Motivated, enthusiastic professional with twenty years of nursing experience including forensic psych, geriatric psych, and emergency room care. Compassionate, therapeutic PMHNP-BC who strives for professional excellence and has an understanding of the importance of the nursing process, evidence-based practice, and individualized patient-centered care.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Adjunct Professor
Regis College
235 Wellesley St Ste 1, Weston, MA 02493
08.2023 - Current
Taught PMHNP clinical courses, providing instruction to up 8 undergraduate students per semester.
Built relationships with students, mentoring on personal, professional and academic goals while providing coaching on effective study habits.
Graded assignements and projects to provide students with timely academic progress information and feedback.
Encouraged class discussions by building discussions into lessons, actively soliciting input, asking open-ended questions and using techniques to track student participation.
Empowered students to take ownership of their education by facilitating opportunities for independent research projects within specific areas of interest.
Boosted class participation rates by fostering a positive and collaborative learning environment.
Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner
SpringVale Health Centers
01.2022 - Current
Completes comprehensive psychiatric evaluations and medication management of the mental health population
Experienced in multiple modalities of therapy including CBT, family systems, and alcohol and addiction.
Emergency Room Registered Nurse
Cleveland Clinic Union Hospital
01.2016 - 01.2022
Triaged patients, completed focused assessments, administered IV, IO, PO, and IM medications
Completed end of life care, provided individualized patient-centered care with consideration for personal and cultural needs, wrote policies related to the psychiatric patient population and provided education to other ED staff, works with other disciplines in the emergency room for care and placement of behavioral health patients
Emergency Room Registered Nurse
Southeastern Ohio Regional Medical Center
01.2012 - 01.2016
Triaged patients, focused assessments, IV, PO and IM medication administration, CPR, stroke assessments, advocating for patients, patient and family education, managed traumas, interdisciplinary education, care for suicidal and homicidal individuals, the charge nurse on the unit, worked on policy and procedure committee and JCAHO standard board, provided individualized patient-centered care with consideration for ethical and cultural needs of each patient, patient advocacy, assisted in resolving patient complaints and peer complaints on unit
Registered Nurse
Ten Lakes Behavioral Healthcare
01.2009 - 01.2012
Provided medication administration, therapeutic intervention, admission and discharge information, comprehensive psychiatric assessments, rounded with psychiatrists, and education to geriatric psychiatric patients in an inpatient care setting on a 14-bed unit.
Licensed Practical Nurse
Ember Complete Care
01.2005 - 01.2009
Provided in-home care, including comprehensive assessments, medication reviews, assessment of living conditions, and individualized care to many different patient populations that ranged from infant to geriatric.
Licensed Practical Nurse
Application Behavioral Healthcare
01.2004 - 01.2005
Cared for mental health patients deemed criminally insane for violent crimes and not fit to stand trial
Provided medications and therapeutic interventions