OLUWATOYIN ADELAKUN
Waldorf,USA
Summary
Compassionate Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner with experience providing mental health care to diverse patient populations. Skilled in conducting comprehensive psychiatric evaluations, developing treatment plans, and administering medication management. Known for fostering therapeutic relationships with patients and collaborating effectively with interdisciplinary teams to improve patient outcomes. Proven impact through implementation of effective patient education strategies and advocacy for mental health awareness.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center
04.2024 - Current
- Perform a comprehensive assessment of adult hospitalized patients.
- Assessment and gathering patient history, mental status examination as well as contact with collateral sources
- Coordinate communication with medical team and psychiatric physicians
- Assess patient’s needs for medication management, prescribe medication and monitor treatment response
- Provide patient with care services dealing with: Depression, Anxiety, Schizophrenia, Bipolar disorders and cognitive disorders
- Collaborates with other members of the health team, delegates appropriately to support staff and directs care to assure the patient's care needs are met, in accordance with the Collaborative Practice Agreement and the state Nurse Practice Act
Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner
Abundant Healthcare
04.2024 - 08.2024
- Assess, diagnose, and treat the mental health needs of patients
- Provide therapy and prescribe medications for patients who have mental health disorders and substance abuse problems
- Provides physical and psychosocial assessment to achieve evidence-based treatment
- Collaborates with therapists, social workers, and another multidisciplinary team to achieve quality of care
- Prescribe, recommend, or discontinue drugs and treatments
- Provide treatment for emotional or behavioral disorder patients in accordance with the Collaborative Practice Agreement and the state Nurse Practice Act
Psychiatric Registered Nurse
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center
08.2020 - 03.2024
- Provide professional, patient-centered, psychiatric/mental health nursing to clients with severe and persistent mental illness
- Completes nursing assessments of client’s bio-psycho-social needs including MSE and assessment of risk profiles
- Administer medication per psychiatrist orders, including injections
- Provide medication education based on client’s need and assessed level of readiness and level of understanding
- Practice integrated health by coordinating with other healthcare professionals
- Assessed patient’s response to treatment and safety interventions and accurately documented interventions and patient’s response to intervention
- Assisted patients and families to understand the diagnosis, prescribed treatment, and safe management of symptoms related to specific mental disorders through health teaching
- Participate in professional interdisciplinary meetings
- Maintain accurate patient medical records
- Recognize a change in mental status and behavior in patients, and report this change to providers
- Perform comprehensive behavioral health nursing assessment and history to plan, provide, and direct nursing care across the continuum of care
- Communicate progress and/or changes to the patient, family, and members of the health care team
- Provide guidance and emotional support to patients and their family members
Psychiatric Registered Nurse /Charge Nurse
Inova healthcare
08.2022 - 12.2023
- Collaborates with other members of the health team, delegates appropriately to support staff and directs care to assure the patient's care needs are met
- Function as charge nurse and/or preceptor and nurse leader
- Recognize a change in mental status and behavior in patients, and report this change to providers
- Care for adults and geriatrics who have acute and chronic mental disorders such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, mood disorder, major depressive disorder, substance addiction, and dementia
- Perform crisis intervention in cases such as suicide attempts and outbreaks of violent behavior, providing evidence-based individual therapy, such as cognitive behavior therapy for depression and anxiety
- Participate in professional interdisciplinary meetings
- Maintain accurate patient medical records
Registered Nurse, Operating Room
University of Maryland Capital Region Health
Cheverly, USA
03.2018 - 08.2020
- Protected patients from surgical site infections and interventions by performing interventions that ensured that the procedures are performed on the correct side, site, and level
- Collaborates with surgeons in one or more surgical services to assess, coordinate, plan, and implement the newest approaches and practices to deliver efficient, cost-effective surgical care for the beneficiary population
- Managed the nursing care of surgical patients including geriatric and pediatric, in the operating room in accordance with the AORN preoperative standards and recommended practices
- Supported the team in preparing the surgical room by assembling the required equipment according to the physician’s preference card (including positioning gears, laparoscopic instrumentation, and patient’s case-specific supplies)
- Effectively monitored equipment through surgical procedures, restocked rooms, cleaning work areas and returned equipment for surgical procedures
- Provide nursing care before, during, and after operative procedures
Education
Master of Science in Nursing - Certificate in Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner
Walden University
Baltimore11.2023
Skills
- Medication Management
- Substance abuse treatment
- Individual Therapy
- Group Therapy
- Psychiatric and Mental Health Care
- Clinical Documentation
- Behavioral therapy
- Multidisciplinary Collaboration
- Medication Administration
- Prescription writing
- Crisis Prevention Intervention (CPI)
- Excellent Communication
- Active Listening
- Diagnostic Assessment
- Psychosocial Analysis
- Professionalism
- Time management abilities
Professional organizations
- The National Society of Leadership and Success, 2020 - Present
- Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society in Nursing, 2020
Credentials
- MSN
- CRNP
Clinical rotation experience
- Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Student – PMHNP Role in Adult and Older Adult, Abundant Healthcare Services, 08/01/23 - 11/30/23, 161, Oyesola Akintan-Adaji, DNP
- Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Student – PMHNP Role in Child and Adolescent, Abundant Healthcare Services, 06/01/23 - 08/31/23, 160, Oyesola Akintan-Adaji, DNP
- Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Student – Psychotherapy with Group and Family, HighTower Behavioral Health, 08/01/21 - 11/30/21, 160, Salamot Khadar, CRNP
- Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Student – Psychotherapy Individual, Nimel Health LLC, 12/01/22 - 02/28/23, 160, Mosunmola Akinsete-Lake, CRNP
Certifications licensure
- ANCC PMHNP-BC, Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner, Maryland
- Registered Nurse, Maryland
Certification
- ANCC Board Certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP)
Issued April 2024 Expires: April 2029.
- Registered Nurse/State of Maryland # R232283 Expires: July 2026
Timeline
Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center
04.2024 - Current
Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner
Abundant Healthcare
04.2024 - 08.2024
Psychiatric Registered Nurse /Charge Nurse
Inova healthcare
08.2022 - 12.2023
Psychiatric Registered Nurse
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center
08.2020 - 03.2024
Registered Nurse, Operating Room
University of Maryland Capital Region Health
03.2018 - 08.2020
Master of Science in Nursing - Certificate in Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner
Walden University
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