Victoria Gurfolino, RN, PMHNP-BC

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Cambridge, MA 02140

617-***-****

acasxy@r.postjobfree.com

Summary

Completed Nurse Practitioner program at Regis College, with focus in

Psychiatry. Board Certified. 2010.

The following 600 hours were clinical:

Carney Hospital, Dorchester MA, Adult and Geriatric In-Patient Locked

Units, D Kenney, NP

Psychopharmacology Clinic at Salem CCS, D Kenney, NP

Brockton VA Hospital Urgent Care/Triage, S Rouse, NP

MGH Palliative Care Outpatient Clinic, Connie Dahlin, NP

Current Positions

Medical Psych Liaison Lawrence Memorial Hospital

Assess care needs of medically ill patients presenting with psychiatric

symptoms. Coordinate needs of patients within ER, ICU, Medical units.

Psych Liaison for Bear Hill Nursing Center

Oversee care needs of geriatric patients in acute rehab and long term care,

working as a consultant to PCP's within facility. 22.5 hours

Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital

Palliative Care NP Out-Patient Department

Work with Dr Mary Buss, Tuesdays and Wednesdays 12 hours, coordinating care

needs for patients with life limiting disease. Primary focus involves pain

and symptom management. Prescribing responsibilities. Position involves 2

clinic sessions.

May 2010-August 2011

Hospice and Palliative Care NP,

Hallmark Health VNA & Hospice.

This position involves assessing needs of patients in the community,

nursing facilities, assisted living centers. Responsibility includes

performing face to face encounters with hospice patients and coordinating

pain and symptom management for Hospice and Palliative Care Patients. Serve

as resource for the hospice team, provide on-going education to VNA in pain

and symptom management as well as attend to the educational needs

identified by contracted nursing facilities.

Provide Palliative Care consultation for care needs of patients within

community, home, nursing homes, assisted living centers. Triaging acute

symptom management for VNA/Home care patients who present with Non-cancer

diagnosis, Cancer, and Chronic pain issues. Coordinate care with clinicians

when plan of care changes from acute to palliative, easing transition

towards care and comfort.

Medical/Psychiatric Liaison, Lawrence Memorial Hospital, Medford, Ma.

Position involves assessing/triaging the Psychiatric needs of hospitalized

patients within Med/Surg, ICU, and Emergency department.

Professional Experience

July 1999---present, Hallmark Health VNA & Hospice, Community nurse

liaison, member of Cancer Committee, End of Life Committee, Education

Committee. Responsible for CEU programs and chaired Palliative Care team

within the VNA.

1997-1999 Clinical Director Beacon Hospice

1995-1997 Urban Team Manager for Hospice Care Inc

1992-1995 Clinical Director Trinity Hospice

1990-1992 Staff Nurse Hospice of the Good Shepherd

1989-1990 Staff Nurse Trinity Hospice

1987-1989 Staff Nurse St Peter's Hospice, Albany, NY

1986-1987 Staff Nurse Albany Veterans Hospital, Psychiatry

1985-1986 Staff Nurse Boston VA Hospital General Surgery, Orthopedics

Previous Work Experience in Psychiatry and Substance Abuse:

Boston VA Medical Center, Jamaica Plain, MA, worked as mental health

assistant Inpatient Psychiatry, 1975-1979

Substance Abuse Counselor, Ward 7C, Boston VAMC, 'Concept Program' for

alcohol/drug addicts, detoxification unit/inpatient program 1979-1983.

Johns Hopkins Hospital, Phipps Clinic 1969-1972 Psychiatric Nursing

Assistant within a 'Therapeutic Community/ Milieu Therapy' within Inpatient

unit.

Education:

Regis College, Weston, MA, Psychiatric Mental Health NP program 5/2010.

Board Certified 9/17/10.

Mass General Institute of Health Professionals, started program 1998,

completed three courses, stopped with arrival of two toddlers.

University of Massachusetts, Boston, School of Nursing, BSN 1985.

Baltimore Junior College, Associates Degree, Mental Health, 1972.

Professional Courses

ELNEC Training, 2004. ELNEC Train the Trainer, 2005

Honors

VA Scholar 1983

Professional Affiliations

Mass Pain Initiative, Education Committee

New England pain Association

Hospice and Palliative Nurse Association

Publication

"Hospice Nursing: The Concept of Palliative Care" Nursing Clinics of North

America, Volume 29, No 3, September 1994, pp 533-546. Victoria Gurfolino

and Linda Dumas.

Presentations

Navigating the Maze, Understanding End of Life Care Decisions, October

2004, Caregivers Expo, Hallmark Health VNA.

Talking About the Things You Don't Want to Talk About, with Attorney

Stephen Spano, Caregivers Expo, October 2005 and October 2007.

Unraveling the Maze of Hospice and Palliative Care, May 2005.

Train the Trainer, ELNEC course instructor for HHVNA & Hospice staff, 2006.

ELNEC Trainings Winter/Spring 2008:

Epoch Nursing Care facility

Chelsea Soldiers Home

Bear Hill Nursing Home

Hallmark Health VNA & Hospice staff

ELNEC trainings 2007, 2006 HHVNA Hospice and Community

Fall 2008 Super 88 Asian Health Fair, with Dr's Sui, and Pham.

Hospice Panel-Religious and Spiritual Views at End of Life, November 12,

2008, Panel Discussion involving clergy from the following religions-

Muslim, Jewish, Catholic, Buddhist, Protestant. Coordinated/facilitated

ELNEC Training for BC/BS case managers 2/2010

ELNEC Training for Commonwealth Care Staff 4/2010

Undiagnosed Pain in Elders, American Geriatric Society

May 2010, Orlando Florida, V Gurfolino, MSN, M Tanur, MD, J Tanur, PhD

Undiagnosed Pain in Elders, Maplewood Place 5/18/2010

Cultural Aspects of Illness, Death, and Dying, May 19, 2010

Glen Ridge Nursing Home

Elder Pain and the Use of Adjunctive Medications,

European Geriatric Society, Dublin, Ireland, October 7-9, 2010

M Tanner, MD, V Gurfolino, MSN

ELNEC training for Center For Living, Chelsea, November 2010.

Dementia Care: Dealing with Problematic Behaviors, Medication/Behavior

Management.

Hospice & Palliative Care, Federation of Massachusetts. 2011 Annual

Education Conference, October 26, 2011.

Stress Management---Veterans Association Melrose Seniors, March 13, 2012,

Melrose, MA

Anxiety and Depression Across the Spectrum of Care

Art and Science of Palliative Care Nursing, Harvard, May 10, 2013

Anxiety and Depression at End of Life

Hospice and Palliative Care Federation of Massachusetts, 2013 Annual

Education Conference, October 22-24, 2013

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