Registered Oncology Nurse Resume

by KC
(Ventura, CA, USA)

OBJECTIVE: Registered Nurse seeking a position within a progressive medical health center.

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS:
•Advocate for patients rights; strive to understand patients’ needs and concerns.
•Hardworking and energetic; flexible; adapt easily to change of environment and work schedule.
•Maintain critical thinking skills essential to providing competent and dignified patient care.
•Personable with a positive attitude; interface well with patients, families, and nursing staff.
•Team leader with ability to create a positive working environment that uplifts patients’ spirits.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Registered Nurse – Oncology and Floating, A Confidential Accredited Hospital, Somewhere, CA, Dec. 2006 – Present.

•Provide specialized direct and indirect care to inpatients and outpatients in Oncology, Med. Surg., ICU, CCU, and ER.
•Monitor, record and report symptoms and changes in patients' conditions.
•Order and suggest diagnostic tests to identify and assess patients’ conditions.
•Administer oral and intramuscular and subcutaneous medications, IV insertion.
•Nasogastric tube and Foley catheter insertion and removal, and CBI’s.

Registered Nurse, Charge Nurse – Bariatric Unit and Telemetry Unit, Henry Ford Bi-County Hospital, Warren, MI, June 1992 – Sept. 2006.

•Monitor, record and report symptoms and changes in patients' conditions.
•Order and suggest diagnostic tests to identify and assess patients’ conditions.
•Post-Bariatric patient management.
•Safely administered medications, and educate patients and their families on the proper use with a focus on safety and pain management techniques.
•Experience with patients on ventilators.

Registered Nurse, St. John’s Macomb Hospital, Warren, MI, 1984 - 1992.

•Performed neurological testing to check patients for changes in mental status, formal and informal MSE.
•Reviewed computerized laboratory test results following post dialysis, colonoscopies, ERCP, and surgeries.
•Provided a broad range of general nursing care services in areas of vital signs, EKG, phlebotomy, catheters, feeding tubes, IV and manage central lines.
•Prioritized and delegated assignments, contributing to a higher standard of patient care and staff.
•Monitored patients’ PPT/INR levels to identify the need for anticoagulant therapy, and for potential side effects of medications demonstrating strong observation, assessment, and intervention skills.

EDUCATION

Macomb Community College, Macomb, MI
1986 - 1990
Major: Nursing
ADN in Nursing

Carnegie Institue, Troy, MI
1981 - 1982
Medical Assistant Certificate

LICENSES / CERTIFICATIONS

(CA) Registered Nurse License #xxxxxx
BLS – Expires: 2/2012

Interested medical directors may contact Nurse 'KC' via the Comments hyperlink below this page.