PSYCHIATRIC NURSE PRACTITIONER

Board Certified Clinical Specialist, Psychiatry Board Certified and Licensed PMHNP, TX & FL

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SUMMARY

Evaluate, diagnose, consult, provide crisis management, liaison, and provide pharmacological management and psychotherapy for a wide-variety of mental illnesses. Forensic psychiatric evaluations.

Extensive forensic psychiatry expertise to include evaluations determining competency to stand trial and criminal responsibility recommendations to the court. Psychiatric evaluations for level of mental anguish, domestic violence cases, child custody cases, psychotropic medication negligence cases.

Vast experience & training with personality disorders, sociopathy & psychopathy, and trauma disorders.

Leadership qualities to include: sought by peers for assistance with scholarship and advancement packages, writing awards, recognition of outstanding service.

Psychiatry Clinical Nursing Instructor at University of MD and TX A & M University.

Organized, coordinated and act as lead provider in NHCCC's first Deployment Health Clinic, with emphasis on PTSD diagnosis and treatment.

Established, organized and presented over 40 educational and preparatory seminars & briefs on various mental health topics to leadership units and staff.

Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner in Psychiatry with 14 years in diagnosis, treatment and follow-up with patients from adolsecence to geriatrics.

Received Customer Service Award, Naval Hospital, Corpus Christi, 2007

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner / Oasis Counseling and Psychiatry, LLC - Corpus Christi, TX

04/2009 – 10/2022

OWNER/ PRESIDENT/ PRACTITIONER

In-Office and Telepsychiatry Visits, forensic psychiatric evaluations

Evaluation, Prevention, Diagnosis, Crisis Management, Psychotherapy and Pharmacological Management Winner of Best Psychiatry in Corpus Christi Award, 2012

Treatment of Schizophrenia, Schizoaffective Disorder, Bipolar Disorder, Depression, Anxiety Disorders, PTSD, Personality Disorders, Eating Disorders, OCD, Addiction Disorders, ADD/ADHD, other

Crisis Management Business Owner and CEO

Treatment panel of approximately 1000 psychiatric patients

Psychiatric Nurse Practitoner- Telepsychiatry / Breakthrough Counseling, LLC - Franklin, MD 04/2019 - Current

Evaluation, Diagnosis and Medication Management with Brief Therapy with computer-based communication in order to effectively treat patients over long distances.

Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner / Raul R. Capitaine, Private Psychiatric Practice - Corpus Christi, TX Psychiatric provider, medication management, evaluation and diagnosis

12/2011 - 07/2013

Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner / Nueces County Jail - Corpus Christi, TX

Psychiatric Clinic Provider - Evaluation, Prevention, Diagnosis, and Medication Management.

12/2010 - 12/2011

Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner / Mental Health and Mental Retardation Center - Corpus Christi, TX

09/2009 - 12/2011

Medication Clinic provider - Evaluation, Prevention, Diagnosis, and Medication Management, Crisis Management.

Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner / Dr. Michael Hernandez, Private Psychiatric Practice - Corpus Christi, TX

04/2009 - 12/2010

-Evaluation, Prevention, Diagnosis, and Medication Management.

Registered Nurse, Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner and Clinical Nurse Specialist / UNITED STATES NAVY -

11/1998 - 05/2009

RN: Portsmouth Naval Medical Center, Portsmouth, VA, 1998-2000 RN: Rota Naval Hospital, Rota, Spain, 2000-2004

RN: General Surgery, L&D, Family Practice, ER, ICU, Medical-Surgical, Orthopaedics, Telemetry, Psychiatry NASA Space Shuttle Medical Support Team, Supported many missions, Moron Air Force Base, Spain Speaker, AAACN Annual National Conference, 2003

Triage and multi-purpose nurse, MEDFLAG 2002 Tri-Service humanitarian mission, Uganda, Africa Critical Care RN, Landstuhl Army Medical Center ICU, Gulf War, 2002

Shipboard nurse, USS George Washington, 1999

PMHNP and CNS-P, Mental Health Clinic,Division Head and Clinician, Evaluation, Diagnosis, Medication Management and Therapy for active duty members, 2005-2009

Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, 2006 Behavioral Services Department

Faculty -Psychiatric Nursing Clinical Instructor / Texas A&M University, College of Nursing - Corpus Christi, TX

03/2007 - 12/2010

Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner and Clinical Nurse Specialist / U. S Navy, Naval Hospital Corpus Christi - Corpus

Christi, TX

Evaluation, diagnosis, treatment, psychotherapy, medication management CBT, DBT, Supportive Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Mindfulness

12/2005 - 04/2009

Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner Student / Johns Hopkins Medical Center - Baltimore, MD

Emergency Room (Psych) and Intensive Treatment Unit (addiction and detoxification).

01/2005 - 12/2005

Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner Student / Baltimore City Circuit Court - Baltimore, MD 04/2004 - 12/2004

Completed forensic evaluations requested by the judge to include competencies to stand trial and criminal responsibility. Recommendations provided to the court.

Was called upon as expert witness in such trials.

Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner Student / Walter P. Carter State Forensic Psychiatric Hospital - Baltimore, MD

01/2002 - 01/2004

Inpatient care on forensic psychiatry unit

Determined competency to stand trial & criminal responsibility, recommendation to court Individual and group therapy

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

University of Maryland - Baltimore, MD

Master of Science: Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner & Clinical Specialist Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner & Clinical Specialist Psychiatric Nursing Clinical Excellence Award recipient Undergraduate Clinical Instructor

3.93 GPA

2005

Kaplan College of Professional Studies - Boca Raton, FL

Associate of Applied Science: Nursing Legal Nurse Consulting

GPA 4.0

2002

Wright State University - Dayton, OH

Bachelor of Science: Bachelor of Science in Nursing Cum Laude and Departmental Honors

3.97 GPA

1997

PUBLICATIONS

Plichta, J. (2008). "Exploring ethical, legal, and professional issues with the mentally ill on death row." Journal of Forensic Nursing, 4 (3) 143-146.

Lucha, P., Butler, R., Plichta, J., & Francis, M. (2005). "The economic impact of early enteral feeding in gastrointestinal surgery: A prospective survey of 51 consecutive patients." The American Surgeon, 71 (3) 187-190. *

Manuscript Editorial Reviewer, Journal of Forensic Nursing

WEBSITES, VIDEOS

https://youtu.be/9Op2-univvY

https://www.kiiitv.com/article/news/corpus-christi-nurse-practitioner-pushes-for-change/503-78e3830e- 57cc-4983-95b4-39ab3e2a5fe7

FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY

Over 4000 hours training and experience in various areas of forensic psychiatry to include court-ordered evaluations for competency to stand trial and criminal responsibility

Called as expert witness in numerous court cases

Combat Trauma and Rape Treatment, NHCCC, Mental Health Clinic Member of Disaster and Crisis Intervention Team, NHCCC

Psychiatry Staff, Deployment to Guantanamo Bay, Detention Camp, Behavioral Health Services for detainees Sexual Assault Victim Intervention Representative- Naval Hospital Corpus Christi (NHCC) & Guantanamo Bay

Detention Center (GTMO)

Family Advocacy Committee for Domestic Violence, Psychiatry Representative NHCCC

Baltimore City Circuit Court House, Medical Services Office, Baltimore, MD Forensic Psychiatry Dept, psychiatric evaluations, diagnosis and recommendations to the court regarding competency to stand trial and criminal responsibility, over 150 evaluations completed

Baltimore, MD Prison and Detention Centers (men and women)

Assisted Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) with numerous cases as a forensic psychiatry expert

Forensic Psychiatry, psychiatric diagnosis and pharmacological management in jails, Supermax (death row), and prisons

Potomoc Ridge Behavioral Health, Inpatient Adolescent Sex Offender Unit and Juvenile Runaway family therapy for legal issues

Walter P Carter Psychiatric Hospital, inpatient treatment and evaluations for the court regarding competency to stand trial

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