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My objective is to utilize my bachelor’s degrees in nursing and bachelor’s degree in psychology in my current role as a PMHNP. I strive to work diligently and ethically. In my role as a PMHNP being a leader and delivering high quality psychiatric care is the cornerstone to my daily achievements.
Universal Bed Cardiac Unit at University Hospital (2009-01 – 2011-08)
I was responsible for caring for my cardiac patients as they transitioned from ICU patients to telemetry patients and vice versa. The goal at this facility was to decrease interaction of the amount of people the patient saw in the room. The medical doctors, charge nurse, and I were the only people the patient had contact with until discharge.
Basic duties at this facility that I was responsible for, but not limited to, were hourly vitals, ADLs, EKGs, routine and stat blood drawing, implementing standing orders before contacting a physician based on patients’ acuity and complaints, and daily and urgent medications. Advanced duties at this facility that I was responsible for, but not limited to, included vital signs every 15 minutes for critically ill patients, managing vasopressor and cardiac drips. There were standing orders at this facility where the nurse could initiate and start cardiac drips, vasopressor drips, and many other medications without a physician order based on their training to quickly recognize a patient declining to provide the necessary care they needed.
This was and still is a Magnet Hospital, which gave nurses a good deal of autonomy in patient care. If I had a patient that went into cardiac arrest, I was the nurse in charge for the code blue. I was responsible for telling other team member nurses which drugs to push and administer based on cardiac rhythms and when to administer them for the patient’s survival.
This was a sterile floor, so I would also have to assist physicians in placing emergency chest tubes at bedside and managing these chest tubes, assisting with emergent central line placement, gastric tube care, sterile dressing changes, wound care management, and ventilator management. My patient diagnoses would range anywhere from a chest pain with an elevated troponin, post cardiac arrest, post open heart, post stent placement, overdoses, myocardial infarctions, etc.
Southeast Georgia Health System (Travel Assignment) (2011-02 – 2011-05)
This facility was a small hospital. I was responsible for telemetry and post surgical patients. My daily activities at this facility included, but not limited to, vital signs, EKGs, rhythm interpretation, medication administration, post surgical care, dressing changes for wounds, transfers, and discharges.
Due to the small size of this hospital, these patients were not critically ill. If I had a patient that needed a higher level of care than what the hospital could provide, I was responsible for initiating emergent transfer and making the decision whether the patient needed to travel by ambulance or helicopter.
Lexington Medical Center Urgent Care (2011-11 – 2012-06)
This facility was a small urgent care and clinical setting. I was responsible for triaging patients, administering medications, EKGs and interpreting rhythms, seeing patients for their routine allergy shots, transferring patients to other outlying facilities that needed a higher level of care, and discharges. I was responsible for arranging patient’s appointments and setting them up with a primary care physician to manage their care based on different diagnoses.
Telemety at Jackson Madison County General Hospital (2013-09 – 2014-05)
My daily activities at this facility included, but not limited to, vital signs, ADLs, medication administration, IV insertion, EKG rhythm analysis and interpretation, and discharges. At this facility I would also routinely monitor patients until they were ready to go to have open heart surgery. I would send patients to the cath lab for stent placement and receive them after their stent placement.
Emergency Room at Jackson Madison County General Hospital (2018-05 – 2021-07)
This is the largest emergency room in the state of TN. The facility rotates the nurses from triage, fast track, general acuity, sub-acute, to trauma rooms. It is an extremely fast paced environment. There is a vast diversity of my daily activities here depending on where I am working within the Emergency Department.
I am responsible for placing emergent orders for physicians, IV insertion, medication administration, initiating admission orders, discharges, EKGs and rhythm interpretation, stabilizing patients so they can then go to the ICU for continued care, foley insertion, bloodwork interpretation, starting and managing vasopressor and cardiac drips, running codes, assisting with chest tube placement, assisting with central line placement, stabilizing trauma patients, managing overdoses and communication with poison control, IM medications, IV medications, recognizing a neuro alert, recognizing and treating sepsis, arranging transport to mental health facilities, arranging emergent transport to a higher level of care (Vanderbilt and Regional One), post cardiac arrest care, sterile technique, treating infectious and communicable diseases, covid testing, holding covid patients in the department until a bed is available upstairs, etc. Due to this being an extremely busy emergency room (busiest ER in the state of TN), one day I may be taking care of a patient with a fever and the next day taking care of a patient in cardiac arrest or a gunshot to the head. This environment is extremely unpredictable and nurses have to be able to switch gears quickly and adjust to the setting.
Time management and multitasking is essential working here. My patient ages range from newborns to the elderly at this facility.
Plastic Surgery Clinic of Jackson (2019-01 – 2026-04)
This is a clinical and management setting. The patients I see here range anywhere from hand surgery, skin cancer patients, breast cancer patients, reconstructive surgeries, and cosmetic surgeries. I see patients here for consults for surgery, arrange their surgery for one of three operating facilities, and see them in the clinic after their surgeries.
I prescribe medications for patients, follow up with them after their surgeries, dressing removals, suture removals, pre-authorization for insurance, managing money for cosmetic procedures. I managed the surgical side of this clinic. I was responsible for, but not limited to, ordering supplies, managing Dr.
Yellen’s surgical schedule, collaborating with insurance companies, making sure the operating room fees and anesthesia fees were correct in collaboration with the hospital, continual meetings and training to correctly manage the surgical side of the clinic
Georgia Sky Outpatient Detox/Acworth Outpatient Detox (2026-08 – Present)
BS in Psychology – Clemson University (2000 – 2004)
BSN – University of South Carolina (2005 – 2008)
PMHNP-BC – Spring Arbor University (2024 – 2026)
