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Laurie J. Dunn, RN
24979 446th Avenue
Montrose, SD 57048
605-431-6892
Work Experience
Since September 1, 2016 until April 9, 2017, Ihave served as full-time 12-hour night shift charge nurse at Canistota Good Samaritan Center. Duties include assessments, documentation, careplanning, nursing interventions requiring medication administration, treatments, blood draws for the lab, and ADL assistance; and evaluations.
From January 2014 until September 1, 2016, as certified nursing assistant program coordinator, consultant, and part-time primary instructor,I facilitated state-approved certified nursing assistant (CNA) program classes for the Oglala Lakota College (OLC) Allied Health department based in Kyle, SD. We utilized face-to-face physical classroom environment and synchronous televised programming, E-mail, FAX, and telephone communications for distant locations.I coordinated online testing and provided skills test observations for state certification examinations of CNA candidates.
From October 8, 2015 until June 6, 2016, I served asfull-time nursing manager at a 94-bed skilled, transitional care, and long-term care nursing facility (David M Dorsett Healthcare Community) in Spearfish, SD. Activities included admissions, discharges, assessments, care-planning, nursing care procedures, interdisciplinary communications, supervision of nursing staff, inpatient clinic nurse with MDs or CNP up to four days/week, documentation, infection control nurse position, and employee health screenings and immunizations.I worked 8 – 12-hour charge nurse shifts, as well.
From mid-August 2010 until mid-May 2015,serving as a full-time nursing instructor at Oglala Lakota College (OLC) Department of Nursing at Pine Ridge, SD; Ico-taught classes in Foundations of Holistic Nursing Care.I provided associate degree nursing program clinical activities instruction in college lab and clinical settings for first-year nursing students. Clinical settings included outpatient, obstetrics, medical/surgical, public health, nursing home, and community housing facility.As clinical instructor for the Holistic Maternal Child Nursing course, my activities included provision of nursing arts laboratory practice; pregnancy, delivery, postpartum and newborn hospital experiences; and virtual real life scenarios. I managed and monitored knowledge and skills testing of students. I instructed state-approved certified nursing assistant program classes for the nursing department.
As a seasonal charge RN at Aurora-Brule Nursing Home, White Lake, SD, during the summers of 2011 and 2012(between academic year classes), I worked night shifts. My duties included assessments, documentation, careplanning; nursing interventions requiring medication administration, treatments, and ADL assistance; and evaluations.
As a charge RN at Big Sandy Medical Center, Big Sandy, MT, I worked from July 2009 to June 2010 (FT). I was responsible to provide nursing care not only in the skilled nursing facility; but also in the attached rural emergency room and four-bed hospital.
As a clinic RN at Sweet Medical Center, Chinook, MT, I workedfrom May 2009 to December 2009. Duties included screenings, documentation, and providing injections, EKGs, and treatments as ordered by physicians.
As a charge RN at Evergreen Polson Health and Rehabilitation Center, Polson, Montana, I worked September 2008 to January 2009 (FT). My duties included assessments, documentation, careplanning; nursing interventions requiring medication administration, treatments, and ADL assistance; and evaluations.
As an outpatient clinical RN at Rosebud IHS Comprehensive Health Care Facility, Rosebud, South Dakota, I worked from October 2007 to August 2008. My responsibilities included screenings, triage, assessments, documentation, referrals, injectable medication administrations,pediatric immunizations, EKGs, and treatments as ordered by physicians. Occasionally, I worked at the acute care inpatient (hospital) department and in the emergency room.
I performed as a registered nurse, substitute nursing assistant class instructor, and Basic Life Support instructor at Good Samaritan Center, Sioux Falls, South Dakota from October 2006 to October 2007
At the Good Samaritan Center in Sioux Falls, SD, I was a staff RN, Minimum Data Set (MDS) assessment nurse, staff development coordinator, certified nursing assistant class instructor, and distance learning network coordinator,1996 to 2006.
I was a staff RN at Good Samaritan Village, Sioux Falls, South Dakota from 1988 to 1996.
I was a staff RN at McKennan Hospital, Sioux Falls, South Dakota from 1987 to 1988.
Professional Licensure and Certifications
Licensed registered nurse in South Dakota (compact state)
AHA BLS for Healthcare Providers (CPR and AED) certificate until December 2017
American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) Certification in Gerontology since 1998
Professional Organizations
Member of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing since 2007
Member of the National Gerontological Nursing Association (NGNA) since 2013
Education
University of Phoenix Online, Nursing/Health Educator Certificate March 2010
University of Phoenix Online, Master of Science in Nursing, 2007
South Dakota State University, RN Upward Mobility Program, Bachelor of Science in Nursing with Honor 1997
Anchorage Community College, University of Alaska Anchorage, Associate Degree Science of Nursing, 1987