Nurse Practitioner Health

Stephanie Tonetta, AOCPN, APN, BC

*** ******** **** ********, ** 08360 phone: 856-***-**** email: *************@*****.***

Objective

Adult Health Nurse Practitioner with a sub specialty in palliative care. Twelve years experience as a nurse practitioner with seven years dedicated to program development and nursing education. Interested in pursuing a career in healthcare program development and strategic planning.

Possesses strong leadership ability and skilled interpersonal and interdisciplinary communication. Effectively collaborates with the health care team. Provides and ensures quality compassionate patient and family centered care. Extensive experience with system wide program development, clinical and professional staff development, and nursing class room education.

Clinically managed and coached nurses as appropriate with unit specific nursing director. Partnered with top executives to evaluate issues surrounding clinical quality and developed plans of care which have improved and sustained quality patient care and outcomes. Chaired several system committees, and organized and lead system wide and divisional meetings. Familiar with Joint Commission regulations and Six Sigma.

Work Experience

Nurse Practitioner-Virtua Health Voorhees, NJ

Virtua Pain and Spine Specialists

July 2011-Present

• Provide patient centered care for patients with various pain conditions in the inpatient and outpatient settings

• Develop and implement patient plan of care, integrating multimodal pain therapy techniques, including non narcotic and narcotic analgesics, trigger point injections, and alternative therapies

• Provide patient and family education regarding interventional pain management modalities and minimally invasive back surgeries, including spinal cord stimulators, DISC-FX, MILD procedure, medial branch blocks, and transforaminal epidural steroid injections

• Provide nursing education regarding care and management of patients with various types of pain

• Collaborate with healthcare and administration teams to expand the inpatient pain consultation service and promote access to clinical services provided by practice

Nurse Practitioner-Cooper Health System Camden, NJ

Department of Breast Surgery

August 2010-July 2011

• Provide patient and family centered care for patients with breast cancer and other diseases of the breast in the inpatient and outpatient setting.

• Develop and integrate a post-operative plan of care, including pain management, for patients who under-go various types of breast surgery, including excisional biopsy, lumpectomy, mastectomy, with or without reconstruction

• Develop patient education materials in collaboration with the health care team for patients with breast cancer and breast related diseases

• Provide nursing education on the care of the postoperative breast cancer patient

• Instructor for the Oncology Nursing Society Chemotherapy and Biotherapy Course

Nurse Practitioner Hospitalist- Garden State Pulmonary Associates Marlton,NJ June 2009-February 2010¬¬

Assisted with increasing patient satisfaction scores within the clinical practice. Accomplished via provision of quality patient care, utilization of effective communication, collaboration with the health care team, and integration of the patient and family centered care model into the patient’s plan of care.

• Assess, diagnose, and treat hospitalized adult patients with medical and surgical health care needs

• Manage patients with cardiopulmonary diseases, gastrointestinal and genitourinary disorders, infectious processes, and post-operative and palliative care needs

• Coordinate post-operative care with surgical team for patients who undergo colorectal, thoracic, genitourinary, and breast surgery

• Admit, provide follow-up care, and discharge patients in an effective, timely, and caring manner

• Collaborate with interdisciplinary team to develop an in-patient and discharge plan of care

• Support end of life care needs of patients and their families

Clinical Advanced Practice Nurse- Virtua Health Marlton Marlton,NJ November 2006-June 2009

Championed an End of Life Initiative with the administrative team, physicians, and clinical staff integrating Six Sigma tools/paradigm as appropriate to address patient and family care needs at end of life, which proved to increase staff awareness and ultimately patient and family care.

Clinical Resources Developed for End of Life Initiative

o Comfort Care Order Set

o Patient and family end of life education

o End of Life Symposium for physicians and nurses

• Strengthen knowledge base of nurses regarding utilization and integration of evidence based practice into clinical practice for provision of quality patient care

Secure grant funding for nursing education programs

• Provide on-line, system wide, and unit based continued nursing education regarding pain, oncology, and end of life

• Unit specific APN- provide clinical support and resources to nurses caring for medical and surgical patients

• Chair Pain Resource Nurse Committee

• Guide pain resource nurses to develop leadership skills to serve as peer role models

• Initiate Schwartz Rounds at Virtua Marlton

• Design Glycemic Control Pilot with interdisciplinary and administrative team: goal to decrease post-operative complications in colorectal patients

• Education Coordinator for Bariatric Program on Surgical Unit

Clinical Advanced Practice Nurse- Virtua Health Voorhees Voorhees,NJ October 2003 to November 2006

Championed a Pain Resource Nurse Program with the intent to improve pain assessment and documentation, maintain compliance with Joint Commission regulations regarding pain, and increase nurses’ knowledge of pain. The program goals were met and maintained through continued surveillance and education.

• Implement a Two Day Pain Resource Nurse Course and Annual Pain Symposium.

• Champion and implement a two day Oncology Review Course

• Participate in weekly multidisciplinary oncology grand rounds

• Unit Specific APN: support clinical needs of nurses caring for medical and surgical patients

• Instructor for the Oncology Nursing Society Chemotherapy and Biotherapy Course

• Actively update policies and procedures regarding chemotherapy administration and safety, and pain assessment, reassessment, and documentation to meet regulatory standards

• Champion a fall risk reduction program, and through research study implemented a fall risk assessment scale used to assess fall risk for all in-patients at Virtua

Oncology Nurse Practitioner- Southern Oncology Hematology Associates Vineland, NJ December 2001 to October 2003

• Assess, diagnose, and treat adult medical oncology patients

• Provide pain and symptom management to adult medical oncology patients

• Coordinate hospice services as appropriate for patients and families at end of life

• Educate patients and families on cancer treatment regimens and side effects of cancer treatment

• Provide educational seminars to health care providers and members of the surrounding communities on cancer prevention

• Coordinate and operationalize clinical trials for oncology patients in the practice

Physician Liaison- Southern Oncology Hematology Associates Vineland, NJ June 2000-June 2001

• Discuss with community physicians the benefits of referring oncology patients to a local oncology practice

• Develop and institute an educational outreach program on breast and prostate cancer awareness for adults living in surrounding rural communities

Staff RN- University of Pennsylvania Hospital Philadelphia, Pa May 1998-June 2000

Provide care to 3-4 patients (shift-dependent) on a 28 bed bone marrow transplant unit, including allogeneic, autologous, and syngeneic bone marrow transplant patients, as well as patients with various hematologic and solid tumor cancers

Staff RN- Thomas Jefferson University Hospital Philadelphia, Pa August 1997-May 1998

• Care for 4-12 patients (shift dependent) on a 32 bed medical oncology unit

Education

University of Notre Dame, Mendoza College of Business, On-Line

Enrolled in Executive Leadership Certificate Program

University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing Philadelphia, Pa Post Master’s Certificate in Palliative Care January 2009

University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing Philadelphia, Pa

MSN Adult Health/Oncology Nurse Practitioner Program August 2001

Trenton State College School of Nursing Trenton, NJ BSN May 1997

Additional Information

CERTIFICATION

• Board Certified As An Advanced Oncology Certified Nurse Practitioner (AOCNP) By The Oncology Nursing Certification Corporation

July 2006

• Board Certified As An Adult Nurse Practitioner By The American Nurses Credentialing Center October 2001

• Certified Instructor For The Oncology Nursing Society’s Chemotherapy And Biotherapy Course August 2004

• BLS Certified

AWARDS:

• Nominated for the 2009 New Jersey Governors’ Award

• Nurse of the Year, Virtua Heath 2008

• Six Sigma Yellow Belt Training

PUBLICATION:

• Providing patient and family centered end of life care in the ICU

Nursing Critical Care. September 2009. Vol 4 (5) 54-55.

PRESENTATIONS

• Postoperative Pain Management Virtua Health May 2013

• Providing Patient and Family Centered End of Life Care in the ICU TRENDS Spring 2009

• Communicating Effectively with Patients and Families at End of Life Virtua Health December 2008

• Caring for Patients at End of Life: Education for Nurses and Physicians Virtua Health October 2008

• Colorectal Cancer: Risk Factors, Screening, and Management Virtua Health February 2007

• Overview of Pain Pathophysiology, Assessment, and Management Virtua Health September and November 2006

• Oncology Nursing Society’s Chemotherapy and Biotherapy Course Virtua Health June and September 2005 and March 2008

• Caring for Patients with Hematologic Disorders Virtua Health April 2005, 2008

Understanding the CBC with Differential and Management of Bone Marrow Suppression Virtua Health May 2004

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