Mwandu C. Chisanga, PMHNP-BC

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Rowlett Texas, 75088

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Critical Care Registered Nurse for 13 years. Providing Evidence-Based quality patient care, self-motivated, quick learner, and passionate about the safe delivery of care throughout the continuum with positive outcomes. Multiple travel and disaster response assignments, front line COVID-19 pandemic experience. I have worked at multiple level 1 teaching hospitals. I have experience with multiple EMR/EHR charting applications. Charge Nurse experience in PCU and telemetry units. I am currently looking to expand my career in mental health. I am currently in search of an entry level PMHNP-BC position. I hold a Masters degree in Nursing with a specialty in Mental Health. I have completed a total of 648.5hours faculty supervised clinical hours which involved direct patient care at Great Hope Psychiatry. My clinical rotation experience involved comprehensive psychiatric evaluations, psychotropic medication administration, and outcome evaluation, crisis intervention, DE-escalation techniques and suicidal, substance withdrawal patient management; skills: DBT, CBT, SCALES, CAGES assessment skills utilization. Reducing healthcare parity and making mental healthcare accessible to all is one of my greatest goals I aspire to accomplish in my mental healthcare delivery.

EDUCATION

Master of Science in Nursing, PMHNP-BC

May 14, 2023

Walden University

Minneapolis, MN

Associates Degree in Nursing

May 10 2012

Trinity Valley Community College

Kaufman, Texas

LICENSES AND CERTIFICATIONS

MSN- Mental health PMHNP

Registered Nurse License

May 12, 2024-current

BLS January 2022-August-2024

ACLS January 2022- August 2024

NIHSS January-2024

PMHNP October 2023-2028

WORK EXPERIENCE

PMHNP Shadowing

Great Hope Psychiatry July 2023-Current

Mercy Hospital, Ardmore OK June 2023-current

Medical Surgical

UT Tyler October 25th -May,2023

Cardiac Stepdown

Level 1-Contract position

Dallas Regional Medical Center June 2022-October 22

PCU/Step down-PRN

THR Presbyterian- Dallas

Telemetry-Contract November 2021 June 2022

Office of Refugees and Resettlement

Community Nurse-Dallas Texas May 2021- June 2021

Worked with refugee boys ages 9-18 case

Management, Pediatric/Community Nursing

Registered Nurse/Travel Nurse January 11, 2021-May,2021

The University of North Texas at Tyler,

COVID-19 emergency response

ICU contract, ARDS, ARF patient management

Registered Nurse/Travel Nurse July 31st -August 31st

Medical Center of South East Texas, Port Arthur, TX

Care of patients with COVID-19 acute respiratory failure

Registered Nurse/Travel Nurse August 2019-June 2020

Select Specialty Long-Term Acute Care Hospital, Nashville, TN

Care of patients on chronic ventilators, assessing,

admitting and management of patients with multiple organ

failure.

Registered Nurse/Agency Float Pool February 2019-July 2019

Medical City Dallas/Plano,

Critical care in an acute setting, admission, assessment

CHF, Hypertensive patients with multiple comorbidity

Registered Nurse/Disaster Response September,2018-February 19

Select Specialty, Pensacola, FL

Disaster response to a major hurricane, care of evacuated.

Management of Patients with multiple comorbidity

Registered Nurse/Travel July-2017-December, 2017

Regency Hospital of Springdale, Arkansas, AR

Care and management of critically ill patients with

Respiratory failure, trached, and mechanical hyperventilated patients

Registered Nurse/Travel

Prince Williams Medical Center Manassas VA August 2016-December 2016

PCU (Progressive Care Unit). Also floated to Orthopedic

and oncology floors

Dallas Regional Medical Center /Staff Nurse May 2012-February 2017

Charge nurse functions, critical care team in a step-down environment

Employing critical care thinking, following the nursing process in

planning care. Patients on multiple drips, monitoring critical Lab

values, running complex infusions.

CLINICAL EXPERIENCE

RN Associate Program 2010-2012

Acute Care I: Dallas Regional Medical Center, Dallas, TX

The University of Texas at Tyler, Tyler, TX

Plano Medical City, Plano, TX

Prince William Medical Center, Manassas VA

Medical Center of South East Texas, Port Arthur, Tx

Long Term: Regency Hospital, Springdale AR

Select Specialty, Pensacola, FL

Select Specialty, Nashville, TN

Leadership: Charge Nurse/Preceptor, Dallas Regional Medical Center, 2016

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Texas Nurses Association 2012-Current

American Nurses Association January 2014-Current

Student Nurses Association 2010-2012

Alumni, Walden University

REFERENCES:

Arthur Carter RN, BSN

House Supervisor

Dallas Regional Medical center

1011 North Galloway

Mesquite, Texas 75149

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Lulu Chishimba

Presbyterian Hospital Dallas

Walnut Hill Ln

Dallas Texas

Cecilia Chanda

Great Hope Psychiatry

Garland Texas

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