Hardworking, energetic, and flexible; adapts easily to changing environments and work schedule
- Maintains critical thinking skills essential in providing competent and dignified facility management
- Well-organized, detail-oriented team member with excellent technical and problem solving skills
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
CORPORATE NURSE, ABCM Corporation ~ Hampton, IA Mar 2009-Present
GERIATRIC NURSE, Sheffield Care Center ~ Sheffield, IA Oct 2008-Mar 2009
- Function as charge nurse responsible for visiting various facilities and providing the needs of residents
- Provide primary leadership to nursing assistants and perform various institutional procedures to ensure and maintain quality patient care, including assessing patient needs and monitoring health problems, developing and implementing nursing health plans/medications, organizing and updating medical reports, complying with institutional policies and procedures, and collaborating with other healthcare professionals to evaluate resident’s condition and progress
- Handle multi-health problems both mental and physical as well as critical incidents and deaths
ACUTE CARE / MEDICAL SURGERY NURSE, Franklin General Hospital ~ Hampton, IA Jan 2007-Oct 2008
- Administered intravenous therapy and prepared patients for surgical procedures through providing accurate medications and assessing patients’ needs
- Provided nursing support to doctors and interfaced with patients’ families
- Managed hospital records, including charts and medical documentations
CHARGE NURSE, Youth Service International ~ Elmore, MN Mar 2006-Sept 2006
- Oversaw the operation of the facility with approximately 110 juveniles with extremely traumatic experiences, such as being involved in crimes and drug / alcohol addiction as well as youth from broken families
- Rehabilitated at-risk youth through offering most comprehensive programs and services and identifying their emotional, physical, and physiological needs
- Directed two staff nurses and one secretary to ensure their compliance with the facility’s operating procedures
FLOOR NURSE, Mason City Clinic Heart Center ~ Mason City, IA Mar 2005-Feb 2006
- Worked routinely at the Heart Center Clinic and traveled weekly with doctors to visit outpatient clinics
- Executed multiple medical care measures, such as scheduling surgery procedures, charting, and performing EKG
- Assumed other clinical responsibilities to determine the needs of patients and apply professional nursing skills as necessary to provide appropriate care
MDS COORDINATOR, Belmond Health Care Center ~ Belmond, IA Mar 2004-Mar 2005
- Evaluated health and mental issues in the geriatrics and developed effective care plans
- Performed charge nurse duties, such as providing medications and treatments to patients, charting, assessing patients’ conditions, and interfacing with other healthcare professionals and families as need arise
- Provided primary leadership to personnel, including administering performance of their duties and delegating responsibilities
DONOR NURSE / PHELEBOTOMIST, Blood Center of Iowa ~ Mason City, IA June 2001-Mar 2004
- Conducted state-wide travel to document patient histories and actual procurement of blood donation
CLINIC NURSE, Belmond Clinic ~ Belmond, IO Sept 1997-Jan 2001
- Provided primary nursing support to three doctors through assisting in minor procedures, preparing patients for any medical tests/measures, organizing specialty apparatus and equipment, performing EKG, and preparing injections
- Managed patient assistance program for low income patients who could not afford their medications
EDUCATION
BACHELOR OF ARTS IN HUMAN SERVICES, Buena Vista University ~ Iowa Falls, IA
(Graduated Dean’s List, 2010)
ASSOCIATE’S DEGREE IN NURSING, Ellsworth Community College ~ Iowa Falls, IA
(Graduated Dean’s List ~ Featured in the Who’s Who of Students in America, 1997)
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) ~ Cardiac Training Courses ~ Nursing Continuing Education Units ~ In-services Courses
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