La Keiia Penson
Carson,California
Summary
Seeking a position that will capitalize on my educational, professional, and leadership skills with opportunities for personal and professional growth. Strengths include:
•Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner certified by ANCC
• Experience in behavioral health ensuring maintenance of overall health and wellness of patients
• Excellent crisis management and comfortable in emergency situations
• Experience creating and managing project improvements and quality improvement projects
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Staff Nurse
College Medical Center
06.2024 - Current
- Assess each patient, complete plan of care and formulate a nursing diagnosis based upon assessment findings
- Document patient behavior, condition and care in an accurate and timely manner on all assigned patients, including in RN progress notes and pertinent graphics every shift
- Perform patient assessments to monitor expected response to medications, altering treatment plans as needed
- Oversee care of suicidal patients and act swiftly to reduce risk of harm to themselves or others
- Collaborate with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions
- Accurately document all elements of nursing assessment, including treatment, medications, discharge instructions and follow-up care
- Quickly respond to situations impacting safety and security to unit, actualizing crisis prevention interventions to control and de-escalate situations
- Report patients’ status and delegated nurse assignments to achieve optimal outcomes
- Administer medications and treatment to patients and monitor responses while working with healthcare team to adjust care plans
- Perform ongoing assessments to evaluate mental health needs, working with multidisciplinary team to develop, initiate, manage, and modify individualized plans of care
- Provide direct quality care to patients by monitoring, recording, and evaluating psychiatric conditions
- Respond to volatile situations and violent outbreaks to restore safety and security of patients and staff
- Provide shift report using concise, meaningful language with all pertinent information, including patient name, diagnosis, physician, precautions, and levels of supervision, legal status, and discharge status, if known
- Utilize appropriate observation level for patient: Q15 minute checks, 1:1 monitoring, and/or specific precautions
- Provide nursing care, within the scope of practice, to meet the unique needs of each patient
- Actively attend and encourage participation of patients in milieu activities
- Anticipate emergent situations; intervene early and appropriately
- Intervene in managing complex patient care situations, utilizing departmental policies and procedures that promote the most therapeutic alternatives
- Prioritize interventions in rapidly changing patient situations
- Provide interventions and supportive services to individuals for recovery purposes
- Identify risk factors contributing to the mental health problems within client population
- Act as a patient advocate, ensuring their needs were met and their rights protected throughout their healthcare journey.
- Reduce medication errors through meticulous charting and double-checking dosages.
- Develop and implement safety plans to ensure safety of individuals within the facility, clinic, and community
Staff Nurse
Shoreline Treatment Center for Eating Disorders
05.2021 - 12.2023
- Complete comprehensive nursing assessments during intake of patients at Shoreline collecting data that will aid in the development of a treatment plan for the patients
- Review physician’s orders and medical records of patients
- Administer, order, and refill medications per provider’s orders
- Collect lab, review lab report and record and report findings to the provider
- Assist new patients with adapting to their new environment, provide social and emotional support throughout their stay, and maintain appropriate professional interaction
- Assist all patients and staff in immediate problem solving and intervention during crisis
- Update and review patient’s treatment plans and privileges list on a weekly basis
- Responsible for ensuring use of universal precautions
- Responsible for the security of the medications and medical records and ensure that only relevant providers will have access
- Determine the presence of unsafe conditions in the work area and report these conditions to the proper personnel
- Ensure that proper documentation is completed in an accurate, thorough and timely manner and that communication logs are read and completed daily
- Responsible for understanding and adhering to all policies and procedures relating to medical interventions
- Provide shift coverage protocols, ensuring that proper coverage is maintained, while providing quality care to the patients
- Responsible for proper and accurate shift hand-off information between shifts
- Assist with the daily teaching and discharge planning of the patients and documenting accordingly
Staff Nurse/Charge Nurse
Del Amo Hospital
11.2019 - 04.2022
- Perform patient assessments to monitor expected response to medications, altering treatment plans as needed
- Oversee care of suicidal patients and acts swiftly to reduce risk of harm to themselves or others
- Train new nurses in operational procedures and safety protocols to optimize performance and safety
- Collaborate with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions
- Audit charts and reviews clinical documents to verify accuracy
- Accurately document all elements of nursing assessment, including treatment, medications, discharge instructions and follow-up care
- Quickly respond to situations impacting safety and security to unity, actualizing crisis prevention interventions to control and de-escalate situations
- Lead successful team comprised of RNs, LVNs, LPNs and ancillary staff
- Report patients’ status and delegated nurse assignments to achieve optimal outcomes
- Administer medications and treatment to patients and monitor responses while working with healthcare teams to adjust care plans
- Perform ongoing assessments to evaluate mental health needs, working with multidisciplinary team to develop, initiate, manage, and modify individualized plans of care
- Provide direct quality care to patients by monitoring, recording and evaluating psychiatric conditions
- Respond to volatile situations and violent outbreaks to restore safety and security of patients and staff
- Create shift schedule and adjusts workflow to cover changing needs
Public Health Investigator
Los Angeles county
07.2014 - 03.2022
- Conduct investigations to locate cases and contacts for communicable diseases and select non-communicable diseases
- Counsel individuals who suffer from a communicable or non-communicable disease regarding the nature and control of their disease
- Educate individuals on risk reduction techniques and behaviors
- Enforce public health laws, rules and regulations governing communicable disease control by serving legal orders of the health officer on patients in their homes, hospitals, or detention
- Quarantine cases and contacts of communicable diseases in private homes or institutions, placing restrictions on infected individuals employed in sensitive occupations
- Investigate cases of quarantine violations and refusal or failure of persons to comply with health laws, ordinances, and regulations; recommend court action to enforce legal orders, prepare cases for court by gathering evidence and appear in court as a representative of the health officer on cases involving violations of the public health laws, ordinances, and regulations pertaining to communicable and non-communicable disease investigation
- Support the California Department of Health Services Marine Biotoxin Monitoring Program through the collection of shellfish and phytoplankton samples and preparation of these samples for shipment to the state laboratory
- Conduct special investigations not directly involving communicable diseases, such as investigating impersonations of departmental personnel or the verification of home births
- Conduct clinic intake
Education
Master of Science - Nursing
California State University, Long Beach
Long Beach, CA05.2024
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
California State University Dominguez Hills
Carson, California05.2022
Associate Degree in Nursing - Nursing
El Camino College
Torrance, CA06.2019
Master of Public Health - Public Health
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA08.2011
Bachelor of Arts - Sociology
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA05.2003
Skills
Educate and manage care for patients and families on upcoming procedures, disease processes, medical regiments, and ensure medication compliance
Electronic charting via Cerner and BestNotes software
Function as part of an interdisciplinary team to ensure quality care to patients on unit
Design, implement, and evaluate patient outcomes, leading to improved quality and safety data of patients
Licensures/Certifications
• Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner License, ANCC #95032332
• Registered Nurse License, #95204999, California Board of Registered Nursing
• Basic Life Support
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support
Timeline
Staff Nurse
College Medical Center
06.2024 - Current
Staff Nurse
Shoreline Treatment Center for Eating Disorders
05.2021 - 12.2023
Staff Nurse/Charge Nurse
Del Amo Hospital
11.2019 - 04.2022
Public Health Investigator
Los Angeles county
07.2014 - 03.2022
Master of Science - Nursing
California State University, Long Beach
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
California State University Dominguez Hills
Associate Degree in Nursing - Nursing
El Camino College
Master of Public Health - Public Health
University of Southern California
Bachelor of Arts - Sociology
University of California, Berkeley
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