Rhoda Marie Byler Rees

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Pequot Lakes, MN 56472

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Objective: Position as a family nurse practitioner providing primary care in a Women’s Health Care Center. Education

Mankato State University, Mankato, MN, Master of Science in Nursing, December 1998. Goshen College, Goshen, IN, Bachelor of Science in Nursing, May 1991. Bremen High School, Bremen, IN, High School Diploma, June 1987. Nurse Practitioner Experience

January 2011 to

June 2013

Family Nurse Practitioner - Women’s Health, Mayo Clinic Health System, Austin, MN

• Providing care in a collaborative practice.

• Providing primary care to females ranging in age from adolescents to post- menopausal; initiating work-ups, diagnosing, treating and referring for acute and chronic conditions.

• Providing intake for initial OB visits and performing the ultrasounds at this visit.

• Inserting and removing IUDs and implantable contraceptive devices

• Obtaining endometrial biopsies.

December 2007

to January 2011

Family Nurse Practitioner - Pain Clinic, Mayo Clinic Health System, Austin, MN

• Providing chronic pain management care in a collaborative practice, evaluating, diagnosing, referring, treating as appropriate.

December 2007

to January 2011

Family Nurse Practitioner - Urgent Care, Mayo Clinic Health System, Austin, MN

• Casual employment.

• Providing care in a collaborative practice, suturing, splinting, evaluating, diagnosing, treating, referring as appropriate.

March 2001 to

June 2006

Family Nurse Practitioner - Family Practice, Luther Midelfort, (Mayo Clinic Health System) Eau Claire, WI

• Providing care in a collaborative practice.

• Providing primary care for families; evaluating, diagnosing, treating and referring as appropriate.

May 2000 to

February 2001

Family Nurse Practitioner – Planned Parenthood, Eau Claire, WI

• Providing care in a small independent practice.

• Providing primary care to females ranging in age from adolescents to post- menopausal; initiating work-ups, diagnosing, treating and referring for acute and chronic conditions.

August 1998 to

January 1999

Family Nurse Practitioner – Urgent Care Center, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

• Providing care in a collaborative practice.

• Triaging, suturing, splinting, initiating work-ups, diagnosing, treating and referring for acute and chronic conditions.

Other Experiences

April 1992 to

August 1998

Registered Nurse -- Pediatrics

• Administering holistic care to patients and their families. Areas of care include general medical, general surgery, oncology, orthopedics, urology, neurology, cardiology, and organ transplants.

• Preoperative education for children anticipating surgery. September 1991

to April 1992

Health Care Aide -- Gynecology

• Patient care to post-operative gynecological patients. May 1991 to

September 1991

Graduate Nurse -- General Surgery

• Orientation to GN role and providing holistic cares to post-operative patients. 1997 to 1998 Nurse practitioner clinical training with rotations in family medicine, preventive medicine, acute care, pediatrics, obstetrics/gynecology, dermatology, ENT, and opthamology

1989 to 1991 Nursing Assistant, General surgery and medical, Goshen General Hospital, Goshen, IN 1987 to 1991 Nursing Assistant, Greencroft Nursing Home, Goshen, IN 1984 to 1987 Nursing Assistant, Bremen Healthcare Center, Bremen, IN Skills

• Basic Life Support • Statistics: Basic

• Foreign Languages: Spanish and Dutch • Computer: Word processing/Excel Research

• Thesis, 1998, “Knowledge of AIDS and Safer Sex Practices in Older Adolescents”

• Received $3,000 grant from the Mayo Department of Nursing for research in 1994. Organization Memberships and Activities (Present and Past)

• Volunteer, St. Joseph’s Auxillary, Brainerd, MN

• Volunteer, Children’s Ministry, Lakewood Evangelical Free Church, Brainerd, MN

• Volunteer, Brainerd Public Schools

• Board Member, Welcome Center, Austin, MN

• Volunteer, Southgate Elementary, Austin, MN

• Sigma Theta Tau

• P.E.O., a Sisterhood which promotes education and volunteerism

• Rochester Area Counsel for the Arts, Member/Volunteer

• Special Olympics Steering Committee Member

• Pediatric Activities Committee

• Hospital Continuous Improvement

• Executive Director of Mock Convention at Goshen College

• Vice-President of the local chapter of Student Nursing Association at Goshen College

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