1. Tara M. Papacek APRN, CNP- NNP
24727 Southern Oaks Circle, Lakeville, MN 55044
Phone: 612-978-5588 Email: tara.papacek@gmail.com◦
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Dedicated new graduate NNP with expert skills, experience, and education in the
comprehensive care of neonates in a level IV NICU at a leading children’s healthcare system.
• Management of neonates requiring advanced life supportive therapies including high
frequency ventilation, nitric oxide therapy, therapeutic hypothermia, and ECMO.
• Attending high-risk deliveries and managing advanced resuscitations.
• Transporting critically ill neonates from regional hospitals via ambulance, helicopter and
fixed wing aircraft.
• Performing life-supportive procedures including endotracheal intubations, central line
placement, and chest tube placement.
• Instructing multidisciplinary teams in Neonatal Resuscitation Procedure.
• Developed neonatal management and procedure skills through formal didactic and
clinical education at Vanderbilt University.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN: 09/2014-Present
The largest pediatric system in MN and regularly ranked a top hospital by US News & World Report.
Neonatal Nurse Practitioner
• Comprehensive medical management of neonates in a level II, III, and IV setting in three
separate neonatal units consisting of over 100 beds.
• Managing high-risk deliveries and resuscitations.
• Managing medical care of critically ill neonates on transport.
• Performing advanced procedures in a high acuity setting.
University of Minnesota Children’s Hospital, Minneapolis, MN: 09/2004 – 09/2014
A US News and World Report top ranked pediatric academic and research hospital in Minnesota.
Registered Nurse-NICU
• Comprehensive care of critically ill neonates in a level IV setting.
• Member of high-risk delivery team and neonatal transport team.
• Charge RN.
• Member of a bereavement group responsible for developing and improving practices
associated with death and dying.

2. • Mentor and orient nurses to all levels of NICU care.
EDUCATION
Vanderbilt University- Nashville, TN
Master’s of Science, Nursing - Neonatal Nurse Practitioner. Graduated 08/08/14
-Curriculum included
• 665 clinical hours in normal newborn, level II NICU, and Level III/IV NICU.
• Procedural skills including endotracheal intubation, umbilical line placement, PICC line
placement, percutaneous arterial line placement, lumbar puncture, suprapubic bladder
tap, closed chest needle aspiration, and chest tube placement. Formally educated in a
didactic and simulation setting on frenulectomy and circumcision.
• Clinical management skills including transport management, high-risk delivery room
resuscitation/NRP, and the comprehensive management of level II and level III/level IV
NICU patients.
St. Catherine University- St. Paul, MN
Bachelors of Science, Nursing 2008
Normandale Community College- Bloomington, MN
Associate of Science, Nursing 2002
MEMBERSHIPS, VOLUNTEER WORK, AND ADDITIONAL TRAINING
• NCC Board Certified 11/2014
• Neonatal Resuscitation Procedure Instructor
• Lifelink III Neonatal Transport Egress Training
• Neonatal Congenital Heart Defects Seminar
• High Risk Delivery Simulation
• High Risk Delivery Debriefing
• Neonatal Transport Simulation
• Member of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing- Vanderbilt
University (2014) and St. Catherine University (2008).
• April 2012 Healing Haiti Medical Mission; Port Au Prince, Haiti
• May 2013 Healing Haiti Medical Mission; Port Au Prince, Haiti
• 2014 FANNP Conference, Clearwater, FL.