Jessica McElhenny

• Practiced as a primary care provider both within the ambulatory healthcare setting and the urgent care setting to assess, diagnose and treat patient population aged 13 through death
• Responsible for coordinating care and appropriately meeting the needs of patients while actively encouraging disease prevention and promotion.

Practice as advanced practitioner to assess and identify chronic illness and comorbidities that inherently increase risk of hospitalization and directly impact efficacy of kidney care. Responsible for coordinating care and appropriately meeting the needs of patients while actively encouraging disease prevention and promotion.

• Practiced as an autonomous provider within a collaborative network of healthcare providers to resolve the needs of patients with acute and chronic pain
• Responsible for assessing, diagnosing, and treating patients with both acute and chronic pain
• Patient load averaged between 20-40 patients daily.

• Functioned as a staff ICU nurse in an 18 bed unit within the inpatient setting with a patient ratio of 1:1-2 patients
• This unit accommodated bone marrow transplant, lung transplant, neurosurgery, trauma and medical/surgical critically ill patients.

• Provided nursing care in the ICU with a ratio of 1:1-2 patients
• The clinical setting was an 18 bed unit that cared for trauma, neurology, cardiology, cardiothoracic and neurosurgery patients.

• Served in the critical care float pool, accommodating the staffing needs of the various critical care units within the hospital
• Experience included: Burn ICU, CV ICU, CCU and Medical/ Surgical ICU
• Additional responsibilities included telemetry and step-down units when necessary
• ICU ratio of 1:2-3 patients

• Provided per diem nursing services in the ICU and ER
• Clinical setting was a 15 bed ER facility and the ICU ratio was 1:1-2 patients

• Provided nursing care in ICU/CCU setting, balloon pump and CRRT experience; patient ratio 3:1

• Trauma/ Surgical/ Burn ICU and PACU

• Nurse Partner in the CV ICU – care of 2 patients with assistance of charge nurse

Practice as advanced practitioner to assess, formulate plan of care and medically manage patients in the inpatient setting.