JAMES T. FISKE, DNP/PMHNP-BC

***** **** ***** **** *****, Marana, AZ 85653 423-***-**** ad4hu5@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

Crisis assessment, treatment, communication, and collaboration/ Tested knowledge in team building.

Expertise: EHR, resource utilization, complex treatment planning across the lifespan, substance abuse.

Eight years in the field of nursing in the areas of psychiatry, neuro, and post-operative recovery.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

MIND 24-7, Phoenix, AZ

Behavioral Health Medical Provider, 04/2022 to 8/2023.

Provision of emergency/crisis mental health and substance abuse care across the lifespan.

TRUE ALLEGIANCE PSYCHIATRY AND SUBSTANCE INTERVENTION (TAPSI) Inc., Tucson, AZ

Chief Executive Officer/Medical Director, 05/2021 to 1/2023.

Treated referred clients undergoing psychosocial therapy at the Arizona Counseling Collective psychotherapy service.

Done. ADHD TREATMENT ONLINE

Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner, 12/2022 to 8/2023.

Provide psychiatric evaluations, diagnoses, and treatments of patients requesting stimulants/non-stimulants for ADHD and other comorbid conditions such as anxiety/depression, insomnia.

CROSSROADS 360 SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENT CENTER, Phoenix, AZ

Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner, 09/2020 to 04/2022

Delivered evidence-based treatments through a collaborative interdisciplinary intervention strategy to approximately two hundred and forty patients monthly.

SONORA BEHAVIORAL HEALTH, Tucson, AZ

Night shift charge nurse, 03/2019 to 08/2020

Provided care to severely mentally ill patients, as an RN, per the providers’ instructions, and trained over fifty percent of new nurses hired/ assisted in every code while at work, leading to zero sentinel event.

CORIZON HEALTH AT THE ARIZONA STATE PRISON, Tucson, AZ

Nigh shift charge nurse, 03/2018 to 02/2019

Managed the only high acuity triage unit at the prison, where over eighty percent of the cases involved life-threatening conditions such as assaults, overdoses, and other emergent patient conditions.

TUCSON MEDICAL CENTER NEURO UNIT, Tucson, AZ

Staff Nurse, 03/2017 to 02/2018

Treated assigned patients with neurological pathologies per the instructions of the providers.

Managed post-operative neurological patients as part of the interdisciplinary care team.

COTTONWOOD DE TUCSON, Tucson, AZ

Night Shift Charge Nurse / Infection Control Monitor, 04/2017 to 08/2017

Supervised behavioral health technicians and coordinated with on-call providers to implement treatment plan interventions for patients and directed strategies for infection control monitoring.

MISSOURI SLOPE LUTHERAN CARE CENTER, Bismarck, ND

Night Shift Charge Nurse, 09/2016 – 02/2017

Supervised two assigned Certified Nurse Assistants (CNAs) and coordinated with other healthcare professionals in caring for up to thirty geriatric patients on the assigned unit.

SANFORD MEDICAL CENER, Bismarck, ND

Nurse Resident, Observation Unit, 09/2016 to 02/2017

Managed post-operative patient care per the directive of the precepting staff nurse.

Helped in the interdisciplinary care of multiple treatment interventions on the observation unit to predominantly post hysterectomy and other OBGYN post-surgical care.

ST. ALEXIUS CATHOLIC HEALTH INITIATIVE (CHI) HOSPITAL, Bismarck, ND

Psychiatric Behavioral Technician / Graduate Nurse / Clinical Staff Nurse, 06/2015 to 08/2016

Executed physician orders via staff nurses’ instructions as a behavioral technician.

Executed physician’s orders as part of inpatient treatment to severely ill psychiatric patients as an undergraduate nurse and then as a board-certified registered nurse.

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND PROJECTS

Arizona Nurses Association – Member, 12/2019 to 3/2023.

Monitor activities of the association and respond to their periodic surveys.

Sigma Theta Tau (International Honor Society of Nursing) – Member, 05/2014 to present.

Encouraged new membership enrollment into the organization.

Marana Health Care Center, Marana, AZ – 1/2018 to 12/2019 University of Arizona DNP Student Clinical

Rotation

Initiated the use of the Addiction Severity Index (ASI), at this Federally Qualified Healthcare Center (FQHC), which has become a standard of their Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) treatment process. My DNP project, titled Medication Assisted Treatment Enrollment for Marana Health Center, won the most outstanding DNP project award.

A.T. Still University (ATSU), Phoenix, AZ

Guest Lecturer on the topic: Conduct Disorder – 02/2021.

EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA

Doctor of Nursing Practice (Magna cum Laude), 8/2017 to 12/2019 – Tucson, AZ

EAST TENNEESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY

Bachelor of Science in Nursing, 8/2013 to 12/2015 (Magna cum Laude), and Master of Professional Communication (Magna cum Laude), 8/2011 to 04/2013 – Johnson City, TN

UNIVERSITY OF GHANA

Bachelor of Art in Political Science and History, 8/1994 to 05/1998 – Ghana, West Africa

GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY, 8/2021 – 3/2022– (Advanced Nursing Ethics/Professional Nursing Practice)

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