Skills

EXPERIENCE

**/** – Present Department Of Corrections Queens, NY

• Triage Sick officers maintaining medical correspondence in coordinating treatment and promoting health and recovery.

• Identify client\'s medical needs and outline goals and interventions to achieve wellness.

Develop a plan of care for officers returning back to duty.

• Evaluate client\'s abilities to perform full duty or medically monitored duty

• Preparing and analyzing statistics, operational and other report for recruit officers for academy and administrative leadership.

• Directly supervise clinic and coordinate all operational functions and activities of the clinic within guidelines of the department

• Assist in developing budget for supplies, medical equipment, vaccinations and monitor variables on a monthly basis

09/13 – 03/16 Richmond Center Staten Island, NY

Nursing Supervisor/Care Coordinator

• Ensure quality care for each resident

• Trouble shoot clinical issues in all disciplines, monitor regulatory facility documentation and implement corrective actions

• Participate in new hire orientation and in-service, training, coaching disciplinary and annual evaluations

• Schedules monthly for nurse manager and ancillary staff

• Monitor length of stay with managed care and third party reimbursement including cash collections payments

• Support facility policy and procedures in accordance with standards from all governmental regulatory establishment

• Embrace concepts and behaviors that enhance customer satisfaction, employee morale and improvement in nursing

12/06 – 09/2013 Staten Island University Hospital Staten Island, NY

Staff RN

• Responsible for transcribing orders and administering medication

• Provide training on various topics which include stress management, women\'s health issues and coping skills

• Delegate assignments to ancillary staff and ensure completion of duties

• Responsible for maintaining a safe environment while providing therapeutic activities

• Effectively using nursing process to deliver patient care, assessing and learning needs and implementing teaching strategies appropriate for the divers needs of patients

• Identifying and managing life sustaining physiologic functions, care for emergent and non-emergent patients

12/09 – 4/2012 Arthur kill Correctional Facility Staten Island, NY

RNII Staff Nurse

• Administering of medication

• Sick Call

• Diagnostic testing

• Chronic Care Teaching Clinic

• Assessment, Teaching and Administration of all vaccines

12/2012 – 3/2013 OCFS Staten Island, NY

RN II Staff Nurse

• Managed wellness and sick clinic

• Scheduled and follow up of appointments

• Medication teaching and administration

• Maintained groups for coping skills and health management

10/02 – 9/06 Assistant Patient Care Unit Manager

• Delegate assignments and supervised staff

• Conduct annual performance evaluations and skill testing of each staff member

• Participated in departmental, hospital and unit specific performance improvement plans using data analysis

• Monitored and assigned overtime work to staff in a cost efficient manner

• Collaborated with case management and social workers on appropriate nursing, hospital and community resources

• Provided guidance to interdisciplinary team to provide quality care and appropriate documentation

• Liaison for staff and other hospital services to expedite the delivery of quality patient care, while monitoring length of stay

• Prepared family/patient for discharge and follow-up care utilizing appropriate nursing, hospital and community resources

• Participated in investigating patient complaints

9/98 – 12/05 Cobble Hill Nursing Home Brooklyn, NY

Staff RN

• Supervised ancillary staff

• Documented all aspects of the nursing process

• Handled admissions and discharges

• Participated in monitoring patient care standards and identifying quality improvement issues

• Chronic care teaching such as diabetics, hypertension, heart diseases etc.

• Provided wound care, tracheostomy care, colostomy care, intravenous care insertion and administration of medications, gastrostomy tube feeding, insulin monitoring and administration

2003 – 2006 Visiting Nurse Regional/Empire State Home Care Services Manhattan, NY

Fee for service RN

• Admission documentation and discharges using the OASIS

• Coordinating with managed care for appropriate billing and planning of resources

• Provide services which may not include but not limited to physical assessment, referral, advocacy, screening, follow up and consultations

• Documentation appropriately for reimbursement purposes

• Conduct home health aide supervision and completion of plan of care for individual homes

• Teaching for all chronic diseases included but not limited to post surgical wound, chronic care wounds, medication, monitoring finger sticks, home safety etc.

EDUCATION College of Staten Island (AAS, Nursing) 1998

Wagner College BSN, Nursing 2013

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