Lydia Onatunde, MSN, AGACNP-BC, CCRN, BA, DPNS, RN

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Objective:

Recently certified and licensed Adult Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner with an extensive cardiac experience. The last year and a half as a student Nurse Practitioner was spent doing clinical rotations.

Education: University of South Alabama, December 2014 Master of Science in Nursing

Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Specialty University of Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom November 1996 BA (Hons) Community Health

South Bank University, London, United Kingdom July 1995 Diploma in Professional Nursing Studies

Buckinghamshire College of Nursing and Midwifery, U.K. July 1992 Registered General Nurse

Licensure: Adult Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner: Certified by the American Nurses Credentialing Center and the American Association of Critical Care.

Advance Practice Registered Nurse: Florida

Critical Care Registered Nurse: Certified by the American Association of Critical Care Nurses.

Registered Nurse: Florida

ACLS and BLS certified

Advanced Practice Experience: Specialty Practica in MSN Program (unsalaried) Aug. 2013 to Dec. 2014

Medicine Hospitalist Service (Internal Medicine) - 256 Hours: Managed approximately 6 to 8 patients a day on the Hospitalist service under the Hospitalist preceptor’s oversight. Providing inpatient care, admissions, discharges, and medication management. Completing history and physical examinations, ordering pertinent diagnostics. Interpretation of laboratory and other diagnostic studies.

Emergency Medicine - 60 hours: Completed in the emergency room under the preceptor’s supervision, seeing anywhere from 4 to 10 patients a day depending on the acuity of the patients. Cardiology - 50 hours: Managed approximately 6-8 patients a day with acute cardiac conditions such as chest pain, acute coronary syndrome new arrhythmia, and heart failure. Observed procedure such as cardiac catheterizations, stent placements, green field filter placement etc. Developed cardiovascular diagnoses based on patient presentation, laboratory, and imaging studies. Formulate a treatment plan and evaluate patient response to treatment. Educate patients and families regarding the cardiovascular disease process, including primary and secondary cardiac prevention

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Pulmonology - 50 hours: Providing inpatient pulmonary consults for patient’s presenting with pulmonary disease. Obtaining comprehensive health history and performing physical examination. Ordering and interpreting screening and laboratory tests. Ordering and interpreting common diagnostic procedures. Assessing and diagnosing pulmonary and associated conditions within the expertise and knowledge of the NP. Prescribing treatment regimens, and monitoring efficacy of treatment.

Nephrology - 40 hours: Inpatient and outpatient care of approximately 8 or 9 patients with renal dysfunction ranging from mild acute kidney injury to end stage renal disease. Responsibilities included day to day fluid and electrolyte monitoring, placing dialysis orders and monitoring patient’s responses to treatment.

Gastrointestinal - 40 hours: Inpatient GI consults Providing inpatient GI consults for patient’s presenting with GI problems. Obtaining comprehensive health history and performing physical examination. Ordering and interpreting screening and laboratory tests. Infectious Disease - 60 hours: providing inpatient ID consults in different area of the hospital. Evaluating and manage opportunistic infections, identify and interpreting blood culture results and prescribing the appropriate antibiotic. Implementing treatment plans for gram negative and gram positive bacterial infections

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Specialty Observation - 24 hours: These hours were utilized for observing specialists in opthalmology, gynecology, and otolaryngology and for learning foundational assessment skills in those specialties in order to recognize gross abnormalities when called upon to do so, and to know where to refer patient.

Endocrinology-40 hours: (Regency Endocrinology Diabetes) Provided care for old and new patients with diabetes, hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism in an outpatients setting. Checked lab results, and changed treatment accordingly.

Selected Professional Experience

Dec. 2010 to present Select Specialty Hospital LTAC Orlando, FL House Supervisor, Relief Charge, Staff RN

Precept new staff, and the resource person for staff. Educate patients and family members. Expert in caring for the chronically critical ill. Competent at running rapid responses and codes. Proficient in assisting with the weaning process of patients on ventilator and caring for those who are need critical drips. Completed my MSN.

Nov. 2006 to Sept. 2010 South Seminole Hospital Longwood, FL Staff RN (Nights) Multisystem PCU then ICU

Worked on PCU but was floated to ICU most of the time. Active member of the unit based council, chaired meetings on occasionally. Successfully completed the advanced critical care course, and transferred to ICU

Nov. 2004 to Nov. 2006 Osceola Regional Medical Centre Kissimmee, FL Staff Nurse/ Relief Charge (Nights) Cardiovascular Step down, and later CVICU Proficient in the management of patients with cardiac diseases as well as pre-op and post op- patients open heart surgery. Critical Care Registered Nurse certification obtained. Knowledgeable and capable of managing fresh open heart patients after three months orientation. Jan. 2004 to Oct. 2004 Travel Nurse (Nights)

Cardiothoracic step down /TICU Mount Sinai Hospital, Manhattan, NY Managed the care of patients who had undergone coronary artery bypass grafts, valve replacements or repair, major thoracic vascular surgery, heart and lung transplant, LVADS, thoracotomies and video assisted thorascopies.

Progressive Care Unit Sierra View District Hospital Porterville, CA Cared for a general population of illnesses needing heart monitoring, floated to ICU as needed. Jan. 2001 to Oct. 2003 Osceola Regional Medical Centre Kissimmee, FL Charge/Staff Nurse (Nights) ICU, CVICU, Cardiovascular Step down. Managed care for cardiac patients as well as pre and post operation patients going for open heart surgery. Worked as one of the charge nurses on night shifts on the cardiovascular step down unit. Resource/support person for staff, agency and pool nurses.

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