MELISSA JEFFERIES

6203 RICH PATCH ROAD    COVINGTON, VIRGINIA, 24426   540-862-2384 RESCUE503@GMAIL.COM  

PROFESSIONAL OBJECTIVENew graduate Registered Nurse ready to join your facility. As a graduate nurse I want to use my quick learning abilities to work hard, focus, and implement health care practices/procedures and to develop my nursing experience and skills. I also want the opportunity to further my education to the BSN level.

WORK EXPERIENCE

KISSITO HEALTHCARE - BRIAN CENTER ALLEGHANY, LOW MOOR, VA Licensed Practical Nurse , October 2011 – April 2013

Observe patients, charting and reporting changes in patients' conditions, such as adverse reactions to medication or treatment, and taking any necessary action.Provide basic patient care or treatments, such as taking temperatures or blood pressures, dressing wounds, treating bedsores, giving enemas, massaging, or performing catheterizations.Administer prescribed medications or start intravenous fluids, noting times and amounts on patients' charts.Collect samples, such as blood, urine, or sputum from patients.Help patients with bathing, dressing, moving in bed, or standing and walking.

 WEST ROCK , LOW MOOR, VA Laborer, February 2005 – June 2010

Examine completed work to detect defects, make sure it’s the right product for the customer, and make sure it’s perfect.Start machines and move controls to regulate tension on pressure rolls, and to adjust temperatures of glue.Label finished products with information such as dates, order number, quantity, type, thickness, and customer name and numberPlace rolls of paper or sheets of paper on machine and thread paper through gluing, coating, and slitting rollers.

 

EDUCATION

DABNEY S LANCASTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE, CLIFTON FORGE, VAAssociate Degree in Nursing Candidate, Expected graduation, May 2016

GREENBRIER SCHOOL OF PRACTICAL NURSING, LEWISBURG, WVLicensed Practical Nurse, August 2011

DABNEY S LANCASTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE, CLIFTON FORGE, VAEMT Enhanced, January 2008

COVINGTON HIGH SCHOOL, COVINGTON, VAHigh School Diploma, June 2001

  

LICENSURE & CERTIFCATIONS

Emergency Medical Technician Enhanced – Virginia – Certification number J012900502CPR - August 2006 - current

 Licensed Practical Nurse – Virginia –License number 00020860501Eligible NCLEX-RN May 2016

 

AFFILIATIONS

Boiling Springs Fire Department and Rescue Squad INC - June 2005 - May 2013Nursing Student Association - 2015 - presentWest Virginia HOSA - August 2010- September 2011

 

AWARDS AND HONORS

2011 West Virginia State HOSA Bowl team member- 2nd place2011 National State HOSA Bowl team member- 1st placeEmergency Medical Technician (EMT) of the year - Boiling Springs Rescue - 2009, 2010, & 2011Carter Scholarship Recipient - 2015

REFRENCES

References available upon request