Elder Care in Charleston, South Carolina

I have cut and pasted my resume for your further information below: RESUME Melissa T. Ferdinandi, FNP Permanent Address: 1167 Holly Bend Drive Mount Pleasant, SC 29466 Temporary Address: P.O. Box 161 Isle of Palms, SC 29451 Cell phone: 401... Email: [email protected] EXPERIENCE Charleston Pain and Rehabilitation Charleston, SC, 2015. Work as a nurse practitioner in primary care and pain management. Take history, perform examination, and prescribe medications for patients who have been injured. Prescribe non-pharmacologic therapy as well. Also see patients for medication management who suffer from addiction to opiates. Optum Medical Services, a division of United Health Care Medical Services. Warwick, RI, 2015. Worked as a behavioral health consultant, nurse practitioner, in long-term living facilities, including nursing homes and assisted living facilities. Evaluate patients for psychiatric and behavioral health issues; make recommendations regarding treatment measures, including medications and non-pharmacological treatments. I am the first psychiatric nurse practitioner, behavioral health nurse practitioner consultant for Optum Medical Services and United Health Care in the state of Rhode Island. Comprehensive Community Action Program (CCAP). Cranston, RI, 2014. Worked as a family nurse practitioner seeing patients in CCAP’s primary care clinic in Coventry, RI. Saw 25 patients per day for sick and well visits. Cared for all ages. Managed acute and chronic diseases and medications. Functioned as the primary, solo, provider in the clinic. In charge of a panel of over 1,300 patients. Was employed at CCAP until my elderly parents became very ill in Seattle, WA, and I needed to go there to care for them. United Health. Charleston, South Carolina, 2013 - 2.... Worked as a nurse practitioner seeing Medicare patients for home visits throughout Charleston County, S.C. Performed home health assessments on patients in their homes and made recommendations for health measures to be taken as appropriate. Worked extremely independently. Ralph H. Johnson Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Charleston, South Carolina, 2011- 20.... Worked in Primary Care as a nurse practitioner seeing ambulatory patients with multiple chronic and acute medical conditions, including mental health issues and pain management. Managed patients’ numerous chronic medications. Ordered labs, imaging studies, and other diagnostic tests; made referrals to specialty clinics, and worked closely with social services at the VA. The complexity of patients on my panel was very high. Naval Health Clinic New England, Newport, RI, 2007 - 2.... Worked as a Family Nurse Practitioner contractor in the Deployment Health Clinic from June 2007 through June 2008. Primary duties were focused on screening, treatment and case management for soldiers returning from war zones, in the one to three month post-deployment period, wherein numerous physical and psychological issues become apparent. Starting June 2008, became permanent GS employee and Family Nurse Practitioner in Family Medicine, seeing active duty, dependent, and retired active duty patients for routine medical issues as well as deployment-related issues. Returned to position as Deployment Health Clinic Family Nurse Practitioner in June 2010. MedOptions Inc, Old Saybrook, CT, 2005- 20.... Rhode Island Regional Manager, and clinical Nurse Practitioner, providing behavioral health consulting to long-term care residents throughout the state of Rhode Island. Manager of clinical services, managing clinicians throughout the state and coordinating services to over 60 long-term health care facilities in Rhode Island. Played a fundamental role in developing MedOptions market in RI from two facilities to more than sixty facilities in two years. MedOptions is the largest provider of behavioral health consulting services to long-term care facilities in the state of Rhode Island and Southern New England. James Gloor, MD, Wickford Junction Medical, North Kingstown, RI, 2005. Worked as family nurse practitioner providing primary health care services to clients of all ages in walk-in, urgent care setting. Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island, Pawtucket, RI, 2004. Family Nurse Practitioner/Clinic Manager for ambulatory family practice clinic serving diverse population. Supervised clinic staff and managed clinic operations. Managed care of patients of all ages for acute and chronic illnesses—high percentage of pediatric and women’s’ health clients. Veteran’s Administration, Out-Patient Clinic, Middletown, RI, 2003. Nurse Practitioner responsible for management of patients with acute and chronic medical problems in an out-patient setting within the Providence Veteran’s Administration Health Care System. Duties required a high level of independence and autonomy. Rhode Island State Sexually Transmitted Disease Clinic, Providence, Rhode Island, 2002-200.... Nurse Practitioner/Clinic Manager of state Department of Health STD Clinic. Supervised and managed clinical and support staff. Diagnosed and treated patients for a variety of STD-related problems. Microscopy was an integral piece of clinical duties. Worked in collaboration with the RI Department of Health and the Providence Community Health Centers. New Visions Community Health Center, (now East Bay Community Action Center), Newport, RI. 1995-200.... Worked as Family Nurse Practitioner in community health care setting. Provided primary health care to patients of all ages, from infancy through elder care. Functioned extremely independently in direct leadership position. Represented New Visions Community Health Center on the RI Community Health Center Clinical Leadership Committee. Clinical Faculty Appointments: University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Nursing, Kingston, RI. Adjunct Instructor of Nursing, Family Nurse Practitioner Program, 2001 through 2009. Yale University School of Nursing, New Haven, CT. Clinical Instructor of Nursing, Family Nurse Practitioner Program, 1996-199.... University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, Graduate School of Nursing, Dartmouth, MA. Clinical Instructor of Nursing, Family Nurse Practitioner Program 2000-200.... EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina. PhD in Nursing student, starting fall of 2009; PhD expected 2016. Research interest is in military deployment health issues, including posttraumatic stress, substance abuse, , and the effect parental deployment on children and families. Vanderbilt University of School of Nursing, Nashville, Tennessee. RN, Master of Science in Nursing; Family Nurse Practitioner Program. Graduated 1995. Grade point average: 4.0. Awarded Francis Ziegler Tunnel Graduate Honor Scholarship. Member Sigma Theta Tau Nursing Honor Society. Seattle University School of Law, Seattle, Washington. JD, 1984. Law Review member, Associate Editor. Dean’s Scholarship winner. Member of Massachusetts and Washington Bar Associations. University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont. BA in English, Minor in Psychology. Graduated 1980. Stanford University, Palo Alto, California Entered Stanford as a freshman, completing two and one half years prior to transferring to the University of Vermont. PRIOR EMPLOYMENT Prior employment, prior to entering Vanderbilt University Nursing School includes: attorney, legal assistant, sailing instructor for handicapped sailing program OTHER ACCOMPLISHMENTS United States Ski Team member University of Vermont Varsity Ski Team member First place Rolex International Women’s Keelboat Sailing Championship Third place North American Women’s Lightning Sailing Championship Climbed Mt. Rainier (highest mountain in continental US) Member of American Mensa Society