Brittany Walsh

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REGISTERED NURSE:

Compassionate and dedicated medical professional with exceptional patient communication skills. Committed to providing all patients with outstanding care and support to help improve quality of life. Provides client and family education. Demonstrates perseverance, and attention to detail. Proven ability to collaborate with colleagues to foster a friendly and caring environment. Superior performance, accuracy, and decision-making skills in the inpatient, office and homecare setting.

EDUCATION:

Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences Currently attending

MS FNP Tentative graduation date: May 7, 2016

University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Graduation: May 23, 2010

BS Nursing, Cum Laude

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Bayada Pediatrics (per diem) 2/2014-present

Caring for pediatric patients in the home setting. Monitoring patients with tracheotomies and maintaining patent airway. Caring for all aspects of tracheotomies and monitoring for aspiration. Caring for a patient with complex medical disease and requiring: CVL, ileostomy, MIC-KEY GJT- care and medication administration through these various routes. Maintaining seizure precautions.

Boston Children’s Hospital (per diem) 9/2013-1/2015

Working in the inpatient setting for a population that ranges from infant to

adult, primarily with respiratory and GI diseases. Administering medication via IV,

PO, SQ, G-tube, nebulizers, hanging fluids, PN and lipids. Caring for patients and their families with appropriate medication, treatments, therapies and education. Collaborating with a multi-disciplinary team in order to get the best outcome for the patient and family.

West Suburban Pediatrics (part-time) 8/2013-2/2014

Rooming patients in the pediatric primary care setting. Obtaining vital signs; reviewing and documenting symptoms, PMH; conducting appropriate procedures after assessing patients. Triaging phone calls, administering age appropriate vaccines.

Family Lives, Shriver Nursing Services (full-time) 1/2011-11/2013

Caring for a pediatric patient in the home setting, whom required complete care. This included: MIC-KEY GJT care; chest PT (manual and vest); oral and deep suctioning to maintain airway; managing respiratory events- ex. mucus plugging, flash pulmonary edema; trilogy ventilator management; maintaining seizure precautions; administration of nebulizer medications; and care for all ADL’s.

Emerald Physicians (full-time) 2/2013-8/2013

Preparing adult patients in the primary care physician’s office. Rooming patients, obtaining vital signs, reviewing PMH, documenting symptoms and assessing, refilling medications, triaging, reviewing physician’s documents, remaining in the room and assisting the physician with caring for the patient, documenting the entire visit as well as teaching.

Pediatria, Health Care for Kids (part-time) 5/2012-7/2013

Caring for a toddler in the home setting. Skills used on a daily basis include:

tracheostomy care (suctioning, changing tracheostomy ties and dressings daily, and changing the tracheal tube monthly); maintaining oxygen saturations by using the ambu bag on a daily basis, trilogy ventilator management; MIC-KEY GJT care (including feedings, medication administration, dressings change, and site assessment); maintaining seizure precautions with Diastat administration .

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences FNP program

Nursing Program Clinical Affiliation/Experience:

Emerald Physicians (Hyannis, MA)

Health Assessment (45 hours)

Adult Care (90 hours)

Older Adult Assessment (90 hours)

Briar Patch Pediatrics (Sandwich, MA)

Pediatric Care (90 hours)

Plymouth OBGYN

Women’s Health Assessment (GYN-50 hours)

South Shore Women’s Health

Women’s Health Assessment (OB 40 hours)

South Shore Skin Center

• Older Adult Assessment/Specialty clinical (90 hours)

CERTIFICATION/SKILLS/PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:

• Massachusetts Registered Nurse (since July 2010)

• American Red Cross First Aid CPR/AED

• The Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International

• RN Volunteered at The Hole the Wall Gang Camp- summer 2014, 2015

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