1. MELISSA JEFFERIES
6203 RICH PATCH ROAD COVINGTON, VIRGINIA, 24426 540-862-2384
RESCUE503@GMAIL.COM
PROFESSIONAL OBJECTIVE
• New graduate Registered Nurse ready to join your facility. As a graduate nurse I want to use
my quick learning abilities to work hard, focus, and implement health care
practices/procedures and to develop my nursing experience and skills. I also want the
opportunity to further my education to the BSN level.
WORK EXPERIENCE
KISSITO HEALTHCARE - BRIAN CENTER ALLEGHANY, LOW MOOR, VA
Licensed Practical Nurse , October 2011 – April 2013
• Observe patients, charting and reporting changes in patients' conditions, such as adverse
reactions to medication or treatment, and taking any necessary action.
• Provide basic patient care or treatments, such as taking temperatures or blood pressures,
dressing wounds, treating bedsores, giving enemas, massaging, or performing
catheterizations.
• Administer prescribed medications or start intravenous fluids, noting times and amounts on
patients' charts.
• Collect samples, such as blood, urine, or sputum from patients.
• Help patients with bathing, dressing, moving in bed, or standing and walking.
WEST ROCK , LOW MOOR, VA
Laborer, February 2005 – June 2010
• Examine completed work to detect defects, make sure it’s the right product for the customer,
and make sure it’s perfect.
• Start machines and move controls to regulate tension on pressure rolls, and to adjust
temperatures of glue.
• Label finished products with information such as dates, order number, quantity, type,
thickness, and customer name and number
• Place rolls of paper or sheets of paper on machine and thread paper through gluing, coating,
and slitting rollers.
EDUCATION
DABNEY S LANCASTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE, CLIFTON FORGE, VA
Associate Degree in Nursing Candidate, Expected graduation, May 2016
GREENBRIER SCHOOL OF PRACTICAL NURSING, LEWISBURG, WV
Licensed Practical Nurse, August 2011
DABNEY S LANCASTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE, CLIFTON FORGE, VA
EMT Enhanced, January 2008
COVINGTON HIGH SCHOOL, COVINGTON, VA
High School Diploma, June 2001
LICENSURE & CERTIFCATIONS
• Emergency Medical Technician Enhanced – Virginia – Certification number J012900502
• CPR - August 2006 - current

2. • Licensed Practical Nurse – Virginia –License number 00020860501
• Eligible NCLEX-RN May 2016
AFFILIATIONS
• Boiling Springs Fire Department and Rescue Squad INC - June 2005 - May 2013
• Nursing Student Association - 2015 - present
• West Virginia HOSA - August 2010- September 2011
AWARDS AND HONORS
• 2011 West Virginia State HOSA Bowl team member- 2nd place
• 2011 National State HOSA Bowl team member- 1st place
• Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) of the year - Boiling Springs Rescue - 2009, 2010, &
2011
• Carter Scholarship Recipient - 2015
REFRENCES
• References available upon request