Cherriee DeShong
Buckeye,AZ
Summary
I am a dedicated Women's Health Nurse Practitioner with over 5 years experience as a WHNP but have more than 30 years experience in healthcare. The primary focus for the majority of that time has been on women's health. I enjoy working in a community health setting and have a passion for providing care and accurate information to the underserved population. It is important to me that women feel heard and their concerns validated when seeking care. I am dependable, organized, adept at prioritizing and have a high level of autonomy. I am comprehensive and timely in documentation and evaluating results/reports. I value may co-workers and actively seek to maintain a safe and positive work environment for the entire team.
Overview
31
31
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Women's Health Nurse Practitioner
Mountain Park Health Center
10.2018 - Current
- Perform comprehensive annual exams. Examining patients for medical conditions involving age, menstruation, pregnancy and sexual health
- Provide open discussion of risks, benefits and limitations of contraception options and then provide chosen contraception option when safe to do so
- Routinely discuss risks of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and educate on methods of prevention. Treat STIs, including expedited partner treatment, when needed
- Administer prenatal and postnatal care including discussion of changes during pregnancy, fetal development, common pregnancy symptoms and relieving measures. Continued discussion and awareness regarding pregnancy risks and complications and precautions. Awareness of women with increased risk for gestational diabetes, preeclampsia, preterm labor and postpartum depression. Discuss signs/symptoms of preterm labor/labor precautions and fetal movement awareness. Offer postnatal care and management of complications and breastfeeding coaching
- Co-manage high risk pregnancies with MFM including but not limited to obesity, advanced maternal age, gestational diabetes and hypertension.
- Identified female-specific cancers such as ovarian cancer, cervical cancer and breast cancer using thorough testing procedures
- Discuss genetic cancer risks and when appropriate offer genetic cancer screening and discussion of results and recommendations
- Treat and prescribe medication to women dealing with yeast infections and urinary tract infections
- Educated women on peri-menopause, explaining symptoms, bodily changes and physical limitations
- Treated women with chronic medical conditions such as endometriosis, ovarian cysts and infertility
- Pessary care - Able to discuss, fit and provide on going care for women who do not desire of cannot afford surgical management of pelvic organ prolapse
- Educate women on HPV and association with cervical cancer. Discuss recommendation and rationale for HPV vaccine
- Provided professional support to satellite location.
- Frequently receive positive feedback from patients, peers, and medical assistances
- Continually seek opportunity to increase knowledge/skills to improve care provided. In process of obtaining colposcopy privileges
RN
Abrazo West Campus
06.2007 - 11.2018
- Primary care, assessment and evaluation of laboring patients from admission to discharge
- Relief charge nurse
- Implemented and coordinated journal review meetings for unit
- Active in Quality Improvement initiatives including weekly audits of OBEWS
- Orient RN's new to labor and delivery to care and management of labor patients
- Restructured and taught child birth education classes
- Maintain clinical ladder level 3
- Make appropriate interventions by reading and interpreting fetal heart monitors
- Primary care, assessment and evaluation of neonatal patients in Level II nursery
- Active on unit policy committee
- Co Chair of hospital clinical ladder committee
- Participated in hospital shared governance.
- Strong leader for nursing personnel assigned to unit/shift
- Self-directed with astute judgment skills
- High level of personal accountability
Adjunct Clinical Instructor
Brown Mackie College
02.2013 - 02.2017
- Improved analytical skills by providing direct feedback to care-plans for up to 10 students per co-hort
- Consistently received positive teacher evaluations from students
- Instructed students on variety of skills, including fetal monitor strip interpretation, critical thinking, and team communication
- Instructed through lectures, discussions and demonstrations newborn assessments, hemorrhage risks and assessment, and gestational hypertension risks and assessment
- Administered performance reviews to evaluate each student's progress
- Used variety of assessment tools and strategies to improve instruction methods
RN
Phoenix Baptist Hospital
06.1993 - 08.2007
- Primary care nurse in labor and delivery on unit doing 150-250 deliveries month
- Manage care of labor patient from admission through discharge
- Worked 4 bed triage routinely, which including communicating to doctors about patient complaints and status
- Functioned as relief charge nurse
- Worked in Level II nursery for 6 years on night shift
- Assessed need for intervention and treatment on newborns showing signs of distress
- Served on hospital documentation committee
Education
Master of Science - Women's Health Nurse Practitioner
University of Cincinnati
2600 Clifton Ave, Cincinnati2018
Bachelor of Science -
Arizona State University West Campus
AZ1993
Certification
- Women's Health Nurse Practitioner, National Certification Corporation Board Certified. Expires September 2024
- Women's Health Nurse Practitioner, AZ license. Expires April 2025
- Registered Nurse. AZ license. Expires April 2025
- DEA license. Expires June 2024
- Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification March 2024 (currently renewing)
- RNC for Inpatient obstetrics, Expires March 2025
- Nexplanon trained 2019
- ASCCP Colposcopy course 10/2021
- Maintain dual membership with ACOG/NPWH. Expire June 2024.
Timeline
Women's Health Nurse Practitioner
Mountain Park Health Center
10.2018 - Current
Adjunct Clinical Instructor
Brown Mackie College
02.2013 - 02.2017
RN
Abrazo West Campus
06.2007 - 11.2018
RN
Phoenix Baptist Hospital
06.1993 - 08.2007
Master of Science - Women's Health Nurse Practitioner
University of Cincinnati
Bachelor of Science -
Arizona State University West Campus
- Women's Health Nurse Practitioner, National Certification Corporation Board Certified. Expires September 2024
- Women's Health Nurse Practitioner, AZ license. Expires April 2025
- Registered Nurse. AZ license. Expires April 2025
- DEA license. Expires June 2024
- Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification March 2024 (currently renewing)
- RNC for Inpatient obstetrics, Expires March 2025
- Nexplanon trained 2019
- ASCCP Colposcopy course 10/2021
- Maintain dual membership with ACOG/NPWH. Expire June 2024.
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