Nurse Practitioner Health
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Riley R. Brooks
Missouri City, TX 77459
Cell: 713-***-**** Email: **************@*****.*** OBJECTIVE To obtain a rewarding and challenging position that will enable me to utilize my leadership skills to improve occupational medicine through expert practice and holistic care.
Doctorate of Nursing Practice August 2019-Current
Texas Woman’s University
EDUCATION
Family Nurse Practitioner Masters in Nursing May 2016 Texas Woman’s University
GPA: 3.7
Bachelor of Science in Nursing December 2009
Texas Woman’s University
GPA: 3.5
EXPERIENCE
Texas Industrial Medical January 2020-Current
Position: Occupational Health Nurse Practitioner
Duties: Independently treat and coordinate care for patients within the workplace and injury care setting.
Job Tasks include:
• Prevention and treatment of stress, injuries or illnesses derived from the work environment.
• Providing 24 hour injury/wound care
• Providing COVID screening, testing, and medical management for multiple sites
• Developing COVID protocols and procedures for multiple sites
• Developing disease prevention programs for hypertension, diabetes, and smoking cessation.
• Documenting all employee work-related injuries and illnesses per OSHA guidelines.
• Observing and assessing the work environment for potential dangers and hazards
• Treating injuries and illnesses for employees, including follow-ups and referrals
• Overseeing and implementing emergency and disaster preparedness programs and planning
• Serving as a gatekeeper for healthcare services, including rehabilitation and disability matters
• Counseling employees on physical and mental health issues and guiding them toward community resources and/or employee assistance programs
• Monitoring the overall health status of potential employees Riley B r o o k s R e s u m e
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Alliance Health Resources January 2018-November 2019 Position: Occupational Health Nurse Practitioner
Duties: Independently treat and coordinate care for patients within the workplace and injury care setting.
Job Tasks include:
• Developing and implementing health and safety programs
• Developing disease prevention programs, such as smoking cessation, exercise, and healthy eating programs
• Documenting all employee injuries and illnesses within the workplace
• Observing and assessing the work environment for potential dangers and hazards
• Treating injuries and illnesses for employees, including follow-ups and referrals
• Overseeing and implementing emergency and disaster preparedness programs and planning
• Serving as a gatekeeper for healthcare services, including rehabilitation and disability matters
• Counseling employees on physical and mental health issues and guiding them toward community resources and/or employee assistance programs
• Monitoring the health status of employees
• Conducting research on the effects of hazardous work conditions or workplace exposures, which may include gathering data and reporting findings to the employer University of Texas Medical Branch December 2016-Januaray 2018 Position: Orthopedic Nurse Practitioner
Duties: Independently treat and coordinate care for patients with orthopedic injuries or diseases.
Job Tasks include:
• Functions independently to perform age-appropriate history and physical for complex acute, critical, post-op, and chronically ill patients.
• Orders and interprets diagnostic and therapeutic tests relative to patient’s age-specific needs.
• Prescribes appropriate pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic treatment modalities
• Assists with the provision of surgical care in accordance with facility, state, and federal regulations.
• Monitors the effectiveness of interventions.
• Conduct and manage research trials within the department.
• Facilitates the patient’s transition within and between health care settings, e.g. admitting, transferring, and discharging patients.
• Collaborates with multidisciplinary team members by making appropriate referrals.
• Facilitates staff, patient and family decision making by providing educational tools. Riley B r o o k s R e s u m e
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Memorial Hermann Hospital June 2012-June 2016
Position: Staff Trauma RN
Duties: Circulating various surgical procedures including severe traumas and emergencies, and providing preoperative and intraoperative patient care.
Job Tasks include:
Provide patients with intraoperative nursing care during various surgical procedures.
Monitor, record and report symptoms and changes in patients' conditions.
Prepare patients for, and assist with, examinations and treatments.
Assess the needs of individuals, families or communities, including assessment of individuals' home or work environments to identify potential health or safety problems.
Consult and coordinate with health care team members to assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient care plans.
St. Lukes Episcopal Hospital January 2010-June 2012 Position: Staff RN
Duties: Circulating and scrubbing various surgical procedures and providing preoperative and intraoperative patient care. Job Tasks include:
Provide patients with intraoperative nursing care during various surgical procedures.
Consult and coordinate with health care team members to assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient care plans.
Prepare patients for surgery, including positioning patients on the operating table and covering them with sterile surgical drapes to prevent exposure.
Be familiar with various types of surgical procedures and the different types of equipment that may be required.
Prepare dressings or bandages and apply or assist with their application following surgery. St. Lukes Episcopal Hospital June 2009-January 2010 Position: Student Nurse
Duties: Shadowing an RN and a surgical technologist to gain skills to be able to circulate and scrub surgical procedures as well as provide patient care independently.
Job Tasks include:
Hand instruments and supplies to surgeons and surgeons' assistants, hold retractors and cut sutures, and perform other tasks as directed by the surgeon during the operation.
Maintain supply of fluids, such as plasma, saline, blood and glucose, for use during operations.
Scrub arms and hands and assist the surgical team to scrub and put on gloves, masks, and surgical clothing.
Maintain a proper sterile field during surgical procedures.
Prepare rooms, sterile instruments, equipment and supplies, and ensure that stock of supplies is maintained.
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KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Selected as one of only two graduate nurses to be admitted into operating room internship program after rigorous selection process.
AORN Member
Unit Representative Member for Staff Nurse Council
Selected to complete a research project for the operating room department in the Enhance Research Program.
One of three lead trauma nurses on my unit.
HANP Member
TNP Member
AANP Member
Selected to complete a research project for the for Orthopedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Department
Sole medical provider for multiple plant sites
CERTIFICATIONS
AANP Family Nurse Practitioner Certification
ACLS Certification
BLS Certification
DEA License
X-waiver
DOT Certification pending
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