Nurse Practitioner

Christine A. Farren, MSN, FNP-BC, CPN

Address: **** ******** *****

Las Vegas, NV 89138

Phone: 215-***-****

Email: *.******@*****.***

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Culinary Health Center Primary Care – Las Vegas, NV February 2020-Present

University of Southern California, Las Vegas Campus

Certified Family Nurse Practitioner – Full Time Position

Responsibilities include diagnosing and treating chronic and acute illnesses as well as managing patient’s comorbidities through diagnostic testing, medical evaluation, and follow ups. Also providing health promotion and education for each patient and their family members across the lifespan. Health promotion for these patients also include providing immunizations and performing health and wellness physicals across the lifespan to include pediatrics.

Sterling Medical Staffing Group – Aviano Air Base, Italy April 2018-December 2019

United States Air Force Government Contracted Provider

Certified Family Nurse Practitioner

Responsibilities include medically clearing United States Air Force members for deployments all around the globe. Clearance includes ordering the proper labs, immunizations, and medications needed for certain locations of the world. Also responsible for members post deployment health assessments to make sure that they are fit for duty physically and mentally.

CVS Health MinuteClinic – Chalfont, PA June 2017-December 2017

Certified Family Nurse Practitioner

Responsibilities include diagnosing and treating minor injuries and illnesses, managing chronic diseases, performing DOT physicals, providing immunizations, and performing health and wellness physicals for populations across the lifespan from pediatric to geriatric.

Prisma Health:

Tuomey Campus – Sumter, SC May 2016-January 2017

Clinical Staff Nurse – Post Anesthesia Care Unit

Responsibilities include caring for 1-2 patients immediately on their arrival out of surgery and as they recover initially from anesthesia. Surgeries recovered in the PACU include everything from general surgeries, urological and orthopedic surgeries, and reproductive and female surgeries, such as tubal ligations and mastectomies. The post anesthesia care unit focuses on airway stabilization, pain management, and preparedness of transferring the patient to the medical surgical units, intensive care unit, or to the patient’s home through the day surgery unit by utilizing strong assessment skills.

Richland Campus - Columbia, SC September 2014-May 2016

Clinical Staff Nurse – Neurology, Telemetry, & Stroke Unit

Responsibilities include caring for 4-5 patients on a surgical/stroke neuro-telemetry unit. Patient diagnoses include stroke, CVA, laminectomy, spinal fusions, seizures, and brain tumors. Patient’s are treated and stabilized enough so that they may be discharged to an acute rehab facility in order to gain the quality of life back that they had before their neurological diagnoses or to their home with help from family and a home health nurse.

Nemours A. I DuPont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, DE October 2009-February 2014

Clinical Level II Staff Nurse, Orthopedic, Trauma, Transplant, & General Surgery Unit

Responsibilities for unit include caring for 3-6 patients, ranging from infancy to 18 years of age with the acuity level ranging from patients with scheduled orthopedic/urology procedures to those with acute/chronic illnesses awaiting/receiving organ transplants. This care involves pain management, infection prevention, and patient education involving physical therapy, proper wound healing, long-term medication administration, and homecare.

Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA January 2013-December 2013

Adjunct Clinical Faculty - College of Nursing and Health Professions

Responsibilities include teaching/supervising Nursing of Children clinical experience for third year nursing students in the BSN program at Drexel University. Students’ care is supervised to include administering medications, documenting, and assessing patients. Also lead clinical pre/post conference every clinical experience for the students’ ten-week term.

EDUCATION

Post Masters Certificate, Drexel University September 2016

Family Nurse Practitioner

Clinical Rotations:

Women’s Health (160 hours) – Complete Women’s Healthcare – Preceptor: J. Marshall Dent III, MD

Florence, SC. June 2015-August 2015

Pediatrics (160 hours) – Moncrief Army Community Hospital – Preceptor: Martha Sribnick, MD

Fort Jackson, Columbia, SC. September 2015-November 2015

Primary Care (160 hours) – FastER Care – Preceptor: Stacy Merritt, APRN, DNP

Sumter, SC. January 2016-March 2016

Geriatrics (160 hours) – FastER Care – Preceptor: Stacy Merritt, APRN, DNP

Sumter, SC. March 2016-May2016

Dermatology (80 hours) – Dermatology & Skin Surgery – Preceptor: Sylvia Parra, MD

Sumter, SC. June 2016-July 2016

Master of Science in Nursing, Drexel University 2011

Nursing Education and Faculty Role

Practicum: Educated second year nursing students in the classroom and clinical setting at Gwynedd Mercy College in maternal/child nursing

Bachelor of Science in Nursing, Drexel University 2009

LICENSURE

Advanced Practice Registered Nurse

South Carolina (License No: 20585) Expires April 30, 2022

Pennsylvania (License No: SP016881) Expires October 31, 2022

Nevada (License No: APRN002462) Expires March 8, 2021

DEA License

DEA Registration No: MF4355194 Expires September 30, 2023

Registered Nurse

South Carolina (License No: 223614) Expires April 30, 2022 Expires April 30, 2016

Pennsylvania (License No: RN607838) Expires October 31, 2022

Nevada (License No: RN92386) Expires March 8, 2021

CERTIFICATIONS

Board Certified Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP-BC) October 2016-Present

Certified through American Nurses Credentialing Agency (ANCC) Expires October 10, 2021

(Certification No: 201-***-****)

Certified Medical Examiner - National Registry of Certified Medical Examiners (NRCME)

(National Registry No: 775*******) Expires June 27, 2027

Certified Pediatric Nurse (CPN) April 2012-Present

(Certification No: 20120711) Expires February 28, 2021

American Heart Association

Advanced Cardiac Life Support Expires July 2022

Basic Life Support Expires March 2022

Pediatric Advanced Life Support Expires July 2022

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Sigma Theta Tau International, Honor Society of Nursing, Nu Eta Chapter, Drexel University

American Academy of Pediatrics, Member since February 2013

American Nurses Association (ANA), Member since May 2016

HONORS & AWARDS

Daisy Award Nominee from Palmetto Health Richland Hospital:

January 2015, July 2015, & October 2015

Daisy Award Nominee from Alfred I. DuPont Hospital for Children:

July 2010

MILITARY SERVICE

United States Air Force Reserve Nurse Corps May 2011 – May 2014

Clinical Nurse - Captain

McGuire, Air Force Base, NJ - 514th Air Mobility Wing’s Aeromedical Staging Squadron

Currently Inactive Ready Reserve

Responsibilities include equipping deploying soldiers with proper medical readiness, such as immunizations and physicals, and also stabilizing injured soldiers in the combat zone, within a contingency aeromedical staging facility and preparing them for aeromedical evacuation.

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