Team-oriented, Board Certified Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner, with a strong track record of establishing solid relationships with diverse clients, interdisciplinary teams, and community agencies. Validates adolescents, college students, adults, geriatric populations, and families with psychiatric and addiction recovery needs, using Integrative Mental Health. Interested in leadership, teaching, speaking engagements, consulting, evidence-based, patient-centered clinical care, and telehealth.

PSYCHIATRIC NURSING SCHOOL CLINICAL EXPERIENCE

Adult Outpatient Psychiatry: Former Inmate Population, Family Reentry, New Haven, CT
Adult, Adolescent & Pediatric Outpatient Psychiatry, Cornell Scott Hill Health Center, New Haven, CT
Pediatric and Adolescent Outpatient Psychiatry, Parent Child Resource Center, Derby, CT
Adult Crisis Emergency Psychiatric Department, Bridgeport Hospital, Bridgeport, CT
Geriatric Outpatient Psychiatry, The Center for Geriatric & Family Psychiatry, Glastonbury, CT
Adult Inpatient Psychiatry, Sinai Hospital, Baltimore, MD

• Conducted holistic physical and mental health assessments with children, adolescents, adults, geriatrics, and their families
• Formulated case history based on present illness, past history, social, developmental, and medical history, family medical and psychiatric history, current and past risk assessment, and mental status examination
• Constructed psychiatric diagnoses using the DSMV classification system including co-morbid medical and psychiatric problems, and potential differential diagnoses
• Utilized clients’ cultural, ethnic, and spiritual values in developing and implementing treatments that promote adaptation and minimize complications
• Participated in the selection of treatment settings based on the level of risk, access to resources, specialized treatment needs, client preference, and availability of support system
• Participated with an interdisciplinary team in developing evidence-based treatment goals and evaluating the ongoing effectiveness of treatment plans and therapeutic interventions, revising according to evolving client needs and preferences
• Explored the use of self as a therapeutic instrument, while maintaining therapeutic boundaries, and focusing on areas of concern for treatment
• Used supervision, consultation, and peer review to further own professional growth and critical thinking skills, ensure safe patient care and demonstrate giving feedback to others
• Demonstrated beginning competence in psychotherapeutic intervention, pharmacologic symptom management, and facilitation of health promotion and adaptive coping