Highly qualified board-certified Family Nurse Practitioner driven to build strong relationships with patients and their families. Having served the medical community as a Registered Nurse/Nurse Practitioner for a total of 15 years, driven by quality care and the ability to continue education through work experience within the specialty of dermatology.
Management/care of various skin disorders Assess pathology results Order/interpret lab work Management large surface actinic damage Skin biopsies: shave, punch, scoop techniques Diagnose/order treatment for basal, squamous, melanoma skin cancers Diagnose/order treatment dysplastic nevi | Electrodessication & Curettage in-situ skin cancers Excision/closures dysplastic nevi Mohs closures: simple, intermediate, complex closures Removal small to moderately sized cysts and lipomas Injections keloids, hair loss, cysts Liquid nitrogen treatment skin disorders |
Clinical dermatology with continuation of surgical skills in the office setting
Education patients based upon their diagnoses and treatments
Extensively knowledgeable in dermatology with focus on patient education
Clinical appointments of 4-6 patients per hour
Primary provider within the office
Excellent patient rapport
Extensive dermatology training for both clinical and surgical treatments
Assisted with Mohs micro-graphic surgery
Performed closures of Mohs procedures
Routine patient visits assessing, diagnosing, and treating within dermatology
Clinical experience in family practice, women's health, internal medicine, and pediatrics
Six-hundred-thirty clinical hours with over 950 patient encounters emphasizing clinical decision making, physical assessment, and medication prescribing
Charge nurse duties as well as bedside patient safety to include hemodynamic monitoring and mechanical ventilation of critical care post-operative patients
Sole nursing provider to maternity operating room and maternity PACU while on duty, executing proper flow of surgical schedule through both surgical suites while recovering post-operative maternity patients
Pre-operative treatment of patients for surgery, verifying/witnessing consents, surgical orders, accessing intravenous/port access, assisting with surgical/anesthesia bedside procedures
Post-operative patient recovery after anesthesia, pain control, and discharge education
Post-surgical monitoring of surgical patients including post-operative pain control
Assisted in various bedside procedures for both surgeons/anesthesia staff
Performed bedside patient care and safety including hemodynamic monitoring, mechanical ventilation of critical care post-operative patients
Performed post-surgical bedside care for inpatient/outpatient surgical procedures
Responded to respiratory and cardiac arrest situations throughout hospital
Member 24-hour emergency on-call surgical team for trauma surgery
Directed the nursing care of terminally ill patients in the home care setting while collaborating with other members of hospice team to ensure safety, peace and well-being for each patient, and their caretakers
Managed daily care of up to three critically ill patients, including mechanically ventilated, hemodynamically unstable, post-surgical patients
Charge nurse on rotational basis
First line management of cardiac and respiratory arrest situations
LICENSES State of Georgia: Advanced Practice-NP: RN171898 Expires: 1/31/2016
State of South Carolina: Advanced Practice Registered Nurse: APRN 18705 Expires 4/30/2016
CERTIFICATIONS American Academy of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) Family Nurse Practitioner: Certification Number: F0114007
AANP Specialty Practice Member for Dermatology
Basic Life Support - American Heart Association 1994 - November 2016
Advanced Cardiac Life Support - AHA 2001-December 2013
HONORS Sigma Theta Tau Honor Society of Nursing
AFFILIATIONS Affiliate Member Georgia Dermatology Physician Assistants
VOLUNTEER WORK Registered Nurse performing health screenings at Atlanta homeless shelter, local mission through church, children's Sunday school substitute teacher
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