Experience

MELROSE PUBLIC SCHOOLS
• United States
• Primary and Secondary Education
• 1 - 100 Employee
• School Nurse

  • Aug 2021 - Present


LABBB COLLABORATIVE CORP

• United States
• 1 - 100 Employee

• School Nurse

  • Jun 2018 - Present

  In my current position as a school nurse/office nurse I work with a team of teachers and specialists to meet the health and safety needs of our students. Our student population has a wide variety of health needs, many of them are medically fragile and have limited verbal skills, and my assessment skills are frequently called upon to keep kids safe and in their learning environment. In this role I am especially proud of the teamwork that I have helped to develop between the health office and educational team. Show less



Community Health Network, Inc.

• Insurance
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Staff RN

  • Jun 2015 - Present

  As a Per Diem staff RN, I continue to put my hospice experience to good use as I work for Community Health Network to provide professional support to agencies in the greater Boston area in need of nurses. Through CHN, I give advanced notice of availability and work Per Diem for each agency that CHN has matched me with in order to provide quality nursing care. This work model builds off of my previous hospice experience and also requires a new level of flexibility and technological skills. Show less



South Coast Midwifery

• United States
• Non-profit Organizations

• Midwives Assistant/RN

  • Apr 2014 - May 2015

  • Providing antenatal nursing care in clinic and home settings including: administering medications, starting IVs, providing oxygen and CPR per Nurse-Midwife’s orders and instructions, positional changes, monitoring input and output, offering hands on and emotional support to laboring clients. • Monitoring fetal heart tones via external Doppler and reporting baseline rate, decreases, increases, and patterns to CNM in all stages of active labor. • Immediate newborn care including: assessment, NRP, vital signs and medications per Nurse-Midwife’s orders. • In home postpartum visits including: maternal and newborn assessments, triage of postpartum risk, reporting abnormalities and/or high risk postpartum to Nurse-Midwife and Pediatrician. Show less



Hospice Care of California

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 1 - 100 Employee

• RN- Case Manager/Admissions Nurse

  • Jan 2013 - May 2015

  • Coordinating communication between medical directors, medical social workers, a nursing team of RNs and LVNs, patients and their families to ensure the proper plan of treatment in a variety of cases and family situations. Patient load of 11-16 patients. • Maintaining open communication between primary care physicians and Hospice Care of California’s staff to ensure continuity of care from acute and sub-acute settings to hospice and palliative programs. • Ensuring accuracy of patient documentation in compliance with Medicare, MediCAL, and JCAHO standards. Assessing and documenting patient appropriateness for hospice care per Medicare standards. • Experiences including: administering oral, parenteral, otic, optic, rectal and IV medications, central line care, tracheostomy care, PT/INR testing at bedside, lab draws, Foley catheter placement and care, full nursing assessments, wound care, reporting patient changes in status to medical directors and primary care physicians, documenting telephone orders, teaching new medications to patients and caregivers and ensuring delivery/pickup from the pharmacy. Emphasis on palliative care and symptom management in a variety of diseases, situations and familial support systems. Show less



Medical Ministry International

• Canada
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Volunteer- RN/Translator

  • Jun 2012 - Nov 2012

  • Volunteering for 5 weeks as a pediatrics nurse Hospital Goyeneche Arequipa, Peru. Experience including; working with nursing staff to administer oral/IV medications, breathings treatments, rounding with a team of pediatric physicians and surgeons, maintaining the cleanliness and comfort of patients and families. • Volunteering in an interdisciplinary clinic in rural areas in Peru as a nurse/translator. Experience including; translating for volunteer MDs and NPs from English/Spanish, organizing and leading work in triage area, taking vital signs and patient histories, performing basic urinalysis and blood tests. Total 6 different clinic locations throughout Peru. Show less