Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Recent Volunteerism
Special Trainings
Clinical Internships
Timeline
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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, California
12-2013

Bachelor of Arts - Computer Animation and Visual Effects

Academy of Art University
San Francisco, California
01-2005

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
Jessica Behnam Hicks