Nursing Related Experience

• Registered Nurse — Logan Health

   Kalispell, MT (June '21-Present)

      • Registered nurse in critical care on an intermediate care unit.

• Registered Nurse — Kalispell Regional Medical Center

   Kalispell, MT (Feb. ’20-June '21)

      • Registered nurse on transitional care unit (TCU) and long-term care facility. On TCU, I provide care for patients requiring chronic or long-term wound care, post-operative rehabilitation, and palliative and inpatient Hospice care, among other medical needs.

     • Floated to Long-Term Care (LTC) often, and have grown considerably in establishing the nurse-resident relationship, developing rapport, and providing end-of-life care.

     • Coordinated inter-disciplinary meetings to improve nursing education on end-of-life care as well as arranged for a nurse practitioner to educate nursing staff on Coudé catheter use and skills check-off.

     • Participated in Unit Based Council.

     • Provided education on catheters to incoming nurse residency cohorts.

• Urodynamics Technician & Medical Assistant — Urology Associates

   Kalispell, MT (Oct. ’19-Feb. ’20)

      • Primarily performed urodynamics studies in a specialist's office.  

        Occasionally acted as a medical assistant in a clinical setting.

• Scheduler and Referral Handler — Urology Associates

  Kalispell, MT (Jan. ’18-May ’18)

     • Answered phone calls and basic medical questions, distributed and

       received referrals, scheduled patient appointments

• Intern — Friends of Tenwek

  Bomet, Kenya (Sept. ’16-Jul. ’17)

     • Boots-on-the-ground liaison between Tenwek Hospital in Kenya and

       Friends of Tenwek organization in the USA

     • Managed funds distributed to patients and orphanages in Kenya

      • Performed in-home orphanage checks to ensure proper treatment,

       nutrition and school performance

• Medical Assistant — Flathead Valley Orthopedic Center

  Kalispell, MT (Jun. ’14-Sept ’16)

    • Roomed patients and evaluated chief complaints, signs and symptoms

    • Assisted with in-office procedures, and performed basic procedures

       including casting/splinting, wound care, suture/staple removal, etc.

• Medical Assistant — Bigfork Family Practice

  Bigfork, MT (Jan. ’11-Sept. ’16)

• Medical Assistant — MedNorth Urgent Care

  Kalispell, MT (Feb. ’14-Jun. ’14)

• Medical Scribe — PhysAssist Scribes

  Tacoma, WA (Apr. ’13-Feb. ’14)

• Nursing Assistant — Northern Rockies Medical Center

  Cut Bank, MT (May ’10-Aug. ’11)

• Nursing Assistant — Glacier Care Center

  Cut Bank, MT (May ’10-Aug. ’11)