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CARDIOVASCULAR & THORACIC SURGERY NURSE PRACTITIONER
Professional Summary

Objective: To advance my career by working as an advanced registered family nurse practitioner in an outpatient setting and to assist in the management of quality healthcare goals for my patients. This would be accomplished by using critical thinking skills obtained from many years of nursing and nurse practitioner experience and education.

Licenses
  • Ohio Board of Nursing: Registered Nurse License RN.308368-COA1
  • Ohio Board of Nursing: Nurse Practitioner License COA.09782-NP
  • Ohio Board of Nursing: Prescriptive Authority License RX.09782
  • AANP Board Certified Family Nurse Practitioner # F1007319
  • Current DEA License
  • Current American Heart Association BLS Certified Provider
  • Current American Heart Association ACLS Certified Provider
  • National Provider Identifier # 1104167360
Skill Highlights
  • Well organized and quickly adaptable
  • Completion of History and Physicals, Consultations, and daily progress notes as well as discharges and admissions
  • Diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic illnesses and disease processes
  • Patient medical education
  • Nursing staff education
  • STS data management
  • Research study implementation and data collection
  • EPIC physician liaison and strong computer based charting skills
  • Procedures
Professional Experience
Mercy Health Anderson Hospital Cincinnati, OH Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery Nurse Practitioner 11/2007 to Current
  • Work collaboratively with a Cardio-Thoracic Surgeon.
  • Complete all Histories and Physicals, consultations, admissions, discharges, & daily patient assessments/rounding.
  • Order appropriate medications, treatments, and tests for patients.
  • Make critical decisions daily on patients of all ages from the adolescent to geriatric population in acute care, telemetry, and medical surgical inpatient settings.
  • Complete procedures such as suture removal and discontinuation of thoracostomy tubes and temporary pacing wires.
  • Interpret all lab work results as well as chest XRAYs and CT scans of the chest daily.
  • Complete all pre-operative and discharge teaching for patients.
  • Assist with RN competencies and education throughout the entire hospital year round.
  • Collect, manage, and submit quality heart surgery reporting data for the Society of Thoracic Surgeons' database on all open heart surgical patients and report data at a biannual Mercy Health quality meeting.
  • Research study data collection.
  • Community outreach discussions on cardiovascular related topics at Anderson Healthplex through the Cardiac Rehab program.
Baptist Hospital East Louisville, KY Registered Nurse 04/2004 to 11/2007
  • Worked as a Critical Care Registered Nurse on all floors in the hospital including CVICU, MICU, Telemetry, Vascular Unit, Pediatric Unit, Medical/Surgical Unit, ER, Triage, and the Chest Pain Observation Unit.
  • When managing all patients in the Chest Pain Unit, tasks included telemetry monitoring, completing all 12 lead EKG's, completing all blood draws, taking all vital signs, entering all hospital physician orders, and discharging patients home when appropriate.
Intelistaf Travel Staffing Agency Traveling Registered Nurse 06/2003 to 04/2004
  • Worked as a Critical Care Registered Nurse on the MICU & SICU units in three hospitals as a traveling RN including Lee Memorial Hospital in Ft. Myers, FL., Good Samaritan Hospital in Cincinnati, OH, and Bridgeport Hospital in Bridgeport, CT.
Jewish Hospital Louisville, KY Registered Nurse 07/2001 to 06/2003
  • Worked as a Critical Care Registered Nurse in the ICU and on the Telemetry floor as a new graduate RN.
Education and Training
Master of Science: Nursing 2007 Spalding University, Louisville, KY
Bachelor of Science: Nursing 2001 University of Louisville, Louisville, KY
Accomplishments
  • Honor Society: Inducted into Sigma Theta Tau, Iota Zeta Chapter, UofL, 2001.
  • Ongoing Research Studies: "Comparison of Post-operative Atrial Fibrillation Rates using Cormatrix Extracellular Matrix for Pericardial Closure and Conventional Methods in Cardiac Surgery, A Multi-Centered Clinical Study." -Data Collection for research at Mercy Health Anderson Hospital looking for a correlation between a decreased incidence of post-operative atrial fibrillation and use of a Cormatrix extracellular matrix patch for pericardial closure status post open heart surgery.
  • Precepting: (2011-present) Nurse Practitioner and Physician's Assistant candidate preceptor for University of Cincinnati College of Nursing, Northern KY University, Indiana Wesleyan University, and Kettering College in Dayton, Ohio.
Professional Affiliations
  • 2010-present Member of AANP
  • 2007-present AANP Board Certified Family Nurse Practitioner
  • 2001-present NCLEX Board Certified Registered Nurse
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Resume Overview

Companies Worked For:

  • Mercy Health Anderson Hospital
  • Baptist Hospital East
  • Intelistaf Travel Staffing Agency
  • Jewish Hospital

School Attended

  • Spalding University
  • University of Louisville

Job Titles Held:

  • Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery Nurse Practitioner
  • Registered Nurse
  • Traveling Registered Nurse

Degrees

  • Master of Science : Nursing 2007
    Bachelor of Science : Nursing 2001

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