Professional Summary
Nurse practitioner with eleven years in nursing, the last five in primary care, holding an independent panel at a community health centre. Prescribes, orders diagnostics, and manages chronic disease to full scope.
Experience
Nurse Practitioner, Primary Care
Mount Pleasant Community Health Centre • Vancouver, BC
Apr 2023 - Present
- Hold an independent panel of roughly nine hundred patients, weighted toward complex chronic disease and unattached patients new to primary care.
- Prescribe, order and interpret diagnostics, and refer to specialist care without physician co-signature.
- Started the group visit model for diabetes that now runs twice a month.
Nurse Practitioner, Urgent and Primary Care
Fraser Street Urgent and Primary Care Centre • Vancouver, BC
Jun 2021 - Mar 2023
- Saw undifferentiated presentations in an urgent and primary care setting, deciding what could be managed on site and what needed emergency transfer.
- Covered the minor procedures list including laceration repair and abscess drainage.
- Precepted nurse practitioner students on their final clinical placement.
Registered Nurse, Emergency
Burrard Inlet Hospital • Vancouver, BC
Jul 2015 - May 2021
- Emergency department across triage, acute, and resuscitation areas.
- Became a triage resource nurse and taught the module on paediatric triage for new staff.
Education
University of British Columbia
Master of Nursing, Nurse Practitioner • Nursing
Sep 2019 - May 2021
University of Victoria
Bachelor of Science in Nursing • Nursing
Sep 2011 - Apr 2015