Christine Trombino
Willimantic,CT
Summary
22 Years in the healthcare and human services, case management, nursing industry seeking full-time position as a Certified Recovery Support Specialist with client/patient mental health and addiction recovery support and lived experience in recovery utilizing past and present experiences. Excellent communication skills, multi-tasking skills working in the healthcare industry utilizing personalized care with comprehensive approach. Experience with mullite-diverse population of clients and patients with multiple histories including addiction, mental illnesses and traumatic histories creating trauma informed spaces. Strong knowledge of SUD, MAT, and mental health disorders. Strong ability to work with clients, create groups with-in facilities, provide safe and effective discharge planning in collaboration with all clinicians and providers. Establishing continuum of care specific to individual needs upon discharge from multiple facilities. Strong knowledge of evidence-based recovery skills. Organization and creation of peer partnerships through groups and one to one with individuals. Excellent ability to provide recovery-based themes and activities to assist in individual development of multiple coping skills, and develop personalized wellness, recovery, and action planning. Developing personalized plans of care with the primary goal of utilizing several community-based resources assisting the individual to maintain recovery and continuum of care. Excellent communication skills working within a team environment providing optimal plans of care with optimal client outcomes. Excellent computer skills utilizing multiple computer systems. Experience in leadership roles using motivational skills to promote quality client outcomes. Strong experience in supporting mission of organizations. Strong organizational skills, ability to multi-task and remain flexible and open in work environment. Strong knowledge of state and federal resources in Recovery oriented systems of care to provide individuals with resourceful needs. Strong ability to provide individual holistic care promoting health, wellness, and integration into communities to maintain recovery. I am motivated to continue education and learning in the mental health and addiction recovery field. Diligent RSS background in providing support and guidance to individuals in recovery. Successfully assisted clients in developing personalized recovery plans and fostering supportive environment. Demonstrated effective communication and empathetic listening skills to build trust and rapport with clients.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Charge Nurse
GREENWICH WOODS HEALTHCARE, GREENWICH WOODS
01.2011
- On Skilled Unit with meticulous assessment skills providing excellent care to short-term patients on rehabilitation unit
- Medication administration per the six rights of The Nurse Practice Act
- Excellent individualized patient care provided according to their needs
- Organization and planning for individuals’ reintegration into society with community-based resources for maintaining recovery and wellness upon discharge
- Strong advocate for multiple individuals on unit with SUD and mental health disorders
- Collaborating with DON, facility Administrator to facilitate groups group for individuals with SUD, MAT, MOUD and mental health disorders, received approval
- Strong passion and ability to facilitate groups wellness in recovery and mental health disorders
- Creating wellness, recovery and action planning, reintegration into society with community-based resources for maintaining recovery and wellness upon discharge
- Organization and facilitation of 1 to 1 individual support utilizing the 8 Dimensions of Wellness to achieve Social, emotional, Physical, intellectual, spiritual, occupational, safe environmental and financial wellness to achieve optimal care and achieving wellness in recovery and mental health disorders prior to reintegration into society with community-based resources for maintaining recovery and wellness upon discharge
- Strong knowledge of SUD, MAT, MOUD
- Ability to connect individuals to community-based resources to achieve safe community housing, MAT, on-going resources for treatment and recovery maintenance prior to discharge
- Excellent communication skills, ability to provide one to one care supporting individual holistic care in consideration of physical, emotional, social, spiritual needs
- Creating plans of care according to individual needs
- Excellent care provided to multiple individuals admitted with addiction, mental health, and trauma histories
- Providing own lived shared experiences
- Collaboration with administrative staff, Social Worker’s, physical therapy, activities to ensure holistic approaches to individual needs met
- Encouraging in-house community activities, decreasing isolation, depression, increasing positive overall mood for individuals
- Ability to establish group meetings, sharing own lived experiences in recovery with patients having mental health, addiction, and trauma histories
- Excellent resource nurse for patients establishing integration into the community ensuring all needs met for safe discharge
- Strong ability to find transportation to outpatient settings, initiating after care for long-term optimal patient outcomes
- Provide interventions as needed for de-escalation of behaviors through active listening and meeting the individual’s needs
- Excellent verbal, written, computer skills
- Meticulous documentation
- Collaboration with MD for any changes in condition
- Updating, revising plans of care accordingly
- Excellent team member, ability to assist all team members as needed for completed care of all patients on unit
- 3-month contract for DPH compliance on Alzheimer’s, dementia, and psychiatric unit
- Strong ability to educate staff on compliance issues, behavioral techniques and need to utilize active listening skills providing de-escalation of behaviors
- Collaboration with administrative staff, activities, social services, and providers to discontinue psychotropic medication use with effective outcomes
- Collaboration and excellent communication provided with families of individuals on units
- Updating plans of care according to the residents’ individual needs
- Education to staff on documentation skills, creating plans of care, collaborating with providers, families, following through and requesting changes with MD as needed
- Updating plan of care
- Ensured facility plan of corrective action for DPH compliance review in place
- Working with facility administration and DPH for review, receiving positive outcome.
Nurse educator
DTC Mass vaccination clinic
02.2022 - 07.2022
- Covid-19 mass vaccination clinic DTC, Mass Covid-19 vaccination clinics site, and community resource on Interim considerations according to CDC and DPH guidelines and compliance
- Worked with FEMA and National Guard onsite
- Provided education to community questions and concerns receiving vaccines
- Flexible working additional hours as needed to provide community support
- Excellent communication skills for all ages across the lifespan
- Ability to travel as needed
- Charge of vaccination count according to DPH rules and regulations.
Nurse Manager
Rhode Island
09.2020 - 07.2021
- Exceptional knowledge of The Nurse Practice Act, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Rules and regulations, Centers Healthcare’s Policies and Procedures, DPH rules and regulations with strong ability utilizing effective communication skills in collaboration with facility administrations, clinicians, and providers to ensure compliance of rules and regulations adhered to in multiple facilities in RI
- Strong advocate for policies and procedures for ultimate outcomes of providing excellent quality facilitating groups on unit and facilitation of residential group activities, achieving optimal care achieving wellness in recovery and mental health disorders
- Creating wellness, recovery and action planning, reintegration into society with community-based resources for maintaining recovery and wellness upon discharge
- Organization and facilitation of 1 to 1 individual support utilizing the 8 Dimensions of Wellness to achieve Social, emotional, Physical, intellectual, spiritual, occupational, safe environmental and financial wellness to achieve optimal care and achieving wellness in recovery and mental health disorders prior to reintegration into society with community-based resources for maintaining recovery and wellness upon discharge
- Strong knowledge of SUD, MAT, MOUD, facilitating staff development and knowledge of individuals with SUD, utilization of MAT, MOUD and staff in-services on the 8 Dimensions of Wellness
- Strong knowledge of resources and strong ability to connect individuals to community-based resources to achieve safe community housing, MAT, on-going resources for treatment and recovery maintenance, wellness prior to discharge
- Conduct on-site and remote clinical EMR audits creating plans of corrections maintaining policies, procedures and services provided according to CMS, DPH, and cooperate polices to provide quality care delivered to residents by nursing staff
- Strong advocate on CMS rules and regulations adhered to through EMR audits
- Collaboration with facility administrative, physicians, APRN psychiatric provider, clinicians, social services with findings through EMR audits needing critical interventions to remain in compliance
- Effective communication skills advocating for CMS rules and regulations on mandatory psychotropic drug use for short term and long-term residents evaluated, discontinued if not necessary per regulatory standards
- Establishing strong relationship with APRN Psychiatric provider with nursing staff in cooperating mandatory assessments of drug use daily, on time, documentation completed, drug reduction, discontinuation, or mandated assessments and required documentation for continued use is ongoing per CMS
- Organization of educational in-services to staff
- Utilizing EMR findings, organizing multiple group educational power point in-services according to the needs of the residents
- Excellent ability to provide and organize educational seminars with effective communication skills inclusive of the eight learning styles and multicultural learning environment for staff members
- Strong advocate to incorporate and adapt to needs of staff with empathy, active listening, and conflict resolution
- Strong advocate establishing education based on enhancing staff confidence, sense of initiative, decision making and self-knowledge to problem solve
- Enhancing staff ability to critical thinking and problem solving
- Incorporating their optimal ability for excellent patient centered care, documentation and creating plans of care
- Ensuring all residents receive optimal care
- Excellent resource nurse for all resident's needs, staff, families, and supporters of residents
- Excellent communication skills
- Actively attentive to all needs
- Establishing and ensuring all residents, staff, family and supporters of resident's needs and inquiries satisfied and met
- Providing resources, education, plans of action, ensuring all residents’ individual needs are satisfied
- Focus on patient plans of care, nursing diagnosis, desired patient outcomes, goals, interventions, and evaluations followed through
- Providing feedback, ensuring if goals are not satisfactory, assisting in revising plans of care
- Ensuring resident plans of care focused on basic needs, safety and security, love and belonging, self-esteem, self-actualization, with specific goals of short-term needs, long-term needs, discharge planning promoting safe discharge according to individual needs of continuum of care with appropriate resources of care
- Collaborating with Social services, activities director, physical therapy to ensure and promote department collaboration and incorporation of plans of care for resident's needs
- Ensuring socialization through appropriate and on-going activities for residents through family, friends, social contacts for psychosocial well-being
- Ensuring physical activities for all residents according to their specific abilities to promote overall wellbeing
- Ensuring safety of all residents in their environment during activities of daily living.
Charge Nurse
STEERE HOUSE
01.2017 - 01.2020
- Unit and Alzheimer’s, Dementia Unit, Provide comprehensive care for patients on a fast-paced rehabilitation unit
- Provide excellent meticulous personalized holistic care to each individual resident on the Alzheimer’s, dementia unit with multiple diagnosis’s including mental health, trauma, and disabilities for optimal individual outcomes
- Strong partnership with unit’s APRN, psychiatric APRN ensuring psychotropic, schedule I-V intellectual, occupational, spiritual, occupational environmental and ensuring they are obtained prior to discharge
- Organization of drugs decreased according to CMS rules and regulations
- Strong advocate for Alzheimer's, Dementia, and substance abuse disorder’s, psychiatric diagnosed residents to incorporate into plan of care the 8 dimensions of wellness, physical, emotional, social
- Organization and facilitation of residential group activities, optimal care and achieving wellness in recovery and mental health disorders
- Creating wellness, recovery and action planning
- Strong knowledge of resources and strong ability to connect individuals to community-based resources to achieve safe community housing, MAT, on-going resources for treatment and recovery maintenance, wellness prior to discharge into society with community-based resources for maintaining recovery and wellness upon discharge
- Strong advocate ensuring each Alzheimer’s and Dementia residents receive support with activities of daily living
- Facility activities and social activities with assistance or family, supporter of resident
- Excellent in critical thinking skills, assessment skills, communication skills for each individual patient and resident according to their needs
- Communicating with doctors, APRN’s, Family members, and supporters, individual Powers of Attorney when needed in changes of conditions
- Implementing and revising plans of care when changes occur with the goal being excellent patient and resident outcomes
- Administration of medications, IV therapy within the scope of nurse practice
- Excellent communication skills with team members, families, all individual contacts, and support systems as requested by patient or resident with meticulous attention to individual's needs, rights, choices providing resident centered care according to their needs
- Meticulous documentation skills, ability to utilize multiple computerized systems, maintaining documentation on each individual specific needs, changes in a residential and post-care acute environment
- Documentation for residential units including mental health changes, needs, noting any behavioral changes, medication change documentation, reactions to changes
- Utilization of crisis intervention’s utilizing communicational, active listening, eye contact, relaxation techniques, affirmation, clarification, effective behavioral techniques when resident is in need in common conversation or in instances of struggling with mental health illnesses verse utilizing medications
- Remaining compliant with organizational procedures, DPH policies and procedures for mental health interventions
- Remaining positive regardless of situations and interventions, ability to move forward post- crisis situations and continue to perform duties and responsibilities in a positive regard to each individual on residential or acute care unit to continue to provide the best care.
House Supervisor and Charge
THE CEDAR’S REHABILATATION AND CARE CENTER
01.2015 - 01.2017
- Nurse for Skilled care and Alzheimer's and Dementia Unit
- House Supervisor for multiple units, Residential Care Unit, Acute Care, Rehabilitation Unit, Alzheimer's Dementia Unit
- Supervisor of all staff members ensuring compliance with organizational policies, Exceptional knowledge of nursing and medical practices and procedures, as well as laws, regulations and guidelines for organization, CMS and DPH rules and regulations
- Assisting DON, ADON and administration with yearly DPH inspections with optimal satisfaction
- Provide supervision of all staff ensuring compliance with protocols
- Coordination of assignments to staff, monitoring and ensuring quality resident care delivered
- Provide mentorship and guidance to support staff and in-services maintaining accurate records
- Effectively communicate with residents, staff, family members, provider’s and team members establishing a mission driven teamwork environment ensuring excellent care to all residents
- Organization and facilitation of residential group activities for individuals to achieve wellness in recovery as well as individuals with mental health disorders
- Creating wellness, recovery and action planning, reintegration into society with community-based resources for maintaining recovery and wellness upon discharge
- Strong advocate for policies and procedures, facilitating groups on unit and facilitation of residential group activities, achieving optimal care achieving wellness in recovery and mental health disorders
- Creating wellness, recovery and action planning, reintegration into society with community-based resources for maintaining recovery and wellness upon discharge
- Organization and facilitation of 1 to 1 individual support utilizing the 8 Dimensions of Wellness to achieve Social, emotional, Physical, intellectual, spiritual, occupational, safe environmental and financial wellness to achieve optimal care and achieving wellness in recovery and mental health disorders prior to reintegration into society with community-based resources for maintaining recovery and wellness upon discharge
- Strong knowledge of SUD, MAT, MOUD, providing staff education and knowledge of individuals with SUD, utilization of MAT, MOUD and staff in-services on the 8 Dimensions of Wellness as well as crisis intervention
- Ability to cover shifts when needed on multiple units providing excellent care to all residents
- Complete admission and discharge documents
- Ensuring safe discharges into communities with appropriate resources of care according to individual needs
- Developing and updating Resident plans of care ensuring appropriate care to all residents is rendered
- Ensure safety checks on units and communicate with charge nurse’s ensuring the safety of all residents
- Provide oversight and direction to all staff meeting their requests and needs to perform all job duties and excellent care
- Develop and maintain positive relationships with staff, family members, providers involved with resident care.
Charge Nurse
THE REGENCY HEALTHCARE
01.2011 - 01.2013
Charge Nurse
Fountain view Healthcare Center
01.2007 - 01.2011
- On multiple units including long-term, skilled nursing, Alzheimer’s Dementia, and psychiatric units
- Meticulous care provided for each individual resident and short-term skilled in patients
- Medication administration according to the six rights of Nurse Practice
- Ability to work with a multi-diverse population providing the utmost dignity, respect for all cultural considerations
- Creating plans of care for each resident, skilled in-patients according to their physical, emotional, and spiritual needs
- Strong ability to work in collaboration as a team member to advocate for optimal residential care
- Collaboration with team members for discontinuing unnecessary psychotropic medications
- Revising plans of care towards discharge into society
- Advocate for individuals plans of discharge provided with all follow up mental health needs, collaborating with psychiatrist APRN
- Decreasing the use of psychotropic medications, utilizing behavioral techniques with the goal of individuals independence, freedom of medication restraints
- In collaboration with administration, social services, psychiatric APRN, creating plans of care and ability to reintegrate individuals into society
- Discharge planning for appropriate care and needs of individuals into the community ensuring safe discharge planning, appropriate community recourses provided with follow up appointments, new providers, therapist, group home settings when needed for the safety and holistic care of each individual
- Ability to work multiple shifts, flexibility to work all units
- Strong ability to learn, educated on DPH rules and regulations
- Collaborating with all team members to provide the best care according to DPH rules, regulations, and guidelines
- Assisting DON on DPH yearly inspections
- Providing input, documentation requested, medication pass, resident care with DPH
- The ultimate outcome, assisting in the best yearly inspections remaining in compliance
- Excellent communication skills with all team members, nursing staff, clinicians, MD’s, family members for each individual resident’s needs
- Advocate for each resident to increase involvement in facility activities
- Providing behavioral techniques to residents on the Alzheimer’s, dementia, and psychiatric unit
- Worked multiple shifts for IV therapy, ability to come in facility, administered medications per order
- IV therapy certified
- Excellent and complete documentation skills.
Charge float nurse
Day Kimball Hospital
01.2002 - 01.2007
- ER, ICU, MED/SURG, Excellent care provided to each patient for holistic care needs
- Emergency care provided
- Excellent communication with support members of patients, excellent patient satisfaction provided to all patients
- Advanced from MED/SURG to ICU and ER float
- Administration of all MD ordered medications
- Effective communication skills with MD’s
- Excellent team member, assisting all staff members when needed
- Acute care is provided to all in-patients addressing multiple needs
- Strong ability to muti-task in an ever-changing environment
- Strong, clear concise documentation skills
- Ensuring all patients clear understanding of plans of care provided
- Education provided to all patients on diagnosis, procedures, medications, strong knowledge, and ability to answer clear and concise acute care with positive patient, family member satisfaction
- Continued education units attending multiple learning educational seminars
- Joined all educational seminars
- IV certification obtained; Telemetry certification obtained
- Care for patients with multiple diagnosis’s including detox, acute delirium, addiction, mental health
- Strong advocate with own lived experience for patients with mental health diagnoses, addiction and provided resources and educational needs for recovery upon discharge
- Strong skills in providing cardiac care in the ICU
- Monitoring telemetry, providing STAT care to patients in need in collaboration with team members
- Hospice, end of life care provided in specialty room environment
- Providing holistic support to patients, spiritual, physical, ensuring patient pain free with end-of-life care
- Providing individuals with a personal environment including music of their choice, phoning religious support as requested
- Providing patients with WIFI for the ability to receive comfort from all support systems
- Dedicated support, communication and emotional needs met to all individuals and families involved with care
- Strong advocate for excellent treatment to individuals of multiple diverse societies, ensuring their needs are met
- Bedside and compassionate nursing care provided
- Emotional support provided to individuals
- Active listening, allowing patient to express any questions, concerns, needs and wants
- Providing each patient with all needs and wants possible
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Education
PRACTICAL NURSE EDUCATION PROGRAM -
WINDHAM REGIONAL VOCATIONAL TECHNICAL SCHOOL
01.2002
Skills
- Excellent communication skills
- Multi-tasking skills
- Experience with multi-diverse population
- Strong knowledge of SUD, MAT, and mental health disorders
- Ability to work with clients
- Excellent computer skills
- Strong organizational skills
- Decision-Making
- Care Coordination
- Clinical Leadership
- Team Leadership
- Compassionate and Patient
- Calm and Composed
Accomplishments
- Collaborated with Windham Reentry Council, public speaker for the development of community resource's to unite to help resolve SUD, alcoholism, homelessness, basic needs for wellness. Obtain RSS for individuals incarcerated, implementing the connection of resources 90 days prior to discharge from The DOC.
- Achieved recovery support for individuals SUD by effectively utilizing the principles of RSS and my own shared experience.
- Supervised team of many staff members, ensuring excellent plans of care goals obtained for all patients. Specifically clients admitted with SUD, mental health struggles, and dual diagnosis.
Volunteer Experience
- Advocate Volunteer, Windham County Reentry Council, 2023 - Present
- Volunteer, CCAR, 2023 - Present
Certification
- Adult-behavioral health SUD certified LPN Acute Care Nurse-American Nurses Credentialing Center.
Languages
Spanish
Professional Working
Timeline
Nurse educator
DTC Mass vaccination clinic
02.2022 - 07.2022
Nurse Manager
Rhode Island
09.2020 - 07.2021
Charge Nurse
STEERE HOUSE
01.2017 - 01.2020
House Supervisor and Charge
THE CEDAR’S REHABILATATION AND CARE CENTER
01.2015 - 01.2017
Charge Nurse
GREENWICH WOODS HEALTHCARE, GREENWICH WOODS
01.2011
Charge Nurse
THE REGENCY HEALTHCARE
01.2011 - 01.2013
Charge Nurse
Fountain view Healthcare Center
01.2007 - 01.2011
Charge float nurse
Day Kimball Hospital
01.2002 - 01.2007
- Adult-behavioral health SUD certified LPN Acute Care Nurse-American Nurses Credentialing Center.
PRACTICAL NURSE EDUCATION PROGRAM -
WINDHAM REGIONAL VOCATIONAL TECHNICAL SCHOOL
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