Nolan T. Weathersby
Physician Assistant, Emergency Medicine
Phoenix, AZ · (602) 555 0142 · name@example.com · linkedin.com/in/nolantweathersby
Key Qualifications
EXPERIENCE
Seven years of emergency medicine, five in a level one trauma center
SETTINGS
62 bed emergency department with a nine bay resuscitation area and observation unit
SPECIALTIES
Laceration repair, fracture reduction, procedural sedation, chest pain and stroke pathways
SYSTEMS
Epic and its emergency department track board, Pyxis, bedside ultrasound
LICENSURE
Arizona physician assistant license, national certification, Drug Enforcement Administration registration
EDUCATION
Master of Physician Assistant Studies, Desert Vista University
Executive Summary
Emergency medicine physician assistant with seven years in a level one trauma center that sees about 96,000 visits a year. Works the main side and the resuscitation bay under a collaborative agreement, and runs the department procedure teaching for new advanced practice hires. Known for keeping fast track moving without pushing patients back to the waiting room.
Signature Achievements
- Sees an average of 2.4 patients an hour on the main side and 3.1 an hour in fast track, against a department average of 2.0.
- Repaired more than 900 lacerations and reduced roughly 260 fractures and dislocations in five years with a wound complication rate below 2 percent.
- Cut the rate of patients leaving without being seen on fast track shifts from 4.6 percent to 1.9 percent by starting orders from triage.
- Wrote the advanced practice onboarding program in 2023 and has taken eleven new physician assistants and nurse practitioners through it.
- Holds a documented rate of 97 percent for charts closed within 24 hours across the last three fiscal years.
- Credentialed in bedside ultrasound for cardiac, abdominal and soft tissue studies after 180 logged and reviewed scans.
Professional Experience
Physician Assistant, Emergency Department
Salt River Crossing Medical Center, Phoenix, AZ August 2021 to present
Level one trauma center emergency department seeing about 96,000 visits a year, with fourteen advanced practice clinicians on the roster
- Evaluate and treat patients across the acuity range from chest pain and sepsis to sprains and rashes in ten hour shifts.
- Perform laceration repair, incision and drainage, fracture reduction, splinting, lumbar puncture and procedural sedation under the collaborative agreement.
- Run point of care ultrasound at the bedside to look for free fluid, pericardial effusion and abscess before ordering formal imaging.
- Present every admitted patient to the attending physician and write the admission orders when the hospitalist accepts.
- Teach procedures and department workflow to newly hired advanced practice clinicians over a twelve week orientation.
Physician Assistant, Urgent Care
Sonoran Foothills Urgent Care, Mesa, AZ September 2019 to August 2021
Walk in clinic seeing 60 to 80 patients a day with one physician assistant and one medical assistant on most shifts
- Treated respiratory illness, minor trauma, urinary infection and skin complaints for patients of every age.
- Read plain radiographs on site and splinted fractures before referral to orthopedics.
- Sent patients with chest pain, stroke signs or sepsis criteria to the emergency department by ambulance with a spoken handoff.
Licensure and Certification
Arizona Regulatory Board of Physician Assistants, physician assistant license number 008834
Physician Assistant National Certifying Examination passed 2019; certified physician assistant credential from the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants, current
Drug Enforcement Administration registration, active
Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support and Advanced Trauma Life Support, current
Education
Master of Physician Assistant Studies, Desert Vista University, Phoenix, 2019
Bachelor of Science in biology, Pima Canyon State University, Tucson, 2016
Core Skills
Laceration repair · Fracture reduction and splinting · Procedural sedation · Bedside ultrasound · Chest pain pathway · Sepsis recognition · Lumbar puncture · Fast track throughput · Admission handoff · New clinician orientation