Emergency Department Clinical Instructor

William P. Horvath, MSN, APRN, NP-C, CEN 954-***-****: Cell

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QUALIFICATION SUMMARY

Registered professional nurse since 1980, APRN, since May, 2011

Clinical instructor: ENPC and Introduction to Emergency Nursing

Emergency Department Clinical Educator: responsibilities included Training on new equipment and procedures and specifically, acting as Trainer for Mass Casualty events (START Triage), HazMat, Coordinating with Broward County and hospital specific Mass Casualty drills. Hurricane preparedness liaison at the County and hospital system level. Instructor for basic and advanced PPE (maintaining integrity of equipment and supplies (inventory control and maintenance of training and event ready products).

Comfortable with working in austere environments: power/water outages, mass casualty events, staffing shortages, equipment failure and supply shortages.

Acted in the role of Post-Hurricane Team Leader (Charge RN), for Hurricanes Wilma (2005) and Irma (2017) and several non-hurricane events (Tropical storms with flooding and/or loss of essential services).

Extremely flexible in providing care to a broad spectrum of patients in many clinical settings

Extensive knowledge and expertise in Emergency and Critical Care nursing (CEN).

Independent Consultant to the pharmaceutical industry as a clinical educator

Medical/Legal Consultant

Previously held Staff and Management roles within the area of complex IV homecare

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Management

Emergency Department Assistant Nurse Manager July 2002-December 2009

VP/Director of Operations in High-tech Florida pharmacy for over four years

Nurse Manager of regional homecare pharmacy for two years

Director of nursing for licensed regional homecare agency for four years

Executive VP/Director of nursing for national homecare company for five years

Manager of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation and diagnostics for four years

Clinical

FT ARNP in a busy private practice setting. I treated pediatric, adult and geriatric urology and general medical patients and performed minor surgical procedures. ER ARNP: (PT) Plantation General, Adult and Pediatric patients of varying acuity levels. ARNP (PT) NWMC ER. Hospital privileges at Northwest Medical Center, Plantation General Hospital and Broward Health Coral Springs. Primary care (subcontractor): Medical management of acute Detox and Rehab patients.

Thirty-one years of continuous nursing experience as an RN in a variety of Emergency Departments, Critical Care areas and high-tech home care (infusion). APRN since 2011.

Consulting/Educator

Clinical Educator/Nurse Clinician BHCS Emergency Department 2009-2018

ENPC Instructor for 9 years

Subcontracted services as clinical educator to the pharmaceutical industry

Legal consultant & Expert Witness for Florida D.O.H. (APP & RN case reviews)

President: NP Specialty Services, LLC (consulting and professional services)

President, CEO N.P. Specialty Services, LLC (Subcontracted Provider and advisory: Expert Witness)

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

8/01/2011-8/2022 Urology ARNP Dr. Matthew Lief F/T

11/2019-8/2022 Medical APRN Legacy Healing Detox

4/2018-present Expert Witness Fl. Dept Health/Abbasson & Assoc. (Subcontractor)

2/14/2014-2/2021 ER ARNP NWMC (Per Diem)

10/01/2012-present Clinical Research Coordinator 3H Clinical Research Corp.

12/20/’09-8/16/2018 Clin./Spec.-Clinician CSMC ER Coral Springs, Fl

6/15/’02-12/19/2009 Assistant Nurse Manager CSMC ER Coral Springs, Fl

5/1/’98-6/01/2002 Agency nurse, Medstaff Inc Oakland Park, Fl (ER, ICU, CCU, SICU)

8/12/’98-3/15/2000 VP/Director of Operations South Fl Pharmacy, Boca Raton

1/3/’97-7/30/1998 Nurse Manager Steri-Pharm, Hawthorne, NY

3/15/’94-7/20/1998 Per-Diem ER RN Western Queens Hospital, NY

1/12/’94-7/15/1998 President WHHA Homecare Monroe, NY

4/30/’92-12/30/1997 VP/ DON Infuserve America NY-Saint Petersberg, Fl (Corporate)

6/01/’89-4/15/1992 Field RN, Clinical Preceptor Abel Healthcare, Great Neck, NY

EDUCATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION

Nationally Certified Family Nurse Practitioner (NP-C) American Academy of Nurse Practitioners June 1, 2011 (Licensed APRN, Florida)

Member: American Academy of Nurse Practitioners

Member: American Academy of Emergency Nurse Practitioners (AAENP)

Member: Sigma Theta Tau International (Nursing Honor Society)

MSN/FNP 9/1/2008- 5/ 6/2011: Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing (3.97 GPA)

Summa Cum Laude, BSN: FAU, C. E. Lynn College of Nursing 1/8/2007-8/ 5/2008

AAS Nursing Queensborough Community College, Bayside, NY 1979

Lyme Disease 1992 State of the Art conference (presenter)

Memorial-Sloan Kettering Chemotherapy education and training 1991

PICC line certification (IV Therapy Consultants, Inc.) 1992

American Heart Association Basic Life Support (expires 1/2024)

American Heart Association Advanced Cardiac Life support (expires 1/2024)

American Heart Association Pediatric Life Support (expires 1/2024)

Florida Risk Management Institute (Medical Legal Consultant) 7/2001

Emergency Nurses Association ENPC Instructor/Provider

Member: Emergency Nurses Association

CEN (Certified Emergency Nurse) since 2006

Former member: Intravenous Nurses Association

Former Board member/consultant: Hospice of the North Shore (Bayshore NY)

COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP

Procedural sedation chart review coordinator

FirstNet development team (co-author of the Pediatric EMR) for Broward Health District

Contributing Editor: Florida Regional Common EMS Protocols (2nd edition, 2010)

BHCS Emergency Department EMS Liaison & Coordinator for Inter-Agency disaster planning

Resource for SNS stockpile and maintaining HazMat/Mass Casualty trailer (BHCS)

Chart review specialist, Quality Liaison

Stroke (BHCS)

Education (BHCS)

Code Blue (BHCS)

Emergency Preparedness (HazMat and Stop the Bleed as Trainer/Train the Trainer). Representative for BHCS at the County level.

Former State Representative: AAENP, Southeast U.S. Region

Former member of the Advisory Council: Coral Springs Fire Academy

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Master’s Degree Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (MSN, APRN) for over 11 years with Certified Emergency Nurse (CEN) and National APRN certifications (American Academy of Nurse Practitioners:

ENP-C). During my tenure as an Emergency Department Clinical Educator (2009-2018), I was responsible for maintaining HazMat and WMD equipment (inventory and readiness) and acted in the capacity of train the trainer for both HazMat and START Triage classes. I am comfortable in working in austere conditions and have considerable experience as a team member and Team Leader during numerous Code Purple events in the Emergency Department (multiple casualties, severe patient surge events, staffing & equipment shortages, loss of power/water and local essential services). Team Leader (post-event Charge Nurse), for Hurricanes Charley (2004), Ivan (2004), Wilma (2005) & Irma (2017), as well as for several non-hurricane related events that affected essential services. Member of the Emergency Preparedness Leadership and worked in conjunction with Local EMS/LE, County and State leaders for mass casualty drills and real events. I have worked in a number of Emergency Departments and critical care areas (ICU, CCU) over my 42 years in practice (including Level I Trauma). I am comfortable working as an APRN in the Emergency Department (11 years as APRN) and work closely with my nurse colleagues, physicians, Paramedics and EMTs. I am comfortable with identification of simple and complex patient disease states and am able to order/interpret the appropriate labs, imaging and other diagnostic studies and prescribe the appropriate medications or interventions and follow-up on my plan of care. I am comfortable with EKG and some Radiograph interpretation and am able to readily identify those patients who require immediate care and am able to initiate basic & advanced life support (BLS, ACLS, ASLS, PALS) Proficient at IV access: peripheral, EJ, IO and phlebotomy/arterial punctures (and interpretation of ABG/Labs). I am proficient at the medical management of Diabetes, Hypertension, Asthma, Acute Allergic Reactions, Dehydration, Lacerations (proficient at suturing and wound care), Chest pain, AMI, Abdominal issues, Urinary complaints (proficient at Foley and Gastric tube placement and management) and a wide range of patient complaints. I pride myself on staying current and up to date on my CEUs (recently completed 100 CEUs for my CEN re-certification) and have been a Mentor to many APRN students. I am comfortable with treating underserved and vulnerable patients in a caring and non-judgemental manner, through my ED, Acute Detox and Rehabilitation experience. I feel that with my extensive and broad-based experience and my motivation to care for patients (and continually improve), I would be an excellent PRN addition to your team.

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