PMHNP Private Practice - Royal Choice Healthcare Services
(2025-08)
- Assessment and Evaluation: Conduct thorough psychiatric assessments, including mental health history, psychosocial factors, and physical examinations, to formulate accurate diagnoses.
- Diagnosis and Treatment Planning: Develop personalized treatment plans based on patient needs, incorporating evidence-based practices and collaborating with the healthcare team to optimize outcomes.
- Medication Management: Prescribe and monitor psychotropic medications, adjusting dosages and medications as necessary to achieve therapeutic effects while minimizing side effects.
- Psychotherapy: Provide support individual psychotherapy, employing various therapeutic modalities such as cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), and motivational interviewing.
- Crisis Intervention: Assess and manage psychiatric emergencies and crises, implementing appropriate interventions to ensure patient safety and stabilization.
- Education and Counseling: Educate patients and their families about mental health conditions, treatment options, and coping strategies to enhance treatment adherence and self-care.
- Collaborative Care: Collaborate with other healthcare professionals, including psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and primary care providers, to coordinate integrated care for patients with complex mental health needs
PMHNP - Rockdale Psychiatrist
(2021-08 - 2025-08)
Telehealth and outpatient clinic.
- Provide initial psychiatric evaluation, ongoing assessments, ages 6 to 74.
- Provide patient education on diagnosis, medication, monitoring response to treatment and side effects of medications, informed consent, treatment adherence, and other topics as individualized for the patient.
- Provide sufficient documentation in the medical record to reflect the diagnosis, treatment goals, interventions, and standards of the agency to meet requirements of state and federal funding entities.
- Documents and signs assessments, progress notes, and medication or lab orders within timeframes established by the organization.
- Reviews individual service plan of clients and signs when service plan addresses the goals and treatment interventions appropriate for the client.
- Completes documentation, including orders, service plans, progress notes, etc., for every session/interaction collaboratively with clients according to agency standards.
- Prescribes appropriate medication and obtains baseline metabolic indices as indicated and in accordance with organization standards of care and all applicable professional, state, and federal standards.
- Prescribes, monitors, modifies, and/or discontinues medications as indicated and documents medical necessity and these processes in the medical record of client.
- Orders medical assessments, consultations, referrals, medications, and laboratory tests as indicated for patients.
- Provided evidenced-based interventions to assist clients in meeting their goals.
Psychiatric and Mental Health Registered Nurse/Supervisor - Ridgeview
(2019-03 - 2021-08)
- Actively assessed, planned, implemented, and delivered individual patient care.
- Admission/Discharge/Transfer. Carries out physician orders; Assesses plans and evaluates patient care needs.
- Experience with Pixies medication distribution machine and computer charting.
- Collaborates with the treatment team to revise goals, objectives, and interventions appropriate to the changes in patient status.
- Evaluates the effectiveness of care and addresses any issues that affect the desired patient outcomes; instructs and educates patients and families.
- Assesses and coordinates patient's discharge planning needs with members of the healthcare team.
- Conduct new employee training, orienting them to departmental policies and procedures and mental health laws and regulations.
- Participate in patient chart review, making necessary corrections, and ensuring that provider orders are correctly transcribed and administered.
Float Pool RN PRN - WELLSTAR ATLANTA MEDICAL CENTER
(2017-02 - 2019-03)
Floats to various units in the hospital including Medical/Surgical, Oncology/Renal, Antepartum, and post-partum unit. Collaborated with the multidisciplinary team to provide appropriate care per unit standards.
- Performed functional aspects of nursing: admitting, discharging, and receiving patients postoperatively.
- Initiating IVs, administering medications, changing and observing dressings, Foley catheters, administering blood, monitoring labs, administration of Magnesium Sulfate.
- Reported abnormal findings and change in patient status to MD, applying appropriate nursing measures.
- Assess daily patient care needs and develops appropriate patient care assignments.
- Administer medications as ordered.
Psychiatric and Mental Health Registered Nurse/Charge Nurse - PEACHFORD HOSPITAL
(2016-01 - 2018-08)
- The managed caseload of 22 clients, providing education, treatments, and assessed clients for medical appropriateness for admission and/or recommendations for out-patient treatment options.
- Established plan of care with family involvement in treatment, as children are significantly influenced by their home environment.
- Performed physical assessments, triage, and diagnosed urgent care needs for all residents.
- Consulted with a Psychiatrist on duty for orders when clients' medical status changed, or situation presented to make referrals to a more appropriate level of care was required.
- Administered medication/treatments and documented administration with the reaction in clients' clinical charts.
- Observed, recorded, and initiated appropriate action to medication and therapeutic procedures.
- Designed, planned, and conducted wellness education for all clients.
- Designed, planned, and conducted self-esteem and empowerment groups for clients.
- Ability to efficiently handle emergencies and remain calm in stressful situations.
- Demonstrated ability in managing critical situations and making care-based decisions.
