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Hospital Corpsman with 7 years o f experience

Jacksonville, Florida - US

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  • Job Target: Patient Care Associate
  • Employment Status: Active
  • Experience Level: Not Specified
  • Seeking: Full-Time
  • Industry: Accounting/Finance Resumes
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  • Degree: Not Specified
  • Security Clearance: None
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Objective

To procure a position with an organization that can and will utilize an energetic and inspired person; who contributes proven abilities in personal supervision, operational management and who furthermore provides superior organizational, communicational and analytical cognitive skills and experience. Seven years in the Navy as a Naval Hospital Corpsman has taught me that problems are similar to mathematical equations, a creative challenge seeking the correct person to resolve them

Job Target

Patient Care Associate

Professional Experience

2008 – 2008 Wal Mart
Instock Associate

Responsible for storing receiving merchandise and keying sale floor items.
ï Utilized manual/electric pallet jacks to unload incoming trucks and to relocate merchandise items.
ï Aptly calculated and discarded expired and defective merchandise items.
ï Efficiently and competently stocked and loaded merchandise items in to their designated areas.
ïObserved areas for merchandise shrink or potential merchandise shrink.
ïApprised and briefed the grocery managers of all the shrink merchandise items.
ïProcessed defective and decomposable merchandise items.
ïAssured that all grocery and chemical shelves were properly blocked.

2007 – 2008 Winn Dixie
Stock

Responsible for ordering and inventorying grocery and produce merchandise items.
ïObjectively resolved the customers' concerns.
ïReduced the original price of damaged merchandise items for quick sales.
ïResponsible for assuring a safe work environment
Instructed employees as to what modular is and how to properly zone using the modular label.

2004 – 2007 USS BOONE FFG-28
Hospital Corpsman

Inventoried controlled medications and substances.
Counseled patients on treatment and self-care
Administered medications, immunizations and enemas.
ïPerformed and executed annually physical examinations.
ïPerformed intravenous therapy
ïScreened patients (sick call, physical exams)
ïMaintained patients' dental and medical records.
ïPerformed primary and secondary patient assessments.
ïCoordinate Medical Evacuations
ïInspected medications and medical supplies to ensure that the items were not expired.
ïSupervised physical training and Performed iv therapy, patient assessment, venipuncture techniques and removal of suture
ïMedical Liaison aboard ship.
ïPerformed Patient Primary Assessments which include airway, breathing and circulation.
ïChecked pulses for pulse rate and checked for circulation.
ïPerformed secondary assessment which of an examination from head to toe assessment.
ïAccurately document primary and secondary assessment finding, care and referral data.
ïObtained accurate vital sings using manual and electronic equipment.
ïInstructed medical and non-medical personnel on guidelines for controlling internal and external bleeding, bleeding from the head.
ïInstructed medical and non-medical personnel of signs and symptoms of shock and how care for a patient in shock
ïIrrigated infected areas
ïSutured lacerations
ïTreated shock patients
ïAdministered medications to patients in emergency situations.
ïInserted artificial airway and performed artificial respiration.
ïPerformed basic neurological checks

2002 – 2004 Branch Medical Clinic( lab),
Naval Hospital Corpsman .

Extracted patients hemolymph as ordered by the doctor.
ï Performed HGC testing
ï Spined tube of blood.
ï Performed venipuncture utilizing 18 gauge syringes and 23 gauge butterfly syringes..
ï Assisted in the maintenance of environmental health standards.
ï Assisted in the administrative supply and accounting procedures with Naval Jacksonville Hospital.
ï Ordered syringes and other injection supplies.
ï Planned and managed functions in support of readiness.
ï Educated plus schooled new Naval Hospital Corpsman in the appropriate procedures and safety of venipuncture.
ï Performed Health Care Provider Level of Basic Life Support and ACLS
ïProcured cultures for laboratory analysis.
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2001 – 2002 Naval Hospital
Naval Hospital Corpsman

Bandaged injures, splinted fractures and set dislocated limbs
ï Documented patient care and treatment.
ï Monitored, took and documented patients' vital signs in their medical chart
ï Measured and document the patients' fluid intake and output.
ï Don sterile surgical gowns and gloves.
ï Assist with hemolymph transfusions and monitored the patient every 15 to 45 minutes during the process to ensure that there were no reaction to the transfusions.
ï Inspected the hemolymph for any discolorations or abnormalities prior to administering the hemolymph to the patients.
ï Set-up oxygen equipment and executed oxygen therapy.
ï Performed venipuncture
ï Discharged patients' and transported the patients to their personal vehicle.
ï Inserted foley catheters into the place to procure urine laboratory analysis.
ïObserved patients anaphylactic shock signs and symptoms.

2000 – 2001 Med- Peds Ward
Hospital Corpsman

Calculated, documented and administered medications to patients.
ïObtained culture and performed venipuncture, patient assessment and intravenous therapy
ï Transported patients
ï Monitored and documented the patients' vital signs in their medical chart every four hours.
ï Placed the patients electrocardiogram machine.
ï Documented the patients' range of motion.
ï Collected and disposed biomedical waste.
ï Verified Labels of laboratory specimens.
ï Treat patients diagnosed with sexually transmitted disease.
ï Tested the patients' glucose level.
ï Calculated and injected insulin into the patient.
ï Safety and effectively administered medications via oral,sublingual, tropical, rectal, intramuscular , subcutaneous, intradernal and intravenous.
ï Calculated medication dosage including liquid weights and measures, intravenous flow rates and those base on a patients' weight with 100% accuracy.
ï Instructed the junior Hospital Corpsman in the guidelines for administering medication to pediatrics, geriatric., disorientated or non-compliance patients
ï Instructed junior Corpsman in hoe to listen for sounds and palpation the quadrants of abdomen.
ïRestrained combative patient.

Education

2001 medical training
– Associate or Vocational Degree (AA/AS/MCSE/etc.)

Navy Advancement Center's NRTC, Pensacola, Florida
ïCertificate # 913309348

1999 Naval Hospital Corp School
– Associate or Vocational Degree (AA/AS/MCSE/etc.)

Naval Hospital Corp. School, Great Lakes, ILL
ïGraduated third out of thirty graduating apprentices

1999 Edward White High School
– High School (Diploma/GED)

GED

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Last updated on: 2009-06-15.