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Nursing
Private Duty Nurse
Served as private duty nurse for my father who was diagnosed and passed away from Adenocarcinoma
- Helped meet and take care of activities of daily life
- Provided emotional support for patient and family members
- Communicated with physicians regarding needs and concerns
- Transportation to and from required physician appointments.
- Managed and supervised the closing and liquidation of business owned
- Monitoring of vital signs, medication reactions and general state of health.
Candidate Info
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Certificate
Business Management
Private Duty Nurse
Changed surgical dressings per medical order.
- Monitored nutritional status and blood pressure daily.
- Observed client condition and reported changes to health care proxy.
- Evaluated the effectiveness of care administered.
- Monitored utilization and effectiveness of medical equipment.
- Completed incidental household tasks as required, based on client's medical condition.
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months at this job
High School Diploma
Nursing Science
Nursing
Pediatric Private Duty Nurse
Performed initial and ongoing health assessments of individuals and their families by evaluating their physical, mental, and environmental status - provided nursing interventions based on assessment of need
- Made skilled nursing observations of patient health status by monitoring and documenting such things as vital signs, heart and lung auscultation, blood and urine laboratory values, intake and output, level of consciousness, etc.
- Applied independent emergency measures to counteract adverse health developments and notified physician of patients condition
- Ensured proper documentation of patient care and regular communication with the patient, family, patient care givers, and physician
- Educated and supervised HHAs and LPNs for patients
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Nursing
Private Duty Nurse
Contracted independently to perform total patient care for end-stage Parkinson's patient, applying a compassionate and proactive approach to patient's care. Observed, evaluated, and recorded symptoms. Communicated plan of care changes to family members resulting from disease progression. Applied independent emergency measures to counteract adverse developments. Maintained needed equipment and supplies.
- Determined patient needs based upon initial home evaluation; established nursing care plan and charting system to ensure continuity of care.
- Assisted with tube feedings, range of motion exercises, medication intake, and personal hygiene.
- Cooperated with community agencies to assist patient where possible.
Candidate Info
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Ophthalmic Technology Program
Vocational Nursing Program
Licensed Vocational Nurse Program
Private Duty Nurse
Managed health and personal care for a geriatric couple
- Administered medications, treatments, and performed related procedures
- Coordinated in-patient care
- Scheduled, transported to, and accompanied to healthcare appointments
- Assisted with transition to hospice care.
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Nursing
Medical
Private Duty Nurse-lvn
Ensured all physician orders were followed accurately.
- Properly managed to apply emergency and independent measures.
- Recorded, observed and evaluated symptoms.
- Administered dressing, nursing services, medicine and treatments.
- Performed excellent nursing care in private home.
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Computer Science
Computer Science
Private Duty Nurse
Prepared and administered medications by oral, topical, and inhalation routes.
- Promoted patient education, especially regarding their condition, conveyed health information, and provided communication between doctor and patient.
- Spent quality time with patients, providing individualized patient teaching on preventative healthcare and health maintenance.
- Assist Client with ADLs.
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Nursing
Private Duty Nurse/primary Care Provider
Managed all aspects of care under the supervision of Floating Hospital for children.
- Dispensed Medication and pain management
- Participated in client appointments for chemotherapy and radiation sessions
- Assisted client or independently performed Activities of Daily Living
- Performed end of life care working closely with Seasons Palliative Care
- Demonstrated ability to provide ongoing support to family and friends of patient
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Private Duty Nurse
Worked with child with cerebral palsy, tracheotomy and peg tube
- Monitored oxygen saturation using a pulse oximetry, administer oxygen when needed. Auscultation of lung sounds and tracheal suctioning when needed
- Administered dressings, nursing services, medications and treatments
- Assisted with bathing, dressing, grooming, transfers from bed to chair, toileting, provided companionship, and performed some light housekeeping
Candidate Info
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High School Diploma
Vocational Degree
Liberal Arts And Sciences
Private Duty Nurse
Provided skilled nursing care to pediatric clients in their homes
- Maintained accurate documentation / Updated orders as needed
- Interacted with and provided support to families of clients
- Participated in flu clinics
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Private Duty Nurse
Properly distributed medicine to patients/ Glucose testing as directed
- Provided patients with proper nutrition
- Supervised patients during exercise
- Insured that patients received adequate hygiene and self-care that could not be obtained by themselves
- Provided patients with excellent bedside manner
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Information Systems Management
Health Services Administration
Private Duty Nurse
Selected Nurse of the Quarter 2009 for the Bayada Adult Office
- Exhibited strong leadership skills supervising Nursing Assistants
- Displayed outstanding professionalism with attendance record and work schedule flexibility
- Completed Practical Nursing Studies Certification and Master's
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Nursing
Private Duty Nurse Manager
- Followed all instructions of the physicians accurately.
- Supervised and scheduled appropriate nutritional diet.
- Properly recorded all data accurately.
- Supervised three employees including: scheduling and payroll.
- Ensured regular communication with the patient's family, employees, and physicians.
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Science
Science
Private Duty Nurse Caregiver
Provide private duty care for elderly woman and man.
- Administered medication
- Assisted with personal hygiene and toileting
- Encouraged socialization opportunities and cognitive activities
- Promoted physical well-being through exercise and ambulation
- Transported to medical appointments
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years at this job
Private Duty Nurse
Provided care for individuals in their homes
- Provided transportation
- Prepared meals and changed linens
- Recorded vitals
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Nursing
Arts
Private Duty Nurse
Responsible for the delivery and coordination of quality client care in compliance with physician orders.
- Observe and assesses client condition and care needs continuously. Reports changes in condition to the supervisor and/or physician as appropriate.
- Takes appropriate nursing action based on assessment and achieves expected outcomes.
- Develops, implements, and updates the nursing care plan.
- Provides direct, hands-on care to assigned clients.
- Documents all activities, assessments, nursing actions, responses, and coordination of care in a timely manner whenever care is delivered.
- Recognizes changes in client needs and responses requiring intervention and implements care to prevent risk or reduce risk.
- Performed Tracheostomy care and Gastrostomy tube care
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Applied Science
Nursing
Private Duty Nurse
Provide total patient care including diet and physical activity for a medically fragile child with Familial Dysautonomia
- Maintain accurate, detailed reports and records of symptoms and changes in patient's condition.
- Consult and coordinate with health care team members to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate patient care.
- Instruct patient and family on topics such as health education, home safety and maintenance.
- Additional responsibilities include: Feeding and medication administration through PEG tube; suctioning; chest PT; nebulizer treatment administration; consistent V/S monitoring while asleep and awake to prevent and/or treat episodes of crises.
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Nursing
Private Duty Nurse
Independently manage overall care of elderly client with multiple co-morbidities in the home.
- Monitor vitals, weight, and blood sugar and manage medication regimen, including insulin and breathing medications. Wound care performed as needed.
- Accompany to all medical appointments, track laboratory and x-ray results, assist in ADL's and physical therapy exercises, and track fluid/dietary restrictions.
- Provide client and spouse with needed education and notify appropriate physician of any physical or mental status changes.
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Certified Nursing Assistant
Certified Home Health Aide
Criminal Justice Administration-human Services
Private Duty Nurse-cna
Determine overall direction of private/public sector organizations using guidelines set by similar governing body
- Plan and coordinate operational activities with the aid of additional support staff
- Schedule doctor's appointments for patients and join them for the duration of the appointment; manage and organize patient medical forms
- Administer wound care and provide services related to daily living functions; includes light cleaning/cooking and provision of overall advocacy for disabled individuals
- Attend meetings to stay informed of changes in patient resources, coverage and benefits
- Liaise with Medicare, Medicaid and private insurance providers to resolve billing issues
- Maintained up-to-date care organizational chart; design electronic file systems and maintain both electronic and paper files
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Exercise Science
Sports Medicine
Chiropractic
Private Duty Nurse Coordinator
Interview/Select and when appropriate, remove; RN, LPN and PCA staff for clients; new employee orientation
- Adjust schedules and change workload/assignments of private duty clients
- Interact in face to face or telephonic means, problem resolve/positive interaction with employees/clients
- Cross-trained to help with billing, financial recovery and quality review of vital state regulated documents
- Creation of new website, mail merge
- Creation of nurse policies/procedures required for Medicare approved licensing
- Microsoft Office, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint and Google Mail proficient
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Sciences
Private Duty Nurse
Manage all aspects of total patient care for adults and children
- Administer medications and treatments with exemplary levels of accuracy and efficiency.
- Provide guidance, information, and support to families, doctors, and community resources.
- Attend special needs schools encompassing medically involved disabled children.
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Accountancy
Nursing
Private Duty Nurse
- Cares for adult and pediatric vent and trach patients on g-tube, Cleans g-tube and trach area and changes dressings and trach ties
- Uses Vest Airway Clearance System after breathing treatment to facilitate loosening up of secretions aside from doing CPT. Suctions trach secretions PRN with suction catheter.
- Repositions every 2 hours/PRN, to prevent pressure ulcers, while maintaining safety and comfort measures and does PROM exercises
- Administer medication, treatment, dressing, and other nursing services, according to physician's instructions and condition of patient.
- Gives information or health education to patient's family in treatment of patient and maintenance of healthful environment.
- Applies independent emergency measures to counteract adverse developments and notifies physician of patient's condition.
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High School Diploma
Nursing Program
Private Duty Nurse
Provide in-home nursing care services to assigned clients.
- Monitor vital signs and other critical measurements for patients under home care services.
- Documenting a patient's vital signs, progress and other details in their home health chart.
- Contacting a patient's physician when urgent or additional care situations are noted during home visits.
- Creating an open line of communication to answer questions and address concerns of patients.
- Supervising home health LPN trainees and home health care aides; including evaluations of the care they provide for patients.
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Nursing
Drama Therapy
Private Duty Nurse/administrative Assistant
Provide care for 61-year-old female stroke patient.
- Assist patient with walking using cane, walker, and gait belt.
- Prepare and administer medications
- Prepare low-sodium, low-fat diet for patient and family.
- Take and analyze daily blood pressure and pulse readings.
- Answer telephone calls and schedule appointments for patient's healthcare needs and patient's home business.
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Marketing
Nursing
Licensed Vocational Nurse
Private Duty Nurse
Provide highly skilled nursing care to a medically fragile pediatric hospice patient in the home setting.
- Perform assessments, compare results to patient's base line and report all critical vitals and findings to the physician coordinating care for better quality of life.
- Perform interventions such as medication administration via G- Button, and G-button feeding, breathing treatments with CPT Vest, straight catheter insertion, etc to ensure patient's comfort.
- Proficiently document all assessments and care paying careful attention to detail.
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Private Duty Nurse
Provided nursing care to a elderly disabled lady at her residence. Included medication set up and administration, assistance with personal care, accompanied to MD appointments and any out patient procedures.
- Medication set up and administration
- Assistance with personal care
- Maintained a safe and secure enviroment
- Accompanied to MD appointments and out patient procedures
- Dependable
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Education
Nursing Assistant I
Private Duty Nurse
Responsible for the medical oversight of pediatrics patients 8 and 13 years old
- Document and update patient charts to report patient's medications and medical history
- Provide specialty care to trach patients, parenteral feedings, monitor o2 administration
- All basic and personal care/both are total care patients
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Medical Billing And Coding
Nursing Assistant
Medical Assistant
Private Duty Nurse
Assists clients with personal care and activities of daily living, in accordance with the client's individualized care plan.
- Practices safety, infection control, and standard precautions.
- Maintains client rights and confidentiality.
- Escorts client to appointments.
- Prepares and serves meals according to instructions.
- Keeps the rooms the client uses clean, including making bed, changing bed linens, dusting, vacuuming, washing dishes, tidying kitchen, bedroom, and bathroom.
- Shops or does errands for client.
- Washes client's laundry.
- Participates in Performance Improvement activities
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Nursing
Nursing
Private Duty Nurse
Provide primary nursing care for a high acuity quadriplegic stroke patient in a home setting
- Assess the nursing needs of the patient, formulate nursing diagnoses and develop plans of care
- Responsible for direct nursing care including hygienic measures, skin care, ADL and PROM
- Insert IV lines if indicated and administer intravenous, parenteral, rectal and topical medication
- Perform chest physiotherapy, pulmonary drainage, positioning, aggressive suctioning, respiratory treatments including inhalers, nebulizers and supplemental oxygen
- Manage tracheostomy and gastric tube and administer tube feedings
- Perform venipuncture for lab work and inform the physician with the results
- Collaborate with other members of the health care team
- Provide health care teaching for the patient and family and be respectful of religious and cultural beliefs
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Lpn Private Duty Nurse
Tracheotomy care
- Ventilator monitoring
- Administer medications, provide nursing procedures according to care plan
- Oxygen therapy, catheterization, enemas, range of motion, diabetic care
- Give 5P report to oncoming nurse
- Maintain safe, therapeutic environment
- Charting with electronic medical documentation; charting in Epic
Candidate Info
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years at this job
Nursing
Vocational Degree
Health Care Administration
Private Duty Nurse/lvn
Observe, evaluate, record symptoms, and perform full assessments
- Administer medications as prescribed and document on MAR
- Update and manage client's Medication Administration Records
- Pain management, prevent infections, and assist with transfers and mobility
- Coordinating home medical equipment, pharmacy, and supplies
- Perform wound care and dressing changes according to physician's order
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Pediatric Private Duty Nurse
Administers prescribed medications and feedings via gastric tube.
- Takes and records patient's vital signs to detect deviations from normal and assesses condition of patient.
- Observes patient, records significant conditions and reactions, and notifies parents or physician of patient's condition and reaction.
- Documents nursing history and physical assessment for patient daily.
- Performs daily PROM, oral, tracheotomy and gastric tube care.
- Comfortable working with and changing tracheotomy tube, gastric button and ventilator.
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Private Duty Nurse Aide
- Assist patient with dressing, vital signs, transport to doctor's appointments, ambulation and exercise.
- Supervised 12-15 man receiving team on 3rd shift
- Loaded/unloaded trucks, handled manifests and security
- Managed Pets and Sporting Goods departments, trained new
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Private Duty Nurse
To assist client with Alzheimer' disease with every day activities i.e. bathing, dressing etc.
- To drive client to and from doctor's appointments
- To assist client with household chores and errands
- Assist with medication management
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Nursing
(nursing)
RN, Private Duty Nurse
Assessed health needs of patients and administered treatment as prescribed by MD.
- Worked with patient with tracheotomy, acute and chronic ventilators dependent.
- Provide wound care: assess, monitor and treat as ordered
- Provide support to patients and families in a home care setting
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Medical Assistant
Nursing
Private Duty Nurse
Taking vital statistics.
- Provide patient hygiene
- Assist patients entering or leaving their beds, walking, general transportation
- Monitoring patient and reporting changes
- Assist with activities of daily living
Candidate Info
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Core
Nursing
Private Duty Nurse - in Home RN
Provides direct patient care & comfort in the home
- Conducts routine nursing assessments & evaluation of treatments
- Performs medication administration, skin care & monitors oxygen therapy
- Ensures safety in the home
- Carries out physicians' orders
- Maintains strong rapport with family & caregivers
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Applied Science
Nursing
Nursing Assistant
Private Duty Nurse
- Privately hired by a family to provide care to their elderly family member
- Medication administration, bathing, feeding & assisting patient within her fhome
- Transporting patient to and from appointed locations during course of the day
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Nursing
Private Duty Nurse
For Rapidly Declining ALS Patient
- Medication administration, g-tube
- G-tube care and nourishment administration.
- Patient assessment and vital signs
- Wound care
- Oral Pharyngeal Suctioning patient is a high risk for aspiration
- Documentation
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years at this job
Vocational Nursing
Private Duty Nurse
Licensed Practical Nurse
- Educate patients on medications, conditions, procedures and anything else affecting them
- Evaluate nursing intervention outcomes, conferring with other health care team members as necessary.
- Provide medical treatment and personal care to patients in private home settings, such as cooking, keeping rooms' orderly, seeing that patients are comfortable and in good spirits and instructing family in simple nursing tasks.
- Help patients with bathing, dressing, maintaining personal hygiene, moving in bed, or standing and walking.
- Provide basic patient care and treatments, such as vital signs, dressing wounds, treating bedsores, giving enemas or douches, rubbing with alcohol, massaging, supplying oxygen or performing catheterizations
- Observe patients, charting and reporting changes in patients' conditions, such as adverse reactions to medication or treatment, and taking any necessary action.
- Administer prescribed medications and note times and amounts on patients' charts
- Adjust my level of personal care given to each patient according to their emotional and physical needs
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Private Duty Nurse
Private Duty Nursing
- Administers medications, treatments, dressings and other nursing services, according to physician's instructions and condition of client.
- Observes, evaluates, and records symptoms.
- Gives information to family in treatment of client and maintenance of healthful environment.
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LPN - Private Duty Nurse
Provide continuity of care for various medical conditions including children with CP, brain traumas, and central nervous system diagnosis. Adult care has consisted of those with ALS, dementia of varying degrees, and hospice.
- Completed daily patient assessments
- Charting and communication with doctors and PA's
- Wound care and administration of shots and meds
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High School Diploma
Private Duty Nurse
- Bathe, groom, shave, dress, and prepare patients for doctor's appointments.
- Transport patient's using a wheelchair.
- Clean rooms and change linens.
- Cook for and sometimes feed patients.
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Practical Nursing
Private Duty Nurse
- Provide home care visits to medically fragile children and adults
- Provide training and support to families
- Clinical Documentation
- Administer medications and/or treatments as needed
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Science
Private Duty Nurse
- Assisting with ADL's
- Medication management
- Assessing lung function and administering nebulizer treatments as ordered
- Monitoring vital signs
- Escorting to appointments
- Infection control and pressure ulcer prevention
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years at this job
High School Diploma
Microsoft Word, Excel And Powerpoint
Medical Office Tech
Certified Nursing Assistant/ Private Duty Nurse
Private Duty Nurse
- Assist with daily Living
- Recording medical records
- Physical Therapy after procedures
- Patient Care/Monitoring during hospital or facility stay
- Work with team and on Individual basis
- Computer data entry, transcribing medical reports
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Technology Center
Private Duty Nurse (lpn)
In home patient care / total care patient.
- Ensure hourly accurate charting.
- Monitor continuous PEG and patient positioning.
- Generate weekly MARS and monthly assessments.
- Report any changes in patient, including behavior patterns.
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year at this job
High School Diploma
Private Duty Nurse
Trachea/Vent dependent adult
- Trach Toddler
- Administer Medication (oral, injections, g/j-tube)
- Bolus/G- tube feeding
- Enhancing social skills
Candidate Info
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year at this job
High School Diploma
Biology
Private Duty Nurse
Private nurse/Cna
- Assist elderly patient with daily essentials
- Give patient daily medication
- Feed and bathe
- Transport patient
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years at this job
Nursing
Private Duty Nurse
- Pediatric private duty nursing
- G-Tube care and assessment
- Central line assessment, care, bandage changes.
- TPN administration
- Colostomy care and assessment
- Assessment of vitals and patient changes per shift.
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