Curriculum Vitae

Sherry A. Marsden, PMHNP, MS, RN

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Lakeland, Fl. 33811

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ad3zs7@r.postjobfree.com

February 27, 2024

EDUCATION

Functional Medicine Student February 2024

Functional Medicine University, Greer, South Carolina February 2024

Master of Science in Nursing Psychiatric Mental Health Advanced Nurse Practitioner Specialty

University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, Missouri December 2016

Bachelor of Science in Nursing

University of Phoenix, Phoenix, Arizona June 2007

Associates of Science in Nursing

University of the State of New York, Albany, New York November 1996

Licensed Practical Nurse

Greater Lawrence Vocational Institute, West Lawrence, Massachusetts June 1982

Scholarship

Methuen High School, Methuen, MA., Home Nursing Scholarship 1981

Licensures and Certifications

Licensed Practical Nurse August 1982-January 1997 Massachusetts

Licensed Registered Nurse 1997-present Massachusetts

Licensed Registered Nurse 1998-present Florida Compact

Licensed Family Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner-Board Certified American Nurses Credentialing Center May 2016-2021

Energy Mastery Certification August 2019

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Training Certification (EMDR) Part 1&2 January 2020

Medication Assisted Treatment Waiver Certification by SAMSHA for 100 patients December 2019

Master’s Thesis

Light Therapy Improves Bipolar Depression

Academic Employment

Adjunct Faculty, Galen College of Nursing, Tampa, FL. 2012-2013

Clinical Instruction: Transition to Registered Nursing Practice

Concepts of Medical-Surgical Nursing

Skills Lab Practicum and Testing

Clinical Employment

Tri-County Human Services, Lakeland, FL. 11/22/19 to present

Meadowbrook Psychiatric and Counseling Centre (subsidiary of Tri-County), Lakeland, Fl.

Psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner (PMHNP) provider responsibilities:

●Administers psychiatric treatment, prescribes medication and medication assisted treatment (MAT) in an out-patient community mental health center, including residential clients associated with Tri-County Human Services.

●Accustomed to Tele-med services.

●Delivers prescriptive authority, treatments, and therapies in accordance with state and federal laws.

●Exercises patient and provider team approach, facilitating a therapeutic relationship, in a manner that preserves and protects patient autonomy, dignity, values, and beliefs. Upholds HIPPA.

●Possess track record of stabilizing mental illness symptomatology within 1-3 medication follow-ups.

●Determines accurate diagnosis according to DSM-V within initial evaluation or with 1 medication follow-up.

●Assessments include questionnaires for psychiatric clients, such as mood disorder (MDQ), generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), patient health questionnaire (PHQ-9), craving scales for MAT clients, and baker act criteria. MDQ performed more often to assess emerging bipolar illness. Collects substantial psychiatric history and medical history upon initial psychiatric evaluation.

●Reconciles medication list during each medication management.

●Conserves company resources, asserts loyalty to company, and attends to increase productivity.

●Delegates tasks to ancillary staff but retains overall accountability of patient care.

●Participates in bi-monthly meetings with collaborating psychiatrist and peers to review complex cases, provide new knowledge, review, update, and modify policy and procedures as needed, identifying indicators that encumber workflow.

●Partakes in weekly MAT meetings to announce new admissions, discharges, updates of financial reserves, and progress or regression to patient treatment and goals.

Peace River Center for Personal Development Lakeland, FL. 12/2018-6/2019

PMHNP for FACT Team

Responsibilities: Monthly med management follow-ups for 100 seriously mentally ill clients in office or at their homes. Participation in daily meetings with interdisciplinary team to coordinate and review need for medical follow-up, individual supportive therapy, substance abuse counseling individually and groups, crisis assessment and intervention, assessment for vocational opportunities, support in activity of daily living including social, interpersonal relationships, leisure time training, and assistance obtaining affordable housing.

Stewart-Marchman-Act Behavioral Healthcare Daytona Beach, FL. 04/2017 to 11/2018

PMHNP

Responsibilities: Medication Management: Initiation, titration, and discontinuance of medications used to treat psychiatric disorders described in DSM-5. Psychiatric Evaluation/Assessment/Consultation: Determination of diagnosis and treatment plan for psychiatric patients through clinical interview, data collection review of prior records, collection of collateral data and performance of a mental status examination. Coordination of patient care with other health professionals, agencies, and family members as indicated. Evaluation for the need of psychotherapy. Emergency Assessment: Evaluation of clients who present with acute needs to include possible danger to self or others.

Expert Staffing, Worcester, MA. 11/2015 to 02/2017

RN, MSN

Responsibilities: Functioned as a charge nurse in long-term care facility cared for 25 patients and 9-16 bed hospice houses: administered medications, treatments, notified MD of changes in patient condition and documented all care provided.

Functioned as a staff nurse in a psychiatric hospital providing psychiatric assessments, administering medications and treatments to 10-12 clients and documented all care provided. Abided by the policies and procedures of each facility when providing care. Utilized nursing process when providing care according to physician orders and in conformance with familiar nursing procedures, established standards, and administrative policies.

Baldpate Hospital, Georgetown, MA. 04/2016 to 04/2017

Charge RN, MSN

Responsibilities: Functioned as a charge nurse or medication nurse on a 15-bed acute psychiatric unit and 15-bed substance abuse unit. Applied nursing process to assess patient’s needs. Evaluated and documented the effects of ordered medication and treatment. Documented and alerted MD of changes in patient behavior, mental status, or physical condition. Assumed responsibility of admissions and discharges. Maintained communication to other health care members of the treatment team.

First Step of Sarasota, Sarasota, FL. 2015

Charge RN, BSN

Responsibilities: in charge of a 31-bed detox unit which includes admissions, discharges, reporting to ARNP or physician of deteriorating health condition, administering medications, monitoring vital signs, COWs, CIWAs, craving scales and urine drug screen documentation.

Family Lives, Westborough, MA., 2014-2015

Staff RN, BSN

Responsibilities: provided 1:1 home health care to medically fragile children and vent- dependent adults.

Manatee Glens Hospital and Addictions, Bradenton, FL. 2013

PMHNP student

Performed biopsychosocial assessments, admissions, discharges, urine drug screens, vital signs, weights, counseling related to healthy living in an outpatient dual disorder population setting. Developed and provided psychoeducational and social skills training groups to children, adolescents, and adults in a locked psychiatric unit. On Saturdays, helped the nurses with discharges in intensive out-patient.

Good Shepherd Hospice House, Lakeland, FL., 2011-2013

Charge RN, BSN

Responsibilities: charge nurse of 7-12 bed units. Performed admissions, discharges, assessment, pain, and symptom control for terminally ill patients, provided support and education for the patient and their families, collaborated with the interdisciplinary team to attain goals of the plan of care.

Professional Nurse Staffing, Lakeland, FL. 2008-2009

Agency RN, BSN

Responsibilities: Staffed Good Shepherd Hospice Houses in Lakeland and Auburndale, Fl. as charge nurse of 7-12 bed units. Performed admissions, discharges, assessment, pain, and symptom control for terminally ill patients, provided support and education for the patient and their families, collaborated with the interdisciplinary team to attain goals of plan of care.

Supplemental Health Care, Tampa, FL.

Contract/Traveler RN 2007-2008 Staffed James A. Haley Veterans Hospital, Tampa, Fl. on rehabilitation units, such as spinal cord injury and traumatic brain injury.

Contract/Traveler RN 2008 three-month contract at Northside Hospital, St. Petersburg, Fl. Served as a medical surgical staff nurse.

Agency RN 2008 Staffed Cab Mental Health and Substance Abuse Hospital, Danvers, Ma. as admissions intake coordinator.

Medical Staffing Network, Winter Haven, FL. 2005-2007

Agency RN

Responsibilities: Staffed Hillsborough County Jail, Tampa, Fl. Infirmary charge nurse. Provided medical care to assigned men and women units.

Responsibilities: Staffed Zephyrhills Correctional Institution, Zephyrhills, Fl., Provided psychiatric and medical care to inmates on transitional and crisis stabilization units.

Polk County Jail, Frostproof, FL. 2003-2005

Supervisor of Nursing

Responsibilities: Supervised 6 LPNs, coordinated, triaged, and initiated inmate medical and mental health care. Adjoined the county health department in state regulatory compliance of infectious disease management. Performed emergency treatment and conducted care in a clinic type setting. Addressed policy and procedures.

Cross Country Travcorps, Boca Raton, FL.

Travel Nurse April- July 2003 (three-month contract), Winter Haven Hospital, Winter Haven, Fl.

Responsibilities: Worked on an orthopedic unit, patient load 1:12, administered scheduled and PRN medications by mouth, intravenous push, intramuscular, subcutaneous routes, blood and blood product transfusions, intravenous fluids, treatments (incisional dressing changes and etc), oxygen, discontinuing and care of foley catheters, assisted patient with bed mobility, transfers, ambulation, set-up CPM machines, bathing, applying sequential leg pumps, monitoring vital signs and telemetry, insertion of intravenous catheters, care of PICC lines, collection of blood through implanted ports, report progress and/or deteriorating health condition to physician, assist with admission and discharges.

Professional memberships

Neuroscience Education Institute

Polk County Advanced Practice Nurses Association

Florida Nursing Association

Community Service

Mentoring young adults with mental health issues and/or addictions referred by family and friends.

Hobbies

Aqua jogging

Aeroponic Gardening

Organic facial and body scrub concocting

Interests

Gut health and mental illness

Sunlight, sleep, connection to nature, and the impact of well-being

Addiction Medicine

Future Endeavors

Continue to precept future Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners

Complete Functional Medicine Certification

Treat the root cause of mental illness applying the functional medicine approach

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