Profile

Nurse Practitioner with acute, pediatric, surgery and primary care experience, licensed in the state of Alaska, with active credentials at three Anchorage hospitals.

Experience

Advanced Nurse Practitioner, Alaska Pediatric Surgery LLC -- 2014- current

Provision of all aspects of acute care and promotion of optimal outcomes for Patient population NICU - 18 years, in all settings including clinic, in patient, surgical first assist. General Pediatric Surgery.

Advanced Nurse Practitioner, Providence Alaska Medical Centre -- 2009- 2014

Provision of all aspects of acute care and promotion of optimal outcomes for Patient population NICU - 18 years, in all settings including clinic, in patient, surgical first assist. General Pediatric Surgery

Clinical Educator, NICU, Providence Alaska Medical Centre -- 2004-2009

Education and program development in multidisciplinary administrative and clinical setting, Level 3 NICU. Developed Internship program for RNs, and Extern program for nursing students. Successful implementation of protocols to affect the reduction of CLBSI to zero.

Advanced Nurse Practitioner, Fresenius Hemo Dialysis unit -- Anchorage, Alaska 2003-2004

Parttime employment rounding on dialysis patients, providing primary care, prescription review and reordering, dialysis monitoring.

Registered Nurse Clinician, NICU, Providence Alaska Medical Centre -- 1991-2004

Level 3 patient care, premature and sick infants, comprehensive, wholistic family centered acute care

Advanced Nurse Practitioner, Government of Canada, Yukon and NorthWest Territory -- 1985-1991

Primary care remote villages throughout northern Canada, family practice including deliveries, minor surgery, walk in clinic, prenatal care, pediatrics

Education

British Columbia Institute of Technology. Burnaby BC. Bachelors Nursing - Neonatal Intensive 2004

Dalhousie University, Halifax Nova Scotia. Advanced Nurse Practitioner degree. Family Practice and Midwifery focus. 1985

Niagara College of Applied Arts. Registered Nursing. 1979

Skills

Primary Care assessment and diagnosis, evaluation and management.

Prescriptive Authority

Surgical First Assist

Laser Therapy - cosmetic

Suturing

Casting

Family Centered care

Cross Cultural communication

References

Available upon request

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