Shari Lynn Collins
Robinson,Texas
Summary
Family Nurse Practitioner with over 25 years of nursing experience in a clinical and administrative nursing role. Self-directed and solutions-oriented with fantastic communication skills. Committed to increasing the quality of patient care through top-of-the-line time management and prioritization. Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude.
Overview
24
24
years of professional experience
1
1
Certificate
Work History
Nurse Practitioner- Primary Care , Full-time
CENTRAL TEXAS VETERANS HEALTHCARE -Gr 3/St 9
Temple, TX
05.2022 - Current
- Assesses, evaluates and manages chronic and acute health care issues, medications, screenings, test results, and econsults.
- Evaluates patient medical history, applicable test results and vitals.
- Evaluated patient histories, complaints and current symptoms and constructs a plan of care.
- Discussed care plans with patients and explained test results and proper use of medications and side effects.
- Records SOAP notes into CPRS on all Veteran's visits and answers notifications and messages from Veterans.
W91B, CLC Charge Nurse-Full-time, 40 Hours
CENTRAL TEXAS VETERANS HEALTHCARE-Grade 3/St 8
Waco, Texas
12.2020 - Current
- Monitoring behaviors and alerting psychologist and psychiatrist as needed.
- Attend and participate in weekly Interdisciplinary Team Meetings.
- Implemented quality patient care techniques to align with safety, health and organizational regulations.
- Administered medications and treatments to 9-10 patients as ordered by physician, maintaining accountability for accurate narcotic count at end of each shift.
- Coordinated nursing care on unit through staff assignments, assisting and rounding with physicians, monitoring patient orders and communicating with ancillary departments.
- Collaborated with various healthcare professionals to determine specific and individualized care plan based on goals and long-term health.
- Documented medications administered, treatments and patient procedures performed in appropriate records according to privacy requirements.
- Collaborated with interdisciplinary team of healthcare and social service providers to address patients' needs through effective intervention and care planning.
PACT RN- Full-time, 40 Hours
CENTRAL TEXAS VETERANS HEALTHCARE-Grade 3/St 8
Temple, Texas
10.2019 - 12.2020
- Care coordination and management of over 800 Veterans on Patient Aligned Center Team (PACT) model
- Provide care and counseling of persons for promotion and maintenance of health, and prevention of illness and injury based upon nursing process that includes systematic data gathering, assessment, appropriate nursing judgment, and evaluation of human responses to actual or potential health problems through such services as case finding, health teaching, health counseling.
- Taught patients how to improve lifestyle choices, dramatically reducing chance of symptom reoccurrence.
- Led successful team comprised of RNs, LPNs and ancillary staff.
- Conferred with providers to discuss diagnoses and devise well-coordinated treatment approaches.
Registered Nurse- Acute Care- Full Time- 40 Hours
CENTRAL TEXAS VETERANS HEALTHCARE- Grade 3/St 8
Temple, TX
04.2020 - 08.2020
- Volunteered Intermittent Detail assignment to acute care due to COVID-19.
- Provide all aspects of care to inpatient Veterans including monitoring health status, giving medications BCMA system Starting IV’s, comfort care to terminal ill, postmortem care, ensuring safety and attending to emotional needs of Veterans.
- Communicate with physicians, LVNs, student nurse technicians, and other medical professionals.
- Collaborate with physicians to create Plan of Care for each patient.
- Create and contribute to patients' medical records as needed.
- Respond to inquiries, concerns and complaints from patients.
- Counsel patients and family members before, during and after treatment.
- Administered medications to treat patients' symptoms and address underlying disease progression.
- Operated critical care equipment to keep patients stable and promote recovery.
- Managed needs of chronically ill and acute patients with well-coordinated treatment strategies.
- Documented work in CPRS and updated patients' charts with orders and observations.
- Personalized bedside care and interactions based on cultural backgrounds of different patients.
- Managed patients' pain relief and sedation by providing pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic interventions, monitoring patients' responses and changing care plans accordingly.
Nurse Recruiter and Retention- Full-time, 40 Hours
CENTRAL TEXAS VETERANS HEALTHCARE- Grade 2/St 12
Temple, TX
07.2016 - 10.2019
- Implemented employee incentive programs to promote positive work culture and increase retention.
- Partnered with Human Resources to ascertain hiring needs and subsequently provide candidate recommendations.
- Pre-screened resumes prior to sending to nursing leadership and hiring managers for consideration for over 7 different Central Texas locations.
- Oversees nursing scholarship program, National Nursing Employee Incentive Scholarships, Tuition Reimbursement and VANEEP scholarship programs for Central Texas Veterans Healthcare System employees
- Implemented job fairs and web based hiring strategies to identify high-quality candidates.
Patient Advisory Nurse-PRN, 8-24 hours per week
SCOTT AND WHITE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
Temple, Texas
08.2015 - 06.2019
- Triage patient symptoms and recommend the appropriate care.
- Give advice using nursing judgment for various illness and symptoms.
- Coordinate with physicians, lab, clinics, hospital and patients for appropriate care and management.
- Attended in-service programs to complete ongoing and annual organizational and departmental requirements to promote highest standard of customer relations principles for patients, visitors and fellow staff members.
- Offered friendly and efficient service to customers, handled challenging situations with ease.
PACU-Endoscopy RN- Full-time, 40 Hours
CENTRAL TEXAS VETERANS HEALTHCARE- Grade 2/St 6
Temple, TX
12.2012 - 07.2016
- Administer conscious sedation.
- Perform pre-procedure IV starts, meds, and teaching.
- Post procedure monitoring, teaching and care for 6-8 patient per day.
- Administer pain medications, as needed for post op surgical patients.
- Took vitals and assessed patients in recovery room following endoscopic procedures.
- Kept meticulous charting notes regarding patient assessments and medications, later transferring information into records management system.
- Assessed and identified individual patient educational needs, removing barriers to learning and supporting comprehensive progress.
Cardiology Research Nurse- Full-time, 40 hours
Baylor Scott & White Medical Center
Temple, Texas
09.2010 - 12.2012
- Protect the rights of human subjects.
- Maintains regulatory and data binder.
- Assist with ablation (electrophysiology) and pharmacology trials.
- Submit all documents accurately and in timely manner.
- Assist with budget development and contract negotiation.
- Maintained compliance with protocols covering patient care and clinical trial operations.
- Collected data and followed research protocols, operations manuals and case report form requirements.
RN-Surg/Trauma Intensive Care- Full-time, 40 Hours
Baylor Scott And White Medical Center
Temple, Texas
09.2008 - 10.2010
- Monitor ICP and neurological status, maintain and monitor patency of ventriculostomy.
- Monitor 1-3 patients per shift for changes in status and indications of conditions such as sepsis or shock and institute appropriate interventions.
- Evaluate patients' vital signs and laboratory data to include arterial blood gases to determine emergency intervention needs,.
- Perform tracheostomy care and maintenance.
- Perform endotracheal suctioning.
- Monitor Ventilator settings according to physician orders.
- Set up and monitor medical equipment and devices such as cardiac monitors, mechanical ventilators and alarms, oxygen delivery devices, transducers, and arterial pressure catheters.
- Administer medications intravenously, by injection, orally, through gastric tubes, or by other methods.
- Assess patients' pain levels and sedation requirements.
- Administer propofol and fentanyl for sedation while on ventilator.
Nurse-Acute Pain Management-Full-time, 40 hours
Baylor Scott & White Medical Center
Temple, Texas
06.2006 - 09.2008
- Assists physician with placement of epidurals and nerve blocks.
- Assess and maintain epidural pain management for post op patients.
- Perform pain rounds with anesthesiologist on inpatients.
- Manage patients' pain relief and sedation by providing pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic interventions, monitoring patients' responses, and changing care plans accordingly.
- Assessed patients to determine individual needs and develop care plans in coordination with multidisciplinary healthcare professionals
Labor and Delivery RN- Full-time, 40 Hours
SKYRIDGE MEDICAL CENTER
Lone Tree, Colorado
10.2002 - 05.2006
- Monitor fetal development by listening to fetal heartbeat, taking external uterine measurements, identifying fetal position, and assessing cervical dilatation.
- Document patients' health histories, symptoms, physical conditions, or other diagnostic information.
- Perform physical examinations by taking vital signs, checking neurological reflexes, examining breasts, or performing pelvic examinations.
- Worked closely with doctors and midwives in coaching pregnant women through childbirth and post-natal recovery.
- Aided with induction of labor for women suffering from complications such as preeclampsia.
- Completed comprehensive assessment of patient and family needs to identify outcomes, establish care plans, monitor progress and modify care plan as needed.
- Responded to emergency situations such as pre-eclampsia, early labor and fetal distress.
Education
Masters of Science - Family Nurse Practitioner
UNIVERSITY oF TEXAS AT ARLINGTION
Arlington, TX08.2021
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
UNIVERSITY oF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON
Arlington, TX. 05.2011
Associates of Science degree - Nursing
MCLENNAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Waco, TX.05.1996
Skills
- Support Staff Supervision
- Patient Records Maintenance
- Verbal and Written Communication
- HIPAA Guidelines
- Attention to Detail
- Patient Education
- Therapeutic Interventions
Affiliations
- Toastmasters
- Member of American Association of Nurse Practitioners
- Member of Texas Nurse Practitioners
- Active Member of the American Nurses Association
- American Heart Association Health Care Provider-CPR
- Registered Nursing License- State of Texas
Certification
- Certified Family Nurse Practitioner, American Association of Nurse Practitioners, September 7, 2021.
Timeline
Nurse Practitioner- Primary Care , Full-time
CENTRAL TEXAS VETERANS HEALTHCARE -Gr 3/St 9
05.2022 - Current
W91B, CLC Charge Nurse-Full-time, 40 Hours
CENTRAL TEXAS VETERANS HEALTHCARE-Grade 3/St 8
12.2020 - Current
Registered Nurse- Acute Care- Full Time- 40 Hours
CENTRAL TEXAS VETERANS HEALTHCARE- Grade 3/St 8
04.2020 - 08.2020
PACT RN- Full-time, 40 Hours
CENTRAL TEXAS VETERANS HEALTHCARE-Grade 3/St 8
10.2019 - 12.2020
Nurse Recruiter and Retention- Full-time, 40 Hours
CENTRAL TEXAS VETERANS HEALTHCARE- Grade 2/St 12
07.2016 - 10.2019
Patient Advisory Nurse-PRN, 8-24 hours per week
SCOTT AND WHITE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
08.2015 - 06.2019
PACU-Endoscopy RN- Full-time, 40 Hours
CENTRAL TEXAS VETERANS HEALTHCARE- Grade 2/St 6
12.2012 - 07.2016
Cardiology Research Nurse- Full-time, 40 hours
Baylor Scott & White Medical Center
09.2010 - 12.2012
RN-Surg/Trauma Intensive Care- Full-time, 40 Hours
Baylor Scott And White Medical Center
09.2008 - 10.2010
Nurse-Acute Pain Management-Full-time, 40 hours
Baylor Scott & White Medical Center
06.2006 - 09.2008
Labor and Delivery RN- Full-time, 40 Hours
SKYRIDGE MEDICAL CENTER
10.2002 - 05.2006
Masters of Science - Family Nurse Practitioner
UNIVERSITY oF TEXAS AT ARLINGTION
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
UNIVERSITY oF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON
Associates of Science degree - Nursing
MCLENNAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE
- Certified Family Nurse Practitioner, American Association of Nurse Practitioners, September 7, 2021.
References
Tracy Kramer, MSN, FNP, B-C
3605 Willow Bend Circle,
Waco, Texas 76708
Phone: (254) 640-1468
email: Tracy.kramer@ascension.org
Krista Bailey, MSN, FNP-C
1005 East 12th Street
Cameron, Texas 76520
Phone: (254) 718-9859
email: krista.bailey@va.gov
Jessica Drenning, MSN, RN, ACNS
844 Belhaven Street, Jackson
Mississippi 39202
Phone: (507) 319-2706
email: Jessica.drenning@va.gov
Richard Stewart, MSN, RN, Nurse Manager of QM, CTXVHCS
1702 Messick Loop East, Round Rock, Texas 78681
Phone: (512) 417-2946
Richard.Stewart2@va.gov
References
Tracy Kramer, MSN, FNP, B-C
3605 Willow Bend Circle,
Waco, Texas 76708
Phone: (254) 640-1468
email: Tracy.kramer@ascension.org
Krista Bailey, MSN, FNP-C
1005 East 12th Street
Cameron, Texas 76520
Phone: (254) 718-9859
email: krista.bailey@va.gov
Jessica Drenning, MSN, RN, ACNS
844 Belhaven Street, Jackson
Mississippi 39202
Phone: (507) 319-2706
email: Jessica.drenning@va.gov
Richard Stewart, MSN, RN, Nurse Manager of QM, CTXVHCS
1702 Messick Loop East, Round Rock, Texas 78681
Phone: (512) 417-2946
Richard.Stewart2@va.gov
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