Nurse Practitioner Family

Brenda K. Mastin

APRN, MSN, FNP-BC

**** ****** **. *********, ** 41015-4213

CERTIFICATIONS & LICENSURE

Certified Family Nurse Practitioner, American Nurses Credentialing Center

Registered Nurse

EDUCATION

Rush University, Chicago, IL

Family Nurse Practitioner Post-Master's Certificate (2013)

Member, International Nursing Honor Society, GPA 3.5

Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, KY

MSN in Nursing Administration and Nursing Education (2005)

Cedarville University, Cedarville, OH

BS in Nursing (1987)

Erlanger Hospital School of Nursing, Chattanooga, TN

RN Diploma in Nursing (1983)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Family Nurse Practitioner: Care First Urgent Care

- Consult acute and primary care adult and pediatric patients in urgent care setting (May 2021-Present)

- Suturing, I&D, Splinting, Eye/Ear irrigations, DOT physicals, Employment and School physicals, many other duties

including ordering and analyzing labs, covid testing, X-rays and other tests

Family Nurse Practitioner: 3 Waters Recovery Center

- Provide MAT for clients in conjunction with counseling and group therapy (February 2021-May 2021)

Family Nurse Practitioner: Your Home Advantage/Humana

- Primary care visits to Humana members in their homes (January 2021- May 2021)

Family Nurse Practitioner: Solidarity Clinic, Togo, West Africa

- Treated primary care patients in outpatient setting (September 2020-January 2021)

Family Nurse Practitioner: Indiana Wesleyan University

Adjunct Professor in Family Nurse Practitioner program

(August 2019 - September 2020)

- Teach modules for FNP students

- Visits to students/work in primary care clinics - fulfilling

adjunct role+

Director of Nursing/FNP, RN roles : Brightstar Healthcare of Northern Kentucky

Home visits and administration

(January 2019 - September 2020)

Family Nurse Practitioner: Karolyn Kempton Memorial Christian Hospital

Kpele Tsiko, Togo, West Africa

(June 2013 – January 2019)

Clinic and Hospital:

- Performed physical examinations, including general wellness

and sick visit history/exams for men, women, and children, acute

and chronic. Performed many pelvic exams, pap smears, prostate

and rectal exams.

- Consulted between 10 and 20 patients per day at the clinic.

- Ordered appropriate labs and x-rays and other diagnostics as

needed.

- Served as hospitalist, taking first call, taking care of emergencies,

new patients and taking care of inpatient problems in 24-hour

shifts, 2 - 3 times/week.

- Diagnosed and treated chronic healthcare issues and provided

chronic and acute care for the following:

Hypertension, Diabetes mellitus, Asthma, CVAs,

Pulmonary embolism, CHF, kidney disease, osteomyelitis,

anemia, sinusitis, otitis media, upper respiratory infections,

pneumonia, hypo and hyperthyroidism, STD's, fibroids,

infertility, UTIs and many other.

- Diagnosed and treated many illnesses/injuries only

seen in Africa: Malaria (cerebral and subacute), viral and bacterial

meningitis, tetanus, typhoid fever, amebiasis, snake bites,

parasitic infections of all kinds, and other infectious diseases

such as: tuberculosis, HIV, hepatitis, and leprosy

- Diagnosed and treated simple physical injuries also such as

simple fractures with casting, strains, dislocations. Also gave

some joint injections and treated some lacerations with sutures.

Nurse Educator

Karolyn Kempton Memorial Christian Hospital

Kpele Tsiko, Togo, West Africa 2001- January 2019

Taught various modules to nursing students during each

program (4 complete programs)

Nursing Coordinator

Karolyn Kempton Memorial Christian Hospital

Kpele Tsiko, Togo, West Africa, 2003 - 2010

Facilitated and aided the work of the Togolese Supervisor

in charge of the Nursing Department

Registered Nurse

Staff Nurse, Erlanger Hospital, Chattanooga, TN 1983-1985

Emergency Room/ICU/RR staff nurse, Greene Memorial, Xenia,

OH 1985-1987

Assistant Head Nurse, Pediatrics, St. Luke West, Florence, KY

1987-1989

Staff Nurse, Home Health, Cincinnati Public Health Dept., via

Nurse Finders 1989-1992

Staff Nurse, Supervisor, Nursing Coordinator, Nurse Educator at

Karolyn Kempton Memorial Christian Hospital (KKMCH)

1992-2010

Brightstar Healthcare, Florence, KY January 2019 to present,

currently serving as Director of Nursing

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Basic Life Support recertification, 2020

Nationally certified as a FNP-BC May 2013 - present

HIV/AIDS Counselor Certification, Togo 2013

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

Kentucky Coalition of Nurse Practitioners and Nurse Midwives

(KCNPNM)

American Academy of Nurse Practitioners

Sigma Theta Tau (Gamma Phi chapter), Rush University, Chicago,

IL

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

Creator/Facilitator of an HIV/AIDS community outreach by

education (in local churches), by counseling patients in the

hospital, youth seminars, training lay leaders in the church how to

take care of patients who have AIDS. We have developed a

center for counseling, testing and treatment as well as job training

for those affected by HIV.

COMPUTER SKILLS

Windows, PowerPoint, Internet

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