MONIKA C. ESHLEMAN
MARIETTA,PA
Summary
Proficient and caring nursing team member offering outstanding patient-facing experience. Adept at addressing patient needs with compassionate care and attention to detail. Diligent about maximizing satisfaction, safety, and wellness while serving patients of all backgrounds.
Overview
2
2
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
LPN
Masonic Villages of Elizabethtown
07.2024 - Current
- Managed patient care through closely monitoring respiration, blood pressure, and blood glucose levels.
- Cared for wounds, provided treatments, and assisted with procedures.
- Obtained patient vital signs and input/output measurements from inpatients.
- Delivered updates in patient status to charge nurse, recording changes in medical records.
- Collaborated with interdisciplinary team of healthcare and social service providers to address patients' needs through effective intervention and care planning.
- Assisted with admissions, appointments, transfers, and discharges.
- Comforted and counseled patients and families throughout care process.
- Monitored, tracked, and conveyed important patient information to healthcare staff to help optimize treatment planning and care delivery.
- Used aseptic techniques to provide sterilized wound care and dressing applications.
- Documented accurate and complete patient information to address patient problems and expected outcomes.
- Performed routine evaluations of each patient's status, needs, and preferences.
- Accurately recorded interactions in medical charts, documenting accidents and interventions applied.
- Adhered to treatment plan instructions when administering medications and treatments to patients.
LPN Office Nurse
PennState Mount Joy
02.2024 - 07.2024
- Sterilized instruments and equipment and stocked unexpired supplies and medications to prepare patient care areas.
- Assessed patient health status based upon presented symptoms and directed patient to appropriate level of care or acceptable alternative venue.
- Tracked, reviewed and monitored diagnostic test results and assisted in management of patient care between visits.
- Reinforced health education, counseling and advice to patients and families and assessed patient educational needs, prioritized patient learning needs, identified barriers to learning and used educational tools to encourage non-adherent patients.
- Prepared and administered vaccines and medications, collected specimens and performed other patient care tasks to assist physician with examinations and procedures.
- Assessed patients' temperature, pulse, and blood pressure and recorded in electronic medical records.
- Delivered emotional support to patients and families during challenging times.
- Supported diagnoses by taking blood samples from patients for laboratory testing.
- Protected patients and healthcare team members from infection by sterilizing equipment and reusable supplies.
- Responded to patient requests with appropriate clinical and personal assistance.
- Monitored patient health conditions to report changes to assigned physician.
- Provided diagnosis information, treatment possibilities, disease management tips and wound care advice to patients, loved ones and caregivers.
- Reviewed patient history to verify conditions and current medications.
- Evaluated patient histories, complaints, and current symptoms.
STUDENT NURSE
Litiz
01.2023 - 12.2023
- Medical/ surgical rotation: Learn the nurse's role in a hospital setting, learn about IV pumps and IV lines.
- Nursing Home: Brethren Village: Learn the nurse's role in the nursing home, medication administration with residents and how their days are planned.
- UPMC Magee Women's: Watched a cesarean birth and a vaginal birth. Gave medications to infants and their mothers.
- Pediatrics: Took care of children with disabilities and medication administration, watched respiratory care take care of the children's trachs.
- Evaluated patient histories, complaints, and current symptoms.
- Monitored patient vital signs, reporting any changes to experienced nursing staff.
- Administered medications via oral, IV, and intramuscular injections and monitored responses.
Education
LPN-Nursing
Harrisburg Area Community College
Lancaster, PA12-2023
Special education certificate of completion/diploma - undefined
Lancaster Career and Technolgy Center
06.2014
High school graduate or equivalency certificate (GED) - undefined
Donegal High School
06.2014
Skills
- Hard working
- Does well under stress
- Team player
- Respectful of authority/of others
- Great Listener
- Understands responsibility
- Nursing ethics
- Medical documentation
- Compassionate care
- Vital signs monitoring
- End-of-life care
- Palliative care
Certification
- LPN License - Issued 1/24/2024, Expires 06/30/2026
- AHA BLS Certification- Issued 5/9/2024, Expires 5/2026
Timeline
LPN
Masonic Villages of Elizabethtown
07.2024 - Current
LPN Office Nurse
PennState Mount Joy
02.2024 - 07.2024
STUDENT NURSE
Litiz
01.2023 - 12.2023
Special education certificate of completion/diploma - undefined
Lancaster Career and Technolgy Center
High school graduate or equivalency certificate (GED) - undefined
Donegal High School
LPN-Nursing
Harrisburg Area Community College
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