Sheneaka Sykes
Buford,GA
Summary
Professional Advanced Practice Nurse with over 15 years of experience in offering initiative-taking comprehensive directed care and management skills in a multitude of environments. Highly functional and adept to working within high stress situations or amongst large diverse populations. Multi-tasking within established deadlines while effortlessly building and fostering trusting relationships that move the needle towards purposeful delivery.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
Work History
Family Nurse Practitioner
JJP Internal Medicine Group
Atlanta, Georgia
08.2022 - Current
- Prescribed appropriate pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic treatment modalities to support health and comfort of patients.
- Educated patients on treatment options, medical needs and non-medical options for treatments and therapy.
- Performed patient physicals and compared and contrasted results with established medical records to provide proper diagnosis and facilitate appropriate treatment.
- Coordinated with physicians, specialists and other medical staff to develop treatment plans for chronic conditions.
- Teamed with 7 physicians routinely to provide comprehensive patient care, referrals and high-risk management strategies.
- Conducted mandated health screenings, physicals and special education assessments
- Counseled patients via telephone according to established guidelines and protocols, advising on provider-established plans of care.
- Obtained case history and gathered triage information to determine appropriate avenue for care.
- Used Kareo to create detailed patient reports on patient's condition status and treatments received
Clinical Nurse Specialist
Grady Hospital
Atlanta, GA
06.2019 - Current
- Appropriate physician orders and administered therapies, treatments and medications to perspective interdisciplinary teams
- Managed care for post-operative patients from initial recovery through discharge.
- Disseminating patient information and literature regarding health education and promotion/disease prevention
- Facilitated strategic goals aimed at increasing satisfaction and improving outcomes through compassionate, precise and high-quality care
- Streamlined clinical and non/clinical hospital staff communication process involving new hire practices related to job requirements, satisfaction and retention
- Conducted wellness employee immunization, vaccine-specific training and supervising administration education program
- Analyzed budget for supportive services and family programs that decreased net shortfall cost 2 years consecutively
- Engaged facility's marketing and sales team to promote prospective client-based programs tailored to employer/employee-based needs
- Engaged electronic communication in accordance with CDC, OSHA, Stark laws, mandated programs in multi-tasked ambulatory setting that providing Global health initiatives using Telehealth.
- Implemented and monitored effectiveness of interventions to assist patients in regaining and maintaining optimal health.
- Conducted physical exams and health screenings.
- Conducted screenings, diagnostic treatment and rehabilitative services on primary health care team.
Complex Case Manager Lead/Telehealth Nurse
United Health Group
Atlanta, GA
07.2012 - 03.2021
- Initiated and maintained daily contact with 20+clients/families to provide broad range of individualized clinical support, resources, education and facilitating transitional needs to prevent re-admission and meeting measured goals
- Identified care needs of individual patients and coordinated responses based on physician advice, insurance limitations and procedural costs.
- Identified cost- effective comprehensive care plans that involved collaboration with client/families and providers to ensure health services effectively delivered
- Provided referrals to appropriate community resources and monitored coordinated services to prevent duplication
- Daily assessment of High-risk population tracking system for accurate reflection of patient disposition and disease management
- Utilized EPIC EMR to document all patient interventions and evaluations
- Managed and coordinated client specific data entry and mining of test results, screenings within timely manner, while updating patient charts to reflect changes to care plans, interventions and observations
- Maintain compliance of state specific regulations licensure by enforcing HICHC and Quality Assurance protocols
- Created training materials and implemented instructional strategies to track patient/nurse ratio progress, ascertain skills and development and perform staff assessments.
- Partnered with physicians, social workers, activity therapists, nutritionists and case managers to develop and implement individualized care plans and documented patient interactions and interventions in electronic charting systems.
Intensive Care Trauma Nurse
Medical Center
Saint Petersburg, FL
02.2006 - 03.2012
- Perform emergency medical procedures, such as basic cardiac life support (BLS), advanced cardiac life support (ACLS), other condition stabilizing interventions
- Document data related to patients' care including assessment results, interventions, medications, patient responses, or treatment changes
- Adjust settings on patients' assistive devices such as temporary pacemakers
- Prescribe medications and observe patients' reactions, modifying prescriptions as needed
- Participate in development of new hire training practice protocols
- Participate in patients' care meetings and conferences
- Document data related to patients' care including assessment results, interventions, medications, patient responses, or treatment changes
- Perform emergency medical procedures, such as basic cardiac life support (BLS), advanced cardiac life support (ACLS), other condition stabilizing interventions
- Manage patients' pain relief and sedation by providing pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic interventions, monitoring patients' responses, changing care plans accordingly
- Administer blood and blood product transfusions or intravenous infusions, monitoring patients for adverse reactions
- Assess urgent and emergent health conditions using both physiologically and technologically derived
- Order, perform, or interpret results of diagnostic tests and screening procedures based on assessment results, differential diagnoses, and knowledge about age, gender and health status of clients
- Interpret information obtained from electrocardiograms (EKGs) or radiographs (x-rays).
Education
Master of Science - Nursing Specialty Family Practice
Walden University
09.2020
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Keiser University
05.2005
Skills
- EPIC, Cerner, McKesson, EMR, Teledoc, Kareo, Elation
- Clinical Leadership and Supervision
- Stark Laws
- Medical Supply Management
- Healthcare solutions strategist
- Acute and Chronic Pain Management
- Diagnosis and Treatment
- Health and Wellness Education
- Variance Analysis
- Service Rates Establishment
- Immunizations and Vaccinations
- Employee Health Programs
- Preventive Care
- Operational Oversight
Timeline
Family Nurse Practitioner
JJP Internal Medicine Group
08.2022 - Current
Clinical Nurse Specialist
Grady Hospital
06.2019 - Current
Complex Case Manager Lead/Telehealth Nurse
United Health Group
07.2012 - 03.2021
Intensive Care Trauma Nurse
Medical Center
02.2006 - 03.2012
Master of Science - Nursing Specialty Family Practice
Walden University
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Keiser University
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