Experience

Wellfound Behavioral Health Hospital

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

• Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner

  • Jan 2019 - Present

  • Assist substance use disorder clients in working to manage their psychiatric symptoms. Provide assessments of psychiatric needs to substance treatment staff. Provide suggestions for follow up post inpatient detox and rehabilitation. Will be providing buprenorphine therapy upon issuance of DEA approval for both inpatient stays and very limited outpatient stays. • Assist substance use disorder clients in working to manage their psychiatric symptoms. Provide assessments of psychiatric needs to substance treatment staff. Provide suggestions for follow up post inpatient detox and rehabilitation. Will be providing buprenorphine therapy upon issuance of DEA approval for both inpatient stays and very limited outpatient stays.



Pierce County Medical Reserve Corps

• Tacoma, WA

• Volunteer Nurse Practitioner

  • Apr 2014 - Present

  • Provide limited care and patient referral services in free clinics and homeless resource fairs. Coordinate with outpatient mental health providers, community care clinics, and other community resources to provide patients with the resources that they need to meet their needs and receive appropriate long term psychiatric treatment. • Provide limited care and patient referral services in free clinics and homeless resource fairs. Coordinate with outpatient mental health providers, community care clinics, and other community resources to provide patients with the resources that they need to meet their needs and receive appropriate long term psychiatric treatment.



Cascade Mental Health Care

• Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner

  • 2015 - 2015

  • Provided outpatient and crisis psychiatric care in a rural community mental healthcare setting. Worked in three different counties as a multi-agency provider serving clients from 13 years old to 86 years old with a large scope of psychiatric diagnoses and needs. Routinely saw 10 to 14 clients per day, with 30 minute medication checks and 60-90 minute assessments and crisis appointments. • Documented assessments of medical systems, psychiatric symptoms and history, family/ social/ developmental histories, education and learning histories, legal and substance use histories and used clinical judgment in ordering tests and labs to provide a complete clinical picture needed to provide safe and effective psycho-therapeutic medication and/ or therapy regimens. • Coordinated care closely with primary care providers, specialty care providers, local hospitals, inpatient psychiatric/ drug rehabilitation units, the justice system, and other local agencies to assure complete and appropriate care. Show less



Several companies.

• Agency Nursing Positions

  • 2009 - 2015



Sound

• United States
• Mental Health Care
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner Intern

  • 2012 - 2013

  • Collaborated closely with the treatment team to appropriately coordinate client care services. Interacted with clinical staff and external care providers to provide comprehensive care. Executed appropriate risk-assessment and mitigation strategies. Consulted with psychiatrists about client medication changes, issues with medicine compliance and medication efficacy. • Diagnosed mental health, emotional and substance abuse disorders based on thorough mental health assessments and medical labs/ tests. Evaluated patients for psychiatric services, psychotropic medications, court required treatment, and government programs (Social Security Disability Insurance). Monitored patients prescribed psychotropic medications to assess the medications’ effectiveness and side effects. Worked with clients to maintain safety, seek inpatient treatment when necessary, and comply with medication regimens/ protocols. • Developed my “style” of practice during this practicum, I learned very early in that creating report and trust are essential to helping the client to the fullest (and the client helping the client to the fullest). I enter and leave every appointment open and accepting to whatever may happen during that time, giving the client a greater sense of relief and allowing them to open up more because they feel less pressured to say certain answers to questions the think you will ask. I also worked frequently with veterans and learned that this way of entering the appointment is essential in helping them open up and slowly begin to trust you, and even more important than openness is being respectful and learning some of their terms. Show less