Chelse MORRISON

• Conduct comprehensive patient assessments to inform treatment plans.
• Collaborate in a timely manner with multidisciplinary teams to optimize patient care strategies.
• Mentor junior residents, fostering a collaborative learning environment.
• Accurately document patient encounters in electronic health record systems.
• Expand medical knowledge through ongoing professional development opportunities including continuing education courses, workshops, conferences, and journal readings.
• Diagnose and treat patients suffering from chronic conditions.

• Conducting mobile visits weekly to various ALF and homebound patients to assess, investigate and treat wounds of various etiologies.
• Provided treatment orders to home-care agencies to facilitate interval dressings by nurses.

• Worked with the ENT team and performed duties of history taking, allergy testing and allergy shot administration, minor procedures (eg. ear lavages).

• Conducted COVID-19 Rapid Antigen and PCR sampling and testing. Provided counseling and recommendations to positive patients. Counseled patients on the benefits and mechanism of action of vaccination.

Strengthened clinical experience in anesthesia:

• induction of anesthesia, airway management and tracheal intubations.
• epidural anesthesia.
• stabilization of critically ill patients.

Hands on experience with operative patients through all stages of anesthetic management:

• assessment of anesthetic risk and optimization preoperatively
• plan appropriate choice of anesthesia
• monitor vital signs throughout operation
• post-operative followup and pain management

• Rotated through multiple rural and urban health centers working alongside nurses and nurse practitioners, managing on average of 25-35 patients per day.
• Managed acute situations such as asthma exacerbations, wound suturing, incision and drainage, wound debridement, hypertensive and diabetic urgency. Referred patients requiring further care to the hospital.
• Promotion of primary and secondary prevention through screening tests, chronic illness followup and concise presentations to clinic audiences.
• Conducted STI Clinic.

• Provided healthcare to a vast population in the areas of General Surgery, General Medicine, Pediatrics and Obstetrics and Gynecology.
• Conducted comprehensive history taking, examination and management under clinical supervision.
• Performed minor invasive procedures eg. catheterization, bladder irrigation, amputation of digits, suturing of perineal tears and lacerations.
• Assisted in major surgical procedures eg. C-sections, hysterectomies, exploratory laparotomies, laparoscopic cholecystectomy, limb amputations.
• Collaborated with multiple healthcare teams and specialties to allow effective cohesive patient care.
• Proficient in peripheral IV cannulation and venipuncture.

Completed PGY 1 and 2 of training.