405 W Gartner Rd · Naperville · IL, 60540

630.961.1318 · laurapruett@att.net

Laura Pruett

Healthcare experience

April 2010 to current

St. James Hospital, Chicago Heights, IL
Regestered Nurse, ortho/med surg
* Head to toe assessment
* Monitoring patients before and after surgery and reporting
information to doctors and residents
* Setting up Buck's traction and overhead trapeze
* Emptying and monitoring of JP and Hemovac drains
* Foley catheter insertion, removal, and flushing
* NG tube insertion, flushing and removal
* Adminstering blood products and medication
* Venipuncture for IV start, administer of IV medications, and removal
of IV catheters
* Admissions and discharges
* dressing changes for surgical incisions, pressure ulcers, wounds and
PICC lines
* collecting lab specimens including blood samples from PICC lines and
following up with lab
* G-Tube feedings and administering of medications
* computer charting, braden scale and morse fall scale evaluation and
care plans
* ensuring patient safety and comfort

July 2009 to April 2010

Tabor Hills Nursing Home, Naperville, IL
Float Nurse
* Head to toe assessment
* Admissions and discharges
* foley catheter insertion and flushing
* dressing changes
* reporting labs to physicians, collecting lab specimens and following
up with lab
* assessing patients conditions and reporting to physicians
* administer medication monitoring vital signs
* charting, participating in care plan
* transferring patients, ensuring patient safety and comfort

education

January 2007 to December 2009

Joliet Junior College, Joliet, IL
ADN graduated with high honors
Dean's Lists

August 1993
Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI
BS Mathematics

Computer skills
Horizon's Expert Documentation
Microsoft Office User Specialist Certificate
Word Expert
Excel Expert
Access