Anthony Hernandez

Location

Address: 

2370 McLean Blvd

City: 

Eugene

State: 

Oregon

Zip Code: 

97405

Country: 

United States

2370 McLean Boulevard

Eugene, OR 97405

Phone 661-809-3792

E-mail anthonyarh@me.com

Anthony Hernandez

Education  11/2010-Present Walden University

155 Fifth Avenue South

Minneapolis, MN 55401

04/2008-06-2010 Lane Community College

4000 East 30th  Avenue

Eugene, OR 97405

06/1999-09/2002 Bakersfield Community College

1801 Panorama Drive

Bakersfield, CA 93305

09/1996-12/1998 CSU, Bakersfield

9001 Stockdale Hwy

Bakersfield, CA 93311

In-Progress Master of Science in Nursing: Education RN-MSN

06/2010 Associate of Science: Nursing

05/2002 Associate of Science: Industrial Technology, Electronics

Educational

Experience

 11/2010-Present

Nursing Informatics Student

As a nurse informatician, I will be competent in the understanding of the

infrastructural, equipment, and educational needs of the electronic health

record user to more effectively utilize information technology to enhance

the quality of patient care. I will be proficient in the operation of

information systems, database concepts, and effective project

management and I will have the knowledge to integrate data,

information, and knowledge to support decision-making processes that

affect patients and providers.

04/2008-06/2010

Nursing Student

As a nursing student, I have had opportunity to perform patient care in a

variety of hospital settings. Throughout these experiences, I developed a

special interest in caring for acutely ill patients during my 432 hours

spent in the ICU. Here, I was able to perform invasive bedside

procedures with physicians, cared for ventilated patients and participated

in a number of varied resuscitation efforts. During my time in the ICU, I

cared for medical, neurological, cardiac and surgical ICU patients. I have

spent many other hours on other specialized units focusing on patient

interaction, patient prioritization, time management and organization.

Following is a list of hours spent. 48 hours orthopedic unit SHMC

Riverbend. 48 hours medical and surgical floors McKenzie-Willamette

Medical Center. 60 hours neurologic floor SHMC Riverbend. 60 hours

Oregon Heart and Vascular Unit-5 SHMC Riverbend. 140 hours surgical

floor SHMC Riverbend. 72 hours ICU McKenzie-Willamette Medical

Center. 360 hours ICU SHMC Riverbend.

Professional

Experience

 11/2010-Present Avamere Rehabilitation of Eugene

2360 Chambers Street

Eugene, OR 97405

Director of Nursing Services (12/2011 - Present)

As the director of nursing services, I supervise the care of patients

delivered by 15+ nurses, 60+ CNAs, 3 resident care managers and I

monitor the performance of the therapy department, social services, and

dietary services. I constantly monitor the quality measures to determine

the quality of care delivered to the patients, I analyze the trends of

hospitalization and determine if and where education is necessary, I

serve as a primary contact during state survey and help to develop the

plan for improvement as necessary. I monitor the performance of all

direct care staff members, recognize need for improvement, establish

performance improvement plans, hire and terminate staff, and seek

opportunities for educational improvement. I communicate the need for

education, performance improvement, equipment needs, infection control

management, staffing needs, and departmental concerns to the building

administrator and regional director of operations. I serve as a resource

for all nursing staff, dietary staff, therapy services and social services. I

am a resource to all staff for the electronic health record which includes

programming of computer hardware, communicating the need for

equipment to the corporate IT department, recognizing the need for

infrastructural improvement and identifying where the hardware can be

improved and communicating these needs so other installations can be

improved. I continue to complete the duties of the RCM as necessary, I

continue to serve as a charge nurse as necessary. I help to schedule all

of the above staff members to meet state guidelines and to ensure daily

operations are smooth and functional.

Resident Care Manager (8/2011 - 12/2011)

As the resident care manager, I am responsible for the direct patient care

staff and the duties they perform. I direct the patient’s care through

establishing appropriate and up to date plans of care specific to the

needs of the patient. I serve as a clinical resource to the charge nurses

as necessary for guidance and assistance with treatments, patient

assessments, documentation, venous access procedures, medication

clarification and requests, direction for appropriate disciplinary action to

assistive staff and emotional support. I make myself available to all direct

care staff for duties wherein they may require additional assistance. I

perform governmental documentation and submission of the current

Medicare and Medicaid Minimum Data Set information according to the

timelines and guidelines determined by the Centers for Medicare and

Medicaid Services. As part of an interdisciplinary team for patient care, I

participate in various meetings to address and modify the direction of

care received by the patients for which I am responsible.

Charge Nurse (11/2010 - 8/2011)

In the long term care facility, the charge nurse as the most highly

qualified care provider on site, is responsible for identifying critical patient

needs and acute conditions and communicate these needs to physicians

or general practitioners. As a charge nurse, I provide direct patient care,

direction and delegation to assistive staff and coordination of patient care

between multiple disciplines including physical, occupational and speech

therapies. Patient care includes providing accurate assessment and

documentation of patient condition, providing medication administration

via intravenous, oral and other routes, initiate venous access for

collection of laboratory data, suggesting alternative therapeutic options to

physicians, provide recommendations for dietary consultation as needed,

acquire samples for laboratory analysis, perform dressing changes,

initiate and change negative pressure wound care, facilitate appointment

scheduling, receive and process patient all care orders and

transportation for outside visits and assist with patient activities of daily

living.

07/2004-04/2008 My-Comm, Inc.

985 Conger Street Suite #2

Eugene, OR 97402

Field / Bench Technician

As a field technician, I installed and maintain mobile and base station

two-way and CB radios, designed and installed complete mobile

emergency lighting and intercom system for fire and EMS vehicles

including: wiring, mounting, and controllers. I performed remote site;

maintenance, complete system installation, alignment and repair as

required including: housekeeping, installing all cabling, RF filtration, RF

combination, and setting up other radio equipment, general radio

alignment and repair in software and on the component level. As a bench

technician, I performed regular maintenance and repair of mobile and

portable two-way radios and accessories, simple remote notification

systems and minor in-house computer network management and

maintenance as needed and mobile intercom systems from the software

to hardware levels. I also performed field bench repair including the use

of spectrum analyzers and other necessary test equipment.

05/2003-07/2004 Applied Technology Group, Inc.

4440 Easton Drive

Bakersfield, CA 93309

Field Technician

As a field technician, I installed mobile and base station two-way radios,

remote and master wireless Ethernet, and SCADA radios, installed

complete repeater stations including: radios, antennas, all cabling,

battery systems, solar power systems, antenna towers, and rack

mounted equipment, engineered complete systems based on customer

needs, surveyed the terrain, installed the system, and maintained the

system. I installed coaxial, speaker, and network cabling in buildings,

installed switches, hubs, computers, patch panels, and servers, installed

satellite, telephone, and television systems, maintained and installed

field alarm, monitoring, and control communications, and performed

circuit board troubleshooting and repair.

09/2002-05/2003 McKee Electric Co.

1406 North Chester Avenue

Bakersfield, CA 93308

Field Termination Technician

As a field termination technician, I worked in a food process facility

completing new process equipment installation including conduit bending

and installation, wire installation and termination to instrumentation and

PLCs. I also installed all necessary wiring and other hardware into PLC

control panels including DIN railing, terminal blocks, fused terminal

blocks, I/O cards and controllers, all integral wiring and labeling as well

as system and component functional testing. I also installed complete

instrument tubing for the new installation of process boilers including

design, bending, installation, and function testing the new tubing system

as well as repair to existing systems throughout the facility, installed and

tested all necessary instrumentation and control devices with the

assistance of other staff under my direction.

06/2001-09/2002 Kellogg, Brown & Root Energy Services

P.O. Box 1001

Tupman, CA 93276

Instrumentation and Electrical Technician (IET)

As an IET, I installed and maintained gas plant process control systems,

performed maintenance and repair of valves, valve controllers, and all

components including: regulators, tubing, hardware and electrical

connections, performed maintenance of temperature, pressure, fire, gas,

vibration, and air drying systems, troubleshot and repaired compressor

air, fuel, and ignition systems, identified control and power wiring

problems within a system and performed required repairs, troubleshot

PLC programming problems, performed maintenance on fire water

systems, and I performed maintenance on chromatography systems.

02/1997-06/2001 Applied Technology Group, Inc.

4440 Easton Drive

Bakersfield, CA 93309

Field Technician

See previous description for 05/2003-07/2004.

References  Scott Gillam, Applied Technology Group, Inc.

661-322-8650

Sean Caras, Bakersfield College: Applied Science & Technology

661-395-4393

Jenna Corbly, Administrator

503-347-0140

Danny Thomas, Kern County Fire Department

541-221-6693

Awards

Received/

Certification

 12/2012 Southern Regional Nurse Leader

Avamere Health Services

10/2010 Registered Nurse 201043000RN

Oregon State Board of Nursing

Expires 05/2012

06/2003 Gravitec Competent Tower Climber/Rescuer Certification

05/2002 Certificate of Outstanding Performance in Electronics

Program: Applied Science and Technology, Bakersfield College