MARLA WILLIAMSON
Inglewood,USA
Summary
Passionate about Patient Centered Care that provides a exceptional patient and family experience. Demonstrates respect and regard for the dignity of all patients, families, visitors, and fellow employees to ensure a professional, responsible and courteous environment. Impassioned about care that provides a dignified journey which nurtures emotional, physical and spiritual needs throughout the many different chapters of life.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Nurse Practitioner
Altea Healthcare
Los Angeles, CA
10.2025 - Current
- Conduct detailed health assessments, diagnose acute and chronic conditions, and develop individualized treatment plans using evidence-based practice and clinical judgment.
- Collaborate closely with physicians, behavioral health providers, care coordinators, and wellness specialists to ensure seamless, integrated care across all patient needs.
- Provide patient education on chronic disease management, nutrition, mental health, and health-promotion strategies tailored to each patient's goals and risk factors.
- Maintain meticulous, timely documentation aligned with organizational standards, ensuring clarity, accuracy, and continuity across the care team.
Registered Nurse
Home Health, Nuclear Care Partners
Hawthorne, CA
09.2021 - Current
- Responsible for providing high quality direct nursing care of assigned patient in their home.
- Monitor vital signs (blood pressure, heart rate and temperature) while assessing health progress and needs.
- Safe medication administration and careful monitoring for adverse reactions
- Engage patients in therapeutic conversation
Hospital Admission Registered Nurse
Martin Luther King Jr, Hospital – Guidehouse
Los Angeles, CA
07.2025 - 01.2026
- Provide ED patient clinical information and expected level of care to insurance case managers.
- Clearly document every phone call and outcome
- Assist Bed Board Coordinator in initiating transfer process of ED capitated patients.
- Facilitate the admission and transfer of patients from outside facilities or clinics
Nurse Practitioner
West Coast Wound and Skin
Inglewood, CA
08.2014 - 02.2025
- Conducted initial evaluation and all follow-up visits
- Select, order, and perform tests and procedures to best treat the patient
- Perform wound care procedures as deemed necessary and appropriate for plan of care
- Define and document patient diagnoses
- Patient education and management
- Debridement of wounds by various methods completed safely during the patient visit
- Manage skin grafts
- Prescribe medications and dressings as needed
Registered Nurse – Med Surg/ Telemetry
Providence St. John's Hospital
Santa Monica, CA
05.2022 - 08.2024
- Assess patient history, physiological, and psychosocial status
- Obtain supplies for individual cases and ensure all appropriate needs of the surgical operating team are met
- Communicate with the patient, family, medical staff and others during the continuum of care
- Communicate with surgeons and anesthesiologists continuously and as needed about patient conditions
- Provide patient and family education throughout the care of patient
- Use critical thinking to formulate and carry out a care plan according to patient needs
Registered Nurse – Telemetry
Medical Surgical Unit, Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital
Los Angeles, CA
03.2021 - 05.2022
- Responsible for patient’s primary care and also provide excellent patient care to med surg, telemetry and COVID patients
- Interview patients to obtain medical information and health history
- Recognize signs and symptoms of cardiopulmonary and respiratory emergencies and able to start standard interventions to stabilize patient
- Assess patients and document findings in EMR
- Develop patient outcome statement(s) and establish individualized patent goals
- Consult and coordinate with health care team members
- Provide patient education and effective teaching to patients and patients families
Registered Nurse – Telemetry
Stepdown Unit, Kaiser Permanente
Los Angeles, CA
09.2020 - 03.2021
- Provide inpatient nursing care to telemetry and stepdown patients receiving treatment on COVID-19 unit
- Interview patients to obtain medical information and health history
- Recognize signs and symptoms of cardiopulmonary and respiratory emergencies and able to start standard interventions to stabilize patient
- Assess patients and document in EMR
- Develops patient outcome statement(s) and establishes individualized patent goals
- Consult and coordinate with health care team members
Registered Nurse/ Preceptor – Telemetry Unit
Centinela Hospital Medical Center
Inglewood, CA
04.2019 - 09.2020
- Responsible for patients primary care and also provide excellent patient care
- Recognize signs and symptoms of cardiopulmonary and respiratory emergencies and able to start standard interventions to stabilize patient
- Provide inpatient nursing care to telemetry patients receiving treatment on COVID-19 unit
- Interview patients to obtain medical information and health history
- Assess patients and document in EMR
- Develop patient outcome statement and establish individualized patent goals
- Consult and coordinate with health care team members
- Provide patient education and effective discharge teaching to patients and patients families
- Assisted in training and developing new staff members, as preceptor, while also providing quality care to 3-5 patients
- Occasional resource nurse. Supervising 3-5 registered nurses on telemetry floor
Education
Family Nurse Practitioner -
Charles R Drew University of Science and Medicine
01-2023
Bachelor of Nursing - undefined
Chamberlain University
01-2020
Associate Degree - Nursing
Los Angeles Southwest College
01-2018
Skills
- Patient Care
- Wound Care
- Critical Thinking
- Patient Assessment
- EMR
- Care Planning
- Patient Education
- Clinical Documentation
- Team Collaboration
- Leadership
- Preceptorship
- Surgical Care
Affiliations
Member Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society Nursing
Certification
- Nurse Practitioner: California State Board of Nursing, License #95028894
- Registered Nurse: California State Board of Nursing, License #95190150
- Basic Life Support Certificate (BLS)
- Pediatric Advances Life Support (PALS)
- Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support Certificate (ACLS)
Awards
Nurse of the Month – MLK Community Hospital (September 2021)
Timeline
Nurse Practitioner
Altea Healthcare
10.2025 - Current
Hospital Admission Registered Nurse
Martin Luther King Jr, Hospital – Guidehouse
07.2025 - 01.2026
Registered Nurse – Med Surg/ Telemetry
Providence St. John's Hospital
05.2022 - 08.2024
Registered Nurse
Home Health, Nuclear Care Partners
09.2021 - Current
Registered Nurse – Telemetry
Medical Surgical Unit, Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital
03.2021 - 05.2022
Registered Nurse – Telemetry
Stepdown Unit, Kaiser Permanente
09.2020 - 03.2021
Registered Nurse/ Preceptor – Telemetry Unit
Centinela Hospital Medical Center
04.2019 - 09.2020
Nurse Practitioner
West Coast Wound and Skin
08.2014 - 02.2025
Bachelor of Nursing - undefined
Chamberlain University
Associate Degree - Nursing
Los Angeles Southwest College
Family Nurse Practitioner -
Charles R Drew University of Science and Medicine