Kimberly Curlin MN, BSN, RN
**** ** ***** **, ******** OR 97229
Telephone: 503-***-****
Email: *********@*****.***
Summary
As a master's degree prepared nurse, I have had a lifelong commitment to service, to improving health care delivery systems and to directly providing care to patients. I bring an energetic persona to the workplace and have outstanding strengths in professionalism, self initiative and establishing rapport with patients and colleagues. I am a creative worker, am able to work effectively both independently and in team settings, and thrive when challenged with developing workflows needed by my program.
Academic
Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, OR 97239
Master of Nursing, Family Nurse Practitioner
University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Bachelor of Science Nursing
University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA
Liberal Arts
Professional Experience
2018 – present Portland VA Medical Center
Lung Cancer Screening Program Coordinator
Program leader – responsibilities include lung cancer screening shared- decision making phone appointments with Veterans, ordering and receiving results of low-dose CT lung cancer screening imaging. Presenting Lung- RADS 3 and 4 cases at bi-weekly Pulmonary-Radiology Review to the lung cancer radiologists and pulmonologists. Attending weekly Chest Tumor Board meetings with thoracic surgery, medical and radiology oncologists, thoracic radiologists, pathologists and cancer nurses.
Provided the clinical expertise and met weekly for over a year with the Northwest Innovation Center (NWIC) in the development of our Lung Cancer Care Platform. In tandem with my program colleague, we developed and executed the move of 3,000+ patients from our outdated registry to our new platform.
Currently I am serving on a committee researching platforms that will help the transition from our current Electronic Heath Record,CPRS, to Cerner. I initiated and developed a data analytic tool for our program and currently am abstracting data from EHR to better understand our lung cancer screening population and our false positive rate.
2017 - 2018 OHSU, Portland, Oregon
Research assistant
Research support for CMV Pilot Study. Responsibilities included data entry and management, study visit logistics, IRB protocol submissions.
2010 - 2015 US State Department, Bangkok, Thailand.
Accompanying spouse
As accompanying spouse while on US CDC family assignment to Bangkok, Thailand, I performed the following professional volunteer activities:
International School of Bangkok, Nonthaburi, Thailand
Health Care Nurse
Service in student health center; provided care to staff and students, overnight field trip medical chaperone, monitored school immunization compliance, assisted with management of school health issues & outbreaks (e.g., lice, dengue virus infection).
Flood disaster relief project – during catastrophic floods of 2012, raised funds, packaged care bags and traveled by boat with ISB students and Thai armed services to distribute food and assistance directly to flood victims.
Health and Safety team consultant. Assisted with assessment of major medical events occurring on school campus, assisted with development, implementation and assessment of new school-wide safety and emergency response procedures consistent with international standards.
Operation Smile, Mae Sot, Thailand
Registered Nurse
Served as medical liaison between Thai and international medical teams, performed intake examinations, provided post-operative wound care in support of cleft palate surgical repair services, Northern Thailand
Angel's House for Disabled Children
Registered Nurse
Provided medical care and assisted with social needs of children residing in Angel's House, a residence for severely disabled children founded and operated by Sister Angela Bertelli.
1998 - 2000 Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, Oregon
Advanced Practice Registered Nurse
Clinical Instructor, Department of Cardiology
Provided outpatient adult cardiology care in collaboration with OHSU cardiologists
1995 - 1998 University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
Advanced Practice Registered Nurse
Clinical Instructor, Department of Surgery, Division of Emergency Medicine
Performed complete patient evaluations in the Emergency Department including physical examination, ordering and interpretation of diagnostic laboratory tests and radiologic studies in collaboration with ER attending and consulting services. Helped develop ED protocol for occupational post-exposure prophylaxis.
1990 - 1992 International District Community Health Center, Seattle, Washington
Registered Nurse
Provided outpatient care to SE Asian refugees and immigrants, administered vaccinations to pediatric and adult patients, maintained records on compliance with immunization refugee health and pediatric guidelines.
1998 - 1990 University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
Registered Nurse
Intensive Care Unit – medical/surgical unit. Direct care to critically ill patients in cardiology and cardiothoracic surgery.
Certification and licensing
Current Advanced Practice Registered Nurse – active Oregon State
1994 – 2020 ANCC Certification – Family Nurse Practitioner
1987 - 2020 Registered Nurse – active Oregon and Washington State
1985 - 2020 Basic Life Support – Current
Training and competencies
2017 - 2020 Training in research
Responsible conduct of research
Human Subjects Research
Good Clinical Practices
HIPPA
2017 - 2020 Medical care
American College of Radiology Certification Lung Cancer Screening Education 15 CME AMA 2020
Introduction to Biology of Cancer – Johns Hopkins University 6 week online course 2018
Thoracic Oncology – University of Michigan 7 week online course 2018
RN Assessment of Suicide Risk Training 2017
Emergency Management Foundations 2017
OHSU Blood-borne Pathogen Training 2017
2017 - 2018 Medical informatics
EpicCare – completed OHSU training 2017
MS Office Excel and Outlook
REDCap (Research Electronic Data Capture)