Christine Wanyana msn, apn-C
1530 Lighthouse Dr. Naperville Illinois 60565
Cell: (937) 543-2021│ hope53217@yahoo.com

 NURSING PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

Skilled, highly motivated and emotional nursing professional with 9 years’ experience including Adult Nurse Practitioner (APN) and Registered Nurse. Exceptional command over assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating nursing care with a superior emphasis on prioritizing patient care based on resource availability. Maintains critical thinking skills essential to providing competent and dignified patient care. Advocate for patients’ rights, hardworking, energetic, flexible, adapts easily to change of environment.  Exceedingly skilled in collaborating with physicians to provide quality care. 

Areas of Expertise

•	Physician collaboration 
•	Excellent Communication
•	Skilled Nursing
•	Quality Improvement Measures
	
•	Clinical Instructor
•	Patient Assessment
•	Management of Staff
	
•	Problem Solving Skills
•	Time Management
•	Mental/Behavioral Health
	
Professional Experience

       Jody Reed, SC (Primary &Psychiatry	)	                                                                                                    2019-Present
       Nurse Practitioner
•	Assess, diagnose, and treat acute and chronic illness, in primary care and psychiatry. Disease management. 
•	Identify urgent and emergent situations for proper intervention for pediatric patients as well as elderly
•	Provides initial wound care, application of splinting for sprains and fractures as indicated
•	Prescribe and or administer medications
•	Familiar with splinting, removing foreign bodies from eyes, ears and nose, as well as cerumen impaction removal
•	Management of depression, anxiety, ADHD, bipolar disorder/mood disorder, dementia, OCD and other psychiatric disorders
 
        Rehab Medicine Specialist								               11/2017-05/2020
        Nurse Practitioner

•	Focus on a holistic rehabilitation process. 
•	Management of patients with strokes, multiple sclerosis, dysphagia, dysarthria, urinary retention, deconditioning, debility, Parkinson’s disease, osteoarthritis, myopathies.
       
        Tamid Medical Group  (Internal  Medicine)                                                                                                  09/2017-08/2018
        Nurse Practitioner
•	Conducting a comprehensive physical. Integrating acute, sub-acute and long-term care.
•	Identify urgent and emergent situations for proper intervention
•	Interpreting laboratory data and diagnostic testing when available to assist in diagnosis of medical conditions
•	Formulate a list of current and past medical conditions using clinical knowledge, judgment, and current findings
•	Performing ADL and fall risk assessments; cognitive impairment, depression, and nutritional health screening; BMI measurement; medication reconciliation.
•	Provides primary health care to elderly patients in long term care facilities
•	Interdisciplinary collaboration.																			   
        Teacher Assistant (Northern Illinoi University)			                                                   2016-2016 
•	Educating students and carrying out clinical training of undergraduate nursing students on skills performance. grading and testing.

        ITT Technical Institute							                                   2014-2016
        Adjunct Faculty
•	Maintain a safe environment, contributing to enhancement of learning experience for a diverse student population
•	Taught introductory and upper level Mental Health and Health Assessment classes
•	Providing instructions in accordance with approved curriculum guidelines
     
        Favorite Health Care Staffing (St. Alexius Hospital, Little Company of Mary Hospital)          2014-2015
        Registered Nurse		
•	Oversee patients with CVA's, Insulin/heparin drips, EKG, lab draws and emergent acute illnesses.
•	Establish goals in cooperation with patient, caregivers, and ordering physician
•	Excellent written and verbal communication skills, ability to guide team members in providing quality clinical care                              
•	Telephonic Case Manager: identify unnecessary services 
•	Overseeing diagnostic results and collaborating findings to physicians. 

        Everest College
        Adjunct Faculty									              2011-2013
•	Maintain a safe program- related environment, contributing to enhancement of learning experience for a diverse student population 
•	Taught introductory and Upper level Mental Health, Fundamentals, Med-surg and Critical Care Clinical 
Providing instructions in accordance with approved curriculum guidelines	

Education, Licensure & Certifications

        Northern Illinois University 					                                        01/2014-12/2016
•	Master of Science in Nursing, Focus: Adult Gerontology Nurse Practitioner 
        
       Ohio University									        05/2010-06/2011
•	Bachelor of Science in Nursing, Focus: Nursing studies

Kettering College of Medical Arts, 	Focus: Nursing				                         08/2004-01/2010
•	Associate Degree in Nursing, 

        Certificates – Board Certified by the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners 
•	Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)
•	Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)
•	DEA: On hand 
•	NPI: On hand
•	Substance control license: On hand

Professional Affiliations

Illinois Society of Advanced Practice Nurse (ISAPN)

American Academy of Nurse Practitioners (AANP)

PROFESSIONAL REFERENCES	

Victor Okamgba APN-C, coworker, (708)-374-9982
(vinsino@yahoo.com)
Rosalyn Anderson FNP-C, supervisor/Manager (708) 299-3056
(ccrn507@yahoo.com)
Rhonda Clifton FNP-C, supervisor (773) 671-8813
(rhclifton@gmail.com)