Charlene Jefferson
Louisville,KY
Summary
Passionate Nurse with demonstrated experience in hospital and long term care settings. Proven ability to build strong relationships with patients and families while providing compassionate care. Offers strong task prioritization and organizational skills.
Overview
27
27
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
LPN Weekend Bedside Nurse
U of L Healthcare / Jewish Hospital
03.2021 - Current
- Record patient medical histories.
- Monitor patient conditions during treatments, procedures, or activities.
- Measure the physical or physiological attributes of patients.
- Administer basic health care or medical treatments.
- Administer intravenous medications.
- Apply bandages, dressings, or splints.
- Assist patients with hygiene or daily living activities.
- Supervise patient care personnel.
- Train patients, family members, or caregivers in techniques for managing disabilities or illnesses.
- Collaborate with healthcare professionals to plan or provide treatment.
- Analyze quantitative data to determine effectiveness of treatments or therapies.
- Sterilize medical equipment or instruments.
- Prepare medical supplies or equipment for use.
- Operate diagnostic or therapeutic medical instruments or equipment.
- Maintain medical facility records.
- Perform clerical work in medical settings.
Alzheimer's/ Dementia Unit Manager
Nazareth Home of Louisville
06.2020 - 03.2021
- Develop organizational goals or objectives.
- Develop procedures to evaluate organizational activities.
- Develop operating strategies, plans, or procedures.
- Develop organizational policies or programs.
- Schedule patient procedures or appointments.
- Collect biological specimens from patients.
- Test biological specimens to gather information about patient conditions.
- Manage preparation of special meals or diets.
- Explain medical procedures or test results to patients or family members.
- Prepare patients physically for medical procedures.
- Treat patients using physical therapy techniques.
- Clean medical equipment or facilities.
- Maintain inventory of medical supplies or equipment.
Staff Developer / Assistant Director of Nursing
Sycamore Heights Rehabilitation Center
02.2019 - 06.2020
- Direct or conduct recruitment, hiring, and training of personnel.
- Manage change in integrated health care delivery systems, such as work restructuring, technological innovations, and shifts in the focus of care.
- Maintain communication between governing boards, medical staff, and department heads by attending board meetings and coordinating interdepartmental functioning.
- Establish objectives and evaluative or operational criteria for units managed.
- Develop and implement organizational policies and procedures for the facility or medical unit.
- Review and analyze facility activities and data to aid planning and cash and risk management and to improve service utilization.
- Prepare activity reports to inform management of the status and implementation plans of programs, services, and quality initiatives.
- Develop or expand and implement medical programs or health services that promote research, rehabilitation, and community health.
- Consult with medical, business, and community groups to discuss service problems, respond to community needs, enhance public relations, coordinate activities and plans, and promote health programs.
- Develop instructional materials and conduct in-service and community-based educational programs.
- Inspect facilities and recommend building or equipment modifications to ensure emergency readiness and compliance to access, safety, and sanitation regulations.
Rehab Unit Manager
Sycamore Heights Rehabilitation Center
01.2018 - 02.2019
- Scheduling events, programs, and activities, as well as the work of others.
- Direct, supervise and evaluate work activities of medical, nursing, technical, clerical, service, maintenance, and other personnel.
- Develop and maintain computerized record management systems to store and process data, such as personnel activities and information, and to produce reports.
- Plan, implement, and administer programs and services in a health care or medical facility, including personnel administration, training, and coordination of medical, nursing and physical plant staff.
- Conduct and administer fiscal operations, including accounting, planning budgets, authorizing expenditures, establishing rates for services, and coordinating financial reporting.
- Maintain awareness of advances in medicine, computerized diagnostic and treatment equipment, data processing technology, government regulations, health insurance changes, and financing options.
Rehab & Alzheimer's / Dementia Unit Manager
Masonic Homes of Louisville
02.2017 - 02.2019
- Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
- Assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people.
- Providing personal assistance, medical attention, emotional support, or other personal care to others such as coworkers, customers, or patients.
Weekend Supervisor
Masonic Homes of Louisville
04.2015 - 02.2017
- Monitoring and controlling resources and overseeing the spending of money.
- Handling complaints, settling disputes, and resolving grievances and conflicts, or otherwise negotiating with others.
- Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems.
- Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic/magnetic form.
LPN Weekends Bedside Nurse
Nazareth Homes of Louisville
07.2012 - 02.2015
- Answer patients' calls and determine how to assist them.
- Supervise nurses' aides or assistants.
- Evaluate nursing intervention outcomes, conferring with other healthcare team members as necessary.
- Work as part of a healthcare team to assess patient needs, plan and modify care, and implement interventions.
- Record food and fluid intake and output.
- Assemble and use equipment, such as catheters, tracheotomy tubes, or oxygen suppliers.
- Collect samples, such as blood, urine, or sputum from patients, and perform routine laboratory tests on samples.
Night Shift Supervisor
Good Samaritan
01.2009 - 07.2012
- Evaluate employee performance.
- Supervise employees.
- Prepare staff schedules or work assignments.
- Same duties as bedside nursing.
Bedside Nurse
Regis Woods Rehabilitation Center
06.2006 - 02.2009
- Observe patients, charting and reporting changes in patients' conditions, such as adverse reactions to medication or treatment, and taking any necessary action.
- Measure and record patients' vital signs, such as height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, pulse, or respiration.
- Administer prescribed medications, noting times and amounts on patients' charts.
- Provide basic patient care or treatments, such as taking temperatures or blood pressures, dressing wounds, treating bedsores, giving enemas or douches, rubbing with alcohol, massaging, or performing catheterizations.
- Prepare or examine food trays for conformance to prescribed diet.
- Help patients with bathing, dressing, maintaining personal hygiene, moving in bed, or standing and walking.
- Prepare patients for examinations, tests, or treatments and explain procedures.
- Apply compresses, ice bags, or hot water bottles.
- Provide medical treatment or personal care to patients in private home settings, such as cooking, keeping rooms orderly, seeing that patients are comfortable and in good spirits, or instructing family members in simple nursing tasks.
- Sterilize equipment and supplies, using germicides, sterilizer, or autoclave.
- Make appointments, keep records, or perform other clerical duties in doctors' offices or clinics.
- Set up equipment and prepare medical treatment rooms.
Certified Nursing Assistant
Nazareth Home of Louisville
02.2003 - 06.2006
- Wash and dress the bodies of deceased persons.
- Clean rooms and make beds.
- Inventory and requisition supplies and instruments.
- Turn or reposition bedridden patients.
- Answer patient call signals, signal lights, bells, or intercom systems to determine patients' needs.
- Feed patients or assist patients to eat or drink.
- Measure and record food and liquid intake or urinary and fecal output, reporting changes to medical or nursing staff.
- Provide physical support to assist patients to perform daily living activities, such as getting out of bed, bathing, dressing, using the toilet, standing, walking, or exercising.
Package Handler
UPS
10.1999 - 02.2003
Retail Clerk
Drug Emporium
06.1998 - 10.1999
Education
Bachelors - Genral Studies with Human Health studies
University of Louisville
Louisville, KY05-2025
Associate in Science -
Jefferson Community College
Louisville, KY01.2023
Associate in Arts -
Jefferson Community College
Louisville, KY01.2023
Licensed Practical Nurse -
Galen College of Nursing
Louisville, KY06.2006
Skills
- Managing and coordinating operations across multiple units & shifts
- Leadership
- Conducting performance evaluations
- Post operative care
- Medical documentation
- IV therapy
- Vital signs monitoring
- Clinical decision making
- Nursing ethics
- Health promotion
Accomplishments
Daisy Award finalist 2024 & 2025 with several nominations in 2023
Affiliations
- National Society of Leadership and Success (NSLS)
Certification
- American Heart Association CPR (2025)
- U of L Healthcare Suicide Prevention Education (2024)
- APEX Innovations: NIH Stroke Scale Training (2024)
- Kentucky Notary Public (2022)
- Licensed Practical Nurse (2006) 2040445 ky 10/31/25
Timeline
LPN Weekend Bedside Nurse
U of L Healthcare / Jewish Hospital
03.2021 - Current
Alzheimer's/ Dementia Unit Manager
Nazareth Home of Louisville
06.2020 - 03.2021
Staff Developer / Assistant Director of Nursing
Sycamore Heights Rehabilitation Center
02.2019 - 06.2020
Rehab Unit Manager
Sycamore Heights Rehabilitation Center
01.2018 - 02.2019
Rehab & Alzheimer's / Dementia Unit Manager
Masonic Homes of Louisville
02.2017 - 02.2019
Weekend Supervisor
Masonic Homes of Louisville
04.2015 - 02.2017
LPN Weekends Bedside Nurse
Nazareth Homes of Louisville
07.2012 - 02.2015
Night Shift Supervisor
Good Samaritan
01.2009 - 07.2012
Bedside Nurse
Regis Woods Rehabilitation Center
06.2006 - 02.2009
Certified Nursing Assistant
Nazareth Home of Louisville
02.2003 - 06.2006
Package Handler
UPS
10.1999 - 02.2003
Retail Clerk
Drug Emporium
06.1998 - 10.1999
Bachelors - Genral Studies with Human Health studies
University of Louisville
Associate in Science -
Jefferson Community College
Associate in Arts -
Jefferson Community College
Licensed Practical Nurse -
Galen College of Nursing
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