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.
