Patrick Hudson
West Pines Behavioral Health
Denver,CO
"The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere."
Barack Obama
Summary
Experienced nursing professional with extensive clinical knowledge, exceptional interpersonal skills, and technical expertise across multiple specialties including mental health, surgical cardiology, progressive care, post-surgical orthopedics, renal, and gastrointestinal. Proficient in electronic medical record (EMR) charting, medication administration, and collaborating with interdisciplinary teams to optimize patient care, eliminate barriers to access, and promote healthcare equality and equity. Skilled in conducting comprehensive admission assessments and facilitating smooth discharges, as well as providing immediate crisis interventions in drop-off center and crisis stabilization unit. Compassionate and dedicated professional with three years of experience closely monitoring the treatment of patients diagnosed with various physical and mental health conditions, along with co-occurring substance use disorders. Psychiatric healthcare professional with comprehensive experience in mental health nursing. Skilled in patient assessment, crisis intervention, and therapeutic communication. Adept at collaborating with interdisciplinary teams to provide high-quality care and achieve optimal patient outcomes. Reliable, adaptable, and focused on patient-centered care.
11
Years of experience
Work History
Psychiatric Registered Nurse - Admissions
4 Months- Led crisis intervention sessions, ensuring immediate support and de-escalation of high-risk situations.
- Responded to numerous volatile situations and violent outbreaks to restore safety and security of patients and staff.
- Developed training materials for staff on new protocols and compliance measures in psychiatric care.
- Built trust with patients from various cultural backgrounds through culturally competent care practices tailored to individual needs.
- Provided direct quality care to patients by monitoring, recording and evaluating psychiatric conditions.
- Enhanced treatment efficacy by collaborating with interdisciplinary teams to provide comprehensive mental health care.
- Increased patient satisfaction scores by actively listening to concerns, addressing needs, and providing empathetic support during crisis situations.
- Performed triage on incoming patients and determined severity of injuries and illnesses.
- Provided comprehensive psychiatric assessments to develop individualized care plans.
- Collaborated with multidisciplinary teams to enhance treatment strategies and patient outcomes.
Psychiatric Registered Nurse
2 Years 7 Months- Performed triage on incoming patients at a 5 bed drop-off center and determined severity of current mental health crisis, and admitted to the crisis stabilization unit (CSU) or referred to appropriate higher level of care required to address the mental health crisis
- Coordinated with medical and paramedical professionals on a 16 bed CSU to provide appropriate input and effectively formulate and implement treatment and behavioral support plans and facilitate establishing and coordinating follow care with outpatient teams
- Enhanced treatment efficacy by collaborating with interdisciplinary teams consisting of social workers, case managers, nurses, medical assistants, nurse practitioners/psychiatrists, peer specialists, and first responders within crisis services to provide comprehensive mental health care.
- Built trust with patients from various cultural backgrounds through culturally competent care practices tailored to individual needs.
- Ensured patient safety by closely monitoring behaviors, administering medications as prescribed, and intervening during incidents of aggression or self-harm.
Customer Support Specialist
1 Year 6 Months- Provided technical product support across 27 products specializing in working with priority support, partner accounts, advanced de-escalation, and billing cases
- Led training for newly onboarding advanced tech and de-escalation agents, including live practice call and chat monitoring, peer to peer mentoring, and interaction reviews to share best practices
- As team POC, drove site wide customer satisfaction through analysis and interpretation of survey results, interaction reviews and live peer to peer coaching sessions
- Actively listened to customers, handled concerns quickly, provided resources and live channel guidance for usability issues and escalated major product issues to product development team
- Maintained customer satisfaction with forward-thinking strategies focused on addressing customer needs and resolving concerns
- Developed strong relationships with clients, resulting in repeat business and positive feedback.
Sales Advisor
2 Years 7 Months- Assisted in training and developing both new and current sales associates in store procedures,merchandising, shipment processing, restocking, markdowns and direct sales
- Helped facilitate more effective communication and teamwork between managers, visuals merchandisers and fellow sales advisors to help drive sales and improve product knowledge
- Increased sales by offering advice on purchases and promoting additional products
Registered Nurse
3 Months- Developed strong assessment and time management skills, while providing primary nursing care to 4-5 patients with acute and chronic cardiac syndromes, including open heart, stent placement and valve replacement surgeries
- Collaborated with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions.
- Administered medications via oral, IV, and intramuscular injections and monitored responses.
- Provided patient education related to acute and chronic cardiac and pulmonary diseases, including pre and post-operative open-heart patients, congestive heart failure and COPD patients.
Registered Nurse, Medical-Surgical Unit
1 Year 1 Month- Completed yearlong Nurse Residency Program
- Developed strong time management skills while caring for 5 to 6 post-surgical patients.
- Facilitated communication between multi-disciplinary healthcare team to improve patient outcomes through hourly rounding and bedside hand-off report.
- Educated patients about fall risk reductions strategies, pain management and post-operative complication reduction measures.
- Assessed, managed and documented management of surgical wounds and drains, pressure ulcers, and ostomies.
- Administered medications via oral, IV, and intramuscular injections and monitored responses
- Contributed to successful department JCAHO accreditation by consistently operating to highest standards of care.
Registered Nurse
2 Months- Collaborated with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions.
- Administered medications and treatment to 3-4 patients and monitored responses while working with healthcare teams to adjust care plans.
- Educated patients, families and caregivers on diagnosis and prognosis, treatment options, disease process, and management and lifestyle options.
- Monitored patient condition by interpreting and tracking EKG readings, identifying irregular telemetry readings and updating team members on changes in stability or acuity.
- Advised patients and caregivers of proper wound management, discharge plan objectives, safe medication use, and disease management.
Education
Certificate - Data Analytics
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Study Abroad: UNSW - Sydney, Australia - Nursing
Skills
Electronic Health Records Systems - Wellsky
Salesforce
Medhost
ObserveSmart
Netsmart: Avatar NX
Cerner
Epic
Sunrise
Allscripts
SIS
Meditech
Skilled in trauma informed care principles and delivery of person-centric mental health care to improve patient outcomes
Provided Mental Health Crisis Evaluations
Walk-in and Referral based Psychiatric Emergency Services
Inpatient Admissions Assessments and Substance abuse treatment
Crisis Intervention
Suicide Prevention
Handle with Care
CPI and Nonviolent Crisis Intervention (NVCI) and De-Escalation Techniques
Multidisciplinary Collaboration with referral sources
clinical
nursing and psych provider teams to facilitate coordination and continuity of care for patient
Work Availability
monday
tuesday
wednesday
thursday
friday
saturday
sunday
morning
afternoon
evening
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Additional Information
Active Registered Nurse, State of Colorado/ Multi-State Compact
AHA BLS - Basic Life Support - May 2023 - 2025
Timeline
Psychiatric Registered Nurse - Admissions
West Pines Behavioral Health
04.2026 - Current
Psychiatric Registered Nurse
WellPower
07.2023 - 02.2026
Customer Support Specialist
Wix
11.2021 - 05.2023
Sales Advisor
H&M
04.2019 - 11.2021
Registered Nurse
Swedish Medical Center
03.2018 - 06.2018
Registered Nurse, Medical-Surgical Unit
Orlando Health
03.2016 - 04.2017
Registered Nurse
Florida Hospital
12.2015 - 02.2016
University of Denver
Certificate from Data Analytics
University of Miami
Bachelor of Science from Nursing
Technical Skills
Languages: Python, R, Javascript ES6+, HTML5, SQL,
Applications: GitHub, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Flask, Tableau
Tools: Excel, Seaborn, Scikit learn, TensorFlow, Databasing, Pandas, Jupyter Notebook