Certified Nurse Practitioner

BANKOLE B. ALUKO (DNP, APRN, FNP-BC)

Florissant, MO 63033 314-***-**** ********@*****.***

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Ambitious Board-Certified Family Nurse Practitioner with competent strength in multidisciplinary coordination, health promotion, patient care, and education. Dynamic Registered Nurse with 3 plus years of experience in Medical-Surgical nursing, Long Term Acute care (LTAC), Telemetry, Rehabilitation, Correctional, and Psychiatric nursing. Proficient in critical thinking and medical knowledge to deliver exceptional care in fast-paced healthcare settings. SKILLS

• Physician Collaboration

• Interdisciplinary Collaboration

• Health Promotion

• HIPAA Compliance

• Infection Control

• Team player

• Care Plan Management

• Communication

WORK HISTORY

Registered Nurse, 06/2017 to Current

Saint Louis Psychiatric Rehabilitation Hospital – Saint Louis, MO.

• Perform COVID-19 testing on employees and staff in the establishment.

• Provide patient/family education to address physical, emotional, and environmental health problems.

• Provide long-term inpatient psychiatric and psychosocial rehabilitation services to adults with severe and persistent mental illnesses.

• Confer with physicians to discuss diagnoses and devise well-coordinated treatment approaches.

• Collaborate with interdisciplinary healthcare personnel to meet patients' personal, physical, psychological, and cognitive needs.

• Secure controlled narcotics and distributed medication on schedule to meet patient needs and minimize misuse opportunities.

• Perform ongoing assessments to evaluate mental health needs, working with the multidisciplinary team to develop, initiate, manage, and modify individualized plans of care.

• Promote professional development opportunities to encourage nurses to pursue continuous training.

• Trained new nurses in proper techniques, care standards, operational procedures, and safety protocols to optimize performance and safety.

• Administered medications and treatment to patients and monitored responses while working with healthcare teams to adjust care plans.

Registered Nurse, 09/2019 to 12/2019

SSM Rehabilitation Hospital – Saint Louis, MO.

• Create an environment that leads to a positive patient care experience by evaluating, planning, and implementing effective care plans and communicating with patients and their families.

• Protect health information and document patient care using electronic health records.

• Exemplify values of compassion, respect, excellence, stewardship, and community.

• Advised patients and caregivers of proper wound management, discharge plan objectives, safe medication use, and disease management.

• Collaborated with interdisciplinary healthcare personnel to meet patients' personal, physical, psychological, and cognitive needs.

• Managed care for post-operative patients from initial recovery through discharge. Registered Nurse, 12/2018 to 05/2019

Loyal Source Travelling Nursing – Orlando, Florida

• Provide long-term inpatient care to critically ill patients on life support.

• Coordinate effectively with interdisciplinary team members regarding changes in patient status.

• Utilize clinical decisions in response to changes in condition/response to treatment plan.

• Create an environment that leads to a positive patient care experience by evaluating, planning, and implementing effective care plans and communicating with patients and their families.

• Collaborated with interdisciplinary healthcare personnel to meet patients' personal, physical, psychological, and cognitive needs.

• Secured controlled narcotics and distributed medication on schedule to meet patient needs and minimize misuse opportunities.

• Managed care for post-operative patients from initial recovery through discharge.

• Provided direct patient care, stabilized patients, and determined the next course of action. Registered Nurse, 03/2017 to 07/2018

DePaul Hospital, Med Surge/Telemetry/Neuro – Saint Louis, MO.

• Primary coordinator of all disciplines for integrated patient care in an acute setting.

• Make sound decisions in response to changes in condition/response to treatment while maintaining a calm demeanor.

• Create an environment that leads to a positive patient care experience by evaluating, planning, and implementing effective care plans and communicating with patients and their families.

• Coordinate effectively with physicians and team members regarding changes in patient status, symptomatology, results of diagnostic tests, and critical test values.

• Protect health information and document patient care using electronic health records.

• Exemplify values of compassion, respect, excellence, stewardship, and community.

• Conferred with physicians to discuss diagnoses and devise well-coordinated treatment approaches.

• Taught patients how to improve lifestyle choices, dramatically reducing the chance of symptom reoccurrence.

• Prepared patients for surgery, educating patients and family members on surgical procedures.

• Audited charts and reviewed clinical documents to verify accuracy.

• Oversaw delivery of care for all patients on a 30-bed medical-surgical unit, providing direct care to up to 6 patients, delegating nursing assignments, and supervising a team comprised of nurses, LPNs, technicians, and unit clerks.

• Evaluated healthcare needs, goals for treatment, and available resources of each patient and connected to optimal providers and care.

• Changed out tracheostomies, gastrostomy buttons, and catheters regularly to prevent infection or other problems.

• Fostered improvement in all operational facets, including staff development, personnel training, and standards of patient care.

• Coordinated and implemented in-service educational programs focusing on safety and adherence to protocols.

• Delivered medications via oral, IV, and intramuscular injections, monitoring responses to address new concerns.

Registered Nurse, 05/2018 to 03/2021

US-Navy Reserve Nurse Corps, Navy Operating Service Center – Saint Louis, MO

• Participate in monthly drills with Naval officers.

• Collaborated with interdisciplinary healthcare personnel to meet sailors' personal, physical, psychological, and cognitive needs.

• Trained new nurses in proper techniques, care standards, operational procedures, and safety protocols to optimize performance and safety.

• Monitored sailors’ reactions to vaccines and carefully documented the progress of individuals participating in immunization.

• Collected blood, and other laboratory specimens and prepared for lab testing. DNP Student (Residency/Clinical Experience), 04/2020 to 04/2020 Heartland/Women's Health OBGYN (Clinical Rotation) – Saint Louis, MO.

• Assess pregnant women via ultrasound to determine gestation age and EDD.

• Assess and monitor fetus condition via ultrasound.

• Perform a wet prep test on vaginal discharge.

• Monitor patient's lab and treat accordingly.

• Observed patient care outcomes to facilitate ongoing quality care.

• Monitored medications, noted side effects and reported issues to senior staff.

• Maintained comfort and safety of each patient through careful monitoring and knowledge application.

• Worked alongside experienced nursing professionals to learn new procedures.

• Built rapport with patients and members of patients' support systems. DNP Student (Residency/Clinical Experience), 01/2020 to 03/2020 COMC East Elementary Clinic (Clinical Rotation) – Waynesville, MO.

• Perform sports physical assessment on patients (school-age and adolescent).

• Assess patients and diagnose with presenting signs and symptoms.

• Perform wellness exams on patients.

• Assess and monitor asthma patients using the Test for Respiratory and Asthma Control in Kids (TRACK) tool kit.

• Monitor patients' lab and refer to a specialist when appropriate.

• Built rapport with patients and members of patients' support systems.

• Cared for each patient according to the care plan and physicians' instructions.

• Collaborated with nurse preceptors and other medical staff to achieve quality patient outcome goals.

• Reviewed daily assignment lists and associated charts. DNP Student (Residency/Clinical Experience), 10/2019 to 12/2019 Family Care Christian Hospital (Clinical Rotation) – Saint Louis, MO.

• Assess patients with HTN, DM, other illnesses and administer proper treatment.

• Perform wellness exams on a child, adolescents, and adults.

• Perform sports and employment physical on patients.

• Monitor patient's lab, recommend treatment and refer when appropriate. DNP Student (Residency/Clinical Experience), 08/2019 to 09/2019 Places for People Inc. (Clinical Rotation) – Saint Louis, MO.

• Assess patients living with depression, anxiety and provide treatment.

• Perform treatment monitoring on patients.

• Researched different diagnoses to become familiar with presentation and treatment protocols.

• Observed patient care outcomes to facilitate ongoing quality care.

• Monitored medications, noted side effects and reported issues to senior staff.

• Maintained comfort and safety of each patient through careful monitoring and knowledge application. DNP Student (Residency/Clinical Experience), 05/2019 to 06/2019 Wildwood Integrative Healthcare (Clinical Rotation – Wildwood, MO.

• Assess patients living with cancer and provide alternative care.

• Perform a high dose of Intravenous Vitamin C treatment to cancer patients.

• Educate cancer patients on diet therapy and treatment regimen.

• Perform ozone treatment on cancer patients.

• Delivered medications via oral, IV, and intramuscular injections, monitoring responses to address new concerns.

• Researched different diagnoses to become familiar with presentation and treatment protocols.

• Observed patient care outcomes to facilitate ongoing quality care.

• Monitored medications, noted side effects and reported issues to senior staff.

• Maintained comfort and safety of each patient through careful monitoring and knowledge application.

• Changed out and monitored bandages, catheters, and IVs. EDUCATION

Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP): Nursing, 08/2020 University of Missouri - St Louis - St Louis, MO

Bachelor of Science: Nursing, 05/2014

The University of Missouri - St Louis - St Louis, MO

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS).

• Basic Life Support (BLS)

• Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and SPSS.

• Scholarship: JONAS Scholar- 2018-2020 Cohort.

CERTIFICATIONS

• Board Certified Family Nurse Practitioner

• Registered Nurse License

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