Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Affiliations
Certification
Additional Information
Timeline
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Elexis Mitchell, MSN, APRN, FNP-C

Richmond,TX

Summary

Hardworking Certified Family Nurse Practitioner of 5 years, with 16 years' experience in patient care. Strong foundation in providing providing holistic, culturally sensitive, age-appropriate, and patient-centered care as a certified nurse's assistant advancing to Master's Prepared Advanced Practice Registered Nurse. Enthusiastic, compassionate, and dedicated to nursing. Exudes excellence. Background includes critical care, perioperative, cardiovascular, and holistic medicine. Currently, working in Podiatry, under the Vascular Surgery umbrella.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certificate

Work History

Family Nurse Practitioner

Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX
10.2019 - Current
  • Provide care to the podiatric patient, which includes high-risk diabetic foot screening, diabetic foot ulcers, foot and ankle pain, ischemia of the toe/foot, foot lesions, treating 20 inpatients to 30 outpatients per day.
  • Evaluate, treat, and manage high-risk diabetic / ischemic foot patients in collaboration with Vascular Surgery team
  • Evaluate, manage, and treat patients via inpatient at Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center and outpatient at Cambridge McNair Campus.
  • Coordinate care with multidisciplinary team; including but not limited to admissions, follow-ups, and post-operative visits.
  • Order and interpret diagnostic testing and therapeutic modalities.
  • Perform bedside and in-office procedures, including sharp debridement and wound care.
  • Coordinate care with Home Health and or family for wound care and other treatment modalities.
  • Coordinate care for diabetic shoe and biomechanical prescriptions with appropriate referral for foot and ankle deformities.
  • Complete office visits via in office, telemedicine, and billable phone visits.
  • Manage clinic staff.
  • Educate staff on wound care and processes.
  • Manage prescription orthotics.
  • Orient and guide Podiatry residents monthly.

Family Nurse Practitioner

Houston Cardiac Association
Houston, TX
12.2017 - 09.2019
  • Provided direct patient care of the cardiology patient, including, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, atrial fibrillation, and heart failure, managing up to 30 patients per day.
  • Corrected nutritional deficiencies via foot, oral supplementation, and IV nutrition therapy.
  • Offered naturopathic medicine as means to treat chronic medical cardiology and comorbid conditions.
  • Assisted physician in treating chronic venous insufficiency via lower extremity venous ablations.
  • Assisted physician in monitoring chronic atrial fibrillation via implantation of internal loop recorder.
  • Manage clinic staff.

PACU Charge Nurse

Houston Methodist Hospital
Houston, TX
04.2012 - 12.2017
  • Managed 60 acute patients post various levels of anesthesia.
  • Recovered patients post operatively including, but not limited to, kidney/kidney pancreas transplant, neurology, neurosurgery, plastics, colorectal, vascular surgery, and orthopedics.
  • Developed and updated patient plan of care, partnering with the patient, family, and interdisciplinary team to transition patient to next level of care.
  • Led nursing staff in coordinated care, incorporating the unit, patient, and hospital goals as a charge nurse.

ICU Registered Nurse

Kingwood Medical Center
Houston, TX
01.2011 - 04.2012
  • Cared for up to 3 intubated and sedated patient holistically; performed charge nurse role once a week.
  • Managed up to 6 high-risk medication drips under the direct supervision of the physician.
  • Followed the nursing process, modifying care based on the patient's condition.
  • Supported patient and family in clinical and ethical issues.

Education

Master of Science - Nursing

Prairie View A & M University
Prairie View, TX
05.2017

Bachelor of Science - Nursing

Prairie View A & M University
Prairie View, TX
12.2010

Skills

  • Assessment, Diagnosis, Intervention, Treatment, and Evaluation
  • Maintain and promote health
  • Provide compassionate care
  • Optimize holistic patient care
  • Provide culturally-sensitive and age-appropriate care
  • Educate patients on preventative care and prescribed treatments
  • Excellent patient and team communicator
  • Wound care, including wound VAC therapies and modalities
  • IV Nutrition and Therapy
  • EPIC systems, Anesthesia Manager, OR Manager,
  • Microsoft programs

Affiliations

  • Sigma Theta Tau International Nursing Society – 2010 - 2017
  • Dean's List throughout undergraduate (2006 - 2010) and graduate studies (2014 - 2017).

Certification

  • American Academy of Nurse Practitioners – National Certification – Expires 06/19/2027
  • Advanced Practice Registered Nurse – Texas Board of Nursing – Expires 04/30/24
  • Registered Nurse – Texas Board of Nursing – Expires 04/30/24
  • ACLS
  • BLS
  • PALS

Additional Information

  • APP Clinical Practice Council – Baylor College of Medicine – 01/2020 – present
  • Baylor College of Medicine Nurse Peer Review Council – 12/2019 – present
  • Employed by outside company to collect data for clinical trials

Timeline

Family Nurse Practitioner

Baylor College of Medicine
10.2019 - Current

Family Nurse Practitioner

Houston Cardiac Association
12.2017 - 09.2019

PACU Charge Nurse

Houston Methodist Hospital
04.2012 - 12.2017

ICU Registered Nurse

Kingwood Medical Center
01.2011 - 04.2012

Master of Science - Nursing

Prairie View A & M University

Bachelor of Science - Nursing

Prairie View A & M University

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