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NICOLE NEILSON

NICOLE NEILSON

Summary

I am a compassionate, creative, skilled and dedicated RN. I am able to critically assess patients’ needs by identifying social, economic, physical and emotional components of health to provide quality care. As a professional healthcare provider, I believe in empowering patients by delivering health education and nursing care that enhances wellness and quality of life.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience
15
15

Certifications

Work History

Fertility Nurse

Pacific Centre for Reproductive Medicine (PCRM)
10.2019 - 05.2023
  • Working as a fertility nurse at PCRM enabled me to merge my clinical expertise with compassionate care, assisting patients on their fertility journey.
  • Provided patients with reassurance and empathy as they navigated the emotional highs and lows of fertility treatment cycles.
  • Educated patients about their schedules, medications, procedures, and treatment plans while effectively managing expectations.
  • Served as a liaison between patients and doctors, ensuring that patients' questions and concerns were addressed promptly.
  • Managed microTESE cases and coordinated fertility cycles to align egg retrieval surgeries with microTESE procedures.
  • Established IV access and administered sedation for egg retrieval surgeries.
  • Monitored patients post-operatively and during surgery.
  • Admitted patients into the surgical unit.
  • Committed to continuous learning, as the field of reproductive medicine is always evolving.
  • Educated patients about different types of treatment cycles and how to self administer their fertility medications.

Research Nurse

Pacific Parkinson’s Research Centre, The University of British Columbia
10.2010 - 10.2019
  • Our research team had over17 active studies, all investigating the neurochemical pathology of Parkinson’s Disease using Positron Emission Tomography, functional MRI and other research modalities.
  • Screening, consenting, enrolling and scheduling participants for research studies
  • Participant education and health promotion
  • Starting IV’s and collecting blood samples for genetic testing and metabolite processing
  • Monitoring of study participants throughout PET scans for adverse events
  • Safeguarding participant data in study databases/files to maintain document integrity and confidentiality standards according to Good Clinical Practice
  • Administering and dispensing study medications and managing study medication inventory
  • Preparing clinical research ethics board applications, annual reviews, amendments, and renewals using the UBC RISe system
  • Collaboration with Health Canada, other health care disciplines and study team members
  • Administering various standardized motor, mood and cognitive assessments including the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, BECK depression inventory and MDS-UPDRS in people with Parkinson’s disease and other neurodegenerative disorders
  • Development and implementation of Centre wide standard operating procedures, protocols, work plans and timelines
  • Monitoring study team workflow to ensure high quality data acquisition within projected timelines
  • Ensuring adherence to study protocols by fostering a supportive environment for educating and training study team members
  • Mentoring and training research assistants and undergraduate students
  • Stocking, calibrating and maintaining study equipment and supplies
  • Arranging travel/accommodation for study participants
  • Responsible for adhering to study budgets and completing financial requisitions
  • Communicating and problem solving with various members of the healthcare team to sustain our shared goal of excellence in research
  • Committing to good documentation practice by ensuring study data is attributable, legible, contemporaneous, original, accurate and complete.

Registered Nurse

Nursing Support Unit, Gold Coast Hospital
01.2009 - 01.2010
  • While pursuing one of my life goals, which was travelling to Australia and scuba diving in the Great Barrier Reef, I acquired a RN position at a local hospital on the Gold Coast of Australia. Continuously rotating through different hospital units, I advanced my nursing practice in many different health specialties from this versatile role.
  • Practice within ED, CCU, gynaecology, GI, Neurology, Rehab,Oncology and Orthopaedics
  • Caring for patients with acute coronary syndrome, recent pace maker insertion, pericarditis, atrial fibrillation and endocarditis
  • Close observation of patients that had angioplasties or angiograms
  • Monitoring patients on telemetry and conducting ECGs
  • Collaborated with hospital directors during in-services and contributed my ideas to enhance quality of care for patients (Nursing Kardex)
  • Performing chest tube dressing changes and chest tube removals, working with dialysis patients, caring for post-op patients, changing and monitoring complex dressings, administering enteral and parenteral medications and nutrition, inserting foley catheters and monitoring urine output

Clinic Registered Nurse and Research Nurse

Women’s Post Menopausal Health and Osteoporosis Clinic, Toronto General Hospital
01.2008 - 01.2009
  • I managed an IV clinic for Zolendronic Acid infusion and cared for over 150 Excel (Breast Cancer Prevention Study) research participants. This clinic was one of the top recruiting sites worldwide for the Excel Study.
  • Ordering and maintaining supplies for a crash cart and intravenous supplies
  • Scheduling and booking patients for their infusions/checking patients’ bloodwork and labs prior to their scheduled infusion
  • Obtaining IV access and administrating Zolendronic Acid while monitoring patients for adverse events and arranging patient follow up care
  • Completing concise and thorough infusion documentation by dictating the infusion procedure into the patient’s electronic medical record
  • Created a standard operating procedure for Zolendronic acid infusion in conjunction with Dr. Angela Cheung, Director of the Osteoporosis Clinic at Toronto General Hospital
  • Obtaining informed consent and adhering to study protocol
  • Close monitoring of study patients (checking vital signs, performing physical exams, obtaining and reviewing blood work, reporting adverse events)
  • Processing blood work with a centrifuge and working within a biosafety cabinet
  • Coordinating medical tests (mammograms, bone density tests) and scheduling study patients for follow-up appointments
  • Concise and complete study documentation and communication
  • Expanding my knowledge base by attending in-services and reading relevant articles and scientific journals

Registered Nurse

Gynaecology Oncology Inpatients, Victoria Hospital LHSC
01.2007 - 01.2008
  • Working on a specialty floor that optimizes and promotes Women’s Health, I had the privilege to become a member of a unit council team. Our team met once a month to discuss ongoing issues related to the gynaecology inpatient program and we worked constructively as a team to resolve these issues. Our primary focus was enhancing the post-op care for women diagnosed with gynecological cancer and other women’s health challenges. Our floor won an award for achieving 100% on patient satisfaction surveys.
  • Care of complex surgical patients
  • IV starts, blood draws, blood transfusions, O2 administration, complex dressings, VAC dressings, critically assessing patients, administering boluses of pain medication and PUSH IV lasix, medication administration, ostomy care, ileal conduit care, blood glucose monitoring, vital signs, central IV lines, TPN, epidurals, pain pump machines, bladder ultra sounds, suture and staple removal
  • Discharge planning, patient education, working independently and within a multidisciplinary team
  • Advocating for patients to achieve optimal health care outcomes

Education

Bachelor of Science - Nursing

Western University
2007

Skills

  • Project Management
  • Teamwork
  • Time Management
  • Leadership
  • Effective Communication
  • Critical Thinking
  • Patient Education
  • Organization
  • Creative Problem Solving
  • Compassionate Care
  • ACLS
  • BLS
  • PALS

Certification

  • Registered Nurse with the College of Nurses of Ontario
  • Nurse ID: 07307318
  • ASRM - NURCC001 Nurse certificate course in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility 2023
  • Advanced Cardiac Life Support Provider Certification 2025
  • CPR BCLS - Health Care Provider Certification 2025
  • Paediatric Advanced Life Support Certification 2025
  • Transportation of Dangerous Goods Certification 2019
  • PD Across the Lifespan: A Roadmap for Nurses - Online Course 2018
  • Good Documentation Practice Certification 2018
  • CITI Good Clinical Practice and GCP Refresher Course 2017
  • Biological Safety Training Certification, UBC 2016
  • Tri-Council Policy Statement 2 Course on Research Ethics 2015
  • CRNBC Leadership Course - Building Collaborative Groups and Teams: A Leadership Challenge 2012
  • Radionuclide Safety and Methodology Certification, UBC 2011
  • Movement Disorder Society-sponsored revision of the Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale 2010
  • MRI Safety Certification, UBC 2010

Languages

English
Native or Bilingual

Publications

  • Liu, S.Y., Wile, D.J., Fu, J.F., Valerio, J., Shahinfard, E., McCormick, S., Mabrouk, R., Vafai, N., McKenzie, J., Neilson, N. and Perez-Soriano, A., 2018. The effect of LRRK2 mutations on the cholinergic system in manifest and premanifest stages of Parkinson's disease: a cross-sectional PET study. The Lancet Neurology.
  • Perez-Soriano, A., Arena, J.E., Dinelle, K., Miao, Q., McKenzie, J., Neilson, N., Puschmann, A., Schaffer, P., Shinotoh, H., Smith-Forrester, J. and Shahinfard, E., 2017. PBB3 imaging in parkinsonian disorders: evidence for binding to tau and other proteins. Movement Disorders, 32(7), pp.1016-1024.
  • Wile, D.J., Agarwal, P.A., Schulzer, M., Mak, E., Dinelle, K., Shahinfard, E., Vafai, N., Hasegawa, K., Zhang, J., McKenzie, J. and Neilson, N., 2017. Serotonin and dopamine transporter PET changes in the premotor phase of LRRK2 parkinsonism: cross-sectional studies. The Lancet Neurology, 16(5), pp.351-359.
  • Felicio, A.C., Dinelle, K., Agarwal, P.A., McKenzie, J., Heffernan, N., Road, J.D., Appel-Cresswell, S., Wszolek, Z.K., Farrer, M.J., Schulzer, M. and Sossi, V., 2014. In vivo dopaminergic and serotonergic dysfunction in DCTN1 gene mutation carriers. Movement Disorders, 29(9), pp.1197-1201.
  • Agarwal, P., Mak, E., Schulzer, M., Dinelle, K., Aasly, J., Hasegawa, K., Wszolek, Z., Zhang, J., Mckenzie, J., Heffernan, N., and Farrer, M., 2013. Striatal dopaminergic dysfunction in Lrrk2 mutations models the progression of sporadic Parkinson's disease. Movement Disorders, 28, p.47.
  • Gonzalez, M.E., Dinelle, K., Vafai, N., Heffernan, N., McKenzie, J., Appel-Cresswell, S., McKeown, M.J., Stoessl, A.J. and Sossi, V., 2013. Novel spatial analysis method for PET images using 3D moment invariants: Applications to Parkinson's disease. Neuroimage, 68, pp.11-21.
  • Agarwal, P., Hogarth, P., Hayflick, S., MacLeod, P., Kuriakose, R., McKenzie, J., Heffernan, N., Dinelle, K., Sossi, V. and Stoessl, A.J., 2012. Imaging striatal dopaminergic function in Phospholipase A2 Group VI-related parkinsonism. Movement Disorders, 27(13), pp.1698-1699.
  • Agarwal, P.A., Hogarth, P., Hayflick, S., Macleod, P., McKenzie, J., Heffernan, N., Dinelle, K., Sossi, V. and Stoessl, A.J., 2012. 2.027 Functional Imaging Of Nigrostriatal Dopaminergic System With Positron Emission Tomography In Adult-Onset Dystonia-Parkinsonism (Park14) Due To Pla2g6 Mutation. Parkinsonism & Related Disorders, 18, p.S98.

ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

  • Attended a fertility conference in Halifax, Nova Scotia September 22nd-September 24th, 2022
  • Webinar Presentation on Exercise and PD for the Parkinson’s Society of BC August 28th, 2018
  • Guest RN Speaker at a Careers in Neuroscience Event for Undergraduate Students at UBC November 15th, 2017
  • Clinical Trial Panel Guest Speaker at the Davis Phinney Foundation for Parkinson’s Victory Summit April 30th, 2016
  • Cast in the Nature of Things Documentary on the Placebo Effect in Parkinson’s Disease “Brain Magic: The Power of Placebo” October 24th, 2013 at 8pm on the CBC

Timeline

Fertility Nurse

Pacific Centre for Reproductive Medicine (PCRM)
10.2019 - 05.2023

Research Nurse

Pacific Parkinson’s Research Centre, The University of British Columbia
10.2010 - 10.2019

Registered Nurse

Nursing Support Unit, Gold Coast Hospital
01.2009 - 01.2010

Clinic Registered Nurse and Research Nurse

Women’s Post Menopausal Health and Osteoporosis Clinic, Toronto General Hospital
01.2008 - 01.2009

Registered Nurse

Gynaecology Oncology Inpatients, Victoria Hospital LHSC
01.2007 - 01.2008

Bachelor of Science - Nursing

Western University

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