for a Hospitalist team to utilize my inpatient management and critical thinking skills.
Overview
25
25
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
PRN Hospitalist APRN
Sound Locums
04.2018 - Current
APRN for Interventional Cardiology, Non-invasive Cardiology, and Electrophysiologist
VIA CHRIST CARDIOLOGY
04.2016 - Current
Cares for a wide variety of inpatient cardiology patients including Acute coronary syndrome, STEMI patients, Arrhythmia management, Cardiac surgery patients, Acute heart failure, Coronary stent placement from initial consultation or admission throughout their hospitalization, post procedure care of patients who have received pacemakers, cardiac ablations, supervises inpatient stress tests, responds to critical patients, code blues, and helps coordinate inpatient cardiology rounds for first year anesthesiology residents, and also helped schedule and coordinate procedures for multiple cardiologists
Hospitalist APRN
SOUND HOSPITALIST
07.2015 - 04.2016
Managed a wide variety of complex medical and oncology patients
11.2009 - 06.2015
Performs history and physicals, progress notes, consults, and discharge summaries
Code blue team leader/helped with rapid response team if attending hospitalist unavailable
Collaborated in daily interdisciplinary rounds and helps facilitate the continuum of care through the discharge process to a vulnerable patient population
Also helps provide patients and families communities resources
Served on a committee to help prevent readmissions focusing on heart failure and COPD
APRN review board where APRN cases are reviewed to evaluate if the standard of care was met
Served on a nutritional committee with an interdisciplinary team to help meet best standards for patient's nutritional needs in the acute and critical care setting
Precepts APRN students for WSU, FHSU, KU, Walden, and various online university APRN students
Managed a wide variety of patients including cardiac, medical and surgical patients
EMERGENCY SERVICES, PA
11.2008 - 11.2009
Also saw less acute patients independently
Precepts APRN and PA students
Helped with the establishment of a fast track for the ER where less critical patients were evaluated by APRN's and PA's
APRN
WESLEY HOSPITALISTS
06.2008 - 11.2008
Managed a wide variety of medical patients in the hospital setting
Helped with the establishment of a hospitalist unit, and served as a preceptor for APRN students
APRN
GALICIA MEDICAL GROUP
10.2007 - 06.2008
Managed cardiac, vascular, medical, and pulmonary patients in the hospital setting and followed patients in the office as an independent practitioner as well as outreach clinics
First line practitioner for chest pain center patients, and helped with the establishment of a chest pain center
Clinical RN II, Trauma Surgical ICU
VIA CHRISTI ST. FRANCIS CAMPUS
05.2000 - 10.2007
Cared for a wide variety of critically ill patients including multi-system Level I trauma, post-open heart, heart, kidney, and pancreas transplants, and patients who received ventricular assist devices
Working knowledge of ventilator modes, hemodynamic motoring, and initiation and titration of vasoactive agents per protocols
Relief charge nurse, precepts new graduates, and nursing students
Education
Master of Science - Nursing, Acute Care Nurse Practitioner
Wichita State University
12.2006
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Fort Hays State University
05.2000
Skills
Patient care
Clinical assessment
Medical diagnosis
Treatment planning
Certification
Kansas APRN, 2007 to Current
ACNP (Acute Care Nurse Practitioner) BC, 2010 to Current
Kansas RN license, 05/01/00 to Current
CCRN (Critical Care Registered Nurse), 11/01/06 to Current
Fundamentals of Critical Care Support, 2006
BLS, 2001 to Current
ACLS, 2001 to Current
Research Activities
Guidelines for the management of acute heart failure
Diabetes in critical care
The effect Coumadin has on closed head injuries in relationship to length of stay.
Standards of care for closed head injury patients
Fields Of Interest
Cardiology
Critical care
Hospitalist medicine
Timeline
PRN Hospitalist APRN
Sound Locums
04.2018 - Current
APRN for Interventional Cardiology, Non-invasive Cardiology, and Electrophysiologist
VIA CHRIST CARDIOLOGY
04.2016 - Current
Hospitalist APRN
SOUND HOSPITALIST
07.2015 - 04.2016
Managed a wide variety of complex medical and oncology patients
11.2009 - 06.2015
Managed a wide variety of patients including cardiac, medical and surgical patients
EMERGENCY SERVICES, PA
11.2008 - 11.2009
APRN
WESLEY HOSPITALISTS
06.2008 - 11.2008
APRN
GALICIA MEDICAL GROUP
10.2007 - 06.2008
Clinical RN II, Trauma Surgical ICU
VIA CHRISTI ST. FRANCIS CAMPUS
05.2000 - 10.2007
Master of Science - Nursing, Acute Care Nurse Practitioner