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To obtain a position as a Nurse Practitioner offering my skills in patient evaluation, diagnosis and treatment plan development to provide the most effective patient focused care.

EXPERIENCE

JANUARY 2016 – PRESENT

REGISTERED NURSE - CENTRAL STAFFING, VIDANT MEDICAL CENTER

Assisting with staffing needs throughout the hospital on units including the Emergency department, mother baby, oncology, orthopedics, cardiac surgery etc.

MARCH 2008 – JANUARY 2016

REGISTERED NURSE - MEDICAL SERVICE LINE ASSIST TEAM, VIDANT MEDICAL CENTER

Assisting with staffing needs on medicine floors (intermediate and general).

Assess and monitor patient with complex medication illnesses (end stage renal disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, diabetes mellitus, hypertension etc.)

Monitor ventilator and trach patients

Monitor patients on increased oxygen saturations (hi-flow NC, bipap, optiflow)

Initiate and monitor gtts (heparin, Ativan, precedex, etc.)

Charge nurse, float nurse, and preceptor on various units

MAY 2012 – MAY 2013

OWNER AND OPERATOR OF GROUP HOME – QUALIFIED PROFESSIONAL, serenity of wilson Home care, INC.

Coordinating, overseeing, and supervising activities and personnel involved in developmental disabilities and mental health programs

Coordination of new admissions and transfers, conducting tours, facilitating placement

Developing rules, regulations, policies and procedures

Hiring staff

Training staff

Ensuing compliance with relative rules, regulation, policies and procedures

CHARGE NURSE, CARDIAC CONNECTION NURSE, FLOAT NURSE

JULY 2003 – MARCH 2008

REGISTERED NURSE - CARDIAC INTERMEDIATE NURSE, Vidant medical center

Monitoring and assessing patients with various cardiac conditions such as MIs, cardiac arrhythmias, congestive heart failure etc.

Checking ACTs and pulling femoral sheaths

Reading and recording EKG strips

Titrating cardiac gtt (Cardizem, natrecor, cardene, amiodarone, etc).

Monitoring patients after heart catheterizations, ablations, pacemaker placements etc.

Charge nurse, cardiac connection nurse, float nurse

EDUCATION

JUNE 2017

MASTER’S OF SCIENCE IN NURSING, south university

Family Nurse Practitioner GPA, 3.68

Inducted into Sigma Theta Tau

MAY 2003

BACHELOR’S DEGREE IN NURSING, winston-salem state university

SKILLS

Ability to provide patient centered care

Ability to provide patient education and self-care demonstration

Provide competent care with regards to age and disease specifics

CERTIFICATIONS

Advanced Cardiac Life Support

Basic Life Support

Nonviolent crisis intervention strategies

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

AMERICAN NURSES ASSOCIATION

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

MASTER’S PAPER: CHILDHOOD OBESITY PREVENTION, HYPERTENION IN AFRICAN-AMERICANS

COMMUNITY SERVICE

ASSISTING WITH BLOOD PRESSURE SCREENING

ORGANIZING AND PARTICIPATING IN A CHURCH HEALTH FAIR

ORGANIZING AND PARTICIPATIENT IN A COMMUNITY HEALTH FAIR

ACTIVE MEMBER AT ST. PAUL, CHURCH OF CHRIST, DISCLIPLES OF CHRIST, UNDER LEADERSHIP OF BISHOP CHESTER L. AYCOCK

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