Tommy Pinckard II
Bakersfield,CA
Summary
Conscientious Nurse Educator with clinical expertise and nine years of experience spread across five years of ER, two years of ICU, and nearly two years of correctional nursing. I possess proven history of successfully executing developed evidence-based care and teaching up to date curriculum. I offer expertise in correctional nursing and I bring experience in teaching, leadership, and inmate focused care.
Overview
3
3
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Nurse Educator
CDCR California Correctional Institution
10.2024 - Current
- Provides nursing and mental health training to staff regarding deficiencies and new directives.
- Collaborates with interdisciplinary teams to plan, develop, and implement orientations, in-service trainings, and continuing education programs for staff.
- Assists in the coordination and facilitation of all nursing trainings, competency testing, and validations.
- Develop and implement training required as a result of the findings from ongoing monitoring, audits, evaluations, and committee reports related to nursing.
- Research and develop classroom teaching modules.
- Contributes to the development of inmate health and mental health education materials.
- Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams in the maintenance of health and mental health education and training records and generating reports as required by department, institutional, and health care facility licensing regulations or as directed by the chief nurse executive or designee.
- Partners with interdisciplinary teams to prepare an annual education calendar, update and distribute a training calendar monthly, and post course flyers.
- Participates in quality improvement activities such as chart reviews, audits, and participation on the quality improvement team.
Intensive Care Unit Registered Nurse
Kern Medical Center
01.2023 - 10.2024
- Effectively stabilizes level II trauma patients utilizing evidence-based practices.
- Quickly responds to code blue and rapid response situations.
- Provides high quality and evidence-based care for patients with acute illnesses and life-threatening injuries.
- Collaborates and communicates with the interdisciplinary team members to maximize positive and desired patient outcomes.
- Monitors neurological, respiratory, cardiac, gastric, urinary, skin, and laboratory values, and notifies physicians of any critical changes in the patient’s condition.
- Performs effective head to toe assessments as well as focused assessments and executes appropriate medical interventions as ordered and needed.
- Evaluates patient’s progress, initiates care plans, anticipates outcomes, and modifies care as needed to obtain optimal outcomes.
Education
Bachelor of Science in Nursing -
UCB
Bakersfield, CA03.2023
Affiliations
Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing - Omega Rho Chapter.
Certification
- BSN, California Registered Nurse (# 95330405), Expires 11/2026
- BSN, Oklahoma Registered Nurse (# 225398), Expires 10/2026
- AHA Advanced Cardio Life Support, Expires 06/30/2026
- AHA Pediatrics Advanced Life Support, Expires 06/30/2026
- AHA Basic Life Support, Expires 06/30/2026
Timeline
Nurse Educator
CDCR California Correctional Institution
10.2024 - Current
Intensive Care Unit Registered Nurse
Kern Medical Center
01.2023 - 10.2024
Bachelor of Science in Nursing -
UCB