LISA WILLIAMS
Exeter,NH
Summary
Experienced Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner who works with adults and adolescents on a collaborative multidisciplinary team evaluating and managing client’s medication and mental health needs, as well as their recovery needs on a full-time basis. I am a compassionate Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner with a track record of managing patient care efficiently and effectively. Specialized skills include comprehensive psychiatric evaluations, medication management strategies, and crisis intervention techniques. Excel in empathy, communication, and adaptability, ensuring each patient receives personalized and thorough care. Commitment to ongoing professional development and evidence-based practices enhances ability to improve patient outcomes in diverse psychiatric settings.
Overview
32
32
years of professional experience
Work History
Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner
Center for Life Management
08.2019 - Current
- I perform psychiatric evaluations for clients with an expansive range of psychiatric diagnosis and prescribe medications for them as needed
- I help create treatment plans
- I work with clients that have chronic persistent mental illness, outpatient adults and geriatric patients
- I assess patient’s response to psychiatric medication, adjust and maintained them
- I formulate psychiatric diagnosis and work with a multidisciplinary team to provide comprehensive psychiatric care
- I participate in staff education
- I evaluate and treat clients with Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for severe depression
- I communicate with my clients, their families and their other medical providers
- I work closely with the Clinical, Nursing and Medical staff to provide psychiatric care with excellence.
Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner
Granite Recovery Center
03.2013 - Current
- Direct psychiatric care for sober living program with outpatient services and residential inpatient drug treatment.
- I work directly with clients and manage medications, provide psychiatric diagnositics, as well as provide psychiatric evaluations.
- I provide staff development and program development
- I assist with discharge planning and consult with community providers.
Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner
Hope Psychological services of NH
07.2011 - Current
- I see clients ages 16 through end of life for psychiatric evaluations, therapy, diagnose psychiatric illnesses, collaborate with client psychiatric team, and provide medication management.
Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner
Center for Life Management
07.2009 - 01.2018
- I managed the psychiatric care of mentally ill clients’ in an outpatient setting
- I prescribed and manage their medications
- I managed the care of 15 severe and persistently mentally ill elders in a residential setting
- I conducted psychiatric evaluations and determined diagnosis for mentally ill clients.
Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner
Nova Psychiatric Services
10.2012 - 03.2013
- I managed the psychiatric medications for geriatric patients at 3 nursing homes
- I assisted the nursing home staff to create care plans, behavior plans and safety plans
- I met with patients, families and consult with general practitioners to provide quality medication management
- I monitored medications for effect and side effect and tried to reduce dosages to the smallest possible amount with the best effect
- I provided clear documentation to track the progress and validate the need to use psychoactive medications with these clients.
Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner
The Whittier Pavilion Outreach Program
03.2012 - 10.2012
- I managed the psychiatric medications for geriatric patients at 5 nursing homes
- I assisted the nursing home staff to create care plans, behavior plans and safety plans
- I met with patients, families and consult with general practitioners to provide quality medication management
- I monitored medications for effect and side effect and try to reduce dosages to the smallest possible amount with the best effect
- I provided clear documentation to track the progress and validate the need to use psychoactive medications
- I taught the nursing home staff about psychoactive medications and the risks and benefits.
Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner
WestBridge Community Services
07.2009 - 03.2012
- I managed the medical component of an ACT team
- The clientele was chronic persistent mentally ill and in recovery or working toward recovery from an addiction
- I conducted psychiatric evaluations, managed medications, provided education, offered therapy, coordinated care, prescribed medication and consulted with the team
- I also worked in the residential program managing the care of 10 clients with more acute addiction and mental illness needs
- I was an integral part of both teams.
Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner
Center for Life Management
08.2005 - 07.2009
- I evaluated psychiatric patients with an expansive range of psychiatric diagnosis and prescribed medications for them as needed
- I worked with the chronic population, the outpatient adults, children and adolescents, and with geriatric patients with chronic and persistent mental illness
- I assessed patient’s response to psychiatric medication, adjusted and maintained them
- I formulated psychiatric diagnosis and worked with a mental health team to provide comprehensive psychiatric care
- I participated in staff education as well as providing medication management for the residents at a group home for Elders with chronic mental illness
- As part of on call duties I provided consultation services to Parkland Medical Center.
Per Diem nurse
Hampstead Hospital
01.2004 - 08.2005
- I worked at Hampstead Hospital on a Per Diem basis and my responsibilities were medication distribution, carrying out patient treatment plans for adults, adolescents, and youth psychiatric patients
- I have experience with inpatient medical detoxification, adolescent treatment, and youth treatment.
Clinical Placement
Mercy Hospital
Portland, Maine
01.2005 - 04.2005
- I worked at Mercy Hospital in Portland Maine as a member of the Mental Health Consult team
- I consulted with patients in the hospital, drug and alcohol rehab patients, outpatients, eating disorder patients, and patients in crisis in the emergency room
- My responsibilities included initial assessments, treatment and medication recommendations, diagnosis recommendations, medication reviews, crisis intervention in the emergency room, participating in team meetings, and discharge planning
- There was a diverse population in this setting and a wide variety of psychiatric diagnosis.
Clinical Placement
New Hampshire State Prison
Concord, NH
09.2004 - 04.2005
- I worked at New Hampshire State Prison in Concord, NH on the Secure Psychiatric Unit
- I participate in team meetings, client medication review sessions, and therapy sessions
- I have observed and participated in groups and admissions to the unit
- I observed my preceptor’s practice as well as consulting with her on many cases
- I performed admission assessments
- This forensic population is predominantly male and has a wide variety of psychiatric diagnosis.
Per Diem Home care RN
New England Nurses Inc.
01.1993 - 12.2004
- Various homecare cases including intravenous initiation and administration, supervision of home health aids, assessments, and interventions with doctors as needed, wound care, documentation, care planning, and flu shot clinics.
Charge nurse
Hampstead Hospital
01.2002 - 01.2004
- I was the charge nurse on the Eating Disorders Unit
- The milieu was mixed male and female with a wide range of ages
- I would monitor the health status of the eating disorder patients and run groups focusing on health teaching, self-esteem building, and coping strategies.
Substitute School Nurse
Londonderry School District
01.2002 - 01.2003
- I filled in for elementary school nurses as needed
- Job responsibilities involve triage, wound care, medication administration, assessment, documentation, communication with parents, teachers, and students
- I also attend field trips as needed to provide first aid, and administer medication.
Per Diem RN
Lawrence General Hospital
01.1999 - 01.2002
- I practiced primary care nursing on the same 16-bed telemetry unit as below.
Staff RN
Lawrence General Hospital
01.1997 - 01.1999
- As a staff RN I was responsible for the complete care of 4-6 telemetry patients
- The patients range from chest pain rule out Myocardial Infarction, to Atrial Fibrillation
- Medication administration, by mouth and intravenously, admissions, discharges, ADL care, laboratory test evaluation, assessment, EKG administration and interpretation, telemetry interpretation, documentation, communication with doctors and families, delegation of appropriate responsibly to CNA‘s, and teaching patients and families about tests, meds, diagnosis and discharge plans.
Private Duty RN
New England Nurses Inc.
01.1995 - 01.1999
- Complete care and medical management of a 12-year-old quadriplegic boy with Cerebral Palsy
- I was responsible for his ADL care, chest physical therapy, range of motion exercises, tube feedings, medication administration, ordering needed supplies, obtaining service for broken equipment, assessment of lungs, skin, and vital signs, feeding by mouth, transferring, family and doctor communication, and toileting
- His psychosocial needs were also addressed.
Home Care Case Manager
Rockingham VNA and Hospice
01.1996 - 01.1997
- I managed a 25-35 patient caseload
- Responsibilities included home visits to assess patient needs, provide interventions as needed, communicate with doctors about patient condition, wound care, teaching of patient and family, initiation of other services as needed, drawing blood for lab tests, intravenous administrations, intravenous initiations, blood glucose monitoring, supervision of home health aids, care-planning, and on call duties also.
Staff RN/ Shift Supervisor
Oak Island Skilled Nursing Facility
01.1993 - 01.1995
- Assisted physicians in providing patient care by taking vital signs, administering medications, and performing treatments.
- Educated patients and families on disease prevention and treatment plans.
- Actively participated in interdisciplinary team meetings providing input into decisions that affect quality outcomes for patients under one's care.
- Collaborated with multidisciplinary teams to develop individualized plans for each patient's care.
- Ensured compliance with applicable laws and regulations governing the practice of professional nursing within an assigned area or departmental setting.
Clinical Placement
Manchester VA Hospital
- I worked at the Manchester VA Hospital as a student Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner
- I observed my preceptor, met with clients one on one, performed initial assessments, reviewed medication, medication teaching, documentation, and participated in team meetings.
Education
Doctorate in Nursing Practice -
MGH Institute of health professions
12.2023
Training -
Neuroscience Education Institute Psychopharmacology Congress
12.2006
Master of Science -
Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner Graduate Program, Rivier College
12.2005
Licensed Advanced Registered Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner
07.2005
Bachelor of Science -
BSN, Rivier College
12.2003
Certification in Telemetry: Lawrence General Hospital
12.1997
Diploma of Nursing -
Somerville Hospital School of Nursing
12.1993
Licensed Registered Nurse
09.1993
High School Diploma -
Wakefield Memorial High School
12.1985
Some College (No Degree) -
Newbury Jr. College
Some College (No Degree) -
University of New Hampshire
Some College (No Degree) -
Bunkerhill Community College
Some College (No Degree) -
Northeastern University
Some College (No Degree) -
University of Massachusetts
Skills
- Experienced Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner
- Direct clinical care of psychiatric clients
- Holistic approach to healing
- Nursing skills
- Psychiatric skills
- Prescriptive skills
- Organizational skills
- Diagnostic skills
- Interpersonal skills
- Experience with children
- Experience with adolescents
- Experience with adults
- Experience with geriatric
- Experience with dual diagnosis clients
- Commitment to continuing education
- Psychiatric evaluations
- Psychoactive Medication management
- Treatment planning
- Multidisciplinary team collaboration
- Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
- Staff education
- Program development
- Discharge planning
- Consultation with community providers
- Care planning
- Behavior planning
- Safety planning
- Psychoactive medication management
- Therapy
- Coordination of care
- Crisis intervention
- Team meetings
- Medication teaching
- Wound care
- Primary care nursing
- Telemetry interpretation
- ADL care
- Laboratory test evaluation
- EKG administration and interpretation
- Home visits
- Blood glucose monitoring
- Supervision of home health aids
- Intravenous administration
- Tube feedings
- Range of motion exercises
- Chest physical therapy
- Toileting
- Flu shot clinics
- Substance abuse treatment
- Patient-centered care
- Diagnostic Assessment
- Psychosocial Analysis
- Patient Health Education
- Clinical Documentation
- Adaptability and Flexibility
- Time management abilities
- Health Promotion
- Organizational Skills
- Relationship Building
- Analytical Thinking
- Quality Improvement
- Self Motivation
- Multitasking
- Clinical Research
- Patient Advocacy
- Attention to Detail
- Professional Demeanor
- Exceptional interpersonal Communication
- Goal Setting
- Problem-solving aptitude
- Active Listening
- Evidence-Based Practice
- Professionalism
- Patient Assessment
- Emotional Intelligence
- Decision-Making
- Analytical Skills
Board positions
Title: RN, MS, APRN-BC, DNP
New England chapter of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association: Board member and on the conference committee.
Singer Family Foundation: This foundation gives grants for education and health based organizations that are starting up.
Presentations
- Poster Presentation about quality improvement project to decrease wait time for initial Psychiatric Evaluations, American Psychiatric Nurses Association annual conference, 2023-24-10
- CBT for Insomnia, American Society of Addiction Medicine yearly conference in Washington DC, 2011-01-01
Timeline
Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner
Center for Life Management
08.2019 - Current
Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner
Granite Recovery Center
03.2013 - Current
Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner
Nova Psychiatric Services
10.2012 - 03.2013
Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner
The Whittier Pavilion Outreach Program
03.2012 - 10.2012
Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner
Hope Psychological services of NH
07.2011 - Current
Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner
Center for Life Management
07.2009 - 01.2018
Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner
WestBridge Community Services
07.2009 - 03.2012
Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner
Center for Life Management
08.2005 - 07.2009
Clinical Placement
Mercy Hospital
01.2005 - 04.2005
Clinical Placement
New Hampshire State Prison
09.2004 - 04.2005
Per Diem nurse
Hampstead Hospital
01.2004 - 08.2005
Charge nurse
Hampstead Hospital
01.2002 - 01.2004
Substitute School Nurse
Londonderry School District
01.2002 - 01.2003
Per Diem RN
Lawrence General Hospital
01.1999 - 01.2002
Staff RN
Lawrence General Hospital
01.1997 - 01.1999
Home Care Case Manager
Rockingham VNA and Hospice
01.1996 - 01.1997
Private Duty RN
New England Nurses Inc.
01.1995 - 01.1999
Per Diem Home care RN
New England Nurses Inc.
01.1993 - 12.2004
Staff RN/ Shift Supervisor
Oak Island Skilled Nursing Facility
01.1993 - 01.1995
Clinical Placement
Manchester VA Hospital
Doctorate in Nursing Practice -
MGH Institute of health professions
Training -
Neuroscience Education Institute Psychopharmacology Congress
Master of Science -
Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner Graduate Program, Rivier College
Licensed Advanced Registered Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner
Bachelor of Science -
BSN, Rivier College
Certification in Telemetry: Lawrence General Hospital
Diploma of Nursing -
Somerville Hospital School of Nursing
Licensed Registered Nurse
High School Diploma -
Wakefield Memorial High School
Some College (No Degree) -
Newbury Jr. College
Some College (No Degree) -
University of New Hampshire
Some College (No Degree) -
Bunkerhill Community College
Some College (No Degree) -
Northeastern University
Some College (No Degree) -
University of Massachusetts
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