Jessica Behnam Hicks
Novato,California
Summary
- Nationally board certified Family Nurse Practitioner (AANP), and public health nurse.
- Active Furnishing License and DEA Licensure.
- ACLS and BLS certified.
- Proven success in various settings, highly adaptable due to high emotional intelligence and ability to process and integrate quickly.
- Autonomous function and independent management of patient panel.
- Experience with vulnerable patients across the spectrum with complex comorbidities.
- Well-developed skills in assessing the subtle shifts toward decline in cognition and function. Implementing creative solutions to support continued functionality.
- Collaboration with people from multiple disciplines, organizations, and education levels on a daily basis.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Nurse Practitioner
Serenity Knolls
10.2023 - Current
- Addiction Medicine; Admissions, Detox and Medical management of residential clients.
- History and Physicals of patients admitted to care.
- Prescriptive determination for client needs based on FDA approved protocols.
- Detox patient follow up care, medication and symptom management.
- Medication management for all residents.
- Collaboration with medical director, providers, nurses, psychiatrist, therapists, and counseling teams.
Nurse Practitioner
Private Care, Hospice
10.2021 - 04.2022
- Entrusted with care for fragile ALS patient, airway management with trach, medication reviews, guiding hospice team communications, supportive hands on care such as range of motion, creative solutions to slow progression of contracture and positional pain.
- Patient and daughter, both nurses, had difficulty finding competent and trustworthy caregivers for such high acuity and airway management.
- Early identification of respiratory infection leading to appropriate treatment.
Nurse Practitioner
Hospice By the Bay
08.2016 - 02.2019
- Face to Face Patient List Management, 8/2017 - 2/2019
- Nursing Education Committee
- Camp Erin Nursing Staff
- Collaboration with interdisciplinary team through a provider role, management role, and organizational roles.
- Managing patient assignments for 5+ providers, 30+ new patients weekly, rapidly changing patient loads, addressing physician and team inquiries in solution-oriented ways.
- Monitoring provider completion of assignments in a timely manner to keep organization within compliance for Medicare reimbursement.
- 5-15 hours/week of Administrative and Management.
- 9-15 patients/week, 18-30 hours/week, in-home and facility assessments of end of life patients for continued appropriateness for Hospice based on Medicare guidelines for diagnosis.
- Training incoming Nurse Practitioners, conducting field visits, documentation, and performance review.
Nurse Practitioner
Hawthorne Effect
11.2017 - 11.2017
- Cardiac Research study, follow up patient assessment, utilizing standardized tools, neurological assessments, and following Good Clinical Practice guidelines to ensure accurate and consistent data capture and reduction in attrition rates.
Nurse Practitioner
The Alschuler Center for Weight Loss & Wellness
05.2015 - 08.2016
- One-on-one therapeutic relationship with clients, advising and guiding personal transformations in health. Talk therapy, CBT, nutrition and health advice as well as medical monitoring during weight loss. Creative interventions to address underlying cause of obesity.
Nurse Practitioner
Kindred At Home - Hospice
02.2016 - 07.2016
- In-home assessments of end of life patients for purpose of recertification in Hospice setting. Independent management of patient panel.
Volunteer Clinician and Teaching Assistant
Brighter Beginnings Continuing Care Family Clinic
12.2013 - 04.2014
- Primary Care provider for vulnerable families as well as direct supervision and guidance of incoming Nurse Practitioner students also providing care.
Education
Master of Nursing - FNP
Samuel Merritt University
Oakland, California12-2013
Bachelor of Arts - Computer Animation and Visual Effects
Academy of Art University
San Francisco, California01-2005
Skills
- Kind and Respectful bedside manner
- Comprehensive assessment
- Assessment of nuanced changes in cognition and function
- Developing therapeutic relationships
- Empathetic support
- Reflective listening
- Compassionate care
- Patient education
- Understanding of disease progression
- Sensitivity to needs of others
- Understanding unspoken dynamics
- Quality care for vulnerable populations
- Patient advocacy
- Managing complex psychosocial situations
- Navigating sensitive inquiry
- Collaboration with providers
- Collaboration with administrators
- Collaboration with outside facilities
- Collaboration with families
- Collaboration with caregivers
- Covering call for physicians
- Experience with EPIC
- Experience with EMR systems
- Thorough documentation
- Interdisciplinary communications
Recent Volunteerism
Pleasant Valley Elementary, Novato, CA, Event Chair, Fall Carnival, 2022, 2023, $5,000 profit both years for PTA, Winter Wonderland, 2021, Cocoa and Cookies, 2022, Fall Festival, 2021, Art Docent, K-3rd, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, Room Parent and Field trip organization, various
Special Trainings
- Postpartum Support International Maternal Mental Health Professional, 2016
- IPEC pilot program, 2013, Invited to participate as Nurse Practitioner representative. 27 hours
- Cultural Competency Training, 2011
- Sepsis Training Simulation, Alta Bates program, 05/19/11
- Mental Health First Aid USA, certification, 11/08/10
Clinical Internships
- Kaiser Permanente, San Francisco, OB/GYN, 75
- San Francisco General Hospital, Orthopaedic Trauma Institute, NP Clinical Internship, 50
- Head Start Oakland, Pediatrics, NP Clinical Internship, 45
- San Francisco General Hospital, Medical Unit, NP Clinical Internship, 50
- SOMA Orthopedics, San Francisco, NP Clinical Internship, 112
- Davis Street Primary Care Clinic, NP Clinical Internship, 110
- Transgender Laser Hair Removal Clinic, NP Clinical Internship, 92
- Kaiser Permanente, Intensive Care Unit, Antioch, RN Internship, 244
- San Francisco General Women's Clinic, assistant to Priscilla Abercrombie, NP, Chronic Pelvic Pain Specialist, 04/01/09, 05/31/10
Timeline
Nurse Practitioner
Serenity Knolls
10.2023 - Current
Nurse Practitioner
Private Care, Hospice
10.2021 - 04.2022
Nurse Practitioner
Hawthorne Effect
11.2017 - 11.2017
Nurse Practitioner
Hospice By the Bay
08.2016 - 02.2019
Nurse Practitioner
Kindred At Home - Hospice
02.2016 - 07.2016
Nurse Practitioner
The Alschuler Center for Weight Loss & Wellness
05.2015 - 08.2016
Volunteer Clinician and Teaching Assistant
Brighter Beginnings Continuing Care Family Clinic
12.2013 - 04.2014
Master of Nursing - FNP
Samuel Merritt University
Bachelor of Arts - Computer Animation and Visual Effects
Academy of Art University