Joy Dukes, PMHNP-BC

• Self-motivated, with a strong sense of personal responsibility.
• Worked effectively in fast-paced environments.
• Skilled at working independently and collaboratively in a team environment.
• Proven ability to learn quickly and adapt to new situations.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Passionate about learning and committed to continual improvement.

• Worked in the intake department at an inpatient psychiatric facility.
• Assisted applicants with admissions packet and served as point of contact throughout admissions process.
• Provided exceptional customer service by promptly addressing applicant inquiries and concerns via phone, email, or in-person visits.
• Reviewed client information to determine if they meet the criteria for admission to our inpatient facility.
• Consulted with psychiatrists and physicians, obtaining orders from the psychiatrist to admit to our facility.

• I was the lead nurse for PHP (Partial Hospitalization Program) for the outpatient department.
• I was responsible for admitting clients to outpatient programs.
• I organized weekly treatment team meetings and daily nursing groups.

• I worked as a staff nurse in a psychiatric setting.
• I worked with children, adolescents, and adults in an inpatient behavioral health hospital.
• I administered medications, monitored patient behaviors, and documented appropriately.

• I worked as a staff nurse at an inpatient psychiatric acute care hospital.
• I worked with adult and geriatric patients.
• I administered medications, monitored patient behavior, and charted appropriately.
• I also worked in the ER assessing psychiatric patients for admission to the psychiatric unit.

• I worked in an occupational health setting as an RN at the TVA Paradise energy plant located in Drakesboro, KY.
• I was responsible for health screenings, educating employees on safety issues, first aid response, and urine drug testing of employees of the plant.

• I worked as a staff nurse in the Wellness Center, providing care to students in the Job Corps training program.
• I provided education, first aid, drew labs, urine drug testing, and other services to the students.
• I also worked closely with physicians and nurse practitioners in assessing and monitoring medical/psychiatric issues.

I worked in a psychiatric outpatient facility, providing mental health nursing care to both adolescents and adults.

• I worked in the Wellness Center, caring for students enrolled in a Job Corps training program.
• I worked with a physician and nurse practitioner, assessing patients with medical/psychiatric issues — obtained labs, urine drug testing, etc.

• I worked in an acute inpatient hospital in several different areas.
• I worked ER, Med/Surg and spent several years working OB and newborn nursery.
• I administered medications, started IVs, monitored patients for changes in condition, etc.