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Would anyone care to critique/review my resume? I am just shy of 2 years total nursing experience... having trouble formatting and wording some areas. Thanks in advance!

Energetic Bachelor's-prepared Registered Nurse with background in long-term acute care hospital as well as skilled nursing facility settings. Accustomed to providing quality nursing care to medically-complex patients and effective time management techniques.

Skills

●Communication with patients, families, other providers and colleagues.

●Physical assessment and on-going patient monitoring.

●Computer skills: Meditech including order entry; Microsoft Office and Outlook programming.

Professional Experience

*LONG TERM ACUTE CARE HOSPITAL*, Staff RN

City, MA● June 2013-present

●Care for five to six acute patients per shift.

●Tracheostomy care, deep tracheal suctioning and care of mechanically-ventilated patients.

●Central and bedside telemetry and oximetry monitoring.

●Wound care for surgical incisions, ulcers, and traumatic wounds including wound vacs.

●Medication administration including IV push, weight-based heparin infusions and TPN/PPN.

●Insertion of peripheral intravenous catheters; care and monitoring of all IV access sites.

●Care of bowel and bladder ostomy appliances, indwelling catheters, fecal management devices, nephrostomy tubes, Jackson-Pratt, biliary, pigtail drains; nasogastric and PEG tubes.

●Maintain communication with each patient's medical team, rehab and therapy teams, case management, social work, and ancillary departments.

●Documentation of nursing care and medication administration in EMR/eMAR (Meditech).

●Provide patient and family teaching for medications, treatments, and discharge instructions.

●Attend continuing education courses and professional development seminars.

*SKILLED NURSING FACILITY*, Staff RN

City, MA ● Oct. 2012-June 2013

●Cared for up to 20 sub-acute rehabilitative patients per shift.

●Documentation of nursing care and medication administration using paper MAR/TARs.

●Wound care treatments; management of bladder catheters and gastric feeding tubes.

●Verified and reconciled medications, performed admission assessments, discharge referrals.

●Computer order entry, and booking of lab and radiology procedures.

Licensure & Certifications

-Registered Nurse, State of Massachusetts

-BLS, American Heart Association

-ACLS, American Heart Association

Education

My College May 2012

Bachelor of Science, Nursing

Inducted, Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing

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