Nurse Practitioner Registered
Resume:
CURRICULUM VITAE SEPT/****
PATRICK BERTZ (Ret LTC AN Army)
FAMILY NURSE PRACTITIONER
Madison, WI
Home Phone: 608-***-****
Cell Phone: 608-***-****
E-Mail:
*******@***.***
Born: 10/28/57, Marshfield, WI
Attended Neillsville High School, Neillsville, WI
Graduated in May 1975
Married to Lorinda Bertz with two children Sarah (4/88) and Samuel (9/89)
I am looking to continue my nursing career as a Family Nurse Practitioner.
I have over 17 years' experience as a Family Nurse Practitioner and 29
years as a Registered Nurse. I am seeking employment as a nurse
practitioner. I am highly motivated and dedicated and would be an asset to
your organization.
EDUCATION
8/94 - 5/96 M.S.N. Family Nurse Practitioner from Uniformed Services
University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, MD 1995-1996
GPA 3.96
Advanced Clinical Practice Award
6/92 - 5/94 M.S.N. Advanced Clinical from George Mason University, Fairfax,
VA
GPA 3.9
Masters Clinical Practice Award
8/87 - 5/89 B.S. Health Care Administration from Saint Leo College, Saint
Leo, FL
(Cum Laude) GPA 3.5
8/80 - 5/84 A.D. Nursing from Madison Area Technical College, Madison, WI
ACLS expires 8/14
BCLS expires 8/14
ANCC Board Certification as a Family Nurse Practitioner expires 8/31/2016
CCRN certified from 1991-1999.
PALS certified from 1997-2003
CIVILIAN AND MILITARY FAMILY NURSE PRACTITIONER WORK EXPERIENCE
7/13- Present.
Nurse Practitioner at Home Health United Hospice. Working part time
providing home hospice services. Providing in home symptom management and
face to face hospice eligibility exams. Collaborates with health care team
providing all medical educational needs
7/13-Present.
Family Nurse Practitioner volunteering as a health care provider at Our
Lady of Hope Clinic. Providing full scope family practice patient care to
an underserved population in Madison, WI. Currently working part time
seeing walk-ins and scheduled patients.
1/13- 7/13
Nurse Practitioner at Agrace Hospice, Madison, WI. Provide quality patient
care to hospice patients and families that requiring symptom management or
end of life care.
o 90% of time has been working on the In-Patient Unit (IPU).
Management of acute symptoms that affect quality of life, (pain,
delirium, pulmonary, cardiac or infectious) problem. Management
of end of life.
o 9%Outpatient face to face evaluations
o 1% Outpatient Palliative care consults
1/10- 12/12
Family Nurse Practitioner at Tomah and Madison VA Medical Center. Worked in
Outpatient Primary Care Clinics, Cardiology Heart Failure, Inpatient
Medicine, Community Living Center and Hospice Areas providing full service
internal medicine/primary care services to Veterans. Assumed leadership
positions with-in the VA when desired.
. Maintained standard of practice for complicated internal medicine
patients with physician supervision. All performance evaluations were
high satisfactory or outstanding.
. While working in-patient medicine stabilized multiple patients with
acute respiratory distress that needed to be intubated, acute GI
bleeds, acute MI and acutely septic patients that became
hemodynamically unstable and needed to be transported to the ICU.
. Worked facility telephone triage having to get critically
injured/unstable patients to the VA for further medical care.
. Maintained monthly peer review standards.
2/09-1/10
Recall back to active duty at Fort McCoy, WI. Worked in both the troop
medical clinic and soldier readiness center at Fort McCoy, WI. Instrumental
in processing a high volume of soldiers mobilizing and demobilizing through
Fort McCoy.
. Worked urgent care medical triage at the Troup Medical Clinic needing
to stabilize and arrange for transportation of unstable soldiers
(acute MI, trauma, respiratory distress) that presented for care.
. As officer in charge of all health care providers. Monitored monthly
peer review and identified needed provider education based on these
reviews.
5/06- 2/09
Family Nurse Practitioner at Fort Leonard Wood Army Community Hospital.
Functioned in both administrative and clinical duties while working in the
family practice clinic, troop medical clinic and soldier readiness center.
Retired from the Army in 04/08. Worked Civil Service as GS 12-10 for 10
months after retiring.
. Worked in the Family Practice Clinic seeing patients through the life
span.
. Worked in the Combined Troup Medical Clinic seeing basic trainees with
moderate to severe orthopedic injuries, acute fevers or other acute
medical conditions.
. As officer in charge of all health care providers. Monitored monthly
peer review and identified needed provider education based on these
reviews.
. Served as mid-level provider alternate to the Fort Leonard Wood Army
Community Hospital Credentials Committee.
. Clinical Practice Guideline Champion for Asthma and Low Back Pain,
giving yearly pro-staff presentation on guideline with up-dates.
7/03 - 4/06
Family Nurse Practitioner and Officer in Charge (06/04 to 11/06) of the
Joel Health Clinic at Fort Bragg, North Carolina that provided full service
primary care to a geriatric heavy population of approximately 26,000
beneficiaries. Deployed to Kuwait for 4 months in 2005.
. Worked triage and treatment room caring for acute medical injuries to
include acute trauma, respiratory distress/asthma attacks, and heat
injuries to include rhabdomyolysis.
. While deployed to Kuwait worked several mass causality triage scens
for motor vehicle accidents.
. As officer in charge of all health care providers. Monitored monthly
peer review and identified needed provider education based on these
reviews.
. Served as mid-level provider alternate to the Fort Leonard Wood Army
Community Hospital Credentials Committee.
. Successfully led clinic through Joint Commission Inspection with no
deficiencies identified.
10/00 - 6/03
Chief Nurse/Family Nurse Practitioner at the Dexheim Health Clinic,
Dexheim, Germany. Functions as the chief of the nursing department and as a
clinical provider of 600+ panel of Dependent Army Family Members. Providing
health care through the life span to include medical triage for small rural
Army health Clinic.
. As officer in charge of all health care providers. Monitored monthly
peer review and identified needed provider education based on these
reviews.
. Successfully led clinic through Joint Commission Inspection with no
deficiencies identified.
. Clinical Practice Guideline Champion for Smoking Cessation and TB
giving yearly pro-staff presentation on guideline with up-dates.
8/99 - 7/00
Family Nurse Practitioner in the Family Health Center and Active Duty
Clinic, Fairchild AFB, WA. Functions as a clinical provider of health care
through the life span with additional duties of Facility
Coordinator/Provider of Putting Prevention into Practice (PPIP).
. Clinical Practice Guideline Champion for Diabetes giving yearly pro-
staff presentation on guideline with up-dates.
7/96 - 7/99
Family Nurse Practitioner in the Family Practice Clinic, Spangdahlem AB,
Germany. Worked as a primary care provider for patients throughout the life
span. Additional duties as Medial Liaison Officer (MLO) for Health
Promotions, Cycle Ergometry, and Mock Code Coordinator, Wing Exercise
Evaluation Team (EET), MLO smoking cessation, Medical Group Credential
Committee member representing the Nurse Corps.
8/94 - 6/96
Student at Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.
1/94 - 8/94
Staff RN in the Emergency Room and Clinical Night Supervisor at Malcolm
Grow Medical Center, Andrews AFB, MD 20331.
8/91 - 1/94
Staff/Charge/Staff Development Nurse in a 10-bed ICU at Malcolm Grow
Medical Center, Andrews AFB, MD 20331.
3/89 - 8/91
Staff/Charge Nurse in a 10-bed CCU. Also worked part-time in acute and
chronic hemodialysis in Bayonet/Hudson HCA Medical Center, 14000 Fiveay
Road, Hudson, FL 34667.
10/86 - 4/89
Critical Care Agency Nurse. Working in the Critical Care Units in the Tampa
Bay, FL area. Stantons, Inc. P.O. Box 186 Palm Harbor, FL 34682.
5/85 - 9/87
Staff/Charge Nurse in a 24 bed combined ICU. Medical, Surgical,
Cardiovascular, Trauma and Neurosurgical Intensive Care Patients. Orlando
Regional Medical Center, 1414 S. Kuhl Avenue, Orlando, FL 32806.
10/84 - 5/85
Home Health RN for Home Health Services of Greater Savannah. Worked as a
community health nurse serving Savannah and the surrounding rural area.
7805 Waters Avenue #8B, Savannah, GA 31403.
6/84 - 2/85
Staff Nurse in a 32-bed step down Surgical Floor and Cardiovascular
Intensive Care Unit. Memorial Medical Center, P.O. Box 23089, Savannah, GA
31403.
References are available upon request.
Military SCHOOLS:
. Enlisted Basic training in 1975
. NCO Academy USAF in 1979
. Honorable Discharge as a noncommissioned officer USAF in 1980
. Officers Indoctrination School for USAF 1991
. Squadron Officer School in Correspondence and Residence (credit for
OAC)
. Lateral service transfer from USAF to USA in 2000
. Officers Basic Course USA 2000
. Army Command and General Staff College 2001-03
CIVILIAN, MILITARY AWARDS, PRIZES, AND TITLES:
. Registered Nurse with advanced practice licensure in Florida and NC
. Board Certified in Primary Care in Adult and Family Health Nursing
Practice by The American Nurses Credentialing Center
. Instructor, Advanced Cardiac Life Support
. Provider, Advanced Pediatric Life Support
. Provider, Basic Life Support
. Certified Trauma Core Nurse
. Malcolm Grow Medical Center Company Grade Officer of the Quarter for
the fourth quarter of 1992
. Editor of the Malcolm Grow Medical Center Nursing Service Newsletter,
"Nursing Notes" from 10/92 - 2/94
. Nurse of the Quarter for MGMC, ICU, fall 1992
. Sigma Theta Tau, George Mason University 1992-94
. Masters Advanced Clinical Nurse Award from George Mason University
5/94
. Represented Family Nurse Practitioners class of 1995-1996 in Who's Who
in American Colleges and Universities
. Landstuhl Regional Medical Center Military RN of the Year 2002
. Past Certified Critical Care Registered Nurse (CCRN)
. Member of the American Association of Critical Care Nurses (AACN)
Currently in excellent health and continue to exercise daily. Fitness
advocate and have run 26 marathons.
Referenced available upon request
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