Rose Onyekwe

• Plan and present solutions-focused didactic and clinical curriculum for psychiatric nursing students by employing innovative teaching methodologies designed to facilitate engaging lesson plans and achieve improvements in student performance on rigorous program-wide testing.
• Play a vital role in coaching students to develop clinical assessment skills.

• • Applied strong leadership talents toward directing all-inclusive equipment sterility maintenance efforts, including performing quality control and safety regulatory compliance, as well as managing patients and assessing access sites, monitoring procedures, and alerting physicians of changes.

• Utilize broad scope of industry knowledge to lead a top-performing psychiatric unit staff in providing exemplary care to 36 average inpatients.
• Build and sustain productive operations by providing forward-thinking training and mentoring for new staff, including participating in yearly evaluations and continuing education, and on multi-disciplinary teams.
• Expertly assess, plan, implement, and evaluate holistic care needs for target adult population with diverse medical and psychiatric requirements.
• Liaise among pharmacy, unit manager, social workers, and multiple psychiatrics to ensure seamless healthcare operations at all times.

• Strategically steered various Med / Surg unit operations by planning and prioritizing RN and LVN staff tasks to meet and / or exceed critical goals.
• Ensured completion of healthcare objectives while supporting Nurse Manager in the proficient selection and development of nursing operations.

• Led targeted healthcare success within Med / Surg and Bariatric units via effective supervision of LVN and ancillary staff, including accurately assessing medical / surgical and obese patients’ needs while performing supplemental nursing functions per Nurse Practice Act to drive success.

• Delivered high-quality individualized education to Neuro staff patients and families on injury management; post-treatment home care needs; diet, nutrition, and exercise programs; and medication self-administration.

Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner

Nurse Educator Emphasis