NATALIE COBB, MSN, APRN, FNP-C

• Provide primary care, including both acute care and disease management
• Provide care in the urgent care clinic once a week and as needed
• Assess patient conditions by performing thorough histories and examinations
• Evaluate patient progress and responses to various treatments.
• Diagnose and respond to illnesses and physical conditions through prescription of medication and health counseling and education.
• Order lab tests and imaging and interpret test results
• Maintain patient records.

• Provide primary care, including both acute care and disease management, to all inmates
• Provide medical care and treatment for patients experiencing active withdrawal from alcohol and substance abuse
• Order, interpret, and evaluate diagnostic tests to identify and assess patients' clinical problems and healthcare needs
• Make consultations to subspecialty clinics as needed and coordinate care
• Respond to emergency situations
• Take call 24/7 to respond to healthcare needs as they arise
• Collaborate with all members of the healthcare team and the facility to provide health and safety to the population as a whole
• Provide education, promote health and wellness, and coordinate with other members of the healthcare team to provide resources to improve health, receive ongoing care, and facilitate rehabilitation in the community upon release from the facility

Outpatient infusion clinic providing various infusions, primarily monoclonal antibodies to neurology patients.

• Manage the infusion suite efficiently and effectively
• Work autonomously while also contributing to team efforts and corporate goals
• Responsible for assessing and evaluating patient needs and interventions and oversight and management of patient throughout infusion
• Coordinate patient care in emergency situations; providing a full range of emergency services or crisis interventions in order to stabilize patients within the scope of practice
• Administer IV therapies to Neurology patients in an outpatient setting
• Educate patients and families on their particular therapy and disease process
• Maintain knowledge of community resources available to patients and
  assist with referrals
• Maintain quality, safety, and infection control standards and assure effective safety procedures are implemented to ensure safe
  nursing practice
• Work approximately 32 hours/week depending on patient census

Goal of gaining expertise in providing diagnostic and therapeutic health services to patients; assessing acute and non-acute clinical problems; and delivering comprehensive patient management services, including writing prescriptions, discharging, and ordering and interpreting laboratory and diagnosis studies

• Demonstrated the values and contributed to the mission of Georgetown University
• Performed health histories and physical exams on patients in the outpatient clinic
• Discussed patient encounters, differential diagnoses, lab value interpretation, disease processes, and treatment options with my preceptor
• Used diagnostic reasoning skills and current clinical evidence and guidelines to manage and treat patients with acute and chronic illnesses or injuries
• Studied the assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and evaluation of patients with complex chronic conditions with emphasis on developing a plan of care and implementing the latest standards of care (individualized evidence-based interventions) while considering family dynamics, ethics, culture, and socioeconomic factors to meet patient and family needs
• Applied principles of health promotion and disease prevention based on evidence based guidelines
• Studied the Clinical Resource Management Model to provide quality, cost-effective care
• FNP IV - Integration, 250 clinical hours (24 hours/week x11 weeks), CHI St. Vincent Convenient and Primary Care Clinic
• FNP III - Chronic and Complex Care, 150 clinical hours (16 hours/week x11 weeks), CHI St. Vincent Convenient and Primary Care Clinic
• FNP II - Acute Care, 150 clinical hours (16 hours/week x11 weeks),
  CHI St. Vincent Convenient and Primary Care Clinic
• FNP I - Wellness and Health Promotion, 100 Clinical hours (8
  hours/week x13 weeks, Barg Family Clinic

Provided IV and enteral therapies, supplies, and education to patients in their homes or at hospital discharge

• Collaborated with various members of the healthcare team to provide care to patients receiving IV therapy or enteral nutrition in their homes
• Educated patients and families on their particular therapy (including IVIG, chemotherapy, antibiotics, inotropes, pain management, and tube feeding) and their individualized method of administration
• Performed skills such as Infusaport access and deaccess, PICC dressing changes, and peripheral IV starts
• Followed up with patients with frequent telephone calls
• Demonstrate time management and organizational skills to provide care to patients in various locations, document patient care services,
  manage records, and communicate effectively with team members,
  patients, and other healthcare professionals
• Worked 40+ hours/week. Shared 24/7 call with one other nurse

Outpatient surgical center fully equipped to provide a full-range of outpatient surgical procedures

• Utilized the nursing process to provide quality patient care according to established standards of care including planning, implementing, evaluating and adjusting plan of care, and discharge planning based on expected patient outcomes
• Admitted pre-op patients: obtained informed consent, performed assessment, drew labs, obtained IV access, administered pre-op medications, and provided education
• Postoperatively received patients: maintained airway, completed ongoing patient assessment, administered medications as appropriate, and documented according to policy
• Assessed, collaborated, and coordinated patient’s discharge planning needs and readiness for discharge with other members of the care team
• Provided patient education for discharge
• Worked 120 hours (8 hours/day x 3 days/wk x 5 weeks)

Internal Medicine private practice clinic

• Opened Internal Medicine practice
• Made sure practice was running smoothly and successfully at all times while also working to expand the business
• Hired employees and implemented work policies
• Ensured compliance with OSHA and HIPAA regulations
• Responsible for all medical coding and billing
• Interacted with providers and other medical professionals regarding billing and documentation policies, procedures, and regulations
• Oversaw fiscal operations, including accounting, budgeting,
  authorizing expenditures and financial reporting
• Interacted with providers and other medical professionals regarding
  billing and documentation policies, procedures, and regulations
• Worked 40+ hours/week

Arkansas' only Level I Children's Surgery Center performing the highest level of complex surgical procedures to newborns and children

• Obtained health histories and performed physical assessments for pediatric patients prior to surgery
• Identified risk factors that could cause adverse reactions to anesthesia
• Provided patient and parent education
• Floated to cover PACU when needed
• Worked as needed, usually 1-2 days/wk, 8 hour shifts (8-24 hrs/wk)

A 64-bed, Level IV Neonatal Intensive Care Unit providing the highest level of NICU care available, caring for at-risk infants and critically ill neonates from all over the state

• Collaborated with members of the healthcare team to provide acute, intensive care to neonates with various diagnoses
• Utilized critical thinking, technical, and communication skills
• Duties included daily health maintenance, responding to emergency situations by providing interventions to stabilize the patient, and parent education and advocacy
• Worked 3-4 days/wk, 12 hour shifts, rotating day/night (36-48 hrs/wk)

UAMS is a teaching hospital and state-wide referral center for high-risk obstetrical patients. The perinatal unit also provides couplet care for moms and babies and patients requiring short term stay gynecologic surgery

• Utilized the nursing process to provide quality patient care according to established standards of care including planning, implementing, evaluating and adjusting plan of care, and discharge planning based on expected patient outcomes
• Provided direct medical care and coordinated with various members of the healthcare team to provide comprehensive, evidence-based care to high-risk OB patients, postpartum patients, newborns, and surgical patients with diverse cultural backgrounds and needs
• Educated mothers on their own recovery, breastfeeding/lactation, and newborn care
• Worked weekend option day shift (every Saturday & Sunday), 12 hour shifts (24 hrs/wk)