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To find a progressive FNP position that strives for staff with a strong work ethic, professionalism, and a positive attitude.

Professional Work Experience

Southern Arizona Veterans Administration Health Care System January 2013 – Present

Current work as a Nurse Practitioner:

Southeast CBOC Nurse Practitioner Pact Team #4

Taking care of and managing a team of 800 male and female veterans with numerous disease processes and comorbidities

Providing care for 10-15 patients per day

Managing my pact team which consists of an RN, LPN and MSA

Previous work as a Staff Nurse:

SICU/MICU as a Staff Nurse/Charge Nurse

Taking care of COVID-19 positive patients. Proning/supining, managing their care and updating families per Zoom or Facetime for consistent updates.

Taking care of fresh open-heart patients and other surgical patients.

Taking care of patients on a balloon pump, or Impella.

The ability to effectively use every piece of equipment in the ICU and take care of any type of patient.

Active member of Unit Council, EBP Committee, SAIL Committee, Critical Care Committee, COPD Committee, and AACN

Created Palliative Care Program for the ICU and Screening Tool.

Created ICU Diary for critically ill patients and their families to help prevent PTSD and post ICU syndrome.

Scheduling coordinator for dayshift ICU staff.

Daily collaboration with doctors, families, other therapies, and staff.

Yellow Belt/Green Belt Certification

Additional Detail:

Detail to work in the Vaccine tent for the Moderna Covid-19 two shot series. This detail included education, vaccination and observation of the Veteran to watch for serious side effects from the vaccination.

Detail to the CDU which is a COVID-19 positive unit/rule out unit. In this unit we test and monitor possible COVID positive patients who appear to be clinically positive and then send them to the appropriate units for further treatment once status is determined.

Cardiology clinic, scheduling Veterans to making sure they have appointments and appropriate and timely follow-up. Scheduling and ordering of cardioversions, cardiac catheterizations, labs, & EKGs

Answering the cardiology triage line for Veterans and direct them appropriately. Track heart failure patients to make sure they have follow-up care once discharged from the hospital.

PRCS PHOENIX, AZ 2012-2013

Working as an ICU travel nurse in various hospitals within Arizona on a full time and per-diem basis.

CARONDELET STAFFING AGENCY, TUCSON, AZ 2011-2013

Working in the ICU/telemetry units as a staff nurse between St. Joseph and St. Mary’s hospitals.

NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL CHICAGO, IL 2010-2011

CT ICU was a very fast pace ICU dealing with heart and liver transplant patients along with post-op open heart patients, AAA repair and other thoracic surgeries.

ST. MARYS OF MICHIGAN, SAGINAW, MI 2008-2010

Working as a critical care float in all 5 ICU’s, which includes Trauma, Cardiac, Surgical, Medical and Neuro.

Working in the Emergency Department and Clinical Observation Unit.

RN CASE MANAGER, HEARTLAND HOME CARE, BAY CITY, MI 2007-2008

Working on the Saginaw Team of Heartland my caseload consisted of between 40 to 50 patients with various diagnoses. Case Managers were expected to make own schedule, see between 6 to 7 patients daily, and turn paperwork in within 24 hours.

In charge of an LPN for my team who assisted me with seeing the non-iv therapy patients.

RN, AGENCY NURSE, CRITICAL RESOURCE, BRIGHTON, MI 2003-2007

As an agency nurse I was contracted out to various hospitals working in the ICU and Emergency Department with assignments for 13 weeks at a time.

RN, STAFF NURSE, BAY REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER, BAY CITY, MI 2002-2003

Progressive Cardiac Telemetry/Charge Nurse, with teams consisting of an RN, an LPN and a PCT. The RN assigned daily tasks while completing daily morning assessments on 8 to 10 patients.

ICU Nurse/Charge Nurse which consisted of a Medical/Surgical ICU, Neurological ICU, and a Cardiac ICU. The ICU nurses were also part of the Code Team, rapid response team and IV Team, which served the entire 352 bed hospital.

While a nurse at Bay Regional I organized and ran a Kaizen event which set forth the organization and redesign of all nursing units in the hospital making them more functional and streamlined for the nurses.

SAGINAW VALLEY REHABILITATION, SAGINAW, MI 1998

Assisted two parent families in the Work First Program in building resumes, cover letters, interviewing skills and appropriate clothing for interviews. Many times, this included helping them to obtain insurance for their vehicles and sometimes to purchase the actual vehicle.

Opened a satellite office in a nearby city which employed 6 staff whom I managed. Our group was responsible for getting participants interviews at local businesses in that town. We were able to get 70% of the participants employed over a 4-year period, and approximately 50% of them remained employed at the same place after 1 year.

US ARMY, 1982-1987 - ARMY NATIONAL GUARD, 1987 – 1989

Education

Bradley University, Peoria, Il. Graduated August 17, 2020

Focus: Post Masters Family Nurse Practitioner Program

Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT, January 2015 - May 2017

Focus: MSN in Nursing Executive Management and Leadership

Saginaw Valley State University, Saginaw, MI BA 1997, BSN 2002

Professional Experience FNP Clinical

Dyer Health PLLC (Geriatric), Tucson AZ, Kimberly Dyer FNP-C, Summer 2020, 150 hours.

Boys and Girls Pediatrics (Pediatrics), Mesa AZ, Dr. Tich-Hao Mach, Preceptor, Spring 2020, 150 hours.

Arizona Center for Reproductive Endocrinology (Women’s Health), Tucson AZ, Dr. Timothy Galety, Preceptor, Fall, 2019, 150 hours.

Gila Internal Medicine and Geriatrics (Adult 2), Mesa AZ, Dr. Enrique Cifuentes, Preceptor, Summer, 2019, 150 hours.

Havasu Regional Medical Center (Adult 1), Lake Havasu AZ, Dr. John Novales, Preceptor, Spring 2019, 150 hours.

Skills

ACLS, BLS, I have worked 36+ hours a week, as a nurse, for the past 19 years with minimal time off.

Referrals

Available upon request.

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