Lauraann Nicoletto Syrett
East Norwich,USA
Summary
Dynamic Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner with extensive experience at Mount Sinai South Nassau, excelling in psychiatric evaluations and medication management. Proven track record in quality improvement and student mentoring, enhancing patient outcomes and fostering team collaboration. Committed to delivering exceptional care and education in diverse healthcare settings.
Overview
34
34
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Adjunct Instructor
Molloy University
01.2024 - Current
- Taught online psychiatric courses for undergraduate students
- Reviewed case studies, clinical presentations, and medical management of patients
Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner
Mount Sinai South Nassau Communities Counseling Center
01.2018 - Current
- Carries a caseload of over 300 patients in an outpatient clinic setting
- Performs initial psychiatric evaluation and assessment of pre-existing conditions and current conditions
- Provides medication management and prescriptions for medications and administers injectable medications as needed
- Communicate and collaborate with clinical staff to ensure continuum of care and appropriateness for level of care
- Participating in team meetings and consultations with a collaborating psychiatrist
- Orders and interprets lab values and refers to appropriate medical providers if needed
- Cover colleagues when needed, covering clinic patients, IOP and PHP
- Facilitate ongoing behavioral health services for clients, individual and family support, psychopharmacology assessments, medication monitoring and management, education regarding medication, side effects and behavioral health resources
Nurse Manager
Mount Sinai South Nassau Communities Hospital
01.2014 - 01.2018
- Responsible for the 24 hour clinical oversight for a 36 adult behavioral health unit
- Analysis, compile and develop trending of incidents
- Provided orientation and clinical supervision for staff, medical residents, nursing students and ancillary staff
- Developed and implemented individualized, multidisciplinary care plans for complex patients, who did not respond, according to expectations, within the therapeutic milieu, as based on patient assessment and reassessment data
- Promoted a high level of professionalism on the unit
- Motivated academic pursuit and continuing education on the part of the staff by establishing and meeting departmental based and personal professional goals
- Collected and analyzed structure, process and outcome performance improvement data, as required by JCAHO and other regulatory bodies (restraints, falls, assaults, etc.)
- Actively participated in the Quality Management’s Tracer Methodology Committee
- Planned and implemented change in collaboration with staff and upper administration, as based on identified need
- Managed the unit’s budget (salary, supplies and capital expenditures) and monitored budget variances in a continuous manner
Nurse Manager
Stony Brook University Hospital
01.2013 - 01.2014
- Overall responsibility for the clinical nursing care including, but not limited to, 24 hour administrative coverage for this CPEP unit with 56 staff in reference to staffing, scheduling, budgeting, performance appraisal, hiring, discipline, termination, orientation, continuing education, performance improvement, competencies, evaluations, corrective action plans, etc
- Managed the unit’s budget (salary, supplies and capital expenditures) and monitored budget variances in a continuous manner
- Collected and analyzed structure, process and outcome performance improvement data, as required by JCAHO and other regulatory bodies (restraints)
Staff Nurse
North Shore University Health System
01.2011 - 01.2013
- Assess, evaluate, and refer clients for appropriate medical services
- Administer Methadone to clients as ordered
- Provide Health education and promote healthy lifestyle
- Run Health Education group weekly
- Serve as a Resource, conduct ongoing education/training to staff
- Provide counseling as required to clients
Medical/Surgical Nurse Manager
North Shore University Health System
04.2010 - 10.2010
- Responsibility for a 17 bed unit, 40 nursing staff, unit receptionists, and all other administrative functions, including budgeting, orientation, continuing education, performance improvement, competencies, evaluations, corrective action plans, etc
- Collected and analyzed structure, process and outcome performance improvement data, as required by JCAHO and other regulatory bodies (pain management, central line infections, IV infiltrates, etc.)
- Actively participated in the Quality Management’s Tracer Methodology Committee
- Planned and implemented change in collaboration with staff and upper administration, as based on identified need
- Managed the unit’s budget (salary, supplies and capital expenditures) and monitored budget variances in a continuous manner
- Served as the acting Assistant Director of Nursing on weekends and holidays for the entire facility of 154 beds
- Developed effective and cost efficient long term staffing schedules that facilitated optimal patient outcomes, patient safety and staff satisfaction, as driven by patient need, acuity levels and staffing guidelines
- Formulated corrective action plans for identified opportunities for improvement using the valid and reliable data generated by the Press Ganey Survey
- Responsively integrated the findings of our staff satisfaction survey, and other data sources, into unit practices that significantly raised satisfaction levels and the overall quality and atmosphere of the patient care environment
Pediatric Acute Psychiatry Nurse Manager
Schneider Children’s Hospital
06.1998 - 04.2008
- Responsibility for the 17 bed unit, 30 nursing staff, unit receptionists, and all other administrative functions, including staffing, scheduling, budgeting, performance appraisal, hiring, discipline, termination, orientation, continuing education, performance improvement, competencies, evaluations, corrective action plans, etc
- Developed and implemented individualized, multidisciplinary care plans for complex patients, who did not respond, according to expectations, within the therapeutic milieu, as based on patient assessment and reassessment data
- Creatively initiated, implemented and evaluated a novel restraint reduction initiative, consistent with the goals of patient safety and a restraint free environment, that led to an 80% reduction in restraint use in less than 2 years
- Assessed the learning needs of staff, developed and implemented educational programs that met the needs and led to increased staff competency levels and enhanced patient outcomes
- Performed a large number of advanced clinical, patient care roles requiring an advanced degree, including, but not limited to, leading and co-leading therapeutic groups, grand rounds and the presentation of patient case reports
- Provided orientation and clinical supervision for staff, medical residents, nursing students and ancillary staff
- Authored, prepared and presented poster presentations, addressing the needs of children and adolescents affected with obsessive compulsive disorder, at nursing conferences throughout the globe, including Italy, in absentia, on a periodic basis
- Served as an active, long term member of a special review committee charged with the task of reviewing and correcting corporate wide occurrences and poor patient care outcomes, such as the death of a patient within the 30 day after discharge
- Successfully prepared for, and participated in, the visits of external regulatory bodies such as JCAHO, the Department of Health and Office on Mental Health
- Completed the Center for Learning and Innovation’s Management Series which enabled me to be a more effective and innovative leader through the enhancement of my innovative skills as well as my personal growth and development
- Participated as a data collector for a Ritalin placebo study
- Promoted a high level of professionalism on the unit
- Motivated academic pursuit and continuing education on the part of the staff by establishing and meeting departmental based and personal professional goals
Head Nurse/Asst. Head Nurse of the Adolescent Psychiatric Unit
Bellevue Hospital
01.1991 - 01.1998
- Overall responsibility for the clinical nursing care including, but not limited to, 24 hour administrative coverage for this 15 bed inpatient unit with 32 staff in reference to staffing, scheduling, budgeting, performance appraisal, hiring, discipline, termination, orientation, continuing education, performance improvement, competencies, evaluations, corrective action plans, etc
- Monitored the delivery of patient care, the outcomes of that care and responsively addressed patient/family concerns and complaints
- Implemented the more complex aspects of patient care which included such things as the initial assessments, nursing diagnoses, the formulation of, and ongoing updating of, comprehensive treatment plans, the provision of individual, family and group psychotherapy
Education
DNP -
Molloy College
Rockville Centre, New York05.2025
Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner -
Molloy College
Rockville Centre, New York01.2018
Master of Science - Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing
Hunter College (CUNY)
New York, New York05.1997
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Adelphi University
Garden City, New York05.1991
Skills
- Psychiatric evaluation
- Medication management
- Patient Education
- Quality improvement
- Student mentoring
- Clinical supervision
- Patient assessment
- Crisis intervention
- Team collaboration
- Lesson development
- Healthcare settings
- Group teaching
- Expertise in Psychiatric Nursing
Affiliations
- New York State Nurse Practitioner’s Association, 01/2017, Present
- Addictions Nursing Society, 01/2014, Present
- American Psychiatric Association, 01/2010, Present
Certification
- American Heart Association Basic Life Support
- American Nurses Association Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse, R.N.C.
- Addictions Nursing Society
Accomplishments
- Emilie Frank Community Award, ROTC
- Academic Scholarship for Future Officers
- The Virginia Jarry Glover Annual Creative Writing Award in Nursing
- Induction into the Sigma Theta Tau Honor Society
Professional Service
- Abstract Reviewer, American Psychiatric Nurse’s Association’s Annual Conference Committee, 01/2015, Present
- Chairperson, American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Content Expert Panel, 2009
Published Work
- The Lived Experience of Therapeutic Use of Self with Schizoaffective Clients on an Inpatient Behavioral Health Unit, American Psychiatric Association Conference, Malta, NY, 2016
- The Lived Experience of Therapeutic use of self with addicted clients in a methadone maintenance treatment program, American Psychiatric Association- Pennsylvania Chapter, Allentown, Pennsylvania, 2013
- Working with Children with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Journal of Psychosocial Nursing, 40, 6, 2013
- The Adolescent with Anorexia Nervosa, Pediatric Nurse Journal, Schneider Children’s Hospital, 1, 1, June, 2006
- The Child with Bipolar Disorder, Pediatric Nurse Journal Schneider Children’s Hospital, 1, 1, June, 2006
- The Autistic Child, Pediatric Nurse Journal, Schneider Children’s Hospital, 11, 1, March, 2008
- Cystic Fibrosis Associated with Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Pediatric Nurse Journal, Schneider Children’s Hospital, 111, 1, January, 2009
Personal Information
Title: RN, MSN, R.N.C
Community Service
Merit Badge Counselor, Boy Scout Troop 253, Oyster Bay, NY, 01/2014, Present
References
- Karine Austin, South Nassau Communities Hospital, Director of Nursing, (516) 632-3482
- Carol Russo, Zucker Hillside Hospital, Clinical Coordinator, (516) 470-7000
- Dr. Stanley Reddy, South Nassau Communities Hospital, Chairman of Psychiatry, (516) 632-3937
Continuing Education
- What you need to know about Psychotropic medication, PESI, 2016
- Mental Health Conference, Norwell Health System, 2016
- American Psychiatric Nurse’s Association Annual Conference, Orlando, Fl., 2015
Professional License
New York, RN #440802
Timeline
Adjunct Instructor
Molloy University
01.2024 - Current
Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner
Mount Sinai South Nassau Communities Counseling Center
01.2018 - Current
Nurse Manager
Mount Sinai South Nassau Communities Hospital
01.2014 - 01.2018
Nurse Manager
Stony Brook University Hospital
01.2013 - 01.2014
Staff Nurse
North Shore University Health System
01.2011 - 01.2013
Medical/Surgical Nurse Manager
North Shore University Health System
04.2010 - 10.2010
Pediatric Acute Psychiatry Nurse Manager
Schneider Children’s Hospital
06.1998 - 04.2008
Head Nurse/Asst. Head Nurse of the Adolescent Psychiatric Unit
Bellevue Hospital
01.1991 - 01.1998
DNP -
Molloy College
Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner -
Molloy College
Master of Science - Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing
Hunter College (CUNY)
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Adelphi University
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