Physician Assistant

Brittany Rachelle Bernard, MPH, PA-C

254-***-**** *****.*.*******@*****.*** I Minneapolis, Minnesota Education

The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX Master of Physician Assistant Studies, December 2016 Graduate Project: Pediatrics and the challenge of communicating effectively Evaluating PA Students’ skills through a pediatric literacy OSCE Baylor University, Waco,

TX

Master of Public Health, May 2013

Degree concentration: Community Health Education

Bachelor of Arts in International Studies, December 2010 Employment

Children’s Minnesota Minneapolis, MN August 2018 - present PA-C member of a specialized team of Trauma Advanced Practice Providers who manage the trauma service at Children's Level I Pediatric Trauma center. Respond to acute trauma team activations, stabilize patients, collaborate with ED and trauma surgeons as well as specialty surgery consulting services. Conduct history and physicals and admit new trauma consults; round on trauma service patients daily and consult specialty services as needed; provide discharge patient education to patients and families; manage all aspects of the care of pediatric trauma patients from the trauma bay to discharge. Additional moonlighting experience in ambulatory setting (Concussion clinic). Children’s Health Dallas, TX March 2017 - June 2018 Physician Assistant, Emergency Dept

Pediatric PA-C practiced in Children's Emergency Dept/Fast Track, serving a high volume (30+ patients/shift) of primarily low income patients and their families. Performed H&P, diagnostic testing, assessments, plans, and minor procedures; escalated care to attending MD/admission as needed.

Providence DePaul Center, Waco, TX Sept 2013 – March 2014 Recreational Therapist, Psychiatry

Planned and facilitated recreational therapy groups for psychiatric patients at Providence DePaul Center, a three unit psychiatric in-patient facility (adult, acute care, and geriatric). Baylor Scott & White, Temple, TX Dec 2012 – June 2013 Program Manager / former MPH Intern in Systems Quality & Safety. Major projects: -Co-instructor and research coordinator for "Fit & Strong" (cancer survivor fitness program) -System wide staff survey on safety culture (collected, analyzed, and reported results)

Baylor University, Waco, TX Aug 2011 – May 2013

Teacher of Record, Health & Human Behavior

Taught freshman level Health course in fulfillment of MPH teaching assistantship, including lectures in behavior modification, reproductive health, family planning, and sexual wellness

Licensure and Certification 2016- National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants: Nationally Certified 2018 - Minnesota Physician Assistant Board state licensure 2017-2019 Texas Physician Assistant Board State Licensure 2017- DEA licensure 2017- Basic Life Support & Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) 2013-2015 Community Health Education Specialist (CHES)

Clinical Training Eleven primary clinical rotations including rigorous inpatient and outpatient settings. Highlighted rotations with relevant experience:

· Pediatrics Allen Pediatrics, Allen, TX, Six weeks, Outpatient

- Performed well-child and sick visits from newborns to college-age

students

· Elective: Pediatrics

General

Hospitalist

Center, Dallas, TX, Four weeks,

d on general pediatric patients and

panel of 6-8 patients in

· Elective: Pediatrics Children’s Medical Center: Low Birth Weight Clinic, Four weeks, Outpatien

t

- Gained experience in primary care visits of unique low birth weight population and care of complex medical history, assessment of developmental delay, and other common comorbidities of prematurity

· Emergency Medicine Methodist Hospital (Level 1 Trauma Ctr), Dallas, TX, four weeks

- Managed a high-volume of patients with all triage levels, from urgent care visits to assisting in codes and

trauma evaluations. Procedural experience including suturing, I&D, wound debridement, splinting

· Surgery Parkland Hospital, Dallas, TX, Four weeks, inpatient general/endocrine surgery

- Pre/post-op rounding, surgical clinic visits, and assist in thyroidectomies, neck dissection, cholecystectomy, and hernia repair; suturing

· Psychiatry Dallas County Jail-Parkland Health, Dallas, TX, Four weeks,

Inpatient/outpatient

- Inpatient psychiatric management of male and female inmates with resourcing to social services

Volunteer Work and Research

2017 Poster presentation, North American Primary Care Research Group Parent-Provider Literacy Communication: Training Future Primary Care Providers while Enhancing Pediatric Literacy among Homeless Women and their Children in Dallas, TX 2014 – 2015 Union Gospel Mission-Dallas, Women’s Homeless Shelter Student Clinic Manager Spring 2015 United to Serve: Middle school outreach & health fair, Suture-clinic Coordinator Spring 2013 Baylor Scott & White-Temple, Fit & Strong (cancer survivor fitness program), Program/Research

assistant

2012 Waco Family Health Center (FQHC), Research coordinator/Program assistant for AAFP’s AIM-HI Fit & Healthy Family Camp for overweight children & families

2012 AtoZ: HeartAware Reaching Rural Populations (Granger TX), Project coordinator Cardiovascular screening program in rural Central Texas Texas Society for Public Health Education (TSOPHE) conference, Poster presenter: AtoZ HeartAware

2011-2017 Heartline Maternity Center, Haiti: Shadowing, guest health education lecturer

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