Georgeann O’Leary, RN, MSN, APN
Indian Rocks Beach, FL 33785
Education
Master of Science in Nursing, Family Nurse Practitioner, The College of New Jersey, August, 1999.
Bachelor of Science in Nursing Degree, Gwynedd Mercy College, May 1982.
Associate Degree in Nursing, Bucks County Community College, May 1980.
Professional Experience
The College of New Jersey Student Health Services
2000 Pennington Road
Ewing, NJ 08628-0718
February 5, 2001 to May 12, 2017 working as a nurse practitioner.
Responsibilities include:
Assessment, diagnosis and treatment of acute, episodic illnesses and injuries of students.
Provide travel health counseling, immunizations and prophylactic medications appropriate for travel to various global destinations.
Women’s health exams including pelvic and breast exams and sexually transmitted infection testing, diagnosis and treatment. Provide contraceptive counseling.
Determine immunization status of students and provide recommended immunizations including MMR, varicella, meningitis, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, Gardasil, Tdap, influenza and travel vaccines including typhoid vaccines.
Provide health and wellness counseling to students individually and in group sessions, wellness fairs, targeted programs and website health information.
Supervise tuberculosis screening of students and developed protocol for administering DOT of latent TB infection in collaboration with the state health department.
Participate in quality assurance activities.
Utilize electronic medical record for documentation, prescribing medications and ordering diagnostic testing. Experience with Medicat EMR.
Preceptor for nurse practitioner students.
June, 2003 to August 2016 working as adjunct faculty member.
Served as clinical advisor to nurse practitioner students in the graduate nursing program at TCNJ making clinical site visits, complete performance evaluations, collaborate with clinical preceptors to ascertain students are receiving appropriate clinical experiences and offer guidance to students.
Gastrointestinal Specialists
3998 Red Lion Road, Suite 240
Frankford Torresdale Hospital
Philadelphia, PA 19114
April, 2000 to February 2001 worked as a nurse practitioner.
Responsibilities included:
Collaboration with seven gastroenterologists.
Obtained new patient history and physical exams.
Provided patient counseling and surveillance of side effects associated with treatment regimens of individuals with chronic hepatitis C undergoing antiviral therapy.
Provided counseling and education to clients with chronic illnesses such as Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis, GERD as well as hepatitis C.
Administered infusion therapy with Remicade to patients with Crohn’s disease.
Participated in clinical trials.
Nursing administrator of the ambulatory surgery center where endoscopic procedures were performed.
Managed employee health of medical assistants including immunizations and infection control measures.
Responsible for maintaining compliance with state regulatory agencies and JCAH for the ambulatory surgery center.
Temple Lower Bucks Hospital
501 Bath Road
Bristol, PA 19007
February, 1990 to April, 2000 worked as a staff perioperative nurse.
Responsibilities included:
Provided intraoperative and postoperative care to patients requiring elective and emergency surgical intervention in the operating room and post-anesthesia care unit.
Administered conscious sedation to patients having endoscopic procedures and monitored their response to sedation.
Provided postoperative education to patients and family members.
Presbyterian Medical Center of Philadelphia
51 N. 39th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
January, 1988 to October, 1989 worked as the Assistant Nurse Manager of Cupp Operating Room.
September, 1983 to January, 1988 worked as a staff perioperative nurse in the operating room and post-anesthesia care unit, specializing in orthopedic and cardiothoracic surgery.
August, 1982 to September, 1983 worked as staff nurse in combined medical and cardiac intensive care unit.
Delaware Valley Medical Center
200 Oxford Valley Road
Langhorne, PA 19047
June, 1980 to June, 1982 worked as a staff nurse on a medical-surgical floor.
Professional Organizations
American Association of Nurse Practitioners
American College Health Association
International Society of Travel Medicine
Certifications:
ANCC Family Nurse Practitioner
American Heart Association BLS for Healthcare Providers
Lectures:
Guest lecturer for TCNJ Graduate Nursing Program in 2003. Taught classes on Hepatitis and
Pre-participation Sports Physical Examination.