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Corporate float flight nurse, multi-State interfacility transport/scene-calls for patients requiring expedited transport via fixed-wing and rotor-wing platforms including A-Star, King Air C90, and Pilatus PC-12. He carries the additional role of field training officer (FTO) for new-hire flight paramedics and nurses.

Active duty from 2005-2011, then as a drilling Reservist, recurrently cared for critically ill patients at the Navy’s largest medical treatment facilities including Naval Hospitals San Diego, Camp Pendleton, Guam, Portsmouth, participated in Fleet Week/Commemoration Battle of 1812 onboard USS Wasp (LHD-1), the world's largest naval warfare exercise (RIMPAC) onboard USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70), and combat deployments described below.As an Officer he has served at the local-, regional-, and force-wide levels as Officer in Charge, Training Officer, Command Fitness Leader, Nurse Executive Committee, and Critical Care Subspecialty Leader Assistant.

Deployed onboard USS New York (LPD-21), as a team member in casualty resuscitation, damage control surgery, and collaborated enroute care capability via UH-1 and CH-60 platforms as a key component to Fifth Fleet.

Missoula, Montana, United States

Caring for the facility’s sickest patients in a 28-bed ICU. Management of CABGs/valves, EVDs, CRRT, vasoactive/sedative/analgesic drips, ventilators, and invasive devices.

Helena, Montana, United States

Travel position at a 99-bed hospital providing critical care nursing in a small yet busy eight-bed ICU focused on challenging, critically-ill COVID patients.

Missoula, Montana, United States

Travel position at a 237-bed hospital contracted for COVID crisis nursing support.

Helena, Montana, United States

ICU-acuity transports from critical access/community hospitals to higher-level care in multiple states and Canada via Cessna 421, King Air C90, and Learjet 31.

Helena, Montana, United States

This course prepares registered nurses for entry into an Intensive Care Unit, covering critical care foundations through didactic lectures, simulations, and clinical experiences. It includes online education (ECCO), in-person sessions at Carroll College and/or St. Vincent Healthcare simulation labs, and clinical practice in the ICU at St. Vincent Healthcare in Billings, MT, under the supervision of an RN preceptor.

Helena, Montana, United States

34-bed hospital frequently assigned as charge and preceptor for students and new staff in the critical care and emergency environments.

Denver, Colorado, United States

182-bed hospital caring for 60+hrs IABP, 100+hrs post-op CABGs/valve replacements, adding to years of managing invasive devices, ventilators, and vasoactive drips.

Denver, Colorado, United States

Travel position to sharpen phase I & II recovery skills.

Altus, Oklahoma, United States

Travel position, 49-bed hospital, sharpened independent thinking demanded by the staff-reduced critical access facility environment.

Afghanistan

Deployed to Role III Kandahar Multinational Medical Unit, as most junior team-leader of three ICU teams, ran rapid transfusers during MASCAL in the trauma bay, contributed to the combat hospital’s 98% survival rate during in an active battlespace.

Okinawa, Japan

64-bed Naval hospital, led the blue code training for hospital-wide drills/simulations while caring for a vulnerable patients across the lifespan. Trained on CH-46 platform for intra-island transport.

Afghanistan

Deployed to Bastion Role III, Camp Leatherneck, reinforcement trauma and critical care with minimal supplies and equipment for a myriad of American, allied, and enemy forces.

Afghanistan

Shock Trauma Platoon, Mobile Trauma Bay, and En Route Care Nurse, Combat Outpost Cafferata deployed, the solo nurse on a mobile team designed to extend the golden hour from the point of injury and then peel off with the casualty on lift of opportunity CH-60, CH-53, or MV-22.

Bethesda, Maryland, United States

Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, a 244-bed hospital sprung into comprehensive ICU skillset focused on nursing our wounded warriors.

Kuwait

Deployed to Expeditionary Medical Facility, Camp Arifjan as a key member in the field hospital ICU and float pool for rotor-wing intra-theater patient movement and fixed-wing C-17 medevacs from theater to Landstuhl, Germany.

Bethesda, Maryland, United States

Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, nurtured an acumen in infection control, triage, risk management/safety, communication, electronic charting, patient education, and time management.

Park Ridge, New Jersey, United States

Volunteer EMT-B, honed assessment skills, critical thinking, and problem-solving during crises and emergencies in the pre-hospital environment.

Doctor'S Degree, Nursing Practice

Bachelor'S Degree, Registered Nursing/Registered Nurse

High School Diploma