Tracy Joy Herring

RN BSN MSN with FNP and AGACNP Certification

GA License

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

January 2019-March 2020 Atlanta Gastro Inpatient Travel NP

Position: Travel Nurse Practitioner

Job Description: Work involves travelling to various hospitals within the organization to render assistance and cover for Advanced Practical Providers on leave or absent from work for any reason.

Due to the nature of the position, the job entails working in different hospital environments. As a consequence, considerable flexibility is an inherent characteristic of the job requirements, in that it necessitates practitioners to learn, become acquainted with and adjust to various hospital systems and physicians within very short time periods, in order to ensure an efficient and continuous flow of health care services.

Duties required a consultations and rounding on patients. The job requires appropriate triage in order to evaluate the relevant GI procedures that are scheduled to be performed on a daily basis. On a busy day, as many as 19 patients can be seen.

October 2015-December 2018 Emory Johns Creek Hospital, Johns Creek, GA

Position: · Nurse Practitioner (Inpatient Hospitalist)

· Member of Hospitalist Team

Job Description: Duties included rounding and admitting patients as part of the hospitalist and admitting teams. The position entailed working closely with other members of the team and assisting to coordinate the relevant patient care, including consulting with consultants and ordering appropriate tests.

Member of various hospital councils, including the CAUTI and Cardiovascular Task Force Council.

The role also included precepting students from Emory University and Mercer on a daily basis.

October 2009-October 2015 Kaiser Permanente Cardiology, Atlanta, GA

Position: Nurse Practitioner Cardiology

Job Description: Job included both inpatient and outpatient duties. While working in the hospital, I was responsible for rounding on cardiac patients and seeing new admissions. Duties also included supervising various stress tests such as: ETT, stress echo and nuclear studies. Stress tests were performed in a hospital setting and clinical setting.

May 2007-August 2009 Northside Cardiology, Atlanta, GA

Positions: · Nurse Practitioner (March-August 2009)

Registered Nurse (May 2007-March 2009)

Job Description–Nurse Practitioner: Duties included rounding and providing patient care in two hospitals as well as providing patient care in a clinic together with the attending physician. Further responsibilities included dictations; serving as a team leader over LPN/RN, including coordinating care between nurses and multiple doctors; triage, treating and educating patients with regard to various medical conditions and providing advice and support to patients and family members—all of which demanded professional knowledge in all fields of medicine.

Job Description–Registered Nurse: Working in a busy cardiology practice where multitasking constituted an essential and imperative element for providing the necessary care. Duties included general cardiology nursing responsibilities, including weekend rounding in hospitals; appropriate triage by telephone, scheduling patients for, and educating them about, diverse cardiology procedures, as well as testing-titrating drips and bubble studies. Responsibilities also included taking care of patients in the Coumadin clinic.

August 2004–May 2007 St. Joseph’s Hospital, Dunwoody, GA

Position: RN CCRN Level 2 Cardiac Catherization Lab

· Member of Nurse Practice Council—a position demanding review of the nurse practice in the hospital [and offering advice or suggestions, if and to the extent required]

Job Description: Duties included on-call availability, working in a fast-paced, highly demanding environment necessary to demonstrate critical thinking skills and scientific judgment in the application and planning of patient care during interventional and diagnostic procedures. Within this context, responsibilities also included monitoring the patient’s condition, documenting procedures and orders as well as assisting doctors with the relevant procedure and administering medication to patients. The job also required that I serve as a preceptor for new employees to the unit.

March 2001–July 2004 Concord Hospital, 250 Pleasant Street, Concord NH

Position: RN ICU/CCU

Job Description: Duties included day/night shift rotation of a sixteen-bed facility, providing direct nursing care to critically ill patients requiring intensive monitoring and treatments for an array of disease processes. The job required knowledge of thrombolytic therapy, hemodynamic monitoring, mechanical ventilators, post-operative care for patients following extensive surgery, various heart diseases such as acute MI’s, CHF, coronary insufficiency, dysrhythmia and unstable angina. As part of my duties, I also served as a preceptor for new nurses.

1996-2001 Pursuing progressively increasing job roles in the nursing and training environment [(both in Israel and the USA)], including roles as a Community Nurse

EDUCATION

August 2018-May 2019 · Emory University Post Graduate Certificate for Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (one-year program). Upon completion of the program, I was credentialed as an Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (AGACNP)

During the one-year program (and as part of the qualification requirements), I performed my clinical duties at WellStar hospitals with the pulmonary group that covered all ICUs at Kennestone, Douglas and Cobb hospitals as well as in the neurosurgery ICU

August 2007–December 2008 Kennesaw State University, Georgia, USA

Study Course: Family Nurse Practitioner Program

Certification: MSN with NP-C Certification

Memberships:

oMember of Golden Key Honor Society

oMember of Honor Society of Nursing Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing

1992–1996 Recanati School of Nursing, Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel

Degree: RN, Bachelor of Science

Clinical Seminars:

oInternal Medicine—COPD and asthma

oMedical Ethics—dilemma when treating oncology patients

1991–1992 Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel

Study Course: Pre-Academic Course in Humanities

1990–1991 University of South Africa (UNISA), Pretoria, South Africa (an internationally recognized open distance learning institution—studies at the time were by correspondence)

Major: Calculus

First Year Study Major: Psychology (with Distinction)

CERTIFICATION

ACLS Certified

BLS Certified

AGACNP Certification (May 2019)

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