Nurse Practitioner Patient Care

Ruben Mares III, MSN, MHA, APRN, FNP-BC

**** ** ****** *****, ** Paso, TX 79925

Cell:915-***-****, Email: *******@*****.***/*******@*****.*** PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Independently/Self-employed Nurse Practitioner (06/2024 – Present)

• Work independently and self employed as a NM license nurse practitioner in the community of Dona Ana County, New Mexico.

• Provided comprehensive primary care independently to patients, spanning pediatric, adult, and geriatric.

• Conduct in-home assessments including an evaluation of past medical history, review of systems, medication reconciliation, vital signs, and comprehensive physical exam.

• Document assessments, diagnoses, treatment plans, and follow-up.

• Create treatment plans, incorporating medication and additional therapies as needed.

• Interpret and order laboratory tests, ensuring diagnosis and care.

• Collaborate with various healthcare professionals.

• Educate patients on disease prevention and healthy habits to maintain well-being.

• Conduct follow-up assessments to assess treatment efficacy and patient progress.

FNP Clinical Practicum Experience (8/2020-12/2022)

• Total FNP Program Clinical Hours = 775

• Clinical Practicum Sites:

EP Family Doctor

2270 Joe Battle Blvd, El Paso, TX 79938

Dr. Ann Mercer, MD, Internal Medicine

801 Missouri Ave APT 12, Las Cruces, NM 88011

Paso Del Norte Pediatrics, P.A

2325 Pershing Dr, El Paso, TX 79903

• Partnered with provider to conduct comprehensive assessments and diagnoses, formulate treatment plans, and recommend appropriate therapeutic interventions and testing.

• Delivered patient care, performing routine examinations and primary care procedures.

• Educated patients on diagnoses, treatment options, follow-up care, and purpose, dosage, and side effects of prescription and over-the-counter (OTC) medications posture by completing payroll duties and staff training accordingly.

Interim Administrator Director General Surgical Services (02/2024 – Present) William Beaumont Army Medical Center

18511 Highlander Medics St, Ft. Bliss, TX

79918 Full Time: 40+ hours/week

• The Administrator Director assumes leadership ability to locate solutions to ever-changing situations.

• Provides the coordination of daily patient care with Team Huddles and patient care assignments with a knowledge of all clinic duty cover of short staffing situations.

• Ensure clinic staff maintain a duty-ready posture by completing payroll duties and staff training accordingly.

• Maintains all audits and requests from health are teams in the facility to prioritize care within the clinic.

• Collaborates with an interdisciplinary team to develop strategies to improve patient care services.

• Serves as a facilitator to mediate complaints and concerns of patients, family members, and staff by taking immediate action to resolve or refer to a higher level.

• Receives, investigates, and acts on complaints involving clinic operations or patient care. Maximizes clinic resources to prevent readmissions or transfers of clinic patients to a higher level of care.

• Round hourly in the clinic to assist staff of Environment of Care, TJC, and infection control.

• Manages telephone calls from patients and makes appropriate decisions on self-treatment, the recommendation to come to the clinic as a walk-in for care, need for physician intervention, or referral to the emergency department.

• Educates and enhances health prevention and promotion to strive for wellness.

Operating Room RN Assistant Head Nurse/Charge Nurse, Coordinator, Circulator, and PACU

(04/2016 – Present)

William Beaumont Army Medical Center

18511 Highlander Medics St, Ft. Bliss, TX

79918 Full Time: 40+ hours/week

• Operating Room Assistant Head Nurse/Charge Nurse: Responsible and supporting the day-to- day activities of the Operating Room Unit. Oversee 10 Operating Rooms, 30 FTEs, and OR volume approximately over 30 surgical cases a day. Create work schedules and assign surgical staff. Serve as liaison among nurses, physicians, patients, families, management, and other parties. Delegate tasks and coordinate nursing staff, accordingly, based on scope of practice, competencies, priorities, and patient care needs. Ensure compliance with policies, procedures, and laws; keep up to date with policy changes. Assist patient and staff education. Evaluate data quality, patient safety, and performance improvements. Collaborates with other management staff on resource utilization and stewardship and apply sound principles of resource management. Maintain a safe environment for staff and patients.

• Coordinator and Service Line Lead Nurse: Support daily operations for Plastic Surgery Specialty. Maintain open lines of communication with the plastic surgeons around any issues that may arise related to their patients, supplies, and equipment. As a Coordinator makes plans, coordinates, and collab with other health care teams. Maintain constant communication with Logistic department.

• O.R. Circulator: Circulator who manages the overall nursing care in the operating room. Provide professional information process of disease and surgical procedures. As a circulator performs duties such as labeling, handling, and assuring proper disposition of specimens. Additional duties assessing progress of surgical procedures and patient responses through sophisticated clinical observations and charting detailed data analysis. Assisting surgeons with complex, highly potentially life- threatening procedures. Also, screen patient charts and perform initial patient assessment prior to surgery. Admission. Implement nursing care based on desired patient outcomes, customer satisfaction and evidence-based practice.

• PACU Cross-Training- Operate and monitor specialized medical equipment. Monitor patient vital signs as they wake from anesthesia. Perform recovery duties for patients recovering from a wide variety of routine to highly complex surgical procedures. Treat pain, nausea, and other patient post-op symptoms and any side effects of anesthesia. Administer oral, subcutaneous, intra- muscular and intravenous medications. Comfort patients who awaken scared or confused after surgery. Assists health care providers with examinations and procedures. Work with an interdisciplinary medical team. Document and keep the team informed of the patient's progress. Centered on nursing tests and diagnosis, develop a detailed nursing care plan. Distribute workers' workload and responsibilities based on their skill and expertise, modify duties to conduct work in compliance with defined goals to ensure timely execution of tasks and procedures.

Perioperative Operating Room Circulator RN (10/2014 04/2016) The Hospitals of Providence Memorial Campus 2001 N Oregon St, El Paso, TX

79902 Full Time: 40+ hours/week

• Circulator-responsible managing the overall nursing in the operating room and helps maintain a safe, comfortable environment. Assess patient status, analyze and interpret information for interventions. Work with surgeons to facilitate quality of care. Circulate for surgical procedure’s such as ENT, Dental Procedures, Thoracic, Lumbar, Orthopedics, General surgery, Urology, OB/GYN, Pediatric Surgery, Plastic Surgery, and Robotic Surgery.

Medical Surgical RN (03/2014 – 07/2014) Las Palmas Medical Center 1801 N Oregon St, El Paso, TX

79902 Full Time: 40+ hours/week

• Provide professional nursing care to patients utilizing the nursing process. Collaborate with other members of healthcare delivery team to deliver quality healthcare. Serve as patient and family advocate concerning patients’ rights. Evaluate and document patient response, monitor and recognize changes in status, take appropriate action based on assessment of the patient.

Medical Assistant (07/2013 – 03/2014)

C.E Providers Service

6300 Gateway Blvd W, El Paso, TX

79925 Part Time: 30+ hours/month

• Taking and recording patient history, personal information, vital signs and other relevant information. Assist clinical staff in completing examinations and procedures. Perform administrative and clinical duties.

EDUCATION

• The University of Texas at El Paso

500 W University Ave, El Paso, TX 79968

Doctor of Nursing Practice- (Start Date:8/2024-Expected Graduation: 05/2026)

• The University of Texas at El Paso

500 W University Ave, El Paso, TX 79968

Master of Science in Nursing: Family Nurse Practitioner with Primary Care Focus-

(12/2022)

• Park University

8700 NW River Park Dr, Parkville, MO 64152

Master of Healthcare Administration-(12/2016)

• Texas Tech University Health Science Center at El Paso 4801 Alberta Ave 3rd Fl, El Paso, TX 79905

Bachelor of Science in Nursing, Honors: Cum Laude-(12/2012)

• The University of Texas at El Paso

500 W University Ave, El Paso, TX 79968

Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance-(05/2009)

• El Paso Community College

919 Hunter Dr, El Paso, TX 79915

Associate of Arts Field of Study in Business Administration-(12/2006) LICENSE

• Advance Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) from Texas Board of Nursing- 10/16/2023- 07/31/2025)

• Advance Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) from New Mexico Board of Nursing- 06/04/2023- 07/31/2025)

• Registered Nurse (RN) from Texas Board of Nursing (01/2014-07/2025)

• Registered Nurse (RN) from California Board of Nursing (10/2023-08/2025) CERTIFICATION

• Family Nurse Practitioner Certification (FNP-BC), from American Nurses Credentialing Center

(ANCC), (09/16/2023-9/15/2028)

• Basic Life Support (BLS), (01/2020-01/2024)

• Comp TIA A+ Certification Professional, (05/2003) COMPUTER SKILLS

• Information Systems/Technology: PeopleSoft, Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, OneNote, PowerPoint)

• Health Information Technology (HIT): Meditech, Cerner, Essentris, Genesis MEMBERSHIPS

• American Nurses Association (ANA)-Member Since 2023

• American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE)-Member Since 2016

• Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA)-Member Since 2016

• The Association of Perioperative Registered Nurse (AORN)-Member Since 2014

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