Sunshine Scott

Professionally trained Registered Critical Care Nurse, board certified Nurse Practitioner and Member of CNO, with strong clinical and people skills. Responsible, with excellent communication skills and dedicated work ethic. Exceptional planning, and prioritizing client care. Reliable and take pride in maintaining punctuality. Takes initiative in maintaining client safety and providing the best possible culturally sensitive care to clients.

Nurse Practitioner student - Safe Care Medical Clinic

(2025 - 2025)

Clinical rotation providing care in Women’s Health and Adult lifespan in an outpatient setting.

• Conducting routine annual physical exams and health evaluations for women and adults.
• Performing pap test, HPV testing, clinical breast exams, and coordinating mammograms.
• Ordering and interpreting labs for cholesterol, diabetes, bone density, and thyroid function etc.
• Administering routine vaccines such as HPV, Tdap, and seasonal flu shots.
• Counseling on and prescribing birth control options, including pills, patches, injections, and devices.
• Screening, diagnosing, and treating sexually transmitted infections, urinary tract infections, and vaginitis.
• Providing early pregnancy confirmation, routine prenatal checkups, and postpartum recovery support.

Nurse Practitioner student - MD Clinics

(2024 - 2024)

Clinical rotation providing comprehensive care in Pediatrics and Adult health.

• Routine physical examinations, tracks growth and developmental milestones, and evaluates vision and hearing
• Diagnoses and treats common childhood illnesses
• Manages ongoing conditions like asthma, and eczema.
• Screens for developmental delays, autism spectrum disorder, and mental health or behavioral concerns, offering guidance or specialist referrals.
• Orders, performs, and interprets diagnostic tests (like lab work or X-rays) and prescribes medications or non-pharmacological therapies.
• Advises parents and caregivers on nutrition, sleep, safety, and adolescent sexual/mental health.

Critical Care Nurse Resource Team - Sunnybrook Hospital

(2022-11)

Provide high-intensity, life-saving care and continuous monitoring for patients facing severe, life-threatening illnesses or injuries in Trauma, Cardiovascular, Neurovascular, Burns and general medicine, and oncology units.

• Titrate high-risk intravenous medications like vasopressors sedatives, and resuscitation drugs based on instant changes in patient's hemodynamic status.
• Continuously monitor and track vital signs, heart rhythms, oxygen levels, and hemodynamic lines such as arterial lines and intracranial pressure monitors.
• Operate, adjust, and troubleshoot complex medical hardware, including mechanical ventilators, dialysis machines (Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy trained), and specialized infusion pumps.
• Explain complex medical updates in simple terms, support loved ones through traumatic crises, and guide end-of-life comfort care.
• Draw blood lab work, administer blood products, perform frequent physical assessments, dress wounds, and coordinate diagnostic testing like X-rays or CT scans.

Acute Care Nursing Resource Team - Sunnybrook Hospital

(2021-04 - 2022-11)

Provided safe and competent care to patients with varying medical diagnoses, admitted from the emergency department, and inpatient units. Trained and floated to medical surgical, oncology, gyno- oncology, plastic surgery/reconstruction, Ear Nose and Throat, hepato-biliary and pancreatic post-surgery, urology, cardiology/cardiovascular, trauma, orthopedic, neurovascular and nephrology units.

• Performed head-to-assessments daily.
• Surgical wound care dressing change.
• IV insertions and blood collection.
• Tracheostomy care.
• Ostomy and appliance maintenance.
• Pharmacological management and treatment of coronary artery disease, asthma, COPD, MI, other chronic and health problems.
• Managed patients on telemetry.
• Transurethral resection of the prostate care, CBI initiation and management.

Burns and Trauma A2 - St. John’s Rehab

(2019-04 - 2020-12)

• Trauma and burn wound care and dressing.
• Suture and staple removal.
• Psychosocial support.
• Assist with Physiotherapy and ambulation.

K2W - Sunnybrook Veterans Centre

(2018-02 - 2019-04)

• Experience with various medical conditions including end stage Dementia, Parkinson’s disease, Diabetes, and Alzheimer’s.
• Efficiently managed clinical workload to residents requiring total care to enhance quality of life.
• Restless behavioral and de-escalation management.

Masters - Family Nurse Practitioner - D’Youville University (2023 - 2025)

Certificate - Critical Care Nursing - Michener Institution (2022 - 2022)

Nursing Post Diploma RN Degree Program - Ryerson University (2019 - 2021)

Bridging to University Nursing - Centennial College (2018 - 2018)

Practical Nursing diploma - George Brown College (2016 - 2017)