Nurse Practitioner R.N

*** ** *** * • HALLETTSVILLE, TX *****

PHONE 361-***-**** • E-MAIL **************@***.***

PRISCILLA LAYTON

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

As a Registered Nurse I have had the privilege of caring for patients in both acute and long-term care settings. My acute care experience includes but is not limited extensively to ER and ICU, but in the Med-Surg, Recovery, Pediatric, and Obstetric areas as well. My experience as a Nurse Practitioner has been in Urgent care, Emergency Medicine, Occupational medicine, Family Practice, Hospitalist medicine, Long-term care and rehabilitation medicine.

Through my experience, along with developing advanced nursing skills, I have learned to lead and work cohesively with all other members of the healthcare team. This experience has allowed me to network and develop strong relationships with healthcare providers in multiple areas of specialty and expertise.

I hold myself accountable for striving daily to improve patient care in any way possible. As a healthcare provider, I accomplish this through the growth of my own knowledge and skills and by assisting with the learning and development of other team members.

As a Legal Nurse Consultant, I utilize my Nursing expertise to consult on the following types of cases: Medical and Nursing Malpractice, Personal Injury, General Negligence, Insurance Defense, Product Liability, Toxic Torts and Environment, Workers’ Compensation and Workplace Injury Cases as well as Criminal Cases. I am qualified to consult on any case where health, illness or injury is in issue.

WORK EXPERIENCE

2019-Present Crossroads Hospitalist Group

Nurse Practitioner – Long-term Acute Care and Rehabilitation

Work as a provider managing the care of patients and collaborating with numerous specialties in the Long-term care and Rehabilitation settings at 4 different post-acute facilities

2015-Present Schumacher Clinical Group

Nurse Practitioner – ER Provider

Work as a provider in a busy Level III Trauma Center with a Helicopter Service, Chest pain center, Stroke center and with up to 35,000

Emergency room visits per year.

2014-Present Citizens Medical Center

Nurse Practitioner - Hospitalist

Work as a member of a Nurse Practitioner, Physician’s Assistant, Physician team that provides evidence-based, quality, compassionate care to hospitalized patients admitted to our service in a 338 bed county hospital.

2014-2016 – Hillcrest Baylor Scott & White

Nurse Practitioner – Rounding and Admission Hospitalist

Worked as a rounding and admission Hospitalist at a very busy level 2 trauma center. Located primarily in the ER when working in the Admission role.

2014-2016 - Locum Assignments – Urgent Care Bay City Medical Group

Nurse Practitioner – Urgent Care Provider

Worked as a sole provider in a busy urgent care center providing care for up to 40 patients per 12-hour shift

2010-2013 Schulenburg Regency Nursing Center

Director of Nurses

Responsible for all aspects of nursing services in a 146-bed skilled nursing and rehabilitation facility. Responsibilities included the staffing assignments and supervision of over 100 employees, staff competencies, training, policy/process review and improvements, compliance requirements for state and federal regulations, and the coordination of resident care with therapy services. Additional duties included but were not limited to the supervision of the employee/resident infection control program, resident wound care and skin assessment program, incidents/accidents, restorative program, minimum data sets and care plans.

2007-Present The Long-Term Care Nursing & Rehab Institute

Co-Founder

The Long-Term Care Nursing & Rehab Institute was founded by myself and Donna Campbell, M.D. with the mission to promote long-term care nursing and develop recognition of long-term care nursing as a nursing specialty. The Institute provides a nation-wide specialty certification exam, which is offered after the long-term care nurse completes an intensive 3-day leadership and skill-based conference. Our primary goal is to improve the care of long-term care residents through the enhanced knowledge and skills of the long-term care nurse. This program was approved for 24.5 CEU’s through the Texas Nurses Association.

Dr. Campbell and I are the co-founders of the National Association

for Long-Term Care Nurses.

2005-2015 Columbus Community Hospital Columbus, TX

R.N. Charge Nurse, Emergency Department

Worked full-time (transitioned to prn in 2013) at this busy level IV trauma facility as an emergency department charge nurse. Additionally, I worked on med-surg and in the Special Care Unit as needed. As noted above, I continued my employment at this facility on a regular PRN basis when I filled the Director of Nurses position at Schulenburg Regency Nursing Center.

2001-Present Layton And Associates Hallettsville, TX

Certified Legal Nurse Consultant; Owner of Layton And Associates

I consult on numerous cases including Medical and Nursing Malpractice, Personal Injury, Criminal defense, and Insurance defense cases. My services include the review, analysis and summary of medical records as well as assistance with preparation for deposition, mediation and/or trial.

2001-2015 T.L.C. Staffing Victoria, TX

P.R.N. Staff Nurse, E.R. and I.C.U

Through this agency, I worked as a staff nurse in the emergency departments in over 12 facilities in the South Texas area on a PRN basis.

Additionally, I worked in a charge nurse and treatment nurse role in various skilled nursing facilities (nursing homes).

2001-2004 Yoakum Community Hospital Yoakum, TX

ER. Nurse Manager; Trauma Coordinator; Infection Control Coordinator

My duties remained the same as noted below for these areas with increased involvement in hospital-wide billing, reimbursement, budget, education and risk-management issues. As Infection Control Coordinator, I was responsible for hospital–wide infection control education and practices. These duties included serving as the Chairman of the Infection Control Committee and the reporting of Infection Control Statistics to the Medical Staff and Board of Trustees.

1995 – 2001 Yoakum Community Hospital Yoakum, TX

E.R./I.C.U. Nurse Manager; Trauma Coordinator

I was responsible for all facets in the operation of these two departments including: staffing, competencies, organizing and providing continuing education, QI, statistics, maintaining current policies, procedures, protocols, meetings, equipment, budget, supplies, and staff physician support.

As Trauma Coordinator, I was responsible for all Trauma QI, statistics, downloading to the State Trauma Registry, Multi-disciplinary committee meetings and any other trauma issues. With this position, I gained a vast amount of knowledge on EMTALA and have multiple resources in this area. I organized the first drinking related accident simulation for the local high school and worked with the Regional Advisory Council on Trauma to implement region-wide Hazmat education.

I assisted with the nurse staffing throughout the facility as House Supervisor. I also assisted with general nursing education. Throughout my employment at YCH, I enjoyed floating and assisting in all nursing areas.

1995 – 1996 Crossroads Home Health Victoria, TX

R.N. Field Nurse for Crossroad’s Cuero branch

Although I remained employed at Yoakum Community Hospital, I also worked as a field nurse for the Cuero branch of Crossroads Home Health during this time. My duties included all field nurse duties, such as routine visits, admissions, re-certifications, patient assessments, wound care, I.V. infusions and documentation.

1993 – 1995 Blanchfield Army Community Hospital Ft. Campbell, KY

Intensive Care Unit Charge Nurse

My responsibilities at BACH included staff and charge nurse functions in a 10-bed military I.C.U., caring for medical and surgical patients, including Post Anesthesia Care Unit responsibilities in the evenings and on weekends. I flew with patients requiring tertiary care as the flight nurse via helicopter to tertiary care centers in Nashville, TN.

During this period, I was also employed by Critical Care nursing agency in Nashville, TN. While employed through this agency, I worked as a staff nurse primarily in I.C.U.’s at various Nashville hospitals, but I also worked in med-surg, obstetrics, mental health units, day surgery, and a locked-down hospital prison unit.

1992 – 1993 Cuero Nursing and Rehabilitation Cuero, TX

P.R.N. Charge Nurse

1988 - 1993 Cuero Community Hospital Cuero, TX

Intensive Care Unit Charge Nurse

I started as Cuero Community Hospital’s first PNT in 1988. After graduation from the R.N. program in 1990, I worked as a charge nurse/House Supervisor and floated to all nursing areas except for surgery for one year. I transferred into the I.C.U. in 1991 and functioned as the night I.C.U. charge nurse in a 6 bed I.C.U. I was responsible for after hours and weekend recoveries and the monitoring of all med-surg telemetry patients. I continued to float and assist in all nursing areas as needed during this time. I was regularly called to assist and provide support in the emergency department.

1988 - 1990 Citizens Medical Center and Detar Hospital Victoria, TX

Nurse’s Aide/PNT

I worked throughout the nursing program at these two facilities along with Cuero Community Hospital. I floated to all nursing areas with the exception of surgery.

EDUCATION

2020-Present University of Texas at Tyler Tyler, TX

MBA Healthcare Administration

Program Completion/Graduation Candidate July 2022

2017 – 2019 Corpus Christi Texas A&M University Corpus, TX

Doctor of Nursing Practice

Doctor of Nursing Practice 8/10/19

Doctoral Project – Minimizing Congestive Heart Failure Readmissions from the Nursing Home through Focused Nursing Education

2012 - 2014 Prairie View Texas A&M Houston, TX

Graduate School – Family Nurse Practitioner Program

MSN – Family Nurse Practitioner

2009 – 2010 University of Houston-Victoria Victoria, TX

Undergraduate - Nursing

BSN – Cum Laude

1987 – 1990 Victoria College Victoria, TX

Associated Degree – Nursing - RN

Associate Degree of Applied Science

1983 - 1987 Industrial High School Vanderbilt, TX

Diploma – Honor Graduate

ACCREDITATIONS

Certified Emergency Nurse

Advanced Cardiac Life Support

Pediatric Advanced Life Support

Trauma Nursing Core Course

Legal Nurse Consultant

AANP Family Nurse Practitioner Board Certification

Registered Medical Examiner (Exp 2024)

Emergency Nurse Practitioner Board Eligible

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

American Nurses Association

Texas Nurses Association

American Association of Nurse Practitioners

Victoria Area Nurse Practitioners

Emergency Nurses Association

National Association of Long-Term Care Nurses

HONORS AND AWARDS

2019 Scholarship recipient from the Victoria Area Nurse Practitioner Group

Faculty appointed secretary for the PV A&M University Graduate Nurse Practitioner class of May 2014

Outstanding undergraduate student Spring 2010

BSN class representative for the UHV School of Nursing Faculty

2009-2010

PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS

Objective lectures for the Long-Term Care Certification Conferences including: The Past, Present, and Future of LTC Nursing, Limiting Malpractice for Both you and your Facility, Infection Control and UTI’s and Leadership and the Long-Term Care Nurse

EMCEE for the June 20, 2008 culture change initiative project provided by The Texas Medical Foundation, the Texas Healthcare Association, and the Houston-Galveston Area Council on Aging

Coordinator and presenter for the 2003 Yoakum High School drinking and driving awareness project provided by Yoakum Community Hospital, the City of Yoakum, and the Yoakum Fire Department.

SUBMITTED FOR PUBLICATION

Strategies to Decrease Acute Care Congestive Heart Failure Readmissions from the Long-Term Care Facility

Pending submission - Minimizing Congestive Heart Failure Readmissions from the Nursing Home through Focused Nursing Education

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