Monique Meikle
Cambridge,Canada
Summary
Registered Practical Nurse with 15+ years of experience providing compassionate, client-centered care in long-term care, community, nursing home, and shelter settings. Experienced in nursing assessments, medication administration, care planning, mental health support, and staff education, with 5+ years of leadership experience as a Charge Nurse. Skilled in staff training, interdisciplinary collaboration, electronic documentation, and providing safe, dignified care to diverse and vulnerable populations. Recognized for strong clinical judgment, excellent communication, and a commitment to improving patient outcomes.
Overview
1
1
Certification
20
20
years of professional experience
Work History
Shelter Nurse
Cambridge Shelter Corporation
04.2025 - 05.2026
- Providing treatment, and implementing care plans for individuals who have been identified as having elevated health risk within the emergency shelter system
- Coordinating care for clients by consulting and collaborating with inter-professional care teams based on client needs
- Assessing treatment plans and ensuring optimum use of resources
- Assessing candidates for eligibility into the program by meeting them in hospital or other shelters.
- Assisting clients to access appropriate services in the community remotely during their stay.
- Completing daily notes for each client in our Health Information Software (HIS)
- Medication reconciliation and management
- Promoting and supporting clients to manage self care
- Providing crisis intervention, and education
- Acting as a client advocate to protect and promote client’s right to autonomy, respect, privacy, dignity, and access to information
Registered Practical Nurse
Guelph Independent Living
01.2023 - 04.2025
- Employee Services:
- Train ASWs and PSWs on all delegated tasks, client transfers, and client care involving clinical skills.
- Assist in developing safe work practices for frontline staff.
- Provide ongoing clinical skills training for frontline staff.
- Client Services:
- Complete comprehensive client assessments, developing and implementing service care plans based on best evidence/practices and on client’s unique needs.
- Respond to client care issues and complaints and follows up to ensure client satisfaction.
- Participate in functional assessments of clients.
- Implement and evaluate client service plans.
- Engage with Coordinators, clients and individual team members as appropriate to deliver quality care.
Registered Practical Nurse
Golden Years Nursing Home
01.2006 - 01.2023
- Provided hygiene care for geriatric residents.
- Provided nursing services, within defined scope of practice, to residents based on resident assessment and care planning procedures.
- Received and processed doctors’ orders that came via phone, fax, verbal, or handwritten.
- Signed and checked in resident medication manually, as well as electronically.
- Administered medication, observed and documented therapeutic effects.
- Performed nursing interventions such as taking vital signs in all areas.
- Applied aseptic techniques, including sterile dressing, ensuring infection control, monitoring nutritional intake and conducting specimen collection.
- Maintained accurate documentation and experienced in the Point Click Care system.
- Experienced in catheter insertion as well as the assessment, monitoring and discontinuation of catchers.
- Maintained health promotion by cleansing as well as changing ostomy bag(s) when needed.
- Performed mental health assessment on the residents in the mental health unit to assess risk to others and themselves.
- Provided a safe, trusting and appropriate therapeutic relationship with residents.
- Promoted and taught related health education to residents and their families.
Education
Practical Nursing Diploma - undefined
Durham College
Oshawa, OntarioSkills
Medication administration
Client Advocacy
Geriatric Nursing Care
Health Education and Patient Teaching
Certification
- CPR & First Aid Certified
- Behavioural Support Certificate, Behavioural Support Ontario, Cambridge, Ontario
Timeline
Shelter Nurse
Cambridge Shelter Corporation
04.2025 - 05.2026
Registered Practical Nurse
Guelph Independent Living
01.2023 - 04.2025
Registered Practical Nurse
Golden Years Nursing Home
01.2006 - 01.2023
Practical Nursing Diploma - undefined
Durham College