Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates - LPN Resume Example

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Carter Lee

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Ph: XXXXXXXXXX

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Professional Summary

Seasoned LPN with more than 40 years of experience in fast-paced acute care hospital setting and busy fast paced internal medicine practices. Excellent communication with patients and families and nursing skills. Track record of achieving exceptional results in Cardiac nursing and care of the elderly and working under stressful situations and emergencies.

Skills

Customer and Personal Service
Critical Thinking

Monitoring
Judgment and Decision Making

Time Management
Instructing

Experience

LPN May 2008－May 2015 Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates － Cambridge, Ma

Make appointments, keep records, or perform other clerical duties in doctors' offices or clinics.

Prepare patients for examinations, tests, or treatments and explain procedures.

Administer prescribed medications. Start intravenous fluids, noting times and amounts on patients' charts. Insertion of IV's
Prepare prescriptions for MD to approve .
Monitor patients labs and visits with PCP
EMR
Administer vaccines, injections.
Patient teaching for glucometers, and self administration of injections.
Travel vaccinations and travel concerns.
Wound care.

LPN Nov 2006－Jan 2008 Malden Family Medicine － Malden, M

Same duties as listed in Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates position with addition of phone triage.

LPN charge nurse Aug 2000－Nov 2006 Elmhurst Nursing and Rehabilitation － Melrose, Ma

Charge nurse for 25 bed sub acute unit

Administer prescribed medications or start intravenous fluids, noting times and amounts on patients' charts.

Observe patients, charting and reporting changes in patients' conditions, such as adverse reactions to medication or treatment, and taking any necessary action.

Insert IV's

Work as part of a healthcare team to assess patient needs, plan and modify care, and implement interventions.

Supervise nurses' aides or assistants.

Prepare patients for examinations, tests, or treatments and explain procedures.
Provide end of life care and comfort.
Interact with family members and respond to concerns regarding patient's condition and/or prognosis.

Evaluate nursing intervention outcomes, conferring with other healthcare team members as necessary.

LPN staff Mar 1982－Jan 1999 Melrose Wakefield Hospital － Melrose, Ma

Administer prescribed medications or start intravenous fluids, noting times and amounts on patients' charts.

Observe patients, charting and reporting changes in patients' conditions, such as adverse reactions to medication or treatment, and taking any necessary action.

Provide basic patient care or treatments, such as taking temperatures or blood pressures, dressing wounds, treating bedsores, giving enemas or douches, rubbing with alcohol, massaging, or performing catheterizations.

Answer patients' calls and determine how to assist them.

Measure and record patients' vital signs, such as height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, pulse, and respiration.

Work as part of a healthcare team to assess patient needs, plan and modify care, and implement interventions.

Prepare patients for examinations, tests, or treatments and explain procedures.

Assemble and use equipment, such as catheters, tracheotomy tubes, or oxygen suppliers.

Record food and fluid intake and output.
Worked on telemetry unit for last 5 years of employment.
Interpret monitor strips, EKG's