Serve as school nurse for multiple Toledo City schools in 2022/23, serve as school nurse at Woodward High School 2023/24.
Assess and triage students appropriately to ensure they receive appropriate care in a safe and timely manner.
Work with students and families to connect them with available resources.
Work with students with diabetes and other chronic health conditions to ensure appropriate monitoring and treatment.
Administer medications to students as prescribed.
Responsible for review of immunizations of all students, and helping students get up to date on all immunizations.
Hearing and vision screenings, and ensuring appropriate referrals and follow up.
Certified Nurse Practitioner-Urgent Care Center
Falcon Health Center
Bowling Green, OH
08.2018 - Current
Serve as a Nurse Practitioner for a busy urgent care center, providing care to the Bowling Green State University students, as well as community members.
Obtain accurate and thorough HPI's and perform physical assessments.
Prescribe medications based on efficacy, safety, and cost as legally authorized.
Develop treatment plans based on scientific rationale, standards of care, and professional practice guidelines.
Recommend interventions to modify behavior associated with health risks.
Schedule follow-up visits to monitor patients or evaluate health or illness care.
Acute Stroke Nurse Practitioner
University of Toledo Medical Center
Toledo
10.2016 - 04.2023
Serve as a Nurse Practitioner for a busy hospital stroke service, providing inpatient care and rounding with physicians, as well as working in an outpatient Neurology Clinic.
Respond to all Stroke Alerts-quickly and accurately assessing patients who are actively having stroke symptoms to determine which diagnostic tests/interventional procedures are warranted-helping to determine whether patients are candidates for TPA or thrombectomy procedure.
Provide thorough neurological assessments of all stroke patients to evaluate improvement and need for further diagnostic testing or intervention.
Prescribe medications based on efficacy, safety, and cost as legally authorized.
Develop treatment plans based on scientific rationale, standards of care, and professional practice guidelines.
Recommend interventions to modify behavior associated with health risks.
Schedule follow-up visits to monitor patients or evaluate health or illness care.
Public Health Nurse
Fulton County Health Department
Wauseon, OH
10.2008 - 10.2016
Coordinate prenatal and Title X Reproductive Health & Wellness Clinics each week.
Patient interviews, blood draws, discharging patients from clinic.
Experience working with Spanish speaking patients and adolescents.
Grant writing and execution of all activities for Title X grant.
Conduct community outreach activities.
Responsible for quality control of lab equipment and inventory of lab supplies.
Proficient knowledge in childhood immunizations, participate in immunization clinic each month.
School visits for children's health screenings, i.e. lice, scoliosis, hearing, vision, and blood pressure.
STD care and counseling.
Educate patients about reproductive health issues and dispense contraceptives.