Experience

Little Flower Children and Family Services

• United States
• Non-profit Organizations
• 100 - 200 Employee

• RN for Intensive care facility for the mentally and physically disabled

  • May 2011 - Present

  RN in an ICF for 20 mentally and physically disabled adults.eight Wheel chair bound and two Psychiatric Residents. I am responsible for the medical and emotional needs of these residents .I oversee 15 Direct care workers, who physically care for and admisister medications.. My daily routine is to see that everyone gets to their appointments on time, and if they stay hom from program I take care of them for the day. Each month I prepare Annual or Quartlerly reports on three or four of the clients. This includes the last years or last three months of Doctors appointments and their reccomendations, the report includes lab work, hospital stays and all OPWDD's monthly requirments. Of course this is when we meet with parents or relatives to go over the report. The Charting involves, Nursing care plans,daily skin assesment, nutritional documentation I am resposible to arrange for all Doctors visits and home visits. I order all medications and transcribe the Doctors orders. I am an instrucor as well for the AMAP workers. Those employee's who are just hired and will be adminstering medications must be certified to do so. I teach a 40 hour course which certifies them. The course includes Anatomy and physiology, pharmacology, policies and proceedures. I instruct all clinical aspect such as G-tube training or any specific practical need the residents might have. They must pass this course in order to be certifies. Once they pass the exams I precept the workers on how the medications are given. As an ICF RN I also take care of employee health, PPD' Flu Shots, Yearly medical evaluations etc. I may have left out more but this is the crux of it. However when the day is done my main concern is that the residents have had a good day, feel well and are ready for evening care and activities bath and bed.. Mary Molfetta Show less



Stony Brook University Medical Center

• United States
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• RN on Neuro Unit/Blood bank donor room

  • Oct 2002 - May 2009

  The population on this unit consisted of Stroke, MS, Dementia and over flow of from Med/Surg units. There was also a pediatric epilepsy, 24hr EEG monitoring department on this unit. We took in children who needed to have medication adjustment. On this unit were patients with multiple co-morbidities, making for an overall high patient acuity. Multi-tasking and maintaining a working knowledge of medications and their side effects was essential. Blood Bank donor room consisted of collecting whole blood and platelets. A thorough Donor screening done prior to donating. I arranged Blood and Blood products to be directed to specific recipients. Obtained good IV skills. Show less



St Charles Specialty Rehabilitation Hospital

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

• Rehab. Charge Nurse 44 bed Spinal Cord unit- 1994-2002/ Rehab Nurse Liasion 1991-2011

  • Sep 1994 - Aug 2001

  1994-2002 As a Charge Nurse at St. Charles I managed and cared for a 44 bed Rehab unit. The patient population consisted of quadriplegic, paraplegic, traumatic brain injured and general med/surge patients. My responsibilities involved staff teaching and in-services, as well as patient care. My daily Nursing assessments include medication consolidation, tracheotomy care as well as G-tube maintenance, monitoring bowel and bladder Foley catheter insertion and safe dis-impaction techniques for the paraplegic or those in need. I worked with a multidisciplinary team. I coordinated weakly team meetings, to discuss the patient’s gains for that week. The team consisted of the Attending physicians, PT’s. OT’s, Social work, myself and other ancillary members specific to the patient’s car plan. We evaluated the individual’s mental, physical and emotional state so as to expedite their rehabilitation and ultimate discharge to home or in some cases to a sub-acute facility for additional rehabilitation I enjoyed the experience of Rehab Nursing, I learned so many valuable nursing and people skills that I took with me on my continued path to patient care. One of the fortunate aspects in the field of Nursing is the ability to expand our knowledge and continue to learn the different ways in which to serve our community. 2009-2011 I received a call one day asking if I might be interested in a position back at St. Charles as a Rehab Nurse Liaison. As a liaison I assessed the referred patients to see if they met the criteria for acute rehab. This position required fine assessment skills, and the ability decide whether the patient could tolerate an Acute Rehab, or if they would be best fit for sub-acute. It was always about the patient’s needs. My appointed hospitals included; NUMC, Cohen’s children’s hospital (PICU), St. Francis hospital and Winthrop university hospital. Later they added Good Samaritan, Huntington and St. Catherine’s Show less