Cristy L. Galvin MSN, MBA, APRN, FNP-C

*** ****** ***., *******, ** 02332

Phone: 781-***-**** / E-mail: adcv3x@r.postjobfree.com

Goal: I am seeking an emergency or acute care NP position within an acute care hospital in Massachusetts

Education:

• MSN /FNP University of Massachusetts Boston, Spring 2019

• Bachelor of Science Nursing

Summa cum laude, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, 1995

• Master of Business Administration, San Diego State University, 1998

Professional Nursing Licensure and NP Certification

• Advance Practice Registered Nurse, License 215703, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, exp. 08/2020

• Family Nurse Practitioner, AANPCB, August 2019-August 2024

Emergency and Trauma Certifications (current)

o Trauma Certified Registered Nurse (TCRN) by board exam

• Certified Emergency Nurse (CEN) by board exam

• Certified Pediatric Emergency Nurse (CPEN) by board exam

• Trauma Nurse Core Curriculum (TNCC)

• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) /BLS

• Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS)

• Emergency Nursing Pediatric Course (ENPC)

• ACLS Instructor (MGH training center), American Heart Association

APRN Continuing Education

o Suturing techniques, Wound Management, Incision and Drainage – Fitzgerald Health Associates, October 2019

o Point of Care Ultrasound in Emergency Medicine – Massachusetts College of Emergency Physicians, December 2019, December 2018

o Emergency Neurologic Life Support, Neurocritical Care Society, February 2020

o EKG interpretation (AANP)

o Shock Symposium, Center for Resuscitation Science, BIDMC, May 2019

o Mechanical Ventilation for COVID 19, HMS online GME, April 2020

Professional Experience:

October 2016-Present Professional Registered Nurse, Emergency Department, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA

• Provide emergency nursing care of adult and pediatric patients presenting with a diverse range of medical, surgical, trauma and acute psychiatric presentations in a Level 1Adult/Pediatric Trauma Center and Comprehensive Stroke Center

• Perform assessment, diagnosis, planning, interventions and evaluation of patient response to interventions and therapies

• Perform nursing triage for adult and pediatric presentations using validated ESI methodology

Nursing member of trauma team working collaboratively to optimize care to patients with acute and life threatening traumatic injuries of all types.

Competently assess and provide emergency care to patients with acute neurologic, cardiopulmonary, and infectious etiologies including stroke, STEMI, NSTEMI, acute respiratory failure, sepsis, TBI

• Provision of nursing care to unstable patients requiring rapid sequence intubation, NPPV, vasoactive drip titration, fluid resuscitation and blood administration, chest tube management, and thrombolytic therapy

• Nurse led activation of stroke codes and performance of serial neurologic exams to patients with acute strokes.

• Provide nursing care and safety management of patients with acute psychosocial and substance use disorder presentations.

• Provide evidence based health education and health promotion, harm reduction and social disparity reduction interventions, anticipatory guidance, and thorough discharge teaching to patients and families

• Educator / Presenter: April 2017 Tufts ED CEN Review course – leading to 12- new ED staff certifications in emergency nursing. Topics presented included acute psychosocial and substance abuse presentations to the ED, electrolyte disturbances, acute metabolic disturbances and endocrine emergencies,, shock, SIRS identification and guideline directed resuscitation; vasopressor review.

• Clinical educator to 3rd year medical students; of Tufts Medical School for annual SIM lab skills day: PIV insertion, ABG sampling, OG/NG tube insertion, IO access, and wound management.

• Preceptor to new ED staff nurses and new graduate RN program

• Procedural Skills including shock resuscitation, end tidal capnography, IV and IO access,, OG/NG tube placement, ABGs, blood gas interpretation, tourniquet and pelvic binder placement, rapid infusion, chest tube management, basic suturing

Jan 2016-Sept 2016 RN Complex Care Manager, Bowdoin Street Health Center, BIDMC, Boston, MA

• Identified a high risk patient panel and engaging individuals in a therapeutic partnership with nursing and medical providers of the center under ACO/PCMH model of primary care

• Directed patients to the appropriate level of care for disease process escalations.

• Improved long term disease management and reducing morbidity for patients with chronic illnesses including diabetes, hypertension, congestive heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, end stage renal disease, atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease and chronic medical and psychiatric comorbidities.

• Assessed for and implemented fall reduction strategies for vulnerable elders and those on anticoagulation

• Emergency nursing care and triage for adults and pediatric patients

• Performed anticoagulation management and education services for 10-15 patients

Sept 2000- Dec2015 Staff Nurse, Emergency Department, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA

• Provide primary emergency nursing care to both adult and pediatric patients with diverse acute medical, surgical, trauma, and psychosocial presentations

• Served as preceptor to approximately 40 new staff nurses of the ED including both medical and psychiatric treatment areas

• Participated in multidisciplinary process improvement group to improve care processes for patients at risk for fall injury due to acute substance intoxication and withdrawal syndromes and championed the change process

• Served as a treatment area lead nurse to manage flow, care processes, and appropriate placement of patients to a 24 bed acute medical treatment area of the MGH ED.

Sept 1999-June 2000 School Nurse, Weymouth Junior High School, Weymouth MA

• Provided nursing services to approximately 950 8th and 9th grade students and 100 faculty; first responder to emergency medical calls including syncope, seizure, orthopedic trauma

Dec 1998-Sept 1999 Contract Finance Analyst, Partners Health Care, Charlestown, MA

• Performed extensive financial data analysis of outpatient services data and ad hoc analyses in support of initial third party contract negotiations after the merging of Partners founding institutions, MGH and BWH.

1996-1997 Staff Nurse, Vista San Diego Adolescent Residential Treatment Center, San Diego, CA

• Provided direct nursing care, counseling, behavioral interventions, health education and chronic disease management to at risk adolescents (11-18 years old) receiving ongoing psychiatric evaluation and treatment in an adolescent psychiatric residential (ART) setting

1995 – 1996 Staff Nurse, El Cahon Valley Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, San Diego, CA

• Provided holistic nursing care to both long term care and subacute rehabilitation clients

Professional Memberships:

American Academy of Emergency Nurse Practitioners

American Association of Nurse Practitioners

Emergency Nurses Association, Mayflower Chapter 2013 to present

Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing; inducted 1994 and 2018

Awards

Outstanding Graduate, SDSU MBA Class 1998

Partners in Excellence Award- Partners Healthcare, 2002 and 2009

1995 Student Academic Achievement Award, Sigma Theta Tau, UMD

Recipient of 1994 Dr. Mona El Bayadi Racine Memorial Scholarship at UMASS-Dartmouth

Publication: Galvin, C.L., Normandin, P.A, Horn, K. S, and Popso, J.C. (2019). Intracranial infection

mimics acute stroke in an adolescent male. Journal of Emergency Nursing, 45(4), 457-461.

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