Renee D. Seaman

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Colonial Heights, VA 23834

(H)804-***-**** (C) 804-***-****

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Education:

University of Virginia

Attended Post-Masters Program: Wound, Ostomy & Continence. Fall 2005

Virginia Commonwealth University: School of Nursing

Masters of Science May 2005. Tract: Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP)

Masters Practicums:

Spring 2004: Pediatric Practicum with Candyace Dunn, FNP Southside Pediatrics, Farmville VA

Summer 2004: Women’s Practicum with Peter Pyatak, M.D. Virginia Physicians for Women

Fall 2004: Adult Primary Care Practicum with Christine Cosgrove, ANP Honeywell Occ. Health, Hopewell VA

Spring 2005: Family Practice Practicum with Deborah Murchison-Ortiz, ANP Colonial Heights Medical Center

Bachelor of Science, December 2003. Major: Nursing

The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg VA.

Bachelor of Science, August 1993. Major: Kinesiology, Minor: Biology.

Richard Bland College of the College of William and Mary. Petersburg VA.

Associate of Science, May 1991.

Colonial Heights High School, Colonial Heights VA.

Advanced Studies Diploma, Governors Seal, 1989.

Certifications:

Commonwealth of Virginia Nurse Practitioner: License number 002*******, Issued: 01/2006; expiration 01/31/2017

Commonwealth of Virginia Registered Nurse: License number 000*******, Issued: 01/2004; expiration 01/31/2017

Commonwealth Authorization to Prescribe: License number 001*******

DEA license number: MS1378315 Schedule II to VI. NPI: 100*******

Basic Life Support (BLS) valid until 1/2018

Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) valid until 3/2018

Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) valid until 1/2018

Advance Burn Life Support (ABLS) valid until 9/2017

Honors:

2014 VCU Health Trauma Center Shining Knight recipient

Memberships:

Sigma Theta Tau Nursing Honor Society, Gamma Omega Chapter member and Vice President (2005-2007)

Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society member- Virginia Commonwealth University (2004-2005)

Teaching Experience:

Virginia Commonwealth University, School of Nursing

Adjunct Faculty, Fall 2007, Fall 2008 and Fall 2010

Adjunct faculty in teaching Undergraduate and Graduate Heath Assessment Clinical Laboratory Skills laboratory

Facilitated skills lab for up to 22 students

Preceptor for NP students at VCU Nursing 2011-present

Experience:

VCU Health/Medical College of Virginia Hospitals and Physicians, Richmond VA, 8/01-present

Family Nurse Practitioner, Department of Acute Care Surgical Services and Trauma Surgery 03/2011 to present

VCU Health academic health system is an 865-bed facility that serves as the only Level I Trauma & Burn center in Central Virginia for adults and children and is the regional referral center. Acute Care Surgical team of 10 surgeons and 12 Nurse Practitioners

Duties include but not limited to:

Daily rounds on all assigned patients with notes, consults and orders with review of all test and imaging in conjunction with Attending physician. Work to achieve discharge by noon when appropriate. Complete discharge process, medication reconciliation and discharge summary on assigned patients.

Run traumas in Trauma Bay with Trauma intern and Chief Resident. Quickly facilitate disposition into or out of the health care system

Utilize current research to develop, implement and evaluate critical paths and standards of care for identified patient populations. Incorporate research findings into practice. Demonstrate knowledge and support for clinical trials within specialty area.

Perform select procedures under physician supervision (Chest tube removal, Central line removal, etc)

Develop research projects to answer questions involving patient populations in trauma surgery.

Consistently use nurse/patient relationship to positively affect the health care experience and promote adaptation to changing health status. Utilize the Performance Improvement Process to address clinical practice and system changes within the organization. Seek out opportunities for professional growth through organizational affiliations and certification in specialty area. Demonstrate mastery of nursing care of specialty populations.

Participate in departmental/specialty educational endeavors. Served on planning committee for Rao Ivatury Trauma Symposium held annually.

Serve as a preceptor for advanced practitioners through the VCU School of Nursing as well as students/medical staff/nursing staff and others. Serve as a role model and demonstrates clinical leadership abilities.

Serve as a liaison and negotiator for staff, Housestaff Interns, Residents, Chief Residents, patients and families. Promote teamwork through effective communication, feedback to team members. Recognize team as integral to individual effectiveness and quality patient outcomes. Identifies unit, departmental/regional and hospital issues. Suggest change in an effort to connect system problems.

Collaborate in development, implementation, communication, and monitoring of the multidisciplinary/interdisciplinary plan of care for complex patients. Structure multidisciplinary systems to facilitate these processes. Collaborate to promote health and present illness in patients, families, staff, and community. Value the patient/family right to receive high-level cost effective care and facilitates this process.

Incorporate the principles of ethics in decision-making for patients. Promote the use of interdisciplinary collaborative processes to resolve ethical dilemmas. Demonstrate appropriate use of skills of negotiation, mediation, collaboration, compromise, and accommodation to assist families struggling with ethical decisions. Demonstrate the ability to examine patient’s values that impact treatment decision-making preferences.

Under physician supervision: assesses the health status of individuals through health histories, by performing physical examination, initiating screening, diagnostic, and therapeutic intervention requiring skill and education beyond that of a registered nurse as an ARNP. Interpret information obtained from history and physical. Formulate and prioritize appropriate short-term and long-term therapeutic impressions and plans when indicated. Ordering and interpreting diagnostic tests. Ordering routine measures. Ordering pharmaceuticals within my scope of prescriptive authority license. Plan of care incorporates the physical, spiritual, cultural, and psychosocial aspects of patients and families to promote optimum levels of health. Management of patients in clinical specialty and other related disorders in individuals. Initiate emergency procedures as indicated. Explore strategies to decrease length of stay and resource consumption within specialty. Ordering plan of treatment including admission and discharge orders. Utilize clinical pathways to coordinate patient care across the full continuum of services: inpatient, ambulatory and home health, or through the patient’s trajectory of illness.

Work with social workers and nurse care-coordinators to determine patient needs that extend into the community such as home heath needs and skilled and long term nursing facility placement.

Complete FMLA paperwork for patients.

Field calls from outpatient setting and provide solutions for patients, family & staff over the phone.

Sit on Trauma Surgery committees to work on discharge process, throughput and scheduling

Daily non-ICU census average 20 patients. Daily entire Trauma team census average 45 patients

Mid-Level Provider Liaison for Power Orders Committee for CERNER based EMR, 2009 to present

Collaborate on CERNER Clinical Information Systems on “Orders” council to help determine and develop orders, power plans and care sets for Cerner’s Electronic Medical Record (EMR). By working within this council we have been able to determine best practices for furthering the development of our EMR within our heath system requirements. Additionally I have worked with the CIS team to trial new technology in a live setting before entire product lines are purchased and rolled out to the entire facility (i.e. Laptops on wheels, electronic prescribing or E-Prescribing and Clinical Blackberry and iPhone).

Family Nurse Practitioner, Hospitalists Attending Service, Internal Medicine 01/2006 to 03/2011

Duties include but not limited to:

Serves as a liaison and negotiator for staff, patients and families. Serves as resource to staff regarding routine and unusual therapeutic interventions. Promotes teamwork through effective communication, feedback to team members. Recognizes team as integral to individual effectiveness and quality patient outcomes. Identifies unit, departmental/regional and hospital issues. Suggests change in an effort to connect system problems. Function as a consultant in the multi-disciplinary team. Consultant in patient management with the multidisciplinary team

Consistently uses nurse/patient relationship to positively affect the health care experience and promote adaptation to changing health status. Utilizes the Performance Improvement Process to address clinical practice and system changes within the organization. Seeks out opportunities for professional growth through organizational affiliations and certification in specialty area. Demonstrates mastery of nursing care of specialty populations.

Documentation reflects holistic and interdisciplinary patient care. Participates in departmental/specialty educational endeavors.

Serves as a preceptor for advanced practitioners/students/medical staff/nursing staff and others. Serves as a role model and demonstrates clinical leadership abilities.

Collaborates in development, implementation, communication, and monitoring of the multidisciplinary/interdisciplinary plan of care for complex patients. Structures multidisciplinary systems to facilitate these processes. Collaborates to promote health and present illness in patients, families, staff, and community. Identifies target population for case management. Values the patient/family right to receive high-level cost effective care and facilitates this process.

Incorporates the principles of ethics in decision-making for patients Promotes the use of interdisciplinary collaborative processes to resolve ethical dilemmas. Demonstrates appropriate use of skills of negotiation, mediation, collaboration, compromise, and accommodation to assist families struggling with ethical decisions. Demonstrates the ability to examine patient’s values that impact treatment decision-making preferences.

Assesses the health status of individuals through health histories, by performing physical examination, initiating screening, diagnostic, and therapeutic intervention requiring skill and education beyond that of a registered nurse as a family Nurse Practitioner. Interprets information obtained from history and physical. Formulates and prioritizes appropriate short-term and long-term therapeutic plans when indicated. Plan of care incorporates the physical, spiritual, cultural, and psychosocial aspects of patients and families to promote optimum levels of health. Management of patients in clinical specialty and other related disorders in individuals. Focus on health maintenance in clinical management of chronically ill patients. Initiates emergency procedures as indicated. Explores strategies to decrease length of stay and resource consumption within specialty. Utilizes clinical pathways to coordinate patient care across the full continuum of services: inpatient, ambulatory and home health, or through the patient’s trajectory of illness.

Work with physicians and other providers to expedite discharges from inpatient setting by writing all discharge prescriptions, patient discharge documents, working with social works and nurse care-coordinators to set up needs that extend into the community such as home heath needs and skilled and long term nursing facility placement.

Registered Nurse, Clinical Nurse II, Wound Care Team, 11/2004-01/2006

Work as a consultant to entire inpatient facility, with some limited outpatient visits, providing recommendations and treatment plans on various types of wounds and ostomies such as, but limited to: cellulitus, skin tears, diabetic foot, stasis and decubitus ulcers, surgical wounds, acute to chronic wounds, enterocutaneous fistulas and unusual wounds from insect bites to fungating tumors.

Ostomy teaching for new ostemates and problem solving for inpatient and out patients

Consultation, application and troubleshooting of negative pressure/vacuum assisted wound closure devices at the bedside and in the operating room

Management of specialty beds in the facility

In-services to various groups (nurse and physician) within the facility on various wound care and ostomy topics of interest.

Research presentations on wound care

Participate in prevalence studies within the hospital on quarterly basis

Participation and planning wound conference presented by team on bi-annual basis

Participation in monthly journal club as ongoing education and critique of evidenced based practice

Daily patient load consists of an average of ten patients daily.

Registered Nurse, Clinical Nurse I to II Medical/Surgical Oncology, 11/2003-11/2004 (Part-time 20-24 hours per week)

Care of 3-5 patients during an eight or twelve hour shift including:

Patient assessments, vital signs, ADL assistance

Admission and discharge of patients, daily focus notes

Care of central lines, IV insertions

Medication administration including narcotics, IV infusions, PCA pumps and PO medications, and blood product infusions

Proper use of restraints when indicated

Care of feeding tubes, NG tubes, Penrose and JP drains, delivery of wound care, simple and complex in nature

Respiratory care and management of airway, including suctioning and chest PT, as well as various other nursing related tasks

Patient education on various topics

Assist at the bedside with various medicine and surgical teams as well as in conjunction with ancillary services like the wound care team, pain service, OT/PT, social work and care coordination.

Care Partner, Cardiology, 7/2003-11/2003 (Hourly. Between 8-16 hours per week)

Assisting nurses with daily care of 5-10 patients on a medical cardiac unit with:

Vital signs, client ADL’s and other assigned tasks from the Rn.

Pathology Client Services, Pathology Help Line, 8/2001-7/2003 (Full-Time, evenings and weekends)

Responsible for assisting callers to the call center with a variety of questions. I answered questions concerning:

Results of clinical and surgical pathology tests, how to order tests in the hospital (H.I.S.) system, methodology of testing, verbal reporting of test results

Field questions regarding: specimen requirements or special handling, turnaround time and report status

Generating duplicate reports or sending reports to other physicians

Cumulative test reporting on patients upon request, technical and logistical information

Identified systemic issues. Personally correct or refer to supervisors for correction.

Work with supervisors and management to develop new plans and improve current client service procedures to insure excellent client service.

I worked full time evening shifts so that I may pay for my education for my B.S. and M.S. in Nursing at Virginia Commonwealth University School of Nursing.

Crater Community Hospice: 3916 S. Crater Road Petersburg VA 23805 p 804-***-****. F 804-***-****

Nurse Practitioner, per-diem August 2015 to May 2016

Face-to-face hospice recertification practitioner

Performed in patient homes and facilities where patients are living

Worked to assist with patient load while another provider was on leave.

Ukrop’s Supermarkets Inc.

Customer Service/Accounting Specialist, Richmond VA, 08/1998-06/1999, 3/2000-8/2001

Responsible for ensuring Ukrop’s exceeds customer expectation in the area of service and product quality.

Ensure our store maintains or exceeds high customer service satisfaction levels in resolution of problems and services provided. Ensure customer complaints/problems are quickly resolved. If I could not resolve the problem, I referred to appropriate supervisor for resolution.

Provide accurate and timely response to customer on resolution or referral of his/her complaint.

Responsible for answering associates (cashiers, operations, deli associates, etc.) questions, researching complaints for resolving problems.

Responsible for researching problems, identifying the cause and recommending solution to lessen or prevent future occurrences.

Worked as a team member in developing customer service training material and develop new plans and improve current customer service procedures to insure excellent customer service.

Pharmacy Technician, Richmond VA, 7/1999-3/2000.

Responsible for all CIII - CVI and OTC drugs in inventory. Checked-in and accepted all drugs into inventory each day from wholesalers. Responsible for inventory control, placing special orders, ordering supplies, returning items to wholesalers no longer needed and returning all out of date products. Track drug pricing ensuring we receive the best price from the wholesalers.

Responsible for keeping all relevant paper work up to date, such as invoices and billing from various wholesalers and vendors, sending daily and monthly reports to corporate office and keep reports current.

Dr.’s Gilbert and Farley, O.D.

Ophthalmic Technician, Colonial Heights VA, 6/1996-9/1998.

Assisted Optometrists with patient care. Performed all pre-exams, refractions, medical histories, ocular photography, visual fields, color screening, and specialty testing for low vision patients. Scheduled patients for ocular consultations with ophthalmologists.

Worked in dispensary assisting patients with frame and lens choices. Assisted doctors with contact lens fitting and patients with contact lens instruction.

Worked at several locations performing tasks such as insurance and patient billing, invoicing from vendors and suppliers and general office management.

Davis Eye Center

Ophthalmology Technician, Richmond VA, 3/1994-6/1996.

Performed patient exams: refractions, applanator tonometry, medical history, vision and acuity, A-scan and B-Scan ultrasound, amsler grid, keratometry, and specialized vision testing. Performed visual fields, endothelial and fundus photography and fluorescent angiography.

Assisted with in-office surgical procedures and laser treatments.

Scheduled patients for cataract and glaucoma surgery and provided counseling for those patients as well as pre-operative reminders one to two weeks before surgery.

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