Lisa Cason, APRN, FNP-C

Clinical experience in family practice, women's health, internal medicine, and pediatrics, with focus hours spent in Dermatology

seven hundred clinical hours with over 1100 patient encounters emphasizing clinical decision making, physical assessment, and medication prescribing

Joined an RN team advancing the newest branch of SMMC and their high-risk bariatric surgery center.

• Focus on patient education, insurance compliance, medication management, and management of co-morbidities

• Provided patient education on medication injectables and regiment necessary for uncomplicated recovery.

• Motivated patients post-op for maximum health benefit through education and personal encouragement.

• Worked with team to develop policy specific to that branch and floor of SMMC.

• Focused time at multiple HCA area hospitals working with ICU patients, dialysis and transplant patients, med-surg patients, oncology patients, neuro patients, trauma patients, cardiac patients, those with eating disorders, and women’s and infant’s care post-partum.

• As Charge RN managed RN teams in various specialties throughout hospital. Organizing team assignments, assisting with patient care, and creating a cohesive work environment

• As House Supervisor worked to staff hospital by efficiently cutting unnecessary contract staffing and filling roles with hospital employees. Worked as patient advocate to resolve any complaints or misalignments in care.

• Clinical experience created versatility and confidence moving through many different patient areas and settings.

Family Nurse Practitioner