Lauranne Brown

Charge Nurse and Psychiatric Nurse in Acute Adults, Progressive, and Child/Adolescent Psychiatric Units

· Provide leadership, preceptorship, guidance, and training to team members in acute care behavioral health

· Provide interdisciplinary collaborative care with Psychiatrists and Social Workers to include planning and patient treatment

· Provide individual and group cognitive behavioral therapy and motivational interviewing

· Provide medical and medication management in behavioral health units

· Responsible for administrative and management reports and data input for units

• Relief Charge Nurse
• Complete administrative and management paperwork
• Provide leadership and guidance to team members in the cardiac unit

• Performed physical assessments
• Completed patient care
• Assessed vital signs
• Administered oral, IV and parental medications
• Assessed patients for side effects of medications and communicated with doctors regarding patient status
• Performed blood glucose monitoring and NIH scale assessments

• Relief Charge Nurse
• Complete administrative and management paperwork
• Provide leadership and guidance to team members in the cardiac unit

• Didactic and clinical training in critical care nursing
• Online, preceptorship and simulation experiences in emergency patient management and nursing care

• Arranged mental health and financial counseling
• initiated research requests for military service members and their families
• provided general information
• made referrals
• assessed for risk
• provided crisis counseling and intervention to prevent the escalation of situations involving imminent risk

• Completed comprehensive behavioral health assessments for neglected, abandoned and physically and sexually abused children who were under the supervision of the Department of Children and Families or community-based care agencies in Polk County
• - Assessments included diagnosing children using DSM IV criteria, compiling medical, school and mental health records for children and interviewing caregivers, family members and clients in order to formulate recommendations for remedial and support services
• Completed child studies for adoption purposes for children under the supervision of Hillsborough Kids Incorporated (HKI) who were exposed to domestic violence, physically and sexually abused, neglected and abandoned
• - Assessments contained information compiled from HKI files and obtained from caregivers, care managers and children in the child welfare system in order to develop recommendations for remedial services
• - Recommendations addressed any attachment issues between children and their caregivers and identified the types of adoptive homes that would effectively address the children’s specific needs - medical, developmental, educational, mental health and emotional

• Conducted individual and family therapy sessions and provided advocacy, placement and supportive services to children who had been victims of domestic violence, physically and sexually abused, neglected, abandoned and who resided in therapeutic foster homes
• Conducted training sessions for current and prospective foster parents for the population of children previously described, by engaging and educating them through family therapy dealing with behavior modification techniques, coping skills and mental health disorders, in order to facilitate successful placements