Experience

Fast Pace Health

• Hospitals and Health Care
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Pediatric Nurse Practitioner

  • Jan 2023 - Present

  Pediatric NP and Pediatric Mental Health Specialist in Primary Care at the Reelfoot Walk-in Clinic & Pediatrics Clinic (a part of Fast Pace Health company). Pediatric NP and Pediatric Mental Health Specialist in Primary Care at the Reelfoot Walk-in Clinic & Pediatrics Clinic (a part of Fast Pace Health company).



SEMO Health Network

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Pediatric Nurse Practitioner

  • Jan 2017 - Oct 2022

  A FQHC that includes medical clinics in 6 cities located in Southeast Missouri. I worked in the Kennett and Caruthersville clinics where I was the only Pediatric Nurse Practitioner on staff of several FNP Providers, a FP Physician, an OB/Gyne Physician, 2 Internal Medicine Physicians, and a Licensed Psychologist. I was a leader in the establishment of protocols and improvement of screenings, acute care management, and chronic illness management for the patients between the ages of newborn to 18 years. My Pediatric Mental Health Specialist Board Certification assisted me in being more expert at managing the mental health conditions such as ADHD, Anxiety, & Depression in school aged children. I worked well as a team while planning and implementing our School Based Health Clinics in the Kennett, Missouri School District. I participated in the process of developing 504 Plans as needed for students in the Kennett School District. I wrote Asthma Action, Food Allergy, and Seizure Care Plans for the parents and school personnel/school nurses. I was a member of the Missouri State-wide AsthmaCare.org quality improvement group with the goal to decrease the ER visits and hospitalizations of pediatric patients in the Southeast Missouri region due to asthma exacerbations. I am very knowledgeable about the Vaccines for Children Program which facilitates the clinics' ability to provide vaccinations to low income and underinsured pediatric patients who are served by a FQHC organization. I utilized various screening tools (i.e. MCHAT, PSC-17, PHQ9A, CRAFFT, SCARED, Vanderbilt Questionnaires, & Edinburgh Postpartum Depression Scale) to more objectively assess for developmental and mental health abnormalities as well as for high risk behaviors in our pediatric patients and mom's of the early infant patients.



MARTIN CHILDREN'S CLINIC, LLC

• United States
• Medical Practices

• Primary Care Pediatric Nurse Practitioner

  • Aug 2015 - Dec 2016

  Federal designated Rural Health Center owned by a DNP, CPNP. I functioned in a staff Pediatric Nurse Practitioner role that I evaluated, diagnosed and managed acute and chronic illnesses and provided preventive health care through well exams and anticipatory guidance education to pediatric patients aged newborn to 22yrs. and living in NW Tennessee. Federal designated Rural Health Center owned by a DNP, CPNP. I functioned in a staff Pediatric Nurse Practitioner role that I evaluated, diagnosed and managed acute and chronic illnesses and provided preventive health care through well exams and anticipatory guidance education to pediatric patients aged newborn to 22yrs. and living in NW Tennessee.



UnityPoint Health

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 700 & Above Employee

• Pediatric Nurse Practitioner

  • Mar 2009 - Aug 2015

  In-School Health Clinics, Pediatric Nurse Practitioner for PCCEO HeadStart, and Elementary/Middle School students in District 150, Peoria, IL. Primary Care Nurse Practitioner on as needed basis in the UnityPoint Health - Methodist Primary Care Pediatric Clinics and the Urgent Care Clinics. I was responsible for performing well child exams, serum lead screening tests, serum hemoglobin testing, and administering vaccinations per the CDC,]EPSDT, and American Academy of Pediatrics guideliness. I also evaluated, diagnosed, and managed/treated acute and chronic illnesses (incl. asthma, diabetes, iron deficiency anemia, and sickle cell disease) and minor injuries in patients between the ages of infancy to 18 years.



Peoria Surgical Group

• Peoria, IL

• Pediatric Urology Nurse Practitioner

  • May 2006 - Dec 2008

  Evaluated and managed children with pelvic floor dysfunction manifested by recurrent UTIs, urinary incontinence (day and/nocturnal), and dysuria. I also referred patients to the urology surgeons as needed. Evaluated post-op pediatric urology patients. Evaluated and managed children with pelvic floor dysfunction manifested by recurrent UTIs, urinary incontinence (day and/nocturnal), and dysuria. I also referred patients to the urology surgeons as needed. Evaluated post-op pediatric urology patients.