Arrisa Walker

Motivated Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner with 2.5 years of experience delivering compassionate care to individuals facing mental health challenges. Proficient in conducting comprehensive assessments, developing effective treatment plans, and managing medications. Dedicated to enhancing patient well being through evidence based practices and collaborative healthcare approaches.

Psychiatric and Mental Health Nurse Practitioner - The Hughes Center

(2023-12)

• Providing psychiatric care to children and adolescents from ages 10-22 with autism spectrum disorder, intellectual disabilities, ADHD, PTSD, major depressive disorder, anxiety disorders, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder.
• Conducting psychiatric evaluations, assessments, and diagnoses, resulting in accurate treatment planning and medication management.
• Developing and implementing individualized treatment plans for patients while collaborating with interdisciplinary teams.
• Monitoring patient responses to psychotropic medications, adjusting doses as needed, and ensuring patient safety and medication adherence.
• Providing psychopharmacology education for patients taking psychotropic medications and their families.
• Using de-escalation techniques and managing challenging behaviors in pediatric/adolescent patients.
• Performing suicide risk assessments and developing patient safety plans for patients with history of suicidal ideation and self-harm.
• Documenting patient progress and treatment outcomes accurately and thoroughly.

Psychiatric and Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Student - Children's Healthcare of Atlanta

(2023-01 - 2023-04)

• Performing comprehensive psychiatric evaluations and providing psychiatric care to pediatric patients with complex medical conditions in the hospital setting.
• Responding to behavioral and mental health emergencies in hospital setting.
• Referring clients for acute inpatient psychiatric and mental health care as necessary.
• Collaborating with Children's Healthcare of Atlanta's Behavioral and Mental Health nursing teams and other multidisciplinary teams when treating patients.
• Collaborating with a preceptor when diagnosing and treating psychiatric conditions.
• Providing patients and their families information regarding treatment, including the risks, the benefits, and outcome expectations.
• Documentation of all diagnostic and treatment information into electronic health records.

Psychiatric and Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Student - Willowbrooke at Tanner

(2022-05 - 2023-04)

• Under the supervision of clinical preceptor, performed comprehensive psychiatric evaluations and provided ongoing psychiatric care to the adult and geriatric population.
• Providing psychiatric and mental health care to patients in acute inpatient, outpatient, and hospital settings.
• Collaborating with a preceptor and diagnosing clients with psychiatric conditions.
• Referring clients to acute inpatient psychiatric hospital care as necessary.
• Providing clients information regarding medications risks, benefits, and outcome expectations.
• Developing and updating patients' plans of care during their course of treatment.

Behavioral and Mental Health Nurse - Children's Healthcare of Atlanta - Atlanta, Georgia

(2021-08 - 2023-11)

• Providing education on behavioral health diagnoses to patients and multidisciplinary team members in the hospital setting.
• Providing behavioral and mental health care to the pediatric population in the Emergency Department and inpatient hospital setting.
• Leading the behavioral and mental health emergency response team during crisis-level patient escalations.
• Collaborating with behavioral and mental health care team members to ensure quality care coordination.
• Administering psychotropic medications to patients and monitoring their response.
• Assists in maintaining a safe environment for patients and staff members.

Registered Nurse - Northeast Georgia Medical Center - Gainesville, Georgia

(2019-07 - 2021-12)

Full Time inpatient staff Medical Surgical RN on S4E.

• Conducting physical assessments upon patients' admission and throughout hospital stay.
• Developing and implementing individual short term and long term treatment plans for adult and geriatric populations.
• Administering medications via IV/PO/SQ/IM, educating patients and their families on disease processes and monitoring patient vital signs.
• Providing wound care.
• Performing venipuncture to collect patient labs, Interpreting lab results.
• Collaborating with interdisciplinary team members to analyze patients data, evaluate diagnoses, and implement treatment plans based on symptoms, age, and mental health needs.
• Educating patients and caregivers on diagnosis and treatment options.
• Ensured compliance with infection prevention procedures and hospital guidelines.
• Maintained and updated electronic health records and ensured patient confidentiality in compliance with HIPAA.

Certified Nursing Assistant - Bell Minor Home - Gainesville, Georgia

(2018-05 - 2019-01)

• Providing bedside care to patients in the geriatric population.
• Assisting geriatric patients with dementia and physical disabilities with activities of daily living that include bathing, dressing, grooming, toileting, feeding, and range of motion exercises.
• Accurately taking and recording vital signs. Reporting to registered nurses changes in patients' physical and mental condition.

Master's of Science in Nursing - Psychiatric and Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Program - Georgia College and State University (2023-05)

Bachelor of Science Nursing - Brenau University (2019-05)