PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

TRIDENTUSA MOBILE CLINICAL SERVICES: Rocky Mt. NC, (Clinic - Carthage, TN)

Family Nurse Practitioner/Corporate Clinical Mentor (8/2012 – present)

•Admission, discharge, acute, and regulatory visit responsibility

•2013-2014, Kindred Corporation Best Re-Hospitalization Rate, Mid-South District

•2013, Anti-cholinergic and anxiolytic medications reduced, blood pressures adjusted to target, vitamin D initiation for osteoporosis, decreased falls and fractures

•2014, Decreased facility-wide antipsychotic use by 40%

•2015, Discontinuation of sliding-scale insulin, adjusted HbA1c to ADA target

•Corporate trainer, new facility implementation team - accepted August 2014

•Start-up 2nd clinic contracted 8/10/15, Lebanon, TN

•Clinical Mentor position – accepted January 2016

•Aprima EHR Superuser/Trainer

E & A SOLUTIONS, INC: Nashville TN & Lebanon, TN

Nurse Practitioner (5/2011- 2013)

• New business section start

MINUITE CLINIC: Nashville, TN

Family Nurse Practitioner (3/2011 – 9/2011)

• Retail healthcare - Assessment, diagnosis, and treatment

CUMBERLAND UNIVERSITY: Lebanon, TN

Instructor (8/2009 – 5/2011)

• BSN generalist program lecture/clinical instruction/curriculum development/committee participation.

UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: Lebanon, TN

Staff RN (2003 – 2009)

•Emergency Department - Triage and care of the emergency patient

•Lebanon Surgery Center - Pre-operative, intra-operative, post-operative, discharge

•Cardiac Cath Lab - Circulator, DC cardioversion, TEE, stress tests, balloon pump Unit Manager, PACU (1994 – 1998)

•Promoted to management after working as PACU nurse, surgical circulator, and floor nurse. Six bed inpatient bed and 6 bed outpatient unit • Successful JCAHO survey with no deficiencies

ALL ABOUT STAFFING: Nashville, TN

Critical Care RN (2002 – 2007)

• Nashville, TN HCA float pool

BAPTIST AMBULATORY SURGERY CENTER: Nashville, TN

Staff RN, PRN (2002 – 2003)

Post-operative recovery, pain management, teaching, and discharge

SKYLINE MEDICAL CENTER: Nashville, TN

Unit Manager, Critical Care Unit (2000 – 2002)

•Budget responsibility for 22-bed critical care unit

•Management of 50 staff servicing 465 patients per month

•Diverse cardiac, pulmonary, and neurology patient population

•Successful JCAHO survey with no deficiencies

•EMR start-up lead person

•Active involvement in the construction and planning of a new hospital building

•Successful movement of critical patients into a new facility

SAINT THOMAS HOSPITAL: Nashville, TN

Staff RN, PRN (2002 – 2003)

•Circulate Interventional Radiology

•Arterial sheath certified Unit Manager, PACU (1998 – 1999)

•Budget responsibility for19 bed PACU and 8 bed General/Vascular Holding unit

•Management of 35 staff • Successful JCAHO survey with no deficiencies.

EDUCATION

Duke University / J & J Fellowship, Raleigh, NC Current 2016 – 2017 year

University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL Doctorate in Nursing Practice

Critical Care Certification Society of Critical Care Medicine

Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY MSN, Educator/ Post MSN, FNP

Cumberland University, Lebanon TN Bachelor Science in Nursing

Associate of Business

PROFESSIONAL ACCREDITATION HISTORY

Basic Life Support (BLS) – 1993 - 2015

Certified Post Anesthesia Nurse (CPAN) - 1998 - 2010

Trauma Nursing Care Course (TNCC) – 2005 - 2013

Emergency Nursing Pediatric Course (ENPC) – 2005 - 2009

Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) – 1994 - 2013

Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) – 1995 - 2011

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

American Academy of Nurse Practitioners

Gerontological Advanced Practice Nurses Association

Middle Tennessee Advanced Practice Nurses

Sigma Theta Tau International Nursing Honor Society

Chi Epsilon Lambda Nursing Honor Society Alumni

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