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Christine S Larson
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| Objective | Application for Registered Nurse/Wound Care Certified |
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| | 1990-Present MERCY Home Health Care /Trinity Home |
| | Health Grayling, Michigan |
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| | field/staff nurse and wound care nurse |
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| | Registered Nurse who is case manager for referred |
| | patients providing care in their homes to assist in |
| | physical/psychosocial existing problems and potential |
| | problem areas. Assessing needs and resources to set |
| | priorities in development of a plan of care, analyses |
| | and differentiates clinical data to appropriately |
| | diagnose nursing problems, making clinical decisions |
| | regarding client care based on objective/subjective |
| Experience | data, nursing assessment findings and physician orders. |
| | Involves the client and/or significant other in care, |
| | goals, and objectives. Referral nurse to/for clinical |
| | staff, community physicians to assist with assessing, |
| | evaluating, and suggesting treatments of various types |
| | of wounds, procuring those treatment modalities, |
| | educating the primary nurse, caregiver in the use of |
| | treatment modality and then reevaluating the response |
| | of client/wound to treatment regimes. Conservative |
| | sharps debridment endorsed. Also provide inservicing to |
| | clinical staff such as Registered Nurses, Licensed |
| | Practical Nurses, and Home Health Aides in Skin/Wound |
| | Care, Support Surfaces, and Nutritional needs to assist |
| | with healing process. |
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| | 1987-1990 Michigan Department of Corrections, Camp |
| | Lehman Grayling Michigan |
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| | Nursing Supervisor level III for Northern Camps |
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| | Set up and supervised Health Clinics within the various |
| | Correctional Institutions in Northern Michigan. Ran |
| | Daily clinic services to assess evaluate and provide |
| | treatment to inmates that were incarcerated. Set up |
| | Physician clinics for extended evaluations and |
| | performed assistance with medical procedures |
| | Coordinated health care with Home institution in |
| | Ionia/Jackson and arranged for transportation of |
| | prisoners to outpatient evaluations or transfers to |
| | inpatient facilities down in Jackson Michigan. |
| | Supervised the Registered nurses that conducted Health |
| | Services in outlaying institutions, performed annual |
| | performance evaluations. . Worked with correctional |
| | personnel in Security measures as it pertained to |
| | health services. |
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| | 1987. Millet Learning Center/Saginaw City Board of |
| | Education Saginaw Michigan |
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| | School Nurse/Health Coordinator for Developmental |
| | Disabled Center |
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| | Set up Health services for 240 developmentally disabled |
| | student populations that ranged in age from o months to |
| | 25 years of age. Developed a Teachers Emergency Guide |
| | for the Classroom. Coordinated the medication policies, |
| | Maintained immunization records of all children. |
| | Provided first aid, Developed a Medical Advisory Board |
| | for the Center, in serviced teachers and teacher |
| | assistants in first aid, medical procedures that needed |
| | to be done such as doing intermittent clean |
| | catherization, nebulizer treatments. Functioned as one |
| | of the management team to ensure safety, adherence to |
| | policy and appropriate medical services being provided |
| | within the facility. Coordinated the medical and |
| | nursing students, behavioral psychologist that came |
| | into the facility to provide services, gain experience |
| | in the developmental field. Served as Consultant to Bay |
| | County Mental Health for its Educational Facilities. |
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| | 1979-1983 Saginaw County Department of Public Health |
| | Saginaw Michigan |
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| | Public Health Nurse /School Nurse |
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| | Provided Health Services for Local Schools with in the |
| | area of coverage that I was assigned. Did mass TB |
| | testing on School age children, teachers., did Mass |
| | Immunization Clinics for measles. Identified |
| | communicable diseases such as measles, salmonella. Did |
| | follow up visits to those homes and gathered contact |
| | information. Worked in Well Baby clinics, Immunization |
| | Clinics, Venereal Disease clinics. Worked in Medicaid |
| | Screening Clinics, visited private homes on individuals |
| | who referred to Public Health from eye screening test |
| | failures, communicable disease exposure, and |
| | environmental concerns. |
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| | 1978-1979 Bay Osteopathic Hospital Bay City Michigan |
| | and Saginaw General Hospital Saginaw Michigan |
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| | Charge Nurse on Psychiatric Unit and Surgical Nurse |
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| | Worked as a Charge Nurse on the Psychiatric unit at |
| | Saginaw General Hospital servicing patients who had |
| | been admitted to the locked unit for psychiatric issues |
| | ranging from depression to schizophrenia. Assisted |
| | physicians in shock therapy, scopolamine therapy. |
| | Supervised staff of registered nurses, aides that |
| | provided care to the patients. Passed out prescribed |
| | medications at prescribed times. |
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| | Worked as a Circulating/Scrub nurse in the operating |
| | room at Bay Osteopathic Hospital in surgical cases from |
| | tonsillectomy/adenoidectomy to Joint replacement, |
| | Abdominal Surgeries to Trauma Surgeries. Functioned on |
| | call approximately once a week. |
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| | 1973-1978 Saginaw County Department of Public Health |
| | Saginaw Michigan |
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| | Public Health Nurse /School Nurse |
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| | Provided Health Services for Local Schools with in the |
| | area of coverage that I was assigned. Did mass TB |
| | testing on School age children, teachers. Did Mass |
| | Immunization Clinics for measles. Identified |
| | communicable diseases such as measles, salmonella |
| | shigellosis. Did follow up visits to those homes and |
| | gathered contact information. Worked in Well Baby |
| | clinics, Immunization Clinics, Venereal Disease |
| | clinics. Worked in Medicaid Screening Clinics, visited |
| | private homes on individuals who were referred to |
| | Public Health from eye screening test failures, |
| | communicable disease exposure, and environmental |
| | concerns. |
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| | 1972-1973 Flint Osteopathic Hospital and Rubicon |
| | Odyssey House Flint Michigan |
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| | Post Partum/Premature nursery nurse and Staff |
| | nurse/Public relations |
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| | Worked for Flint Osteopathic Hospital in the post |
| | partum and newborn/premature nurseries. Provided care |
| | for new mothers, newborns and for Premature infants. |
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| | Worked for Rubicon Odyssey House that was a drug |
| | treatment Program for Heroin addicts. Most residents |
| | had been judicated to the facility for withdrawal of |
| | heroin. Provided TB testing, did intake on all female |
| | residents, worked with Psychiatrist that would do |
| | initial psychiatric evaluation, ordered the food for |
| | the house, did speaking engagements to area High |
| | Schools related to drug addiction, participated in |
| | group therapy sessions with the counselors and ran the |
| | group for the females. |
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| | 1971-1972 University of Michigan Hospital - Ann Arbor , |
| | Michigan |
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| | Medical/Surgical Staff Nurse |
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| | Worked as a staff nurse on the Medical/Surgical unit |
| | and provided care to inpatients who were hospitalized |
| | for various medical conditions, ran Iv therapy as |
| | ordered, did peritoneal dialysis, provided wound care , |
| | passed out medications, did lab draws, ordered |
| | treatments for patients. |
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| | 1968-1971 Delta College Saginaw Michigan |
| Education | |
| | * Graduated with associates degree in nursing/applied |
| | sciences |
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| Interests | Gardening, Music. Cooking, My Granddaughter |
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| Credentials: | Nursing license - Michigan - Number 4704090270 expires |
| | 3/31/2012 |
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