Long Term Care Consultant

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Long Term Care Consultant with 15 years experience looking for a Middle Management position.

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31 O`Brien Rd, RR 1 Plainfield, Ontario KOK 2VO (Canada) 613-477-3309 ( HOME ) 613-242-6032 ( CELLULAR ) [email protected] OBJECTIVE: TO SECURE A POSITION AS A LONG - TERM CARE CONSULTANT / ACTION GOALS: * Expediting R.N. licensure for the state of New York * Accelerating Bachelor of Nursing ( completion ) 2012 PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS: * College of Nurses of Ontario * College of Nurses of Alberta * American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants MASTERED ACCOMPLISHMENTS: * Certificate / Legal Nurse Consultant / Ontario / 01/2010 * Canadian Immunization Course / Health Canada/ 12/2007 * Case Management / Community Nursing / Health Canada / 12/2007 * Best Practices in Wound Care / Calgary Health Region / 03/2006 * Physical Assessment of the Geriatric Adult / Calgary Health Region / 03/2005 * Clinical Instructor / Personal Support Worker / Ontario Georgian College / Jun e 2001 * Peritoneal Dialysis / Scarborough Centenary Hospital / ON / 2000 * Toastmasters / Ontario / 2000 * Critical Care / Emergency Nursing / Texas / USA/ A.C.L.S. Certification / ECG Interpretation / 1997 EDUCATION: * Registered Nurse Diploma / Georgian College / Orillia, Ontario / 1995 * Registered Practical Nurse Diploma / George Brown College / Toronto, Ontario / 1990 EMPLOYMENT SYNOPSIS: WELL IN MEDICAL / JUNE 2009 - NOVEMBER 2010 / QUINTE REGION / BELLEVILLE, ONTARI O * Employed as a subcontractor who consulted my services out to geriatric, long t erm care facilities in south eastern Ontario. * Penetrated knowledge in infrastructures & best practices for governing long te rm care and geriatrics LONG TERM CARE / CHRONIC CARE / SUBACUTE CARE IN GERIATRIC SETTINGS / CALGARY, A LBERTA / CANADA / JUNE 2001- MAY 2009 * Functional knowledge in the technology field of long term care regarding, RAI / MDS / RUGS / E-MAR * Team led licensed and unregulated health care professionals * Taught nursing assistants in a clinical environment activities of daily living in geriatric care * Adopted principles of palliative care / end stage of life * Identified clients for emergency transport * Assessed & Implemented pain management * Corresponded as a liaison with physicians and members of the interdisciplinary health care team ongoing to advocate for the geriatric client * Instituted evaluation and revision of policies & procedures in the geriatric s etting * Interpreted the daily physical status or decline of the geriatric client while utilizing preventive measures in care delivered * Adapted care plans to meet the emotional, physical and spiritual components of the elderly client daily * Collaborated with the health care team weekly during care conferences to criti

que the client`s level of health care needs * Empathized and guided families with life care choices, DNR orders, and levels of care for transport to acute care facilities * Monitored staffing ratios * Attained knowledge in the standards of care for the geriatric nurse * Explored areas of documentation and able to apply in the clinical setting * Strategized knowledge of the aging process, physically and neurologically * Delivered accountable knowledge as a Registered Nurse and demonstrated skill i n the areas of acute and chronic wounds, falls prevention, falls assessment, vac cinations and dementia. * Exhibited experience with admission assessments, discharges, pharmacy and phys ician`s orders as required * Supervised all levels of care within facilities from assisted living, retireme nt and long term care living * Summarized performance appraisals * Rectified warfarin and wound care protocols * Familiarized self in areas of quality improvement within organizations * Illustrated knowledge with various presenting behaviours of the stages of Alzh eimer`s Disease * Perceived knowledge gained in regards to least restraint policies, bed alarms, side rails, restraints, wander guards and locked units * Achieved skill set with nutritional support via percutaneous gastrostomy tubes and dehydration * Focused skill in the insidious disease process of diabetes * Rendered knowledge gained with psychotropic medications and assessing their ap propriateness in the clinical setting SIKSIKA FIRST NATIONS / JULY 2007 TO JULY 2008 / CALGARY, ALBERTA / HEALTH CANAD A * Employed within the aboriginal culture in a community setting, home visits * Autonomy and intellectual assessment * Burns, first aid, chest pain, alcoholism, diabetes, obesity and substance abus e were assessed daily * Maternal / Child Health MULTIPROFESSIONAL SUPPORT SERVICES INC; / COMMUNITY NURSING / MARCH 2000-MARCH 2 001 / GRAVENHURST, ONTARIO * Employed in the community providing care in client`s homes * Accessed resources via the multidisciplinary health care team while in transit * Administered intravenous antibiotics, hypodermoclysis for hydration therapy * Nursed clients at various ages and stages along their life spectrum * Monitored and allocated community resources for cost effective discharge plann ing and client satisfaction CENTENARY HEALTH CARE CENTRE / ACUTE CARE / 1998-2000 / SCARBOROUGH ON * Floated to all areas within an acute care setting, surgical, orthopaedics, med ical, ICU, emergency, cardiac and worked extensively on a peritoneal dialysis un it HOLSTEN VALLEY MEDICAL CENTRE / KINGSPORT, TENNESSEA / USA / JULY 1997-OCTOBER 1 997 / ACUTE CARE * Employed in a cardiac step down unit * Read electrocardiogram strips, administered cardiac medications * Performed neurological vital signs, oxygen administration, oximetry, post ope rative pacemaker care * Blood transfusions and reaction management PARK PLACE MEDICAL CENTRE / PORT ARTHUR, TEXAS, USA / ACUTE CARE 1995-1997 * Employed as a graduate registered nurse, floated to all areas of acute care wi thin this 350 bed hospital BEAVERTON -THORAH MEDICAL CENTRE/ BEAVERTON ONTARIO / REGISTERED PRACTICAL NURSE / PHYSICIAN`S ASSISTANT 1991-1992

* Employed in a busy small town physician's office, performed pulmonary function tests, venipuncture, well baby visits, allergy injections, and assisted the phy sician with sutures and pap's. Nursed clients from the entire health spectrum ho listically. Sincerely, Laurie Rowles

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