PROFILE
Family Nurse Practitioner and Nurse Practitioner in Psychiatry with strong clinical assessment and treatment skills in public health, home care, and now acute and ambulatory psychiatric care. Concentration in advocacy and maximizing independence in people with chronic conditions. Performed organizational, management and teaching skills in various community settings. Background includes working particularly with clients of differing cultural backgrounds. Provides assessment, diagnosis, and interventions for patients. In addition, provides education, integration and coordination of various health professionals in service delivery. Have developed and implemented staff supervision and training of various professional levels, involved in qualitative research and grant/proposal writing, quality assurance, cost control, report development and code compliance, setting up of newly certified home care offices, and monitoring/improvement of caseload mix. Basic PC capability in Microsoft Word and internet resourcing. Excellent interpersonal and communications skills as well as a recognized resource person in various community settings. Consulting health specialist in administrative and clinical protocols for an inclusive psychiatric/physical home care NP practice that is prepared to provide care to the homebound elderly and chronically ill in Central New York.

EDUCATION
-MSN, Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Sage Colleges, Troy, NY 12180, December 1998.
-Post Master’s certificate as a Family Nurse Practitioner, Sage Colleges, Troy, NY 12180, May, 1998.
-MSN, Community Health Nursing Administration Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, 13210.
-BSN, Alfred University, Alfred, New York, 14810 (was provisionally certified School Nurse Teacher).
-PRI/SCREEN certified -TQM trained -ANCC Certified Clinical Nurse Specialist in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

SELECTED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
Direct Patient Care

· Intake, psychiatric assessment, treatment, and follow-ups for children and adults in a private psychiatric office setting.
· Advanced physical assessment and treatment, including medications, in a multigenerational psychiatric inpatient setting, ages 3 years up to geriatric unit.
· Provided directly or caused to be provided high quality nursing and ancillary health care procedures in the community or long term care facility.
· Extensive involvement with advocacy, coordination of health and welfare services to maximize patient/client independence as well as self care behaviors both with client/patients and families.
· Implemented well child, immunization, mental health, child vision, ante- & post-partal clinics.
· TB and communicable disease follow-up and tracking.
· Provided child abuse counseling.
· Co-developed & implemented complimentary health program for breast cancer survivors.

· One-on-one client/patient education and family education in self-care habilitation and rehabilitation.
· Organized and performed group training of patients/clients in self-care of chronic health conditions.
· Trained secretarial/clerical help; trained and certified PCAs and HHAs.
· Trained RNs in assessment and treatment skills.
· Trained new staff; oriented and coordinated with nursing students and their educational institutions for appropriate field experiences.
· Interfaced with news reporters and the public to interpret and explain new health care programs.

· Utilization Review and Quality Assurance activities.
· Interfaced with national corporate groups not familiar with NYS DOH & DSS regulations.
· Identified and negotiated contracts with therapists and other ancillary health care workers.
· Developed & performed community relations and marketing.
· Set up, interpreted and evaluated programs through use of various statistical and reporting systems.
· Reorganized and updated a functioning home care program.
· Updated and rewrote documentation standards and procedures, nursing care standards, job descriptions, policy & procedure manuals.
· Chaired Medical, Professional, and Interdisciplinary Committees.
· Hired, evaluated, and, when necessary, terminated employees.
· Developed and implemented geriatric screening program.
· Performed state inspection of nursery schools
· Coordinated and verified with Billing Office for accurate, timely, and complete billing & receivables.
· Consultant in combining psychiatry with physical health services and clinic health care with home health care in a suburban/rural area of upper New York State.

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