Nurse Practitioner Patient Care

Education

• Delivered family centered care to patients from newborn to 21 years of age utilizing appropriate communication skills.

• Assessed, organized and documented patient data to develop an appropriate plan of care.

• Instructed patients and families regarding diagnosis, treatment plan and preventative care according to individualized health needs

• Interacted with family, physicians and other disciplines regarding patient care.

• Use of EMR system

UMMC, Blair Batson Jackson, Mississippi March 2018-August 2018 RN-4C

• Assessment and care for pediatric patients with complex health issues

• Planning and implementation of goals for patient specific needs Pediatric Care Center, Pascagaoula, Mississippi March 2015-November 2017 Pediatric Nurse Practitioner

• Delivered family centered care to patients from newborn to 21 years of age utilizing appropriate communication skills.

• Assessed, organized and documented patient data to develop an appropriate plan of care.

• Instructed patients and families regarding diagnosis, treatment plan and preventative care

• Interacted with family, physicians and other disciplines regarding patient care.

• Fulfilled 720 hours

• Southwest Louisiana Center for Health Services, Lafayette, Louisiana Pediatric Nurse Practitioner

• Delivered family centered care to patients from newborn to 21 years of age utilizing appropriate communication skills.

• Assessed, organized and documented patient data to develop an appropriate plan of care.

• Instructed patients and families regarding diagnosis, treatment plan and preventative care according to individualized health needs.

• Interacted with family, physicians and other disciplines regarding patient care. Hattiesburg Clinic, Imaging RN, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, January 2023- present Mississippi State Department of Health, Picayune, Mississippi and Gulfport, Mississippi March 2008- December 2010

Staff RN in local health departments

• Worked with Women, Infants, and Children program certifying eligible clients

• Worked with the high risk Medicaid program, PHRMS and enrolled eligible clients using the ICD-9 codes and risk factors

• Family Planning Nurse issuing birth control, educating women regarding birth control, STI’s and administering medications as needed on site

• In charge of county pap log

• Charge nurse at times

Northshore Regional Medical Center, Slidell, Louisiana Staff RN

• Assessment and care of pediatric patients, post partum patients and GYN medical surgical patients

• Planning and implementing of goals for each patient

• Discharge planning and teaching for patients and families Slidell Memorial Hospital, Slidell, Louisiana

Staff RN

• Assessment and care of pediatric patients, post partum and some GYN patients

• Planning and implementing of goals for each patient

• Discharge planning and teaching for patients and families Highland ER staff nurse Community Hospital, Picayune, Mississippi

• Triage experience and assessment of acute care, urgent, and emergent patients

• Planning and implementing of cared based on acuity of patient

• Cared for patients with acute and chronic condition

• Medication preparation and administration

Wesley Medical Center, Hattiesburg, Mississippi

Staff RN for Labor and Delivery, Pediatrics, and NICU

• Worked six months as a labor and delivery nurse before transferring to pediatrics and NICU

• Admitted assessed and monitored patients in labor

• Assisted in vaginal deliveries and C-sections

• Assisted neonatologists in transitioning infants after C-sections

• Autonomy with transitioning infants after uncomplicated vaginal deliveries

• Mother/baby care and mother/baby discharge education

• Caring for infants in isolettes and open cribs

• Experience with tube feeding, IV starts and maintenance, use of oxygen, temperature stability, heart monitors and apnea monitors

• Care of pediatric patients on a small pediatric unit Pine Grove Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Unit, Hattiesburg, Mississippi August 2000-October 2001

Staff RN

• Admission and assessment of acute or chronically ill children and adolescents in the psychiatric setting

• Responsible for maintaining safety on the unit

• Administering daily medications and PRN medications for elevated or combative patients

• Monitoring for side effects of medications

• Involved in therapeutic holds, restraints, seclusions

• Patient and family education regarding medication side effects and benefits

• Discharge teaching for patients and their families Mississippi State Department of Health, Forrest County, Hattiesburg, Mississippi October 1999- August 2000

Contract staff RN

• Involved in maternity intakes, Medicaid screenings, immunizations and vaccinations, repeat neonatal newborn screenings

• Assistance with Medicaid, CHIP’s, and WIC

• Teaching patients about birth control options, pregnancy and STI prevention

• Assisted Nurse Practitioner in pelvic exams

• Contact with patients in need of follow up exams Forrest General Hospital, Hattiesburg, Mississippi Pediatric Staff RN

• Admission, assessment, planning and implementing of goals for patients

• Cared for patients with various illnesses, IV starts, hanging blood products, respiratory treatments and many other tasks

• Administration of medications as needed

• Consulting with and assisting physicians as needed

• Cross trained in intermediate nursery

• Worked PRN on Women’s Unit and Neuroscience Unit Hattiesburg Clinic, Hattiesburg, Mississippi

Telephone triage RN

• Part time telephone triage nurse for pediatricians

• Answering medical questions, giving medical information and advice via computer assistance

• Consulted with physicians as needed

• Worked in Progressive Rehab and Neuroscience

• Education for families returning to home setting

• Worked daily with spinal cord injuries, seizure patients, head injuries (pre and post op) Children’s Hospital, New Orleans, Louisiana

Staff RN

• Worked with patients with rehab needs

• Worked with patients on hemodialysis care for those awaiting transplants

• Worked with telemetry and apnea monitors, ventilators, and trachs

• Patient and family teaching for individual diagnosis University Medical Center of Louisiana, New Orleans, Louisiana Pediatric ER RN

• Triage and assessment of pediatric patients with acute, urgent, and emergent conditions,

• Planning and implementing of care based on acuity

• Assisted physicians and residents with gynecological exams, IV conscious sedation, post sedation assessments

• Cardiac and oximetry monitoring, administering oral, IV and respiratory medications as ordered Clinical Rotations:

Pediatric Primary Care:

100 hours

Picayune Health Services (Pediatrics), Picayune, Mississippi 464 hours

Children’s Clinic, Hattiesburg, Mississippi

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