Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery Nurse Practitioner Resume Example Mercy Health Anderson Hospital

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 HospitalCincinnati, OHCardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery Nurse Practitioner11/2007 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 EastLouisville, KYRegistered Nurse04/2004 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 AgencyTraveling Registered Nurse06/2003 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 HospitalLouisville, KYRegistered Nurse07/2001 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:Nursing2007Spalding University, Louisville, KY

Bachelor of Science:Nursing2001University 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

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

Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery Nurse Practitioner Resume Example

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