CONTACT INFORMATION
Tamara Jane Carol Dawn Degenhardt
*** ******** *** *****, ** 73099
***********@*****.***
LICENSURE/CERTIFICATION
**/****-**/****- ******** Practice Registered Nurse/Rx with the Oklahoma Board of Nursing. License # R 0091127
02/2017-02/2027-Family Nurse Practitioner with the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Certification Board #F02170328
02/2008 – 04/2024- Registered Nurse License with the Oklahoma Board of Nursing.
License # R 0091127
08/2021 – 08/2023- Basic Life Support by the American Heart Association
EDUCATION
Master’s Degree of Nurse Science for Family Medicine Nurse Practitioner (2012-2016)
Kaplan University
2660 E. 53rd St
Davenport, IA 52807-3873
Bachelor’s Degree of Nurse Science (2008-2011)
Oklahoma Panhandle State University
323 Eagle Blvd
Goodwell, OK 73939
Associate’s Degree of Nurse Science (2003-2007)
Oklahoma State University-Oklahoma City
900 N. Portland Ave
Oklahoma City, OK 73107-6120
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Federal Corrections Institution
4205 OK-66
El Reno, OK 73036-4909
08/2019-Present
Duties included: Managing the medical care, medications, care plans, preventive health, making appropriate referrals, scheduling, complying with clinical practice guidelines for chronic diseases, documentation, following up with acute conditions, participating in utilization review, entering in employee time and attendance, assisting nursing staff with duties, reporting to supervising physician and administration, providing advanced wound care skills, including sutures, staples, and therapeutic injections, responding to emergency correctional situations, such as rioting inmates, assaults on inmates and assaults on staff., responding during covid-19 outbreaks at the institution, coming in after hours and on holidays to respond to the health services needs of the inmates at the institution. Also supports the health services functions through teaching during admission and orientation, serves a collateral duty as a backup timekeeper, assists in drafting responses to BP-8s and BP-9s (formals complaints), assists other new providers, assisting with Limited Light Duty conferences, assists with evaluating program review functions in health services, and was also a recipient of an APP Scholarship Award offered through the Central Office. Hours a week: 40
Family Practice Nurse Practitioner- Lawton Correctional Facility
8607 S.E. Flower Mound Rd
Lawton, OK 73501-9765
03/2018-09/2019
Duties included: Managing the medical care, medications, care plans, preventive health, making appropriate referrals, complying with clinical practice guidelines for chronic diseases, documentation, following up with acute conditions, providing advanced wound care skills, such as sutures and staples, reporting to supervising physician and administration. Hours a week: 24
Family Practice Nurse Practitioner- Great Plains Correctional Facility
700 Sugar Creek Rd
Hinton, OK 73047-9313
03/2017-12/2018
Duties included: Managing the medical care, medications, care plans, preventive health, making appropriate referrals, complying with clinical practice guidelines for chronic diseases, documentation, following up with acute conditions, reporting to supervising physician and administration, and improving per corporate audits. Hours a week: 40
Radiology Nurse/PICC Team Manager- Integris Southwest Medical Center
4401 S. Western Ave
Oklahoma City, OK 73109-3413
09/2014-03/2017
Duties included: Direct employee performance management (planning, monitoring, development, evaluation, and reward), staff development, instruction when appropriate, facilitate unit performance improvement process, hiring, corrective action, and termination of employees, managing employee competencies and employee files, facilitate overall management of the staffing schedule, supervise, coordinate, delegate, and implement patient care, delegation of licensed and non-licensed personnel for their assigned shift/area, facilitating problem solving, and education/training of staff and patients, checked off competencies point of care and checked competencies for new and experienced employees per Joint Commission and College of American Pathologist requirements, and performed presentations about quality initiatives. Hours a week: 40
Radiology/PICC Staff Registered Nurse - Integris Southwest Medical Center
4401 S. Western Ave
Oklahoma City, OK 73109-3413
04/2010-09/2014
Duties included: Medicate and monitor patients for conscious sedation procedures, such as biopsies, drain placements, MRIs, and transesophageal echocardiograms, schedule inpatient and outpatient interventional procedures, and vascular access procedures such as placing Peripherally Inserted Central Catheters, difficult intravenous accesses, and accessing infusaports. Hours a week: 40
Post Coronary Care Unit Staff Registered Nurse – Integris Baptist Medical Center
3300 N.W. Expressway
Oklahoma City, OK 73112-4418
02/2008-03/2010
Duties included: Assessment, diagnosis, planning, intervention, and evaluation of patient care, teaching, documentation, collaborating with the interdisciplinary team, and specializing in the care of heart and lung transplant patients, stroke patients, and LVAD patients. Hours a week: 36
HONORS/AWARDS/RECOGNITIONS
Featured on the cover of Oklahoma’s Nursing Times in January, 2012 in “Nurse Driven to Succeed”.
Nurse of the Year for Radiology/Cath Lab at Integris Southwest Medical Center in 2011, 2013, and 2016.
Advancing through Clinical Excellence recipient for 2012, 2014, 2015, and 2016.
ISMC Team Excellence Award for the Pathway of Excellence designation in 2016.
Correctional Worker of the Month November 2022
VOLUNTEER WORK
Reaching Our City Clinic in Bethany, OK (2010-2013).
Duties: assessment, diagnosis, intervention, teaching, and referral assistance to the impoverished in the community.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Clinical Practice Council (2011-2012, 2013-2014)
Chair of Clinical Practice Council (January 2014 – July 2014)
REFERENCES
Dr. Spencer Zeavin – Supervising Physician
Kassidy Burchett – Health Services Administrator
Kassidy Abercrombie – Health Information Technician