Graduate School (Family Nurse Practitioner) Admission Essay: Requirement: A 500-word essay detailing professional goals. The goal statement should include motivation for pursuing graduate nursing education as well as long and short term professional goals.
Please use information from resume to support essay.
Skills
• 6 years Emergency care experience
• Self–motivated TNCC and BLS certificates
• Willingness to learn
• Dependability
• Great interpersonal / communication skills
• Strong Organizational Skills / Problem Solver
• Management Experience in 120 bed long term care facility
Work History
• Skilled in planning and implement strategies
• Exceptional health care management skills
• Experienced in hiring, training, managing, and evaluating staff
• Good clinical supervisory skills
• Ability to handle patient care issues
Director of Nursing, 02/2017 to Current
Vermilion Healthcare Center – Kaplan, Louisiana
• Supervised nursing staff
• Assisted in decreasing falls, psychotropic medication use, and other quality measures. Performed daily duties and filled in when needed.
• Managed multiple programs with success including quality assurance, infection control, incident and fall tracking and trending, skilled program, admission process.
• Worked in concert with social work, rehabilitation, dietary, activities departments.
Field Nurse, 06/2016 to 02/2017
Kindred At Home – Lafayette, Louisiana
• Traveled to client’s home throughout the week to evaluate and ensure wellness.
• Involved in providing education to client’s based off of their individualized care plan.
• Evaluated effectiveness of teaching from all clients after providing education.
• Performed comprehensive assessments and compared findings to baseline data.
• Electronically documented all findings in the system and sent reports to the case managers.
• Contacted doctor’s with abnormal findings and carried out any new orders.
ER Staff Nurse, 06/2010 to 06/2016
Lafayette General Medical Center – Lafayette, Louisiana
• Provided quality nursing care in a high paced/high patient volume acute and urgent care setting.
• Evaluated patient care needs, prioritized treatment and maintained patient flow.
• Accurately documented all elements of nursing assessment, treatments, medications, discharge instructions and follow up care.
• Actively participated in unit-base committees to improve ED patient and employee satisfaction.
• Assisted with training of multiple staff nurse to provide top-quality nursing care.
• Participated with ULL winter intersession, preceptor for multiple students.
Telemetry Nurse, 06/2009 to 06/2010
Lafayette General Medical Center – Lafayette, Louisiana
• Assisted patients with healing and recovery after surgery.
• Provided necessary health education training for patients.
• Supported patients with customized patient teaching tools.
• Accurately documented all elements of nursing assessment, treatments, medications, discharge instructions and follow-up care.
Education
Bachelor of Science: Nursing, 2009
University of Louisiana at Lafayette – Lafayette, Louisiana
