Cara Hill
Franklin,TN
Summary
Highly qualified and board-certified Nurse Practitioner with extensive experience in acute care and ambulatory environments. Strong diagnostic abilities, critical thinking skills, and advanced patient management expertise. Committed to collaborative team efforts for optimal patient outcomes. Known for reliability, adaptability, and excelling in dynamic settings. Driven to establish strong relationships with patients and families, acting as a patient advocate to achieve the best possible outcomes.
Overview
23
23
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Acute Care Nurse Practitioner
Centennial Heart
01.2023 - Current
- Evaluate, diagnose, and treat patients with acute and chronic heart failure
- Evaluate patients in the outpatient clinic for an invasive cardiac procedure
- Evaluate patients in the outpatient clinic after hospitalization and/or an invasive cardiac procedure
- Evaluate new referrals in the outpatient clinic
- Evaluate patients for advanced therapies, such as ventricular assist device and/or cardiac transplantation
- Management of patients with remote pulmonary pressure monitors (CardioMEMS)
- Interpret Heart Logic Index score on implantable cardiac defibrillators
- Evaluate, diagnose, and treat patients with structural heart disease
- Keep abreast of latest technologies in percutaneous heart valve repair, and structural heart treatments
- Evaluate patients in the outpatient clinic after an invasive structural heart procedure
- Send appropriate referrals to subspecialists
- Refer appropriate patients with acute cardiovascular decompensation for inpatient admission
Acute Care Nurse Practitioner
Vanderbilt Heart & Vascular Institute
01.2019 - 01.2023
- Evaluate and prepare patients referred for an interventional cardiology procedure such as left/right heart catheterization, pericardiocentesis, insertion of ventricular support device, endomyocardial biopsy, peripheral vascular intervention, patent foramen ovale closure, alcohol septal ablation
- Admit patients to the hospital for observation following an invasive procedure
- Manage any post procedural complications in the cardiac catheterization laboratory
- Discharge inpatients home or to a lower level of care
- Arrange outpatient follow-up with a provider after discharge home to promote transition of care
- Refer appropriate patients to cardiac rehabilitation
- Evaluate inpatient consultations for interventional cardiology procedures
- Coordinate care by communicating with multidisciplinary and subspecialty care providers for the patient
- Evaluate patients in the outpatient clinic for an invasive cardiac procedure
- Evaluate patients in the outpatient clinic after hospitalization and/or an invasive cardiac procedure
Acute Care Nurse Practitioner
Vanderbilt Heart & Vascular Institute
01.2019 - 12.2019
- Evaluate, diagnose, and treat patients with acute /chronic cardiology disease processes
- Daily rounds and inpatient management on cardiology hospitalist service
- Evaluate new inpatient consultations and admissions
- Discharge inpatients home or to a lower level of care
- Refer patients for appropriate testing such as cardioversion, stress test, left/right heart catheterization
- Request appropriate consultations from other sub specialists
- Refer appropriate patients to cardiac rehabilitation
Acute Care Nurse Practitioner
Phoebe Physician Group
01.2011 - 12.2019
- Evaluate, diagnose, and treat patients with acute /chronic cardiology disease processes
- Daily rounds and inpatient management on cardiology service
- Evaluate new inpatient consultations and admissions
- Coordinate outpatient procedural admissions and discharges
- Discharge inpatients home or to a lower level of care
- Refer patients for cardiac/pulmonary rehabilitation
- Coordinate social services needed with case managers
- Perform cardioversions under conscious sedation
- Management of patients in the Congestive Heart Failure Clinic
- Management of patients in the Cardiology hospital follow-up clinic
Acute Care Nurse Practitioner
Phoebe Physician Group
01.2010 - 12.2011
- Inpatient management of postoperative surgical oncology patients
- Assist in the operating room
- Discharge hospitalized postoperative patients home or to a lower level of care
- Coordinate wound care, physical therapy or home health services as needed
- Evaluate new inpatient consultations
- Evaluate and manage outpatient surgical follow-ups in the clinic
- Evaluate new referrals in the outpatient clinic
Acute Care Nurse Practitioner
Albany Pulmonary and Critical Care
01.2007 - 12.2010
- Evaluate, diagnose, and treat patients in the acute and critical care setting as well as those with pulmonary-specific disease pathology
- Management of critically ill patients with multiple organ system failures and complex disease processes
- Ventilator management and ABG interpretation
- Evaluate new inpatient pulmonary or ICU consultations
- Admit critically ill patients into the ICU setting
- Perform necessary invasive procedures
- Rotate as on-call hospitalist for rounds, admissions, and discharges
- Rotate hospitalist service night shift on-call service
Registered Nurse
Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital
01.2002 - 12.2006
- Bedside care for critically ill patients in the Intensive Care Setting
- Charge nurse
- Rapid assessment team
Education
MSN - Acute/Critical Care Nurse Practitioner
Emory University
Atlanta, GA01.2007
BSN -
Thomas University
Thomasville, GA01.2006
ASN -
Darton College
Albany, GA01.2002
Pre-Nursing Curriculum -
Athens Technical College
Athens, GA01.2000
Pre-Nursing Curriculum -
The University of Georgia
Athens, GA01.1999
Skills
- Endotracheal Intubation
- Central Line Insertion
- Chest Tube Insertion
- Arterial Line Insertion
- Pulmonary Artery Catheter Insertion
- Swan Ganz Catheterization
- Percutaneous tracheostomy
- Synchronized Cardioversion
- Collaborative Practice
- Interventional cardiology
- Valvular Heart Disease
- Heart failure management
- Time Management
- Conscious sedation
Certification
- Associate of the American College of Cardiology, 2018
- Acute Care Nurse Practitioner, ANCC, 2007
- CCRN, AACN, 2006
- APRN, TN, 226845, 2019
- RN, TN, 226845, 2017
Accomplishments
- Advanced Practice Provider Spotlight, Phoebe Putney, 2018
- Advanced Practice Provider of the Year Nominee, Phoebe Putney, 2018
- Sigma Theta Tau, 2007
- AACN Circle of Excellence in Advanced Practice, 2008
Professionalmemberships
- American College of Cardiology, Associate, 2018-present
- Society of Critical Care Medicine, 2007-2010
- AACN, 2002-2007
Publications
The Paradigm Shift for Treatment of Tricuspid Regurgitation: Tricuspid TEER, Hill, C., Dellise, N., Submitted, Under Review
Timeline
Acute Care Nurse Practitioner
Centennial Heart
01.2023 - Current
Acute Care Nurse Practitioner
Vanderbilt Heart & Vascular Institute
01.2019 - 01.2023
Acute Care Nurse Practitioner
Vanderbilt Heart & Vascular Institute
01.2019 - 12.2019
Acute Care Nurse Practitioner
Phoebe Physician Group
01.2011 - 12.2019
Acute Care Nurse Practitioner
Phoebe Physician Group
01.2010 - 12.2011
Acute Care Nurse Practitioner
Albany Pulmonary and Critical Care
01.2007 - 12.2010
Registered Nurse
Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital
01.2002 - 12.2006
BSN -
Thomas University
ASN -
Darton College
Pre-Nursing Curriculum -
Athens Technical College
Pre-Nursing Curriculum -
The University of Georgia
MSN - Acute/Critical Care Nurse Practitioner
Emory University
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