Family Nurse Practitioner Resume Example

• Cohesively work with four general surgeons, a general surgery fellow, and 3-4 alternating general surgery residents per month to provide inpatient pre-operative and post-operative care to general surgery patients.
• Promptly and effectively assess emergency situations and post-operative complications to determine necessary interventions and treatment plans.
• Assess, diagnose and treat post-operative patients in the outpatient clinic, including wound management/debridement, suture placement, and drain management/removal.
• Order, interpret and treat a wide range of laboratory and basic X-ray results, including culture and sensitivity speciation, CXR, KUB.
• Review past medical history and home therapies to reincorporate in post-operative patient care when appropriate.
• Collaboratively utilize multi-disciplinary approach to care for patients including inpatient pharmacist, nutritionist, case manager, social worker, and charge nurse, as well as outpatient general surgery clinic nurses.
• Manage nutritional supplementation, including parenteral and enteral nutrition regimens.
• Organize discharge needs for post-operative patients, including education of new diagnosis and its appropriate treatment and medication regimen, nutritional needs, necessary follow-up appointments among a variety of disciplines, and establishment of future planned radiologic needs or procedures.
• Precept new general surgery advanced providers.

• Invasively monitor/assess hemodynamic and respiratory stability of critically ill patients, managing sedation and vasopressor use for those mechanically-ventilated on a therapeutic level, as well as during bedside procedures.
• Proficiently use EMR and medical devices i.e. ventilators, caminos, EVDs, central lines, arterial lines, and wound managers.
• Actively assist physicians and other advanced providers with tests and procedures.
• Critically think in acute and changing patient scenarios and efficiently manage time.
• Empathically provide initial/continued support and education to patients and families through traumatic events.

Avidly precept and mentor student nurses and new RN hires.