Cari MacDonald

• Medication Administration to approximately 250 inmates
• Supervised 4 LPNs, assigned duties
• Coordinated a team to attend to inmate injuries and acute illness
• Collaborated with Providers regarding inmate chronic illness.

• Attend and assist in organizing materials for a booth at community events
• Public education
• Advised employees of local companies about the benefits of COVID vaccination while leading open discussion about employee’s fears

• Patient required 24/7 supervision, guidance and reminders
• Led recreation/socialization/physical strengthening with emphasis on routine
• Documentations regarding her condition and care planning using evidence-based data. Used to complete the Annual Guardianship Report for the State of Colorado.
• Engaged patients in meaningful conversation, socialization, and activity while providing personal care assistance.
• Completed regular check-ins and progress report for each client.
• Supported daily hygiene needs of patients by assisting with bathing, dressing, dental care and personal grooming.
• Built and maintained rapport with clients and family members to facilitate trusting caregiver relationship.
• Transported individuals to events and activities, medical appointments, and social/educational classes.

• Managed pain, anxiety and depression conditions using proven mental and physical methods as well as medication.
• Easily 50% of my patient load were people falling into this catagory.
• Meticulously interviewed and examined study subjects for Clinical Trials being run at Riser Medical Associates.

• Picayune Rural Health – Family Practice, managed adult patients with chronic and acute illness or injury
• Assess and treat; order and interpret labs & images; prescribe medications, therapy or refer to specialist. Follow up.
• Vaccine administration and child development in accordance with Mississippi “Kid Kare” regulations.
• Awarded for speed, accuracy & detail on Athena Electronic Records system compared to other providers in the region.

• Itinerant Nurse Practitioner practicing independently in extreme remote areas of the Aleutian Islands
• Includes acute and chronic care; emergency care of personnel on fishing boats in the Bering Sea
• Telemedicine to clinics on islands and villages with no provider or access to a facility via a very sophisticated satellite system
• Collaboration with Kodiak U.S Coast Guard for emergency evacuation when appropriate.
• Managed general healthcare for the few local residents of the island and led health walks.

• Locum Tenens PCP in rural health clinics; St.Joseph, LA; Bethel, AK
• Led a vaccination and Child Development program to extremely remote Yupik Villages, throughout Western Alaska requiring meticulous planning and packing as most villages had no roads
• Travel by bush plane makes it impossible to return to the base clinic for anything forgotten.

• Part of an international team to educate and oversee the staff of village clinics caring for pregnant women with HIV/AIDS
• Created customized care plans for each clinic and family. Supervised clinic managers and staff working with new equipment and knowledge
• The goal was to prevent mother to child transmission of the virus
• Intensive classroom education presentations on Patient Rights, Consent to Treat, Medication Administration and the disease process
• The program was successful in giving Malawi full independence in managing the epidemic from diagnosis through delivery and into the first year of infant’s life.

• Treated and managed acute illness/injury and chronic disease
• Referred patients to specialty care or hospital as appropriate

• Paid internship, Capstone Project for completion of degree at Tulane University in Public Health and Tropical Medicine
• FHI in partnership with Oxford University, lead a Phase 2 Double Blind Clinical Trial testing High Dose Oseltamivir vs
• Standard Dose in Avian Influenza and Severe Human Influenza
• Lead and taught large groups of doctors and nurses in a classroom setting Patient Rights, Informed Consent, Research Protocols, handling of medications for the Clinical Trial.

• Fast Track, and Associates, , Acute Care/Fast Track
• Evaluated and treated non-critical, urgent patients
• Ordered and managed labs, images and tests appropriate
• Sutures, abscess I & D, splinting of fractures, medication administration
• Made appropriate specialty referrals, collaborated with in-house residents and physicians when needed
• Occupational Medicine to New Orleans Police Department Officers who had been in altercation

• Performed annual female exams, PAP and STI checks
• Evaluated Lab and imaging results
• Referred to specialist as needed
• Instructed patients on disease transmission and process
• Treated STI disease, provided contraception

• On call RN through the, with New Orleans Police Department and Charity Hospital after attending 40 hours intensive forensic training
• Led forensic examination and documentation of over 300 men and women the first year
• Expert in evidence collection and the forensic exam
• Testified as professional witness in Trials for Sexual Assault, New Orleans Parish Courts
• Administered empiric treatment for possible STI and pregnancy if appropriate
• Referral to Social Services and Medical follow up.

• Filled shifts for short-staffed hospital units, part-time while attending LSU
• Attended shifts in a variety of settings and specialties in hospital healthcare.

• Effectively prioritized assignments, executing care based on each patient's relative condition and delegating tasks to available personnel deliver safe and efficient care.
• Conferred with physicians to discuss diagnoses and devise well-coordinated treatment approaches.
• Administered medications via oral, IV, and intramuscular injections and monitored responses.
• Performed various nursing interventions such as wound dressing, vital sign monitoring, and specimen collection.

Honorable Discharge