Turnisha Carter

• Enhanced team collaboration through regular communication, goal setting, and performance evaluations.
• Cultivated a positive work environment that fostered employee engagement, increased retention rates, and boosted overall team morale.
• Implemented innovative solutions to solve complex problems, resulting in increased productivity and streamlined operations.
• Implemented evidence-based protocols to enhance clinical outcomes
• Managed complex cases, coordinating advanced treatment options for chronic illnesses
• Prescribed and managed pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatments to treat underlying causes and relieve symptoms.
• Discussed care plans with patients and explained test results and proper use of medications.
• Precepted new mid-level providers, nurse practitioners and nurses following established standards of practice and organizational policies.
• Assessed student performance regularly, adjusting teaching strategies as needed to ensure academic progress.

• Provides patient assessment, diagnosis and treatment plans in accordance with statutes, regulations and protocols regulating the profession.
• Collaborates with the staff psychiatrist, the nursing staff, therapist, psychologist and support team
• Provides psychiatric health services, education, counseling and emotional support.
• Issues medication prescriptions in accordance with treatment guidelines. Orders laboratory tests, interprets and explains the test results to patients.
• Provides patient education regarding medications, risks, benefits and reasonable outcome expectations.
• Communicates with patients and engages in follow-up as necessary via telehealth

Provides patient assessment, diagnosis and treatment plans in accordance with statutes, regulations and protocols regulating the profession

• Collaborates with the staff psychiatrist, the nursing staff and support team
• Provides psychiatric health services, education, counseling and emotional support
• Issues medication prescriptions in accordance with treatment guidelines
• Orders laboratory tests, interprets and explains the test results to patients
• Provides patient education regarding medications, risks, benefits and reasonable outcome expectations
• Communicates with patients and engages in follow-up as necessary via telehealth

• Provides patient assessment, diagnosis and treatment plans in accordance with statutes, regulations and protocols regulating the profession
• Collaborates with the staff psychiatrist, the nursing staff and technical personnel
• Provides psychiatric health services, education, counseling and emotional support
• Refers patients for inpatient care, in collaboration with the staff psychiatrist, as necessary
• Issues medication prescriptions in accordance with treatment guidelines
• Orders laboratory tests, interprets and explains the test results to patients
• Provides patient education regarding medications, risks, benefits and reasonable outcome expectations
• Utilized multi-modal diagnostic tools to diagnose and treat patients with memory difficulties and dementia
• Communicates with patients and families engages in follow-up as necessary in person or telehealth.

• Provides patient assessment, diagnosis and treatment plans in accordance with statutes, regulations and protocols regulating the profession
• Collaborates with the staff psychiatrist, the nursing staff and technical personnel
• Provides psychiatric health services, education, counseling and emotional support
• Refers patients for inpatient care, in collaboration with the staff psychiatrist, as necessary
• Issues medication prescriptions in accordance with treatment guidelines
• Orders laboratory tests, interprets and explains the test results to patients
• Provides patient education regarding medications, risks, benefits and reasonable outcome expectations
• Communicates with patients and engages in follow-up as necessary in person or telehealth.

• Fulltime 40 hours a week, Medication administration to long term residents
• Provide accurate psychiatric nursing assessments
• Assist physicians on daily rounds
• Observe for deviations in medical or mental health status and report as necessary
• Supervision of staff.

• Utilized working knowledge of clinical and budgetary compliance
• Ensure patient care plans contained accurate documentation
• Assisted nursing staff for significant changes, document, and report as required
• Scheduled and performed rounds to monitor and evaluate the appropriateness
• Monitor staff in delivery of effective quality care
• Scheduled staff meeting and assigned duties
• Developed positive employee relations, incentives and recognition programs to promote teamwork and mutual respect
• Evaluated work performance of 50 nursing personnel to determine wage increases and implement discipline.

• Monitored employee performance and conducted periodic performance appraisals
• Scheduled and performed rounds to monitor and evaluate appropriateness and quality if nursing care
• Supervised nursing operations and provided nursing care
• Prepared staffing agenda's and scheduled staffing meetings
• Assisted nursing director with creating and implementing policies and procedures
• EMAR Educator
• Seclusion and Restraint Committee Member
• Recruited, hired and trained all staff, providing direct supervision, ongoing staff development and continuing education to employees.

• Medication administration to long term residents
• Created nursing care plans and provided accurate documentation
• Assess for deviations in physical and mental health status
• Provided effective and efficient quality of care
• Provided supervision for building staff