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Nurse Practitioner

Location:
Austin, TX
Posted:
December 09, 2018

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Joan Lange, NP-C, MSN

Mobile: 512-***-**** **502 Santa Cruz Drive Austin TX 78759

ac7wy1@r.postjobfree.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/joanelange/

SUMMARY

I am an experienced Nurse Practitioner with a specialty in Hospital Medicine who most recently achieved a permanent position as an Advanced Care Provider after successfully completing a one-year Advanced Care Fellowship at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, North Carolina an 874 bed, Level 1 Trauma Center and the flagship facility of Atrium Health (formerly Carolinas HealthCare System). During my tenure, our group collaborated with hospital management to conceive and successfully implement a program that decreased average per-patient observation unit stay time by five hours.

EMPLOYMENT

Advanced Care Provider Apr 2014-May 2017

Carolinas Hospitalist Group Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, NC

Before taking a one-year sabbatical in mid-2017 to care for my ailing parents, who are both now deceased, I successfully completed a three-year tenure as an Advanced Care Provider with a focus on measurably improving hospital throughput, decreasing length of stay, providing patient/family education and mentoring new NP/PAs structured under a four-week rotation consisting of:

-Admissions Week, during which I conducted patient histories and physical examinations and used evidence-based medicine guidelines to initiate plans of care for new hospital patients not assigned to a primary care physician;

-Rounding Week and Observation Unit Week, during which I coordinated and managed the care of patients by ordering and interpreting tests, prescribing drug therapies, documenting progress notes and planning and executing discharges;

-Overnight Week, during which I provided hospital-wide, in-house overnight cross-covering, rapid response and code response.

CERTIFICATIONS AND LICENSES Expiration

Adult-Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Oct 2023

DEA Controlled Substance Registration Certificate Mar 2020

Texas Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Dec 2020

Texas Registered Nurse License Dec 2020

Basic Life Support, BLS Dec 2020

Advanced Cardiac Life Support, ACLS Dec 2020

PROFESSIONAL COMMITTEES

Ethics Education Committee Member Carolinas Medical Center May 2014-May 2017

Research Chair Sigma Theta Tau, UNC-Charlotte Sep 2016-May 2017

EDUCATION

Fellow, Center for Advanced Practice Carolinas Medical Center Apr 2014-Apr 2015

Master of Science in Nursing Texas Woman's University Sep 2010-Aug 2013

Graduate Research Assistant Texas Woman's University Aug 2012-Aug 2013

During my master’s studies, I collected and analyzed data and provided other assistance for a research study aimed at promoting the emotional well-being of women recovering from mastectomies, which culminated in the publication of the article, “The Mirror Program: Preparing women for the post-operative mastectomy mirror viewing experience,” Nursing Forum, 50(4), 252-257, by principle investigator, Dr. Wyona Freysteinson, PhD, MN, Assistant Professor, TWU-Houston, College of Nursing, et al.

TWU Educational Immersion Trip - Vietnamese medical system Jun 2012

As part of my master’s program course “The Health of Women in Vietnam” I spent ten days touring hospitals in Vietnam to compare and contrast that country’s philosophical and cultural approaches to women’s health with those of the United States.

OTHER EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE

Cared for Ailing Parents, now deceased Jun 2017-Sep 2018

Nurse Paralegal Nov 2012-Aug 2013

- Summarized medical files for insurance coverage cases Germer Gertz, L.L.P.

Staff Nurse Sep 2012-Aug 2013

- Hospice inpatient care unit Vitas Hospice, Houston, TX

Staff Nurse Apr 2009-Aug 2011

- Telemetry and intermediate care unit St. David’s Medical Center, Austin, TX

HONOR SOCIETIES AND PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

-Sigma Theta Tau International

-Phi Kappa Phi

-American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP)

-Texas Nurse Practitioners (TNP)

-Austin Advanced Practice Nurses (AAPN)



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