Thea Weintraub RN

***** ** ******* ******, ******** Valley, CA 92708

714-***-**** Hm. 714-***-**** cellular

adihi7@r.postjobfree.com

Profile More than 33 years’ experience in psychiatric mental health nursing with a strong emphasis in

Psychiatric emergency triage assessment, experience in working with

multi-disciplinary teams, a direct role in working with co-occurring diagnosis

clients and integrated services with county contracted agencies.

Education Cerritos College- A.A. in Nursing 1985

San Diego State University-B.S. degree in Health Science with an emphasis

in community education - 1978

Cerritos College, Norwalk Ca. A.A. degree in Social Science-1976

Credentialing Registered Nurse, active (available on request)

Crisis Prevention Intervention (CPI)

CPR (available on request)

Registered Nurse Certificated (RNC) 1989-1995

Career History

1988-present LAC Harbor UCLA Medical Center, Torrance CA (HUCLA)

2005-to !0/30/

2020 Staff nurse in major county psychiatric emergency room HUCLA. Initial assessment and

triage of psychiatric patients brought in by police or being sent to the psychiatric ER, from

county mental health clinics, other hospitals, from the field by county psychiatric mobile

response teams or sheriffs’ mobile response programs and assessing patients from the

county hospital triage and ER. This assessment included determining patients’

appropriateness for transfer to the psychiatric ER, including doing breath analyzer tests for

dangerous blood alcohol levels, administration of medication and the management of

combative behavior. I also led psychiatric teams which were assigned to advise and help

manage patients throughout the rest of the hospital because they were violent or out of

control. The role also entailed working in collaboration with resident and attending

physicians to help determine patient diagnosis and medication management as well as

facilitating placement in Short-Doyle facilities and private Medi-Cal facilities. In the last few

I did take a few Covid 19 tests. These were taken on agitated psychotic patients, usually with police standby with police standby.

1995-1998 Value Behavioral Health (currently Beacon Health Options)-Long Beach-

Marina Del Rey (concurrently while employed with HUCLA)

This is a mental health clinical call center for a Behavioral Health Care Management

Company. Employed in the clinical call center. My role included taking inbound calls, to

assess pts eligibility for benefits for service, interventions and making referrals to network

assess pts eligibility for benefits for service, offering referrals to appropriate employment

assistance program or substance abuse referrals. The role might also be to refer emergency

calls to the designated appropriate staff ie suicidal patients. Attended weekly case

conferences.

1994-2005 Staff Nurse in a locked in-patient unit with 14-beds CRU at HUCLA. Assessment

of patients as they were admitted to the unit. Administration of medication

and management of aggressive and combative patients. IM medication

as ordered. Daily rounds led by the RN with residents, interns and attending MDs in order to create a plan of care including diagnosis, medication and placement. Mentoring and training of nursing staff and nursing students. Observation and direct care of pts undergoing ECT. Aware and trained in legal aspects of the Psychiatric patient including 5150s, probable cause hearings, 5250s, writs, and T-cons as well as conservatorships. Accompanying of pts to hearings at Court 95. Participated in probable cause hearings as the hospital representative.

1991-1994 Staff Nurse in the Psychiatric Emergency Room at LAC Harbor UCLA Medical

Center. Responsibilities as noted above.

1988-1991 Staff Nurse in a 22 bed in-patient locked psychiatric unit at LAC Harbor UCLA Medical

Center. Responsibilities as noted above for the 14 bed unit noted above.

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