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Professional: The Way of the Artisan

The Way of the carpenter is to become proficient in the use of his tools, first to lay his plans with a true measure and then perform his work according to plan. — A Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi

Those words were written around 1645 and they are timeless. The Way of the craftsman is simply mindfulness of the task at hand, never mastered, not a skill itself, but a way of being with skills. If I can wake up right now, attend to what is happening, then I am practicing the Way.

Vocational Experience

There is something to be said for gathering a varied portfolio of experience! Variety leads to resiliency and versatility.

Dates Title Responsibilities
2011-Present Psychiatric Nurse II: Community Services (RN) Provide nursing services, primary psychotherapy, skills coaching, case management, crisis counseling, and PRN coaching to outpatients in the mental health field. The job also includes managing nursing services in an outpatient clinic, and providing backup for a newly emerging medical clinic.
2009-2011 Psychiatric Staff Nurse II: Adult and Adolescent Inpatients (RN) Provide nursing services, milieu management and staff leadership for inpatient intermediate-length mental illness units, to include: charge nurse services, crisis management, emergency medical response, first aid, DBT and life skills teaching, group facilitation, patient documentation and unit administration.
2010-Present American Heart Association Healthcare Provider CPR Instructor Teach and certify professional healthcare providers and lay persons in CPR and AED use
2010-2010 Psychiatric Evening Charge Nurse: Children and Youth (RN) Evening charge nurse services on successful six week temporary assignment to adolescent psychiatric intermediate care unit, including team management, crisis descalation, safety management, teaching via PEM utilization and emergency medical response.
2009-2010 Psychiatric Staff Nurse I: Adult Inpatient Provide nursing services, milieu management and staff leadership for inpatient intermediate-length mental illness unit
2008-2009 Psychiatric Staff Nurse: MICA (RN) Provide nursing services, group facilitation, milieu management for inpatient mental illness/chemical abuse (MICA) unit
2005-2008 Emergency Medical Technician (EMT-B) Crew ambulance, providing on-scene emergency medical and trauma services to patients
2007-2008 Behavioral Health Technician Group facilitation, manage milieu safety, provide services per nursing direction
2006-2007 Patient Care Assistant Assist patients with ADLs, provide presence and comfort to patients as needed, provide services per nursing direction
1998-Present Web Developer, Entrepreneurial Coding: PHP, Perl, JavaScript, XML, XHTML, CSS, SQL; manage customer service; project design and management; project quotes
1994-1998 Corporate Intranet Webmaster Design, build and maintain intranet web sites for various internal departments

Professional/Academic Skills, Awards and Affiliations

Member of Mensa Dharmachakra Balance Kokikai Aikido Ashtanga Yoga Member of Phi Theta Kappa New York State Registered Nurse
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