Krystyna de Jacq, NP
New York, NY, 10032
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Profile:
Polish psychiatric Nurse Practitioner who lived in four different countries, used to work with culturally different populations.
Education:
06/2007 – 10/2009 MSN, Psychiatric Nursing, Columbia University, New York, NY
06/2006 – 05/2007 BSN, Columbia University, New York, NY.
01/2003 – 05/2005 BA in Psychology at Lehman College, CUNY, New York, NY.
NP Experience: 01/2009 – 08/2010
o In Homes Now, New York, NY.
o Provided medication management to existing clients who suffered from substance abuse/dependence and mental illness.
o Conducted psychiatric evaluations for new clients.
o Assessed, diagnosed and treated clients with mental illness.
o Provided individual and group therapies such as Seeking Safety.
o Managed case load and documentation.
o Worked as a team member with other professions.
The most difficult part in that job was to gain trust and establish relationships with my clients, who were all former homeless, substance abusing people. I listened to them, provided individual and group therapies and was there for them.
RN Professional Experience: 11/2007 - Present
o New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY.
o Work with patients and their families, provide psycho education, and discuss signs and symptoms of illnesses, medications, therapeutic actions and possible side effects.
o Attend to medical and psychiatric emergencies.
o Maintain administrative records such as blood glucose monitoring, narcotics count and patient charting.
o Admitted numerous patients to the unit using the Nursing Assessment charts.
o Effective weekend charge nurse.
o Mentor to six new nurses on the unit.
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I developed managing skills when assuming the responsibility of the charge nurse on the weekends and evening shifts used my teaching skills to train new nurses.
Research Assistant:
Lehman College 01/2005-05/2006
o Collected and analyzed data for psychological experiments.
o Recruit and schedule of research participants.
o Maintained databases and files.
o Created confidentiality codes for the participants.
o Worked in close collaboration with the Principal Inverstigator.
Other Experience:
Berlitz International, New York, NY. 07/2000 – 01/2005
o French and Polish Instructor.
o Offered instructions of French and Polish languages using Berlitz’ method of immersion in the target language.
o Oriented newly arrived expatriates to New York City and its institutions.
French School of Kuwait, Kuwait City, Kuwait. 9/1998 – 6/1999
Social sciences Instructor.
University of Sorbonne, Paris, France. 9/1991 – 7/1998
Economics Instructor.
Languages:
English, French, Polish.