Family Nurse Practitioner - Community Health Connections - Leominster, MA
(2025-09)
Providing primary care services to patients from newborn to 89 years old with utilization of interpreter services.
- Conducted physical exams, preventive screenings, and wellness visits with a focus on early intervention and health promotion
- Managed chronic diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, asthma, and heart disease using evidence-based guidelines
- Ordered, interpreted, and followed up on laboratory and diagnostic tests
- Prescribed medications and adjusted treatment plans based on patient response and clinical findings
- Reduced preventable complications through proactive chronic disease management and patient education
- Increased preventive screening compliance through outreach and counseling
Registered Nurse - Community Health Connections - Leominster, MA
(2020-10 - 2025-09)
- Perform tasks including, telephone and in person triage
- Make work assignments and continuous adjustments as patient needs determine
- Communicate with patients on their condition, as well as any follow-up care
- Perform patient intake, and coordinate with other healthcare professionals
- Administer injections, distribute medications, and/or apply dressing as directed by Physician, PA, or NP
- Demonstrate an exceptional level of easily understood verbal communication on the phone
- Provide culturally sensitive care including consideration for diverse cultures, ethnicity, language, community, background, and healthcare beliefs
- Prepare and maintain supplies and equipment for treatments, including sterilization
- Assist in preparing for minor surgeries and exams
Registered Nurse - Kindred Home care
(2019-11 - 2022-04)
- Performed evaluation tasks, including vital signs and medication review
- Assessed patients' condition during every visit and chart observations
- Dress or redress open wounds and assess progress of healing
- Collaborated with different disciplines on board for effective patient outcomes
- Educated patients and their families on proper home health care strategies and procedures
- Made recommendations for devices or tools that might improve the patient's quality of life
Registered Nurse - Fairlawn Rehabilitation Hospital
(2020-04 - 2020-10)
- Start and maintain IV's
- Provided wound care dressings to open wounds
- Administered medications per provider's instructions
- Maintained a safe and clean working environment, in compliance with healthcare procedures and regulations
- Adhered to infection-control protocols
- Provided education to patients and their family members on patient care
- Assisted with diagnostic tests and interpretation of results
- Monitored, reported, and recorded symptoms or changes in patient conditions
Registered Nurse / Licensed Practice Nurse - Westborough Healthcare
(2017-02 - 2020-08)
- Experienced with tracheotomy, gastrostomy, total parenteral nutrition, and mechanical ventilation
- Followed medication administration, storage procedures and regulation
- Effective communication and interpersonal skills to interact with patients, staff members, and other members of the medical community
- Directed, supervised, coordinated and evaluated nursing care within the assigned clinical setting
- Monitored, reported and recorded symptoms or changes in patient conditions to appropriate disciplinary
- Educated and instructed patients and families in accordance with the patient's plan of care
Clinical Rotation - Adult Medicine and Pediatric - Fitchburg Community Health Connections - Fitchburg, MA
(2024-06 - 2024-08)
Clinical Hours completed- 150+ hours. Provide care by assessing, diagnosing and treatment of a wide range of acute illnesses, accidents and injuries from patients ages 2-89 years.
- Order diagnostic labs and imagine, interpret results, and refer as needed
- Provide primary prevention in the form of vaccines
- In office procedures skin tag removals, IUD insertions, suture, cerumen impaction removal
- Order diagnostic labs and imaging, interpreting results
- Adult Medicine focused on annual physical examinations
- Management of acute and chronic conditions such as headache, pain, depression anxiety, diabetes, hypertension, thyroid disorders, respiratory infection, abnormal menses/discharge, STD's
- Promoted routine preventative screening: mammogram, cervical screening colonoscopy, DEXA scan
- Strong collaboration with providers and made referrals as appropriate
Clinical Rotation - Family Medicine - Leominster Community Health Center - Leominster, MA
(2024-09 - 2024-12)
Family Medicine rotation providing primary care services to patients from newborn to 89 years old. Utilization of interpreter services.
- Collaborating and communicating with the supervising physician regarding medical issues of caseload and managing referrals to other members of the multidisciplinary team of professionals
- Responsible for accurate assessment of clinical conditions both acute and chronic by means of detailed history taking
- Providing comprehensive outpatient care to a panel of pediatric patients ages 1 month- 21 years of age including routine health maintenance
- Managing chronic and acute diseases physical/breast/pelvic exams, interpretation of laboratory data, diagnosis and appropriate treatment assisted with in office procedures, Nexplanon, intrauterine devices, colposcopy
- Pediatric Well child examinations, counseling in immunization uptake
