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SARAH M. ROUSSY

Greater Sudbury,ON

Summary

Compassionate Registered Practical Nurse with experience in managing patient care, including symptom and pain management. Possess strong communication skills for effective dialogue with patients, families and other healthcare professionals about end-of-life issues and goals of care. Demonstrated ability to provide emotional support, comfort, and stability to patients during difficult times. Have contributed significantly to improving patient quality of life in previous roles.

Overview

22
22
years of professional experience

Work History

REGISTERED PRACTICAL NURSE

GREATER CITY OF SUDBURY - PIONEER MANOR
Greater Sudbury, Ontario
05.2025 - Current
  • Administered medications and treatments as prescribed by healthcare providers on units with up to 40 residents
  • Responsible for the care of the residents in the assigned unit of the long-term care facility, and supervises the care given by the PSW(s) and HCA(s).
  • Respond to medical emergencies and crises, providing immediate assessment and intervention, and coordinating with emergency services.

REGISTERED PRACTICAL NURSE

PARAMED
Cambridge, Ontario
02.2024 - 05.2025
  • Provided comfort measures, such as pain management, symptom control, and end-of-life care.
  • Performed regular assessments of a patient's physical symptoms, such as pain, nausea, and shortness of breath.
  • Assessed patient conditions, monitored behaviors, and updated supervising physicians with observations and concerns.
  • Manages all needs of the palliative patient in the community as an on-call nurse.
  • Liaise with the healthcare team members in emergencies that require immediate patient intervention for optimal pain and symptom management.

EXECUTIVE OFFICE ADMINISTRATOR

PRECISE REAL ESTATE APPRAISING INC.
Kitchener, Ontario
07.2022 - 09.2023
  • Maintain all office business logs
  • Intake, assign and schedule appraisal orders
  • Handle customer inquiries and quoting appraisal orders
  • Assisting with mid-month and end of month payroll
  • Assisting appraisers with duties such as client correspondence, file updates and appraisal reports

VOLUNTEER

CAMBRIDGE SELF-HELP FOOD BANK
Cambridge, Ontario
01.2021 - 01.2022
  • Responsible for food basket preparation and distribution.
  • Collaborated with fellow volunteers and staff while assisting those who came in for assistance.
  • Gained essential knowledge of my community and those in need.

REGISTERED PRACTICAL NURSE

GRAND RIVER HOSPITAL-FREEPORT SITE
Kitchener, Ontario
05.2003 - 06.2021
  • 18 years' experience of coordinating total nursing care for an assigned group of patients including palliative, stroke, traumatic brain injury, fractures, post-surgery, neurological, cardiac, dementia and varying degrees of physical and cognitive impairments
  • Implement patient care for up to 6 patients including physical assessments, vital signs, health teaching, medication administration and pain management, IV therapy, catheter insertion and maintenance, perform ECG's, wound care, diabetes management, safe transfers including the use of mechanical lifts
  • Performed clinical tasks according to hospital policies
  • Educating patients on health care needs and conditions
  • Strong rapport with patients, family's staff and physicians
  • Charting and documentation of patient care using Cerner
  • Mentor to practical nursing students and newly graduated nurses
  • Experience in COVID patient settings, utilization of proper PPE and performing nasopharyngeal swabs

Education

DIPLOMA WITH HONORS - PRACTICAL NURSING

Conestoga College
04.2003

HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA -

Lockerby Composite School
Greater Sudbury, ON
06.1998

Skills

  • Enteral Feeding
  • TPN
  • CADD pain pump
  • Wound care
  • Ostomy care
  • Ventilator maintenance
  • Tracheostomy care
  • Nephrostomy care
  • Paracentesis care

References

Available upon request

Timeline

REGISTERED PRACTICAL NURSE

GREATER CITY OF SUDBURY - PIONEER MANOR
05.2025 - Current

REGISTERED PRACTICAL NURSE

PARAMED
02.2024 - 05.2025

EXECUTIVE OFFICE ADMINISTRATOR

PRECISE REAL ESTATE APPRAISING INC.
07.2022 - 09.2023

VOLUNTEER

CAMBRIDGE SELF-HELP FOOD BANK
01.2021 - 01.2022

REGISTERED PRACTICAL NURSE

GRAND RIVER HOSPITAL-FREEPORT SITE
05.2003 - 06.2021

DIPLOMA WITH HONORS - PRACTICAL NURSING

Conestoga College

HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA -

Lockerby Composite School
SARAH M. ROUSSY