Description
Seasoned Nurse Practitioner with more than 10 years of experience and more than 20 years of experience as a Registered Nurse in the medical and healthcare industry. Extensive experience in the outpatient setting, treatment of acute and episodic disease management, pain management and home health. Nurse Practitioner Experience * Obtaining health histories, performing physical exams, evaluating x-rays and lab tests, and collaborating with medical staff in the diagnosis, management, and follow-up of patients. * Providing compassionate nursing care to all patients using the guidelines of the nursing process. * Completing patient assessments, observing, and interpreting patient's symptoms collaborating with Physicians and Nurses to devise individualized care or treatment plans for patients. * Fostering a supportive environment to care for patients and their families, as well as providing education to the patients and families. * Specializing in promoting health wellness, counseling patients, providing consultations, making referrals, assessing for disease prevention, and providing pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatments * Compassionately providing physical examinations, risk assessments, diagnoses, treatment for acute illness and chronic disease management, education, and minor wound care. * Participating in a multidisciplinary team of medical professionals to assess, evaluate, and diagnose patients and develop effective treatment plans under direction of the physician, doctor, or charge nurse on duty. * Advocating for patient well-being by offering educational guidance as well as support in illness management, homecare, medication and side effects, diet, nutrition, and exercise, while fully advocating for patient well-being, and instructional education for both the patient and the family. Nurse Practitioner Professional Work Experience Elgin Treatment Center, Illinois Department of Corrections 10/22/2018 to present, 847-608-3054