Meet Melissa Scott, NP at Centra Internal Medicine in Prescott, AZ

Northern Arizona Healthcare, Cottonwood, AZ Jan 2024 – Present
Nurse Practitioner, Primary Care

• Providing a wide range of primary health care services that encompasses health promotion, chronic healthcare management, overseeing home health and hospice patients, injury and illness prevention, diagnosis, treatment and monitoring of commonly encountered health problems.
• Performs testing, refers to physicians as needed and writes prescriptions.
• Participates in quality improvement activities and reviews, as requested.

Wyoming State Hospital, Evanston, WY Jul 2020 – Dec 2023
Nurse Practitioner Hospitalist

• Provide medical care for inpatient acute psychiatric hospitals.
• Admission of patients who are on court order for psychiatric care.
• Developed medical treatment plan of care.
• Provide acute and chronic care.
• Developed treatment plans with multidisciplinary team.
• Collaborate with the psychiatric team regarding medication treatment, laboratory studies, and diagnostic studies.
• Formulate discharge plans with team members.
• Take calls on evenings, weekends, and holidays for urgent needs of patients.
• Provide patient support through team meetings and restraint debriefings.
• Provide primary health care with routine screenings to patients.
• Collaborate with nursing staff regarding patients’ needs and concerns.
• Attend all meetings regarding medical and psychiatric staff.
• Conduct outside referrals to specialists that are appropriate for patient care, along with collaboration with specialists to provide adequate care.
• Provide education to nursing staff regarding treatment orders, such as wound care.
• De-escalation of patients when the need arises.
• Review outside collateral regarding patients past medical history with pre-admission processand review with admitting team.
• Report changes in health status of patients to medical director and appropriate team members.
• Round on patients throughout the day and observe any changes in health status.
• EKG interpretation and monitoring for abnormalities that may be an adverse reaction ofpsychotropic medications.
• Monitor patients for any possible adverse reactions, side effects and effectiveness of medication therapy.

Western Wyoming Medical-Lander, WY Dec 2019 – May 2020
Nurse Practitioner

• Provide Primary Care in Family Practice.
• Advanced Wound Care.
• Overseeing Cardiology Patients under the direction of the Cardiologist.

Troy R-Jones, MD, Lander WY Feb 2019 – Dec 2019
Nurse Practitioner

• Providing wound care with the most up to date treatments.
• Initiated wound care clinic start-up, currently in development.
• Joint injection, trigger points.
• Shave, incisional, and punch biopsies.
• Wound debridement.
• Cyro treatment of skin lesions.
• Total contact cast off-loading.
• Placement of Allografts.
• Primary Care in Family Practice.

Primary Care Clinic-Fort Washakie, WY 2012 – Feb 2019
RN Charge Nurse

• Responsible for triage for the walk-in clinic.
• Primary Care/Urgent Care Indian Health Services Clinic.
• Advanced Wound Care.

Maryville University, St. Louis, MO
Master’s in Nursing, Family Nurse Practitioner – Aug 2018

University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY
BS in Nursing – Aug 2010

University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY
Bachelor’s in Nursing – Aug 2010

• Certified Nurse Practitioner
• BLS Certification
• ACLS Certification

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