NICOLE TAYLOR
Okemos,MI
Summary
Experienced Adult Nurse Practitioner with a proven track record of 15 years in delivering comprehensive healthcare services to diverse populations. Proficient in acute care, wellness examinations, and chronic disease management. Skilled in providing attentive patient care in pre-operative, post-operative, and operating room environments. Dedicated to delivering high-quality, compassionate healthcare to meet the unique needs of each individual.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Nurse Practitioner
Central Michigan University Medical School
- Assessed need for, ordered, obtained and interpreted appropriate lab tests
- Attended weekly morbidity and mortality conferences
- Attended weekly lectures.
- Performed patient physicals and compared and contrasted results with established medical records to provide proper diagnosis and facilitate appropriate treatment
- Ordered and interpreted diagnostic tests to develop and implement treatment plans
- Discussed care plans with patients and explained test results and proper use of medications
Nurse Practitioner
Saginaw Valley Neurosurgery
- History and physical examinations
- Pre and postoperative patient care
- Patient education
- Discharge summaries
- Supervised other providers, residents and medical students
- Attend weekly morbidity and mortality presentations
- Attend weekly learning lectures
- Take an active part in moming collaborative meetings between attending surgeons, residents, and medical students in presenting current patients
- These moming meetings serve to resolve patient problems, and formulate care plans, while actively educating the residents and medical students
- Part of my role is to help teach the residents and medical students how to present, possible differentials, and potential plans
- The morning meeting sets the stage for the day and allows for team building and promotion of patient care and well being
- Take detailed medical history.
Lead Nurse Practitioner
Sparrow Hospital
2017.02 - Current
- Evaluated patient histories, complaints, and current symptoms.
- Led monthly QI meetings with multiple disciplines to review processes, set goals and improve care.
- Collaborated with leadership to devise initiatives for improving staff satisfaction, retention and morale.
- Managed patients recovering from medical or surgical procedures.
- Helped train new team members in both medical management and operating room.
- Assist surgeons with cardiac, thoracic, and vascular surgeries.
- Specialize in endoscopic harvesting of radial arteries and greater saphenous veins for coronary artery bypass grafting surgery.
Nurse Practitioner
Michigan Neurosurgical Institute
2015.08 - 2017.02
- Assist in neurosurgical procedures and surgeries
- Administration of conscious sedation and patient monitoring for outpatient procedures
- Fracture liaison clinic provider
- ECHO (web based national weekly meeting for osteoporosis education and provider collaboration) presenter
- Out patient and inpatient care of patients
- Conference presentation.
Nurse Practitioner
Michigan Cardiovascular Institute
2009.05 - 2015.08
- History and physical examinations
- Endoscopic greater saphenous vein harvesting
- Placement and removal of chest tubes
- Pre and postoperative patient care
- Patient education
- Discharge summaries
- Advanced knowledge of hemodynamic management
- Ventilators postoperative management
- Worked with staff to develop quality improvement in regards to ensuring standards of care were followed on postoperative patients.
Nurse Practitioner
McLaren
2013.05 - 2015.03
- History and physical examinations
- Patient consultations
- Management of patients in the coronary care unit, cardiac step down, and pre-operative care
- Quality improvement committee
- Various committee participation centered on nursing education and improvement in patient care
- Order set development
- Chest tube management and removal.
Resource Team Nurse
Covenant Healthcare Hospital
2009.05 - 2011.10
- Full time float nurse, 36 hrs/week
- Critical care, neuro intensive care, surgical trauma intensive care, cardiac critical care, and medical intensive care
- Ventilator management
- Assisting with line placement, intubations and bedside surgical procedures
- Vasopressor titration
- Cardiac monitoring
- Temporary pacemaker management
- Central line management.
Graduate Student Research Assistant
University of Michigan
2006.10 - 2009.05
- Academic stipend, flexible hours
- Worked with and assisted director of Nurse Practitioner Program
- Developed a research study to be implemented in three phases with the director
- Wrote two Internal Review Board applications for human subject study approval
- Permission was granted for the study
- Assisted the writing of a grant proposal and was awarded funding
- Experienced in data collection, entry and analysis in SAS as well as SPSS format.
Education
Master of Science - Adult Nurse Practitioner
University of Michigan
Flint, MI05.2009
Nursing -
Davenport University
Midland, MI05.2001
Skills
- Comprehensive history and physical assessments
- Assessing health status
- Diagnosing health status
- Create plan of care and implementation of treatment
- Monitoring and ensuring high quality health care practice
- Conscious sedation administration with monitoring
- DEA License
- BLS, Basic Life Support
- Adult Nurse Practitioner Board Certified, ANCC
- Registered Nurse, State of Michigan
- Fully credentialed to assist surgeons with any cardiac, thoracic or vascular surgery.
Certification
- First assist
- ACLS
- BLS
- Wound closure
- ATLS
- Pre- and post surgical care
- Neurosurgery experience
- Cardiothoracic surgery experience
- Critical care experience
- Adult Nurse Practitioner Board Certified, ANCC
- Flint, MI
- 10/2005 to 10/2006
- Saginaw, MI
- 06/2002 to 07/2006
- 2009
- Flint, MI, United States
- 2002
- Midland, MI, United States
- Registered Nurse - State of Michigan
- DEA License Registered Nurse
- First Assist, RNFA course
- BLS-Basic Life Support
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support, ACLS
Accomplishments
- Acceptance as Sigma Theta Tau member, 2008
- Acceptance into Eta Sigma Gamma Delta Phi Chapter 2007
- Acceptance into graduate program, University of Michigan-Flint 2006
- Graduate Student Research Assistantship 2006-2009
- Nominated and accepted into the Michigan Institute for Excellence in Nursing, 2005
- Outstanding Performance Recognition, 2002 at Davenport University
- Level 1 Outstanding Clinical Performance Award, 2001 at Davenport University
Affiliations
- American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, AANP
- American Association of Neuroscience Nurses, AANN
- Michigan Counsel of Nurse Practitioners, MCNP
- National Osteoporosis Foundation
Timeline
Lead Nurse Practitioner
Sparrow Hospital
2017.02 - Current
Nurse Practitioner
Michigan Neurosurgical Institute
2015.08 - 2017.02
Nurse Practitioner
McLaren
2013.05 - 2015.03
Nurse Practitioner
Michigan Cardiovascular Institute
2009.05 - 2015.08
Resource Team Nurse
Covenant Healthcare Hospital
2009.05 - 2011.10
Graduate Student Research Assistant
University of Michigan
2006.10 - 2009.05
Nurse Practitioner
Central Michigan University Medical School
Nurse Practitioner
Saginaw Valley Neurosurgery
Master of Science - Adult Nurse Practitioner
University of Michigan
Nursing -
Davenport University
- First assist
- ACLS
- BLS
- Wound closure
- ATLS
- Pre- and post surgical care
- Neurosurgery experience
- Cardiothoracic surgery experience
- Critical care experience
- Adult Nurse Practitioner Board Certified, ANCC
- Flint, MI
- 10/2005 to 10/2006
- Saginaw, MI
- 06/2002 to 07/2006
- 2009
- Flint, MI, United States
- 2002
- Midland, MI, United States
- Registered Nurse - State of Michigan
- DEA License Registered Nurse
- First Assist, RNFA course
- BLS-Basic Life Support
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support, ACLS
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