Poonam Patel, DNP

About

Experience

• Nurse Practitioner at U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
  Feb 2019 - Present · 7 yrs 5 mos

  - Lead provider/designated PCP for the Spinal Cord Injury/Disorders Outpatient Clinic - Clinical researcher: Vitamin D Protocol for Patients with Chronic Spinal Cord Injury/Disability (SCI/D) Implementing a Decision Support Tool to Prevent Community-Acquired Pressure Injury in Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) in the Spinal Cord Injury Clinic Impact of Mobile Manual Standing Wheelchair on Standing Dosage and Utility - Clinical preceptor

• Nurse Practitioner at Mind and Body Pain Clinic
  Nov 2016 - Feb 2019 · 2 yrs 4 mos

  Diagnose, manage, and treat acute and chronic pain, neurological, and internal medicine conditions. Performed interventional procedures for pain management.

• Registered Nurse/Charge Nurse at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
  Oct 2013 - Aug 2016 · 2 yrs 11 mos

  - Registered Nurse/Charge Nurse for patient population including cardiac and pulmonary conditions, arrhythmia treatment, status-post cardiothoracic transplant (heart and lung) & left ventricular assist device (LVADs) - Clinical preceptor

• Registered Nurse at Baylor University Medical Center
  Jun 2011 - Oct 2013 · 2 yrs 5 mos

  - Registered Nurse for patient population of status-post cardiothoracic and vascular surgery, including coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), valve repair/ replacement, arrhythmia treatment, pulmonary thoracentesis, pleurodesis, indwelling pleural catheter, aneurysms, dissections - Clinical preceptor

• Undergraduate Research Assistant at The University of Texas at Arlington
  Jun 2008 - Oct 2010 · 2 yrs 5 mos

  Completed Undergraduate Honors Thesis regarding the effectiveness of various teaching methods for learning CPR/BLS