ICU Nurse Practitioner: Acute Care - UTHealth Houston Neurosciences, The University of Texas Health Science Center - 6400 Fannin St., Suite 2800, Houston, TX 77030
(2024-01)
- Provide advanced care to critically ill patients in a high-acuity ICU setting, managing conditions such as respiratory failure, traumatic brain injury, stroke, seizures, sepsis, and multi-organ dysfunction
- Conduct comprehensive patient assessments, interpreted diagnostic tests, and developed individualized treatment plans
- Develop expertise in critical care procedures, such as arterial and central line placement and lumbar punctures
- Administer and monitor sedation, analgesia, and ventilator support, ensuring optimal patient comfort and respiratory function
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, including intensivists, anesthesiologists, and surgeons, to provide comprehensive care and improve patient outcomes
- Lead and participate in resuscitation efforts, managing airways and performing emergency interventions in a high-acuity setting
- Management in the use of critical care pharmacology, including vasoactive agents, sedatives, and analgesics
- Develop and implement nursing care plans, admits, recertification, and discharges patients
- Participate in a systemic, interdisciplinary, and ongoing evaluation of programs, process improvement and desired client-centered outcomes
- Consider the diverse needs of each patient through the entire continuum of care, providing and ensuring the highest level of service according to established service standards, optimizing the patient experience
- Assist staff nursing with initial assessment of patients upon admission with supervisory visits
- Respond to life-saving situations that require specific protocols for treatments
Registered Nurse: CCU/IMCU/NEURO/MED SURG/TELE - HCA Healthcare Workforce
(2021-04 - 2023-12)
Registered Nurse: CCU/PCU - Greenstaff Medical Center
(2021-09 - 2022-04)
Registered Nurse: CCU/IMCU/NEURO - HCA Healthcare Southeast
(2017-02 - 2021-03)
Clinical Experience - HCA Houston Healthcare North Cypress - Cypress, TX
(2023-07)
- Treat patients while optimizing the spectrum of care, from disease prevention to acute care management exacerbation of chronic diseases
- Develop strong organizational and problem-solving skill as evidenced by capacity to prioritize multiple tasks and role components
- Obtain health histories, perform physical assessments, develop differential diagnoses, order and interpret diagnostic studies, determine management plans, order pharmacology therapies and other therapeutic interventions, collaborate and communicate with other members of the healthcare team, and facilitate transitions across different levels of care
- Use therapeutic communication to establish a relationship with patients, families and interprofessional team to collaborate on the plan of care
- Assess and manage acute or critical disease states which may require airway management, pulmonary support, cardiovascular intervention, intravenous medication management, infection disease intervention, renal intervention, neurologic/neurosurgical management, or abdominal pathology management
Clinical Experience - HCA Houston Healthcare Southeast - Pasadena, TX
(2020-01 - 2021-02)
- Treat patients while optimizing the spectrum of care, from disease prevention to acute care management exacerbation of chronic diseases
- Develop strong organizational and problem-solving skill as evidenced by capacity to prioritize multiple tasks and role components
- Obtain health histories, perform physical assessments, develop differential diagnoses, order and interpret diagnostic studies, determine management plans, order pharmacology therapies and other therapeutic interventions, collaborate and communicate with other members of the healthcare team, and facilitate transitions across different levels of care
- Use therapeutic communication to establish a relationship with patients, families and interprofessional team to collaborate on the plan of care
- Assess and manage acute or critical disease states which may require airway management, pulmonary support, cardiovascular intervention, intravenous medication management, infection disease intervention, renal intervention, neurologic/neurosurgical management, or abdominal pathology management
