Manager/Director /RN
Resume:
Bosamma Thomas, RN, FNP
**** ******* **., ********, ** 75181
**********@*******.***
Professional Objective
As a Family Nurse Practitioner, I am seeking a position with an organization where motivation and ambitions are encouraged and rewarded, and where quality care and personal commitments are appreciated and rewarded.
Qualifications
Dedicated nurse practitioner graduated from Texas Woman’s University on May 13, 2011.
Background in intensive care, internal medicine, cardiac care, medical, surgical & pediatrics.
Flexible, quick learner, easily adaptable to new situations and enjoys challenges. Self-motivated professional with a commitment to providing quality nursing care. Strong organizational and communication skills.
Education
MS, FNP: Texas Woman’s University, Dallas, Texas (Fall 2008 to spring 2011)
BSN: University of Pune, India (1975-1979)
Professional Experience
Critical care nurse experience in the following hospitals:
Dallas Regional Medical Center – ICU August, 2010 through present
Full-time RN
Care of critical patients whose medical conditions require close observation; Preparing patient care plans, implementing plans, vital signs monitoring, administering medications, blood transfusions; assisting with tests and evaluations; mechanical ventilators, responding to emergencies; organizing staff and workloads; teaching skills to student and junior nurses; provide quality patient care as well as education and support to the patient's family. Work alongside the patient's physicians and provide direction to licensed practical nurses and nursing assistants who work within the unit. Ensure that life support equipment, such as ventilators and feeding tubes, functions properly. Monitor patient’s vital signs for signs of distress. Administer IVs, bring medication and insert catheters as needed.
UT Southwestern Medical Center – ICU 2005 to 2010
Full-time RN
Participated in Nurse Extern Preceptor Program and facilitated the professional development of nurse externs as they transitioned from nursing school to the nursing profession. Coordinated and provided direct patient care in ICU settings and administration of blood products to critical patients in the inpatient settings. Served as a team leader for nursing unit in successfully completing the annual hospital-wide mandatory education competencies. Duties include performing full assessment, planning, intervention, and evaluation of critical care patients on a 12 hour shift, including new admissions and transfer patients on a daily basis. Served as charge nurse and preceptor for newly hired nurses and interns and as a resource for less experienced nurses due to established extensive experience in the ICU.
Medical City Hospital, Dallas – ICU 2001 to 2005
Full-Time, RN
Coordinated patients’ admission, discharge, and care, collaborating with both staff doctors and nurses; responsible for education and supervision of new patient care secretaries. Duties included assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of two critical patients. As a team leader, the overall responsibilities included assigning staff nurses according to the skills and acuity of the patients, ensuring sufficient staffing, and attending the codes in the hospital. I also served as a charge nurse and preceptor for newly hired nurses and interns.
VA Hospital, Dallas – ICU 1998 to 2001
Full time RN
Responsible for the coordination of patients’ admission, discharge, and care, collaborating with both staff doctors and nurses; worked as a charge nurse; oversaw education and supervision of new patient care secretaries; functioned as team leader; and served as a resource for interns and new nurses as well as for less experienced nurses. Coordinated maintenance of emergency room patient statistics. Worked as full time staff nurse in the MSICU. Duties included performing assessment, formulating plan of care, implementing the plan and evaluation of care of two critical patients. Assisted the physicians with procedures such as chest tube insertions, central line placement, and Swan-Ganz catheter placement.
Charlton Methodist Hospital, Dallas – ICU 1996 to 1998
Full-time RN
Coordinated and provided direct patient care in ICU settings. Care of critical patients whose medical conditions require close observation; Preparing patient care plans, implementing plans, vital signs monitoring, administering medications, blood transfusions; assisting with tests and evaluations; mechanical ventilators, responding to emergencies; organizing staff and workloads; teaching skills to student and junior nurses; provide quality patient care as well as education and support to the patient's family. Work alongside the patient's physicians and provide direction to licensed practical nurses and nursing assistants who work within the unit. Ensure that life support equipment, such as ventilators and feeding tubes, functions properly. Monitor patient’s vital signs for signs of distress. Administer IVs, bring medication and insert catheters as needed.
Immaculate Mary Nursing Home, PA 1995 to1996
Charge nurse for 40 bed unit and oversaw overall responsibilities of licensed practical nurses and certified nursing assistants. Organizing staff and workloads; teaching skills to student and junior nurses; provide quality patient care as well as education and support to the patient's family. Work alongside the patient's physicians and provide direction to licensed practical nurses and nursing assistants who work within the unit.
Sreechitra Medical Center, India
Full-time RN– CCU 1979 to 1995
Collaborated with other health care team members in implementing care plans and ensuring positive health outcomes. Assisted nursing staff in complex needs of Med-Surge ICU, Neurosurgery pre and post operative patients, Pediatric patients, Cardiac clients, and in Women’s health center. Administered injections, delivered and coordinated daily doses of oral medications for patients. Responsible for upgrading chart information, including vital signs. Demonstrated active listening skills and assessed patients comfort needs. Provided total patient care including range of motion, tube feeding, I&O, and catheterization. Performed wound care using aseptic technique. Served as a Primary Nurse and engaged in patient/family education pertaining to diagnoses and treatments; provided continual psychosocial support and advocacy.
Licensure
Registered Nurse (License # 634148)
Certifications
• Basic Life Support
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support Instructor
• Critical Care Registered Nurse (CCRN)
Honors and Awards
Excellence in Nursing as Clinical Ladder 1V for 4 years from UT Southwestern Medical Center
Professional Affiliations
• American Academy of Critical Care Nurses
• North Texas Nurse Practitioners
• American Academy of Nurse Practitioners
• Honor Society of Nursing-Sigma Theta Tau International
Community Service
Volunteered at Grace United Methodist church at Dallas, free medical service provided mainly for the Hispanic community. Did initial screening for the assessment and vital signs of the patients who visited there for the medical services.
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