Conscientious and compassionate Adult-Gerontology Nurse Practitioner with experience in critical care nursing and palliative care research seeking challenging position caring for patients throughout the bone marrow transplant process.
- Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills
- Commitment to professional growth and development
- Hard-working and dependable
- Fluent in French
- Adult-Gerontology Nurse Practitioner Program
- GPA 3.98
- Accelerated BSN Program
- GPA 3.85
- Minor in Political Science
- GPA 3.82
Registered Nurse in the State of Pennsylvania, license #RN627105
Basic Life Support (BLS) certification, valid through November 2014
National Nurse Practitioner certification and Pennsylvania Nurse Practitioner license pending - Certification exam scheduled for August 2013
City, STATE, 2012 - 04/2013
- Over 660 hours of clinical work in a variety of settings:
- Primary Care- managed acute and chronic illness of individuals across the lifespan; worked with preceptor to assess, diagnose, treat, and evaluate patients with a broad range of illnesses; focused on health maintenance, health promotion, and patient education; provided preventative services to patients
- Palliative Care - completed rounds with multidisciplinary team; assessed patients and ordered treatments focused on pain management; participated in conferences with patients, families, and health care team to establish goals of care
- Women's Health - performed well-woman gynecological exams; provided prenatal through postpartum care to primarily low-income women
- Occupational Medicine - performed complete history and physical exams for work clearance; assessed, diagnosed, treated, and evaluated work-related injuries Dermatology - assessed, diagnosed, treated, and evaluated a range of skin conditions; performed routine skin cancer screenings and participated in excision and biopsy of suspicious lesions
- Endocrinology - provided follow-up care for patients with diabetes; participated in counseling on nutrition and lifestyle changes
City, STATE, 07/2011 - 04/2013
- Interviewed patients with heart failure and their caregivers on a monthly basis regarding the experience of living with heart failure for a NIH-funded study (Study #5R01NR013419-02)
- Identified themes from interviews, with the goal of developing a palliative care algorithm for use with heart failure patients
- Participated in weekly research meetings; recorded minutes for each meeting
- Contributed to research discussions, abstracts, posters, presentations, and articles
- Performed literature searches and reviews; entered and analyzed data; managed data repository
City, STATE, 01/2009 - 04/2011
- Provided comprehensive bedside nursing care to critically-ill patients with a wide range of conditions
- Frequently cared for patients with complex acute and chronic conditions such as cancer, acute respiratory distress, gastrointestinal bleeds, sepsis, pneumonia, renal failure, multi-system organ failure, pulmonary hypertension, alcohol withdrawal, diabetic ketoacidosis, and transplant rejection
- Worked successfully within a multidisciplinary team in a complex, high-tech, and high-stress environment
- Provided education to patients and their families throughout the critical illness trajectory
- Frequently involved in discussing prognosis, plans and goals of care with patients and their families
- Served as preceptor for nursing students
- Third place for poster presentation "The Forgotten Mourners: Addressing Healthcare Provider Grief - A Systematic Review" at Eastern Nursing Research Society conference, April 2013
- Commencement speaker at Pennsylvania State University School of Nursing graduation ceremony, May 2013
American Association of Nurse Practitioners, Member: February 2013 to Present
Pennsylvania Coalition of Nurse Practitioners, Member: February 2013 to Present
Sigma Theta Tau Honor Society of Nursing, Member: 2008 to Present
Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society, Member: 2007 to Present
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School Attended
- The Pennsylvania State University
- Duke University
- University of California Los Angeles
Job Titles Held:
- Student Nurse Practitioner Clinical Experiences
- Graduate Assistant, School of Nursing
- Staff Nurse - Clinical Nurse II, Medical Intensive Care Unit
Degrees
- Master of Science
- Bachelor of Science
- Bachelor of Arts
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