Melissa DeWitt
Mental Health Registered Nurse
Spokane,WA
Summary
Compassionate Charge Nurse offers 13 years of patient care and advocacy within psychiatric units. Highly skilled in charting, managing patient intake and discharges and monitoring care plans. Well-versed in promoting policies and protocols to achieve core measures. Demonstrated success in cultivating strong patient rapport to drive outcome goals.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Charge Nurse, Inpatient Psychiatric Unit
Frontier Behavioral Health
Spokane, WA
07.2014 - Current
- Provide direct quality care to patients by monitoring, recording and evaluating psychiatric conditions.
- Provide professional nursing care to mental health/medical patients utilizing evidence-based practice on an inpatient psychiatric mental health floor.
- Collaborate with psychiatrists and therapists to coordinate detoxification protocol, medical and psychiatric care for mental health and substance abuse patients.
Registered Nurse, Adult Inpatient Psychiatric Unit
St. Vincent Stress Center
Indianapolis, IN
08.2012 - 05.2014
- Provided professional nursing care to mental health/medical patients utilizing evidence-based practice on an inpatient psychiatric mental health floor.
- Performed physical and mental health assessments
- Monitored patient reactions to drugs and carefully documented findings.
Registered Nurse, Inpatient Psychiatric Unit
The Pavilion Behavioral Health System
Champaign, IL
05.2009 - 08.2012
- Provide patient care and initiated care planning while providing medication management for psychiatric adolescent patients.
- Administer care through a collaborative interdisciplinary team compromised of Psychiatrists, Social Services, Medical Doctors and Mental Health Technicians.
- Created and implemented crisis interventions for patients
Education
Associate of Science - Nursing
Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana
Indianapolis, IN05.2009
Skills
- Displays effective communication skills and maintain therapeutic relationships with patients, families, physicians and staff
- Highly organized
- Experienced in Electronic Charting
- Empathetic and compassionate
- Mental Health Professional (MHP)
Timeline
Charge Nurse, Inpatient Psychiatric Unit
Frontier Behavioral Health
07.2014 - Current
Registered Nurse, Adult Inpatient Psychiatric Unit
St. Vincent Stress Center
08.2012 - 05.2014
Registered Nurse, Inpatient Psychiatric Unit
The Pavilion Behavioral Health System
05.2009 - 08.2012
Associate of Science - Nursing
Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana
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