Kristy Nanje
POWDER SPRINGS,GA
Summary
Efficient and thorough psychiatric nurse practitioner with 15 years of nursing experience. Dedicated to delivering the best levels of care to patients, even under stressful conditions. Excellent team player, committed to coaching and assisting team members while embracing new challenges. Strong work ethics, flexibility, and adaptability, coupled with excellent interpersonal skills to meet the challenges in patient-centered care in accordance with industry norms. Professional with a strong background in psychiatric-mental health, skilled in patient assessment, treatment planning, and therapeutic interventions. Known for fostering team collaboration and adapting to evolving healthcare needs. Expertise in clinical decision-making, patient advocacy, and mental health education. Reliable and results-driven, consistently delivering high-quality patient care.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
PMHNP
Empowering Healthcare Services
09.2023 - Current
- Provide comprehensive care to adults with mental health disorders and diagnoses, including depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, and PTSD
- Develop and implement individualized treatment plans based on mental health assessments
- Administer medications and provide psychotherapy, including cognitive behavioral and psychodynamic therapies
- Maintain effective communication with patients, families, and other healthcare providers to ensure quality care
- Monitor patient progress and adjust treatments accordingly
- Participate in interdisciplinary teams to coordinate care and develop treatment plans
- Educate and counsel patients and families on mental health diagnoses and treatment options
Psychiatric Registered Nurse
Cobb County Jail
05.2023 - 09.2024
- Triage patients, responding to episodes of acute illness and mental health emergency, sick call management, psychiatric evaluations, and assessment of new inmates, intake, monitoring of patients/inmates
- Monitoring 1013 and close observations patients with referrals
Travel Nurse Neuro Intermediate Care Unit
Northeast Georgia Medical Hospital
08.2021 - 09.2023
- Company Overview: Gainesville-Georgia
- Providing care to patients in the stepdown unit
- Managing hemodynamically unstable patients, seizure, stroke, and patients with brain encephalopathy related to alcohol intoxications
- Managing elderly patients’ complex health problems; dementia, delirium, and depression
- Implementing the CIWA/COWS and using the Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale
- Daily rounding, collaborate with the interdisciplinary team with goals setting and discharge planning
- Gainesville-Georgia
PMHNP Student - Inpatient Psychiatric Hospital
Hillside Inc
01.2022 - 11.2022
- Company Overview: Atlanta, Georgia
- Patient assessment, diagnosis, and treatment plans in accordance with statutes, regulations and protocols regulating the profession through face-to-face and telehealth service
- Provides psychiatric health services, education, counseling, and emotional support
- Refers patients for inpatient care, in collaboration with the interdisciplinary team
- Medication management and prescriptions in accordance with treatment guidelines for autism spectrum disorders, anxiety, depression, ADHD, conduct disorders and others
- Order laboratory tests, interpret and explain the test results to patients
- Provide patient education regarding medications, risks, benefits, and reasonable outcome expectations
- Communicate with patients and engage in follow-up, as necessary
- Atlanta, Georgia
Travel Nurse ICU
Wellstar Douglass Hospital
04.2022 - 07.2022
- Company Overview: Georgia
- Provide patient care, education, and support
- Administer medication, IVs, and insert catheters as needed
- Meticulous documentation of medication administration
- Assist in emergency nursing procedures and hemodynamic monitoring
- Managing seizure patients and those with hospitalization related delirium, 1013 patients as well
- Good collaboration with doctors and midline NPs to ensure the smooth running of the shift
- Georgia
Staff RN
Krucial Staffing
01.2020 - 03.2022
- Company Overview: Sulphur Springs, Texas
- Providing care to patients in both COVID/non COVID ICU, stepdown and recovery units
- Managing hemodynamically unstable patients on pressors, ET tubes via ventilators and follow up care
- Maintaining a patent airway, circulation and breathing and responding to life saving situations
- Education to both patients and their families
- Sulphur Springs, Texas
Psychiatric RN
Ridgeview Mental Health Hospital
03.2019 - 03.2022
- Company Overview: Smyrna, GA
- Assess and manage children, adolescents, and adults with mental health disorders
- Crisis management and therapy/group sessions, plan referrals and follow-up care
- Managing patients with substance related disorder/ detox program
- Smyrna, GA
PMHNP Student
Reflexive Reasoning LLC
06.2021 - 11.2021
- Conduct diagnostic intake and assessment for each client
- Provide clients with psychoeducation about their diagnosis and proposed treatment
- Perform individual and family therapy and facilitate groups
- Develop and complete master treatment plans, treatment plan updates, discharges, and managed care authorizations
- Maintain regular contact with the parent/guardian of each client with follow-up; providing complete and timely documentation to support services rendered
COVID ICU Nurse
Baylor Scott and White University Hospital
01.2021 - 05.2021
- Company Overview: Dallas, Texas
- Provide patient care, education, and support
- Administer medication, IVs, and insert catheters as needed
- Meticulous documentation of medication administration
- Assist in emergency nursing procedures and hemodynamic monitoring
- Assist with EVD placements, lumbar drains, Zoll and cooling blankets
- Managing seizure patients and those with hospitalization related delirium, 1013 patients as well
- Coordinate admission and transfer of patients, serve as resource to the team, doing charts and Omnicell audits
- Good collaboration with doctors and midline NPs to ensure the smooth running of the shift
- Dallas, Texas
COVID ICU Nurse
Kindred Hospital
07.2021 - 04.2021
- Company Overview: San Antonio, Texas
- Assist in emergency nursing procedures with COVID patients and chronic airway management
- Perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation to hemodynamically unstable patients
- Managing delirium related to prolonged hospitalization and 1013 patients
- Provided care to COVID patients in the MICU
- Helped with patient assessment on planning and implementing care plan
- Providing education and support to patients and their family members
- San Antonio, Texas
PMHNP Student - Outpatient Clinical Practice
Meraki Health
08.2020 - 03.2021
- Patient assessment, diagnosis, and treatment plans in accordance with statutes, regulations and protocols regulating the profession through face-to-face and telehealth service
- Provided care to patients in acute inpatient settings with mental health disorders, such as depression, anxiety, and schizophrenia
- Performed mental health assessments, developed individualized treatment plans, and prescribed medications
- Collaborated with other healthcare providers in developing evidence-based patient care plans
- Provided psychotherapy, including cognitive-behavioral, psychodynamic, and supportive therapies
- Monitored patient progress and adjusted care plans accordingly
- Educated and counseled patients and families on mental health diagnoses and treatment options
Registered Nurse - Charge Nurse Neuroscience ICU/ Medical ICU
WellStar
09.2017 - 01.2021
- Company Overview: GA
- Provide patient care, education, and support
- Administer medication and insert catheters as needed with meticulous documentation of medication administration
- Assist in emergency nursing procedures and hemodynamic monitoring
- Managing seizure patients and those with hospitalization related delirium, 1013 patients as well
- Coordinate admission and transfer of patients, serve as resource to the team, doing charts and Omnicell audits
- Good collaboration with doctors and midline NPs to ensure the smooth running of the shift
- GA
Registered Nurse
WellStar Cobb
01.2017 - 12.2018
- Company Overview: Marietta, GA
- Monitoring patients recovering from anesthesia
- Airway management checking vital signs, checking skin color, turgor, temperature, and pain management
- Administer IM, IV medications
- Provide excellent customer service to my patients and family
- Provide patient education prior to discharge
- Marietta, GA
Staff Nurse - PRN
A.G Rhodes Cobb Senior Rehabilitation Service
01.2017 - 01.2018
- Company Overview: Marietta
- Worked with geriatric patients and residents
- Administered medications and provided services per the individualized need of the patient
- Marietta
Home Health RN
Family Private Care LLC
03.2016 - 01.2017
- Company Overview: Woodstock, GA
- Assist with comprehensive patient assessment of patient on admission
- Medication administration with education to patients and family
- Assisted with ADL and i-ADLs., PICC line dressing changes and foley placements
- Make recommendations and referrals as needed with follow-up
- Woodstock, GA
Nursing
University Teaching Hospital
09.2011 - 12.2012
- Company Overview: Belgium
- Assessing patients' mental health status in geriatric patients
- Developing and implementing care plans
- Administering medications and monitoring side effects
- Providing therapy and crisis intervention
- Supporting patients and their families with education on mental health conditions
- Assisted them holistically to gain independence and develop coping strategies with care
- Planned care and administered medications timely per protocol
- Assisting with ADL, Instrumental activities of daily living and Advanced activities of daily living
- Client evaluation was based on the diagnostic criteria of mental illnesses
- Belgium
Charge Nurse
Regional Psychiatric Hospital
09.2006 - 09.2011
- Company Overview: Yagoua, Cameroon
- Triage in the emergency department
- Holding and managing of mental health patients, 1013 with observation and referral to Centre Jamot hospital
- Patient assessment, diagnosis, implementation, and evaluation of nursing care plans
- Administration of treatment, follow-up care and rehabilitation
- Good liaison with social services and other care agencies
- Provide patient and family teaching
- Administration of vaccines
- Telehealth nurse for cardiovascular diseases
- Supervisor in cholera epidemic and malaria schemes
- Documenting and reporting epidemiological status of patients
- Yagoua, Cameroon
Education
MSN - PMHNP
Walden University
01.2023
Nurse re-entry program -
Kennesaw State University
Kennesaw, GA12.2016
Masters in Gerontology Sciences -
Vrije University of Brussels
12.2012
Bachelor of Science in Nursing -
University of Buea
12.2006
Skills
- Crisis intervention
- Therapeutic communication
- Psychopharmacology
- Evidence-based practice
- Patient education and counseling
- Interdisciplinary collaboration
- Diagnostic evaluation
- Psychiatric assessment
Certification
- PMHNP board certified
- ANCC Board certificated
- EPIC trained/certified
- CPR-BLS, ACLS & PALS certified
- Experienced with Coremr, Protouch, and Cerner
- Registered Nurse
Activities
- Member of the National Society of Leadership and Success
- Member of the American Nurse Association
- Member of the Walden Alumni Association
- Member of the Oroko Association in the Diaspora
Accomplishments
- Achieved results by completing tasks with accuracy and efficiency.
Languages
English
Full Professional
Timeline
PMHNP
Empowering Healthcare Services
09.2023 - Current
Psychiatric Registered Nurse
Cobb County Jail
05.2023 - 09.2024
Travel Nurse ICU
Wellstar Douglass Hospital
04.2022 - 07.2022
PMHNP Student - Inpatient Psychiatric Hospital
Hillside Inc
01.2022 - 11.2022
Travel Nurse Neuro Intermediate Care Unit
Northeast Georgia Medical Hospital
08.2021 - 09.2023
COVID ICU Nurse
Kindred Hospital
07.2021 - 04.2021
PMHNP Student
Reflexive Reasoning LLC
06.2021 - 11.2021
COVID ICU Nurse
Baylor Scott and White University Hospital
01.2021 - 05.2021
PMHNP Student - Outpatient Clinical Practice
Meraki Health
08.2020 - 03.2021
Staff RN
Krucial Staffing
01.2020 - 03.2022
Psychiatric RN
Ridgeview Mental Health Hospital
03.2019 - 03.2022
Registered Nurse - Charge Nurse Neuroscience ICU/ Medical ICU
WellStar
09.2017 - 01.2021
Registered Nurse
WellStar Cobb
01.2017 - 12.2018
Staff Nurse - PRN
A.G Rhodes Cobb Senior Rehabilitation Service
01.2017 - 01.2018
Home Health RN
Family Private Care LLC
03.2016 - 01.2017
Nursing
University Teaching Hospital
09.2011 - 12.2012
Charge Nurse
Regional Psychiatric Hospital
09.2006 - 09.2011
Nurse re-entry program -
Kennesaw State University
Masters in Gerontology Sciences -
Vrije University of Brussels
Bachelor of Science in Nursing -
University of Buea
- PMHNP board certified
- ANCC Board certificated
- EPIC trained/certified
- CPR-BLS, ACLS & PALS certified
- Experienced with Coremr, Protouch, and Cerner
- Registered Nurse
MSN - PMHNP
Walden University
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