SUMMARY:

Passionate and accomplished Bachelor’s prepared Registered Nurse looking to broaden and solidify skill sets. Experience includes direct patient care, supervisor/manager and clinical education settings. Accomplished, mission focused team builder with demonstrated positive and collaborative leadership.

KEY SKILLS:

• Patient Assessment, IV Therapy, Trach/Gastrostomy/Intestinal Ostomy Management, Wound Care, Medication Administration by all Routes
• Experience with Patients in General Medical - Surgical, Surgical Oncology, Orthopedic, Physical Medicine, LTAC settings
• EMR/EHR Documentation & Software Training
• Training / Coaching: Simulation and Live Demonstration
• Internal Quality Audits & Record Keeping
• Policies / Procedures Education Continuing Process Improvement
• Problem Solving

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Staff Nurse

Responsibilities:

• Perform daily duties associated with patient care, including med pass, skilled and head to toe assessments, wound care, timely interventions for declines/changes in status, coordinate care with medical providers, therapy and nursing departments.
• Educate patients and families on medications, therapy and nursing routines, tests and interventions.
• Educate patients and families on options for care related hospice vs palliative end of life care, outpatient vs home health therapy, continued inpatient vs home health nursing services.

Confidential, FL

Field/Staff Nurse

Responsibilities:

• Per Diem RN position
• Perform daily duties associated with patient care
• Plan organize and direct skilled home care services (physician ordered plan of treatment, collateral therapies) with emphasis on patient and family education for management of disease processes
• Direct services to meet the needs of individuals/families within their homes and communities.

Confidential, Auburndale, FL

Assistant Director of Nursing Staff Development and Risk Manager

Responsibilities:

• Collaborated with Administrator and other department managers in providing excellent skilled rehabilitation and long term skilled nursing care to residents of 120 bed facility.
• Provided leadership to the Department of Nursing by ensuring nursing care met standards according to policies and procedures of the facility in addition to CMS guidelines and regulations
• Created a framework of educational services that promoted the growth and development of its licensed and unlicensed staff including the use of simulation mannequin, IV arm and clinical scenario presentations. Facilitated process improvement initiatives by using problem-solving methodology and/or root cause analysis.
• Managed nursing department, overseeing nursing operations, managed staff disciplinary issues, ensured excellent customer service to residents and families, addressed areas of concern with education and when warranted, investigations of complaints, including any allegations of abuse, neglect or exploitation with positive outcomes.
• Provided all new employees initial training with EMR system and all current employees with upgraded and new modules training using software demonstration, simulation mannequin, IV arm, clinical scenario and multimedia presentations.
• Implemented tiered system of nursing staff training / retraining to ensure required standards met, including the use of simulation mannequin, IV arm and clinical scenario presentations when warranted. Resulted in reduction of terminations overall and less hostile reactions when terminations were necessary.
• Collaborated with nursing management team in review of policies, procedures and practice to improve facility nursing documentation, protocols and outcomes. Resulted in clearing annual survey of citations of D level or less, in addition, at resurvey visit cleared 2 concurrent complaint surveys with no citations.
• Coordinated monthly QI / QA meeting collaborating with department heads / managers

Confidential, Clearwater, FL

Director of Quality and Education

Responsibilities:

• Provided leadership to the Department of Nursing by creating a framework of educational services that promoted the growth and development of its licensed and unlicensed staff using simulation mannequin, IV arm and clinical scenario presentations. Facilitated process improvement initiatives by using problem-solving methodology and/or root cause analysis.
• Provided all new employees initial training with EMR system and all current employees with upgraded and new modules training using software demonstration, simulation mannequin, IV arm, clinical scenario and multimedia presentations..
• Developed and implemented tiered system of nursing staff training / retraining to ensure required standards met, using simulation mannequin, IV arm and clinical scenario presentations when warranted. Tiered system resulted in reduction of terminations overall and less hostile reactions when terminations were necessary.
• Collaborated with nursing management team in review of policies, procedures and practice to improve facility nursing documentation, protocols and outcomes. Resulted in nearly deficiency free annual inspection by state regulatory agency.
• Coordinated monthly QI / QA meeting collaborating with department heads / managers. Recognized errors in infection tracking in the electronic database that created a falsely high rate. Created new process that corrected infection rate from over 30% to less than 10%

Confidential, Killeen, TX

Health Science Technology Teacher

Responsibilities:

• Taught health science courses while coordinating educational and extracurricular activities related to specific courses for students, grades 9-12.
• Incorporated health science didactic curriculum with real world experiences via visual media, case studies, books, hands-on activities, practice sessions, clinical experiences using simulation mannequin, IV arm and clinical scenario presentations
• Simulation devices included low tech ostomy- zero fluid models as well as advanced models that produced heart sounds of various rates and rhythms, lung sounds of various rates and quality (rhonchi, rales, etc.), emesis, incorporated speech and produced fluids for phlebotomy purposes.
• Doubled total number of applicants to Confidential . course while maintaining 85-100% pass rate on the state certification exam.
• Via email, resolved issue of parental concern with content of a unit of study. Using calm, logical, accepting and open communication was able to address concerns and describe alternate assignments if parent chose to opt student out. Resulted positive outcome for parent, student and school

Confidential, Killeen, TX

Director of Patient Care

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed all assessments and plans of care developed by case managers, reviewed all nursing notes for completeness, and coordinated implementing of physician orders with adjustments to plan of care as indicated.
• Supervised and evaluated performance of in-home nursing staff, ensured initial and annual competencies were verified using simulation mannequin, IV arm and clinical scenario presentations.
• De-escalated and resolved tense, volatile client situation using calm, logical, accepting and open communication to determine root causes of concerns, negotiated corrective actions and implemented processes resulting in positive outcome for family and agency.
• Reviewed and verified patient insurance coverage and benefits, successfully negotiated coverage for services not specifically addressed and out of network coverage that increased patients’ abilities to remain on service or be admitted to service.
• Planned, organized and directed home care services (physician ordered plan of treatment, collateral therapies) with emphasis on community health education and in home patient care.
• Directed services to meet the needs of individuals/families within their homes and communities.

Confidential, Copperas Cove, TX

RN Case Manager

Responsibilities:

• Received referrals for home care, verified insurance coverage, screened patients for appropriateness of referral, arranged for nurse, therapist initial visits.
• Provided initial orientation and skills verification of new agency staff and ongoing, annual skills evaluations of nursing staff using simulation mannequin, IV arm and clinical scenario presentations.
• Planned, organized and directed skilled home care services (physician ordered plan of treatment, collateral therapies) with emphasis on patient and family education for management of disease processes
• Directed services to meet the needs of individuals/families within their homes and communities.
• Created functional correlation to standard ten-point pain scale to assist patients in accurate and effective pain rating. Improved patient understanding of pain levels and appropriate interventions and staff ability to assess pain and provide needed level of intervention
• Timely communication of assessment of patient’s deteriorating of long-term intravenous site to physician resulted in short-term hospital stay that averted possibly fatal cardiac complication.
• Informed and educated home health agency on wound vac therapy. Coordinated training sessions with device provider, Confidential .
• Use of device in wound care therapy increased number of wound cases accepted and improved outcomes

Confidential, Austin, TX

Case Manager, RN

Responsibilities:

• Planned, organized and directed unskilled home care services (physician ordered plan of treatment, referrals to skilled home health agencies, Medicaid waiver services) with emphasis on community health education and in home patient care.
• Directed services to meet the needs of individuals/families within their homes and communities