Nurse Practitioner Mental Health

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Grand Prairie, Texas *****

Cell: 469-***-**** e-mail: *********@*******.***

Ja’Net A. Nash DNP, MS, MPH, APRN, FNP-C

Experience

April 2019-Current United States Post Office Fort Worth, TX

Occupational Health Nurse/Occupational Health Nurse Administrator Fort Worth District

Implement, monitors, and participates in occupational health programs and services within a postal facility.

Assists medical officer in coordinating-employment or fitness-for-duty physical examinations;

Advises or counsels employees regarding general and/or mental health care; assists employees with doctor and/or community service referrals, when necessary.

Prepares, updates, and maintains confidential health records for employees using the health and medical unit; compiles and analyzes various medical data and reports; and prepares regular summary reports.

Maintains familiarity with Workers Compensation and safety and personnel practices and procedures relative to occupational health programs.

Serves as liaison with employees, supervisors, physicians, District Reasonable Accommodation Committee.

Makes frequent contact with private physicians and representatives of hospitals and health clinics.

January 2018- Current NetCare Grand Prairie, TX

Family Nurse Practitioner-Board Certified

Expert clinician and ethical decision maker, highly skilled at incorporating health delivery innovations into policy by providing feedback to companies to promote a “culture of health excellence”

•Visionary leadership of a world-class, entrepreneurial culture of health with care for medically underserved populations, medically underinsured and working-poor individuals/families

•Provide strategic direction and spearhead integration for an array of services for medically and displaced underserved individuals and families, utilizing clinical and professional grass-root expertise

•Designated by the North Central Texas Regional Certified Agency as a Women-Owned, Minority Small Business.

•American Heart Association, Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Instructor, provide onsite Instructor Led and Blended (Online) First Aid, Heartsaver, Bloodborne Pathogen and Basic Life Support Classes

•Contract with INHouse Physician Group for Nurse Practitioner Services 2018

Mar 2015 – July 2018 QuadMed Texas-Statewide

Contract Employee Health Family Nurse Practitioner/Advance Practice Nurse- Board Certified

•Provided innovative, comprehensive, integrated, primary care with a focus on prevention and early detection for patients ranging in age from newborn to geriatric; applying health information technology, health education, evidence-based medicine, and strong provider-patient relationships to keep patient (employees) healthy in QuadMed clinics.

•Assessed patients, examined medical histories, medication profiles, performed physical evaluations, ordered/interpret diagnostic tests; followed up with patients to provide test results, offer recommendations, make referrals, and educate on health conditions and navigate the health care systems

Sep 2007-Feb 2015 Parkland Health and Hospital Systems Dallas, TX

Nurse Practitioner III, Doctor of Nursing Practice, Nurse Practitioner-Dallas County Jails

•Provided primary, secondary, tertiary, OB/GYN and mental health care services to residents and visitors of Dallas County located within the Dallas County Jail System

•Duties include: assessment, diagnosis, management, formulation of treatment plans through prescriptions/diagnostic testing and follow-up for various acute and chronic medical issues not limited to hypertension, diabetes, asthma, cardiovascular diseases, and mental health/substance abuse, surveillance, treatment and containment of tuberculosis, sexually transmitted diseases/infections, and communicable diseases; patient management including assessing, diagnosing, ordering treatment, alcohol, and drug detoxification, interpreting lab and radiological studies.

•Preceptor/Mentored/Trained-Texas Women’s University, UTSW Medical and Texas Tech medical and nursing students

Jul 1997- Dec 2007 NetCare Mobile Clinic Dallas, TX

CEO, Family Nurse Practitioner

•Developed and implemented the first federally recognized nurse practitioner medical practice site, from a home-based business. Specialized in population- based comprehensive mobile primary and urgent care services to medically underinsured infants, children, adults, and geriatric patients throughout Dallas Texas and seven surrounding counties insured by Medicaid and Medicare. Received National Service Award-United States Public Health Service

•Site was approved as a National Health Service Corps scholarship payback site; complied with Federal and State monthly, quarterly, and annual data analysis, statistics, and report requirements.

•Negotiated with insurance companies for direct reimbursement for nurse practitioners

•Administrative duties during start up included establishment of operational budget, operational policies and procedures to comply with National and State standards (Medicaid and Medicare)

•Actively visited Capitol Hill to speak with key legislators and staff related to all policy and reimbursement issues to champion NP’s/PA’s as primary care providers.

Education

•Texas Tech University HSC Lubbock, TX; Doctor of Nursing Practice, Advanced Practice Nursing

•University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK; Master of Science, Family Nurse Practitioner

•University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK; Master of Public Health, Health Promotion Sciences

•University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; Bachelor of Sciences, Nursing

Licenses/Certifications

•Advance Practice Nurse with Prescriptive Authority, DEA

•Register Nurse, Texas Board of Nurses

•National Board Certification, American Academy of Nurse Practitioners

•Nationally Certified CPR Instructor, American Heart Association

Honors/Awards

•Excellence in Nursing Research Finalist, D Magazine (Dallas/Ft. Worth)

•Sigma Theta Tau International Nursing Honor Society, Iota Mu Chapter

•Former Texas State Representative, American Academy of Nurse Practitioners

Additional Job Skills

•Proficient with calculators, printers/fax and use of computers in Microsoft Windows operating systems (Word, Assess, PowerPoints and etc.), McAfee Software,

•Medical Software, such as EPIC, Centricity, Cerner (Patient Portals, EMR, scheduling, billing and ePrescribing)

•Self-Starter, responsible, compassionate, focused

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