Carole M. Alvarez FNP-BC, CLNC

**** ********* *** ***** ******, Fl. 32720. 305-***-**** ad1i54@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

•ANCC Board Certified Family Nurse Practitioner and Legal Nurse Consultant with over 40 years of Family Practice

experience in various settings including Primary Care, Urgent Care, Emergency Department, and Inpatient Hospital Care.

•Nurse Practitioner Expertise focused primarily on Pediatrics, Family Practice, and Urgent Care.

•Certified Legal Nurse Consultant with experience pertaining to Pediatric, Maternal Child, and Adult Clients.

•Joint Faculty and Clinical Practice positions held with six Schools of Nursing and Medicine.

•Current working knowledge of multiple EMR systems used in primary care and hospital settings.

•Adult and Pediatric Yoga Therapist with expertise in Gentle Yoga, Yoga Dance, Pain-Free Yoga, Meditation, and Fascia Release.

EDUCATION

Master of Science in Nursing and Community Health: Family Nurse Practitioner University of Kentucky: Lexington, Kentucky

Bachelor of Science in Nursing

University of Kentucky: Lexington, Kentucky

White House Family Practice Clinic Internship

McKee, Kentucky

CERTIFICATIONS

ANCC Board Certified as Family Nurse Practitioner

2023 ACLS Adult Advanced Life Support, PALS- Pediatric Advanced Life Support and BLS- Basic Life Support

RN/APRN State of Florida Family Nurse Practitioner 88864-2

Certified Legal Nurse Consultant C.L.N.C. - Vickie Milazzo Medical Legal Consulting Institute 2007

ASPO (American Society for Psychoprophylaxis in Obstetrics) Childbirth Educator

La Leche League Lactation Consultant

500-hour Certified Medical Yoga Therapist and 500-hour Certified Yoga and Children’s Yoga Instructor

Possess National Provider NPI number

NURSE PRACTITONER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Family Practice Nurse Practitioner May 2021, to current Halifax Express Care Urgent Care Daytona, Beach, Fl.

•Providing after hours, and urgent, care to adult and pediatric clients in a community primary care setting.

•Providing family centered well care, physical examinations, employment screenings, workmen’s comp,

school physicals and symptom focused episodic care.

Pediatric Nurse Practitioner February 2018 to Sept 2019

Dr. Jose Wenger Private Practice South Miami, FL.

•In Pediatric private practice with Dr. Jose Wenger in his South Miami office

•Providing well child checks, wellness physicals, and treat ill episodic pediatric and adult presentations, up to 26 yrs. of age.

•Evaluate and refer pediatric cases to Specialists and Emergency Department when indicated.

Pediatric Nurse Practitioner September 2019 to current

Dr. Edgar Trujillo South Florida Pediatric Partners South Miami, FL.

•Providing After Hours Pediatric care to South Florida Pediatric Partners’ network of clients.

•Managing sick episodic presentations in persons up to age 26.

Pediatric Nurse Practitioner June 2017 to February 2018

Pediatric Associates Miami, FL

•Provided per diem coverage for 15 various offices and after hour pediatric offices.

•Office visits were focused on well child checks, immunizations, episodic ill visits, and after-hours care.

•Busy office scheduling 38-42 visits a day per provider.

•EMR utilized in practice

Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Hospitalist August 2002 to May 2017

Baptist Children's Hospital Miami, Fl.

Responsibilities included overseeing, on the 6pm-6am shifts, the care a Children’s 56 bed hospital, which included a 16-bed monitored step down unit, as well as an 8 bed Intensive Care Unit.

•Completed admission orders on children, age’s birth to 26 yrs., to the Pediatric Hospital, from BCH Pediatric ER, as well as accepting transfers from 5 other area hospitals.

•Functioned autonomously, without on-site physician, admitting for Pediatric Intensivists, Surgeons, and Orthopedic Surgeons.

•The number of completed admission orders, and admission History and Physicals, varied from 8 to 20 per night.

•Provided weekly Restorative Yoga Classes for BCH Nurses and caregivers.

Family Nurse Practitioner Emergency Services August 1996 to August 2002

Baptist Health Systems Miami, FL

•Practiced with BHS Initial Urgent Care Centers at King's Bay, Westchester and West Kendall sites, providing care to persons of all ages.

•Concurrently providing Pediatric Care with Baptist Children's Hospital Emergency Departments in Kendall and Homestead ERs.

•Gained and refined skills in evaluating, assessing, and managing urgent and emergency presentations in persons of all ages.

•Provided Adult ER coverage in South Miami, Deering, and Homestead's Emergency Departments.

Family – Pediatric Nurse Practitioner and Women’s Health NP August 1996- Aug. 2002

Drs. Julio Casas and C. Augustus Homestead, FL

•Practiced with Women's Health and Pediatric combined private practice.

•Worked with both the pediatrician and OB-GYN Physician performing well woman, prenatal, newborn and well child visits, while managing common illnesses in the family, pediatric, obstetric, and gynecologic population.

•Conducted Lamaze, Prenatal Yoga, Childbirth Education, Newborn Care, and Breastfeeding Instructional Classes.

Joint Faculty Nurse Practitioner Practice & Professor Practice Position Jan. 1986-Aug,1996

University of Miami Schools of Medicine and Nursing Coral Gables, Fl.

•Provided Student Health Services to undergraduate and graduate students in the University Student Health Clinic

•Created and implemented the original Family Nurse Practitioner clinical structure for master’s level advanced studies.

•Designed and implemented each core clinical course including Adult, Pediatric, Women's Health and Geriatric studies.

•Held a Joint Associate Professor clinical position with the University of Miami Coconut Grove Family Practice Center and

the University’s Schools of Medicine and Nursing.

•Supervised in the Coconut Grove office Medical and Nursing Practitioner students completing their final clinical practicums in Family Practice.

Student Health Nurse Practitioner and Childbirth Educator May 1985-Jan 1986

University of Maryland, Baltimore County Baltimore, MD.

Provider in a student health setting care to gradate and undergraduate students including well care, physicals, and episodic ill care.

Provider of Lamaze classes, childbirth education, lactation, infant CPR, and baby care classes to expectant university students and faculty.

Pediatric Home Health Nurse May 1985-Jan 1986

Pediatric Home Health Services Silver Springs, MD.

Provided exclusive nursing coverage for a 4-year-old child that was ventilator dependent, at night, or when napping.

Services included suctioning, changing, medicating, and delivering supportive services for the child’s growth, well-being

and healthy development.

Family Nurse Practitioner May 1982- May 1985

Planned Parenthood of South Florida Miami, Fl.

•Provided women’s and men’s health care services, STD screening, and family planning services to the community

•Conducted teen educational and screening clinics. Retained staff and volunteer status with PP for 25 yrs.

Taught Childbirth Education and baby care classes at the facility.

Performed teen sexual health education in Martin and Miami Dade County School systems.

Registered Nurse Intensive Care Float Pool Jan. 1982- May 1982

Tallahassee Memorial Hospital Tallahassee, Fl.

While preparing for my ANCC board certification exam I worked as an Intensive Care Float Nurse in Neurology,

Medical -Surgical, Surgical, Burn Unit, PACU, and Pediatric Intensive Care units.

Neonatal Nurse Clinician University of Kentucky May 1980 to Dec. 1981 University of Kentucky Lexington, Ky,

Neonatal Nurse Clinician in a 52-bed tertiary care NICU at the University of Kentucky Teaching Center

Managed the Care of Neonates in high acuity Neonatal Intensive Care Unit following Advanced Practice Protocols

Nurse Manager Sept. 1976- May 1980

University of Florida Shand’s Teaching Hospital Gainesville, Fl

Began as staff nurse and promoted to Charge Nurse and Nurse Manager. Supervised the Nursing Care of 56 patients

on a Medical Surgical Floor caring for Oncology, Cardiac, Adolescent Specialty, and General Medicine patients.

Completed University of Florida’s first Adult Nurse Practitioner Certificate course in 1980 prior to beginning my graduate

studies.

NURSE PRACTIONER FACULTY PRACTICE POSITIONS

Adjunct Clinical Nursing Faculty June 2021-Current

Rasmussen University School of Nursing Orlando, Fl.

•Clinical Faculty position responsible for the clinical supervision and instructor of nursing students during their Maternal Child, Medical Surgical, Fundamentals, and Leadership Clinical Experiences. MCH students placed in Labor and Delivery, Newborn, and Pediatric hospital units. Med. Surgical students placed in the Emergency Room, Intensive Care Centers, Operating Room, post-operative care, and Medical Surgical settings.

•Leadership Geriatric clinical rotations held at John Knox Retirement Villas. Students rotated through the facility’s nursing home, assisted living, home care, and independent living sites.

Clinical Professor Feb. 2018 to Dec.2019

American Medical College School of Nursing Miami, Fl.

Lead Instructor in Pediatrics and Community Health providing Clinical Instruction in Community settings such as Camillus House, Victoria Hospital and Rehabilitation Center and Feeding South Florida

•Clinical Pediatric Instructor at Nicolas Children’s Emergency Room for Pediatric rotation and at PATCHES PPEC in

Homestead, Florida.

Clinical Instructor in Medical Surgical Nursing and Fundamentals in Nursing. Clinical sites at Victoria Geriatric Rehabilitation Hospital and Camillus House Homeless Center.

Clinical Professor May 2019 to June 2021 Chamberlain College of Nursing Miramar, Fl.

•Pediatric, Adult, and Maternal Child Clinical Instructor in Labor and Delivery, Fundamentals, and Maternal Child Health.

• Clinical Professor in Pediatrics at a Community Prescribed Pediatric Extended Care Center (PPEC) in Homestead Florida.

•Virtual Pediatric Clinical Semester: Clinical Replacement Learning during COVID Spring 2020 Pandemic Spring Semester

Associate Clinical Professor May 1998 to May 2010 Barry University School of Podiatric Medicine Miami Shores, Fl.

•Provided lecture and clinical laboratory for Podiatry students pertaining to performing and documentation of a complete adult advanced history and physical assessment, or examination.

•Lead Instructor Responsibilities for the didactic and clinical components of course

•This was the students’ first clinical course preparing them for their podiatric clinical experiences.

Adjunct Clinical Instructor Aug. 1996 to May 2004

Miami Dade Community College Miami, Fl.

•Clinical Instructor for undergraduate Nursing Students enrolled in their first clinical Fundamentals of Nursing Classes

•Provided lecture and clinical supervision for students in Family, Pediatric, Adult, Women’s Health and Geriatric Practice Settings.

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