Jennifer Garcia
Mesa
Summary
Compassionate LPN with experience at Copper Creek Memory Care, excelling in medication administration and patient documentation. Demonstrated strong problem-solving skills while collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to enhance patient care. Adept at monitoring vital signs and providing emotional support, ensuring a safe and nurturing environment for residents.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
LPN
Copper Creek Memory Care
Chandler
05.2023 - Current
- Perform non-invasive resident treatments
- Perform medication administration and assistance
- Assess resident needs, evaluate responses to care, and document this nursing process through charting by exception
- Follow standards of nursing conduct and standard practice
- Perform other duties as assigned
- End-of-life care
- Promoted culture of safety for patients and employees through proper identification, reporting documentation and prevention.
- Took temperatures or blood pressures, dressed wounds and provided other basic patient care or treatments.
- Collected biological specimens and packaged for laboratory transport to complete diagnostic tests.
- Applied interventions to progress patients toward wellness and address maintenance of wellness.
- Documented patient medical histories, current symptoms and vitals.
- Collaborated with multi-disciplinary staff to improve overall patient care and response times.
- Observed, charted, and reported developments in patient health conditions for nursing supervisor.
- Provided behavioral and emotional support and closely supervised patients suffering from dementia and Alzheimer's.
CNA
Nursa and Intely Care
Chandler
08.2022 - 05.2023
- Company Overview: Skilled Nursing/Rehabilitation Centers
- ADLs
- Feeding assistance
- Reporting changes to nursing staff
- Documentation
- ROM, showering, transferring
- Skilled Nursing/Rehabilitation Centers
- Documented information in patient charts and communicated status updates to interdisciplinary care team.
- Answered patient call lights promptly and responded to requests appropriately.
- Performed vital sign assessments, such as taking blood pressure and temperature.
- Assisted nurses with wound care for pressure ulcers, bed sores and surgical site wounds.
- Provided assistance with activities of daily living, including bathing, dressing and grooming.
- Measured and recorded food and liquid intake and output, reporting changes to medical or nursing staff.
- Turned and repositioned bedridden patients to prevent bedsores.
- Assisted patients in ambulation and transfers using proper body mechanics.
Loader Operator & Yard Attendant
Insurance Auto Auctions, IAA
Phoenix
03.2017 - 10.2022
- Moving and setting sale vehicles
- Inspection and cleaning and photography of vehicles
- Loading haulers/tow trucks
- Inspected connections, tires and other components of machinery before operating to monitor for safety and functionality.
- Loaded and unloaded vehicles to and from trucks.
- Participated in regular training sessions related to machine operations and safety procedures.
Education
Associate of Applied Science - Nursing
Phoenix College
Phoenix Commnuity College12.2024
Associate of Arts - Humanities, Math and Science, General Education
Ventura Community Colleges
Ventura, CA01.2015
Some College (No Degree) - Nursing LPN
Gateway College
Phoenix, AZSkills
- Medication administration
- Time management
- Problem solving
- Effective Team Collaboration
- Behavioral health
- Vital signs monitoring
- Diabetes management
- Catheter care
- Infection control
- Patient documentation
- Geriatric nursing
- Patient hygiene assistance
- Physical assessment
- Multi-tasking and prioritization
- Counting narcotics
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
LPN
Copper Creek Memory Care
05.2023 - Current
CNA
Nursa and Intely Care
08.2022 - 05.2023
Loader Operator & Yard Attendant
Insurance Auto Auctions, IAA
03.2017 - 10.2022
Associate of Applied Science - Nursing
Phoenix College
Associate of Arts - Humanities, Math and Science, General Education
Ventura Community Colleges
Some College (No Degree) - Nursing LPN
Gateway College
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