KATES SITTON
Normal
Summary
Professional family nurse practitioner with comprehensive experience providing individualized and family-centered care. Successfully navigates changing patient needs for a diverse patient population. Celebrates neurodiversity and provides trauma-informed and affirming care to individuals who often feel ostracized or neglected by the healthcare system. Skilled in acute patient assessment and treatment. Root cause approach when managing persistent or chronic conditions focusing on wellness promotion and creatively accommodating and problem solving with patients who have unique needs using shared decision-making.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Advanced Family Nurse Practitioner
Bloomington Primary Care
02.2020 - Current
- Improving patient outcomes by creating highly individualized care plans that reinforce evidence-based practice and implement a scientific approach when EBP doesn't apply or fails to be effective for the individual.
- Optimizes clinic workflow by incorporating telehealth technologies into practice, increasing access to care for remote and limited transportation populations.
- Participates in ongoing professional development activities to stay current on best practices in family medicine and maintains professional certification requirements as standardized by AANP and IDFPR.
- Special focus in wellness promotion and counseling for neurodivergent individuals and families.
- Trauma-informed and flexible provider working with individuals to gain safe and consented access to cancer screenings, preventative care, and ambulatory care needs without stigma or retraumatization.
Registered Nurse
Bloomington Pediatrics and Allergy
12.2016 - 09.2020
- Cared for pediatric patients aged newborn through early adulthood within private practice setting. Responsibilities included triage, parent advice, chart management, chief complaint and HPI, vaccine administration, medication administration, catheterization, wound and dressing care, ear lavage and removal of foreign bodies, nurse visits, vaccine schedule management and lab testing. Worked independently and within a team to facilitate patient triage and health maintenance. Communicated closely with physicians to seamlessly care for families as a unit.
Registered Nurse
Advocate BroMenn Medical Center
09.2015 - 12.2016
- Mother/Baby Unit cared for postpartum dyads and laboring patients. Responsibilities included fetal monitoring, OR circulation, postop recovery, deliveries, postpartum recovery and care, triage and management of acute care for patients greater than 20 weeks’ gestation. Worked independently using standing orders and appropriate interventions to facilitate a safe and effective delivery. Adapted easily to manage emergent situations and function within a team of nurses to provide safe and effective care. Respected patient’s requests and managed wishes with safe and best practice. Used evidence based-practice standards to deliver excellent care to mother, baby, and family unit as a whole.
Education
Master of Science - Nursing – FNP
Illinois State University
Normal, IL05.2019
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Illinois State University
Normal, IL08.2015
Bachelor of Science - Dance Performance
Illinois State University
Normal, IL05.2010
Skills
- Interprofessional collaboration
- Acute and chronic care management
- Mental health treatment and advocacy
- Neurodiversity affirming provider
- Gender affirming care and hormone therapy
- Women's health and family planning
- Immunization administration
- Medication administration
- Ambulatory procedures
- Prenatal, perinatal, and postpartum care
- Telehealth services
- Trauma-informed and flexible provider
Certification
- FNP-C | American Academy of Nurse Practitioners | June 2019 – present | Certification number F06191977
- Advanced practice registered nurse | State of Illinois | August 2019 – present | License number 209.019870
- Registered nurse | State of Illinois | September 2015 - present | License number 041.434937
- Advanced practice nurse controlled substance license | State of Illinois | July 2020 - present | License number 309.016039
- DEA registered prescriber | MLP - nurse practitioner | July 2020 - present | License number MS5958244
- CPR – BLS | American Red Cross | January 2014 - present
Affiliations
- The American Association of Nurse Practitioners | 2019 - present
- Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing | 2017 – 2018
- Springfield Ballet Company | 2002 - 2015
- Illinois State Dance Theatre | 2008 - 2010
- Illinois State Dance Association | 2008 - 2010
Timeline
Advanced Family Nurse Practitioner
Bloomington Primary Care
02.2020 - Current
Registered Nurse
Bloomington Pediatrics and Allergy
12.2016 - 09.2020
Registered Nurse
Advocate BroMenn Medical Center
09.2015 - 12.2016
Master of Science - Nursing – FNP
Illinois State University
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Illinois State University
Bachelor of Science - Dance Performance
Illinois State University
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