Colby Herrick
Webster,NH
Summary
Compassionate and experienced Registered Nurse seeking a position as an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse. With 8 years of progressive experience primarily in critical care, hospice, home care, and as a nurse educator for undergraduate nursing students in both the classroom and clinical setting. Skilled in managing a highly diverse population of patients and functioning in multiple leadership capacities. Passionate professional with excellent presentation, research and communication skills.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Clinical and Course Professor
RIVIER UNIVERSITY
09.2020 - Current
- Served as an educator and instructor for core undergraduate nursing courses
- Management of undergraduate nursing students in an acute hospital setting
- Remote and hands on learning and instruction to nursing students
- Provided feedback and assessment of course work, care plans and other academic paperwork
Intensive Care Unit and PACU
CATHOLIC MEDICAL CENTER
07.2017 - Current
- Functioned as a staff nurse, charge nurse, resource nurse and preceptor to new staff and nursing students
- Provided care to critically ill patients in a 20-bed intensive care unit
- Provided immediate postoperative care and monitoring in the post-anesthesia care unit to patients recovering from various procedures
- Management of complex wounds; assisted in development and individualized treatment plan for various wounds with assorted etiologies
- Advanced telemetry training and hemodynamic monitoring
- Delivered care to cardiac, thoracic, vascular, trauma, surgical and medical patients
- Managed continuous dialysis, ventricular assist devices, post-operative care of cardiovascular surgical patients, transvenous pacemakers, chest tube/pleural drainage systems, pre- and post-operative patient education and assessment
- Skilled in assisting provider with various bedside procedures such as: central and arterial line placement, rapid sequence intubation, temporary pacemaker placement, chest tube insertion, emergent resternotomy, pericardiocentesis, thoracentesis and various other procedures
- Provided support to family members and patients in a professional and compassionate manner
- Communication with multidisciplinary healthcare team members
Case Manager and On-Call Hospice & Home Health Triage Nurse
Franklin VNA & Hospice
12.2023 - 10.2025
- Case manager to hospice and homecare patients
- Implement individualized care plans to promote comprehensive symptom management of hospice patients
- Develop individualized Plans of Care for hospice and home health patients
- Participant in goals of care conversations
- Provide triage and clinical support for hospice patients and caregivers
- Conduct visits to hospice patients after hours to provide end of life care and support
- Provided emotional support to patients and caregivers experiencing anticipatory grief
Education
Master of Science - Nursing: Family Nurse Practitioner
RIVIER UNIVERSITY
Nashua, NH05.2022
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
RIVIER UNIVERSITY
Nashua, NH05.2017
Skills
- Critical thinking and assessment
- Compassionate communication
- Comfortable with facilitating difficult conversations
- Comprehensive symptom management
- Interdisciplinary team collaboration
- Patient care anticipation
- Subjective and objective observation and evaluation of patients' care needs
- Complex wound care management
- IV therapy and management
- Phlebotomy and lab analysis
- Hemodynamic monitoring and interpretation
- Computer and documentation efficiency
- EMR proficiency in Allscripts, Cerner, Epic, Sunrise, MyUnity, MatrixCare
Affiliations
- Home Care, Hospice & Palliative Care Alliance of New Hampshire
- American Association of Critical Care Nurses
- American Academy of Nurse Practitioners
Certification
- State of New Hampshire, Advanced Practice Registered Nurse, 075718-23
- State of New Hampshire, Registered Nurse, 075718-21
- Cardiac Surgical Unit Advanced Life Support
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support, American Heart Association
- Basic Life Support, American Heart Association
References
Available Upon Request
Timeline
Case Manager and On-Call Hospice & Home Health Triage Nurse
Franklin VNA & Hospice
12.2023 - 10.2025
Clinical and Course Professor
RIVIER UNIVERSITY
09.2020 - Current
Intensive Care Unit and PACU
CATHOLIC MEDICAL CENTER
07.2017 - Current
Master of Science - Nursing: Family Nurse Practitioner
RIVIER UNIVERSITY
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
RIVIER UNIVERSITY