James Benson, AGNP-BC, PhD, HFA
Adult-Gerontology Nurse Practitioner at HIGH COUNTRY BEHAVIORAL HEALTH- Claim this Profile
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Credentials
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Adult-Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner (A-GNP)
Wyoming State Board Of NursingNov, 2022- Oct, 2024 -
Registered Nurse (under interstate compact)
Wyoming Stste Board of NursingOct, 2015- Oct, 2024 -
Health Facilities Administrator
Department of Occupational and Professional LicensingSep, 2005- Oct, 2024
Experience
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HIGH COUNTRY BEHAVIORAL HEALTH
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United States
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Mental Health Care
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1 - 100 Employee
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Adult-Gerontology Nurse Practitioner
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Jul 2023 - Present
Primary care Primary care
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Wyoming State Hospital
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United States
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Hospitals and Health Care
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1 - 100 Employee
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Unit Manager
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Feb 2017 - Jul 2023
• Manages and leads three acute mental health units with a staff of 95 nurses, CNAs, and clerks • Coordinates the activities of three multi-disciplinary treatment teams for patient healing and reintegration into non-hospital facilities or non-institutional society • Led a prior unit in the healing and discharge preparation for 50 patients during the first 17 months at the hospital with only 3 return patients on a unit that historically had discharged few patients. • Improved team functioning and morale resulting in a significant decrease in employee call offs for the units per scheduling data • Liaison for colleges’ nursing programs conducting clinicals at the hospital • Chair for Evidence-based Practice Committee to maintain nursing best practice standards • Member of Risk Management, Clinical Program, Process Improvement, Nurse Executive, Hospital Leadership, Trauma Informed Care committees • Ensures quality care according to Centers for Medicare/Medicaid and CARF standards, Wyoming Nursing Board rules and regulations, and hospital policies and procedures • Provides evaluation, oversight, mentoring, and disciplinary actions for unit nursing staff and clerks • Participates in administrator on-call rotation. Provides leadership and guidance to nursing staff in difficult, crisis, and emergency situations during non-regular business hours • Coordinates with the scheduling department to ensure adequate staff coverage in response to patient acuity levels • Provides direct patient care as needed: mental health services, physical and psychosocial assessments, wound care, patient teaching, medications, urinary catheters, and chronic condition medical care • Processes admissions, discharges, transfers to acute medical care facilities, and resumptions of care as needed • Accountable for care of up to 56 total patients on the units • Proficient in computer charting; Avatar system utilized • Participates on interview panels for potential nursing department employees. Show less
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Nightingale College
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United States
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Higher Education
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200 - 300 Employee
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ASN Program Assistant Manager, Clinical and Preceptorship Coordinator/Assistant Professor
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Apr 2011 - Feb 2017
• Responsible for acquiring and maintaining affiliations with health care facilities and necessary affiliation agreements for student preceptorship experiences. • Provides students with assignments for preceptorship experiences. • Monitors preceptor and student performance throughout preceptorship experiences. • Ensures preceptor licensing and qualifications. • Maintains effective and efficient relationships with all clinical sites • Creates and disseminates schedules for clinical, lab, and simulation activities and shifts for all program semesters. • Mentors and manages clinical and lab faculty to achieve student and faculty success. • Provided technical instruction to students in classroom (live and online; 1st year pharmacology, 2nd year management and leadership, and 2nd year medical-surgical nursing), laboratory, and clinical settings (medical-surgical, obstetrical, pediatric, fundamentals, and mental health) traditional and simulation. • Primary instructor for the voices simulation and mental health clinicals at Wyoming State Hospital. • Policy and procedures committee member; writes policies and procedures as applicable • Chair of committee for achieving and maintaining compliance with NLNAC Standard 3 (Students) • Chair of committee for budgeting (Students – 2014; Faculty – 2015) • Curriculum committee member • Faculty mentor for new full-time and adjunct faculty including LMS, OS and other application use and troubleshooting • Routinely verified student competencies through individual and comprehensive skill testing • Routinely assists students with study problems and evaluates student potential • Maintains student attendance and performance reports • Lab Director – was responsible for simulation manikins and lab supply, textbook, and uniform orders • Faculty advisor for student preceptorship experiences and academics • Proficient with Canvas and Brightspace learning management systems • BLS Instructor • 2013 Faculty employee of the year Show less
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Intermountain Healthcare
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United States
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Hospitals and Health Care
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700 & Above Employee
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RN, Case Manager
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Aug 2010 - Apr 2011
Home Care - Case management. Direct patient care: wound care including wound vacs, IV therapy and maintenance, lab draws, patient teaching, assessments, urinary catheters, central line care, and enteral and parenteral nutrition. Processing of admissions, discharges, recertifications, transfers to inpatient facilities, and resumptions of care. Computer charting (Horizon system). Home Care - Case management. Direct patient care: wound care including wound vacs, IV therapy and maintenance, lab draws, patient teaching, assessments, urinary catheters, central line care, and enteral and parenteral nutrition. Processing of admissions, discharges, recertifications, transfers to inpatient facilities, and resumptions of care. Computer charting (Horizon system).
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Bear River Valley Care Center
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United States
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Medical Practices
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LPN/RN
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Jan 2009 - Aug 2010
Provided care in long term, respite, rehabilitation, end of life, and psychiatric services; Wound care, medications, and assessments; IV medications, central line care, and NG tube feedings. Paper and computer charting; ICD-9 codes used for new medication and treatment entry. Charge nurse. Oriented new nurses. Provided care in long term, respite, rehabilitation, end of life, and psychiatric services; Wound care, medications, and assessments; IV medications, central line care, and NG tube feedings. Paper and computer charting; ICD-9 codes used for new medication and treatment entry. Charge nurse. Oriented new nurses.
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LPN
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Jun 2008 - Dec 2008
Provided care in long term, respite, rehabilitation and psychiatric services; Wound care, medications, and assessments Paper and computer charting Charge nurse Oriented new nurses Provided care in long term, respite, rehabilitation and psychiatric services; Wound care, medications, and assessments Paper and computer charting Charge nurse Oriented new nurses
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Internal Revenue Service
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United States
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Government Administration
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700 & Above Employee
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Tax Examiner/Customer Service Representative
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Jan 2002 - Dec 2006
• Proficient in business tax law and regulations, with concentrated focus on employment and unemployment tax withholding, depositing, and filing • Maintained effective and efficient relations between Internal Revenue personnel, tax payers, accountants, and attorneys • Two years of labor relations background, focused on disciplinary actions and internal affairs investigations. • Proficient in business tax law and regulations, with concentrated focus on employment and unemployment tax withholding, depositing, and filing • Maintained effective and efficient relations between Internal Revenue personnel, tax payers, accountants, and attorneys • Two years of labor relations background, focused on disciplinary actions and internal affairs investigations.
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Atk Thiokol Propulsion Corp
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United States
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Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing
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1 - 100 Employee
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Security Patrolman
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Jul 2000 - Jan 2002
• Developed a building location cross-reference chart facilitating faster response times and access to the 500+ buildings on company premises • Competent in maintaining facility security via static posts as well as roving and mobile patrols • Developed a building location cross-reference chart facilitating faster response times and access to the 500+ buildings on company premises • Competent in maintaining facility security via static posts as well as roving and mobile patrols
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United States Customs Service
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United States
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Government Administration
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1 - 100 Employee
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Import Specialist/Inspector
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Apr 1987 - Jun 2000
• Proficient in person and baggage search and interviewing techniques • Developed a customs forms processing system that reduced the previous processing time by 75%. The program was distributed nationally • Represented Customs at trade shows and taught classes on importing at a community college • Strong working knowledge of commercial Windows and Linux applications software packages • Maintained effective and efficient relations between Customs officers, brokers, importers, and attorneys • Trained 60 employees on several PC/Customs computer systems, trade law, and customs procedures • Wrote a computer program to effect compliance with Congressional order requiring statistical examination of imported merchandise • Collateral Duty LAN Administrator, member of national field support network for system redesign team, and member of national quota taskforce responsible for rewriting agricultural quota regulations • Consolidated commodity team dual file system into one and reduced case back-log by 80% • Streamlined and automated database for voluntary tenders, disclosures of infraction of law, and agent’s cases • Six years of labor relations background: negotiations, focus groups, and disciplinary actions. Show less
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Education
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2020 - 2022
Purdue University Global
Post-Graduate Certificate, Adult-Gerontology Nurse Practitioner -
2013 - 2019
Capella University
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Nursing Education -
2011 - 2012
Western Governors University
Master's Degree, Nursing Education -
2007 - 2010
Weber State University
Bachelor's Degree, Nursing -
2003 - 2005
Stevens-Henager College-Ogden
Bachelor's Degree, Health/Health Care Administration/Management -
1983 - 1986
Northeastern Illinois University
Bachelor's Degree, Business/Commerce, General -
1981 - 1983
City Colleges of Chicago-Wilbur Wright College
Associate's Degree, Liberal Arts
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