Experience:
Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner
Stone Oak Methodist Hospital (San Antonio, TX) January 2019 - Present
Baylor College of Medicine St Luke’s Hospital (Houston, TX) October 2016- December 2018
•Demonstrates leadership as clinical resource, interdisciplinary consult, and patient advocate.
•Coordinates appropriate, timely patient care from unit admission to unit discharge, under physician supervision, for a defined patient population(s), focusing on identified expected unit/optimal outcomes individualized to the patient and between healthcare providers.
•Conducts comprehensive health assessments (initial, ongoing, discharge), identifies normal/abnormal health characteristics, develops plan of care, initiates appropriate interventions, and evaluates care outcomes
•Performs delegated functions under physician supervision, such as differential diagnosis, use of prescriptive authority, and treatment according to practice guidelines, protocols, and/or standing orders.
•Performs invasive diagnostic or therapeutic procedures necessary for defined patient population(s).
•Manages schedule and staffing for assigned service lines.
Registered Nurse: Critical Care
CHI Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center (Houston, TX) April 2015- October 2016
•Identifies patient care requirements by establishing personal rapport with potential and actual patients and other persons in a position to understand care requirements.
•Establishes a compassionate environment by providing emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to patients, friends, and families
•Assures quality of care by adhering to therapeutic standards; measuring health outcomes against patient care goals and standards; making or recommending necessary adjustments; following hospital and nursing division's philosophies and standards of care set by state board of nursing.
•Highly skilled in assessing, planning, implementing, documenting, coordinating, and managing patient care in keeping with facility and hospital standards
•ACLS/BLS certified
Methodist Hospital (San Antonio, TX) March 2014-April 2015
Methodist Specialty and Transplant Hospital (San Antonio, TX) June 2009- March 2014
Education:
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio September 2013-August 2016
Adult- Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner – Master’s Degree in Nursing
Graduated with high honors: 4.0 GPA
Member of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing
University of Texas at Arlington September 2010-August 2011
Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing
Baptist Health System School of Health Professions September 2007-May 2009
Associate’s Degree in Nursing