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Houston, Texas, Us

Houston, Texas, Us

Direct overall nursing operations of 43 clinics, including infusion, internal medicine, rheumatology, oncology, endocrinology, gastroenterology, cardiology, and gynecology. Supervise and regulate 130 FTEs consisting of Nursing Supervisors, Training Coordinators, Nursing, Registered Nurses, Licensed Vocational Nurses, Medical Assistants, and Medical Secretaries, ensuring efficient and productive personnel performance. Monitor delivery of optimum medical care services to 10K new patients annually. Responsible for performing resume reviews, as well as executing hiring and retention efforts. Served as key contributor in the build of Epic EMR along with implementation of all associated nursing protocols, procedures, and policies.

Hartford, Connecticut, Us

Challenged with conceptualizing and implementing a new program to service members on a one-to-one basis, and provide guidance and direction as needed for high-risk cancers in the State of Texas. Designed workflow for the pilot program, including processes, tracking and trending to determine successes and failures, and build the electronic documentation system to track and trend data.Served as the foundational leader in establishing the Center of Excellence in Houston within the pre-certification department.Directed the performance, tasks and initiatives of 12 team members.Supported health strategies, tactics, policies and regulatory standards for a team of registered nurses, reporting back to the Project leader to ensure the project/program remained within scope.Provided expertise in establishing pilot programs for other Aetna divisions, and served as part of a breast cancer pilot for member outreach.Collaborated with a brand new staff to support patients with colorectal, GI/intestinal and prostrate cancers to receive guidance from one team member as an advisor, developing the internal group from scratch, and developing a mentorship program where nurses could mentor non-clinicians while ensuring all productivity goals were met.Investigated and resolved customer complaints in a timely and empathetic manner. Established and maintained positive relationships with all corporate staff at various organizational levels.Coordinated daily tactical and long term strategic activities within dynamic business platforms.

Houston, Texas, Us

Served in a leadership role at the 255-bed acute care facility, monitoring up to 143 patient simultaneously. Led cost-saving initiatives to meet supply and demand exchanges with vendors and partnering physicians. Managed the tasks and performance of 94 full-time, part-time and ancillary staff providing patient care in a 36-bed Cardiac Care unit and a 36-bed Telemetry area, providing coaching and delivering annual performance reviews.Created training documentation and competency valuations, and served as the MedSurg leader representative for the system in addition to improving employee engagement with team building, peer-to-peer accountability and shared governance.Maintained an employee engagement in all departments, and developed assessment tools.Organized CHF education and tool development/management guidelines for process changes, decreasing Geometric Lengths of Stay (GLOS) for Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) patients to 2.2.Created a cardiac rehabilitation process for STEMI and NSTEMI post-cardia catherization patients and PCI patients, developing a poster presentation for the American Nurses Association in 2018 in addition to partnering to write a supplemental article.Served on the System Fall Team to help decrease mortality and increase patient safety.Improved hands-on aptitudes through Donna Wright Competencies best practices.Successfully led the Joint Commission Chest Pain accreditation for the hospital, and served on the Quality Committee.Developed unit structure with the tier leadership team, including the development of a mentorship program for new hires.Maintained full-time employees versus HPPD, length of stay and staffing. Formulated and instructed within a teaching project, developing the algorithm and education tool for the team and managers.

Kingwood, Texas, Us

Delivered outstanding patient care in the 32-bed facility, serving as a charge nurse to determine staffing assignments, interacting with patients on a regular basis, and supporting physician rounds. Provided pre/post-operative patient assessments, documentation and care management, including telemetry, medication administration, infusion and blood product management, wound care and ADLs.Managed the performance and tasks of 10 staff during any given shift within post-surgical areas of the hospital.Escalated patient needs as necessary, and addressed/escalated case management and length of stay issues. Served as the preceptor for new graduates and hires, and as the Studer group employee trainer.

Phoenix, Az, Us

Established and monitored goals for the 64-bed surgical inpatient hospital. Developed a strategic budget and monitored resource allocations for all departments assigned, including nursing, physical therapy, respiratory therapy, and laboratory services.• Screened, hired, trained, evaluated and terminated staff in all 108 positions supervised in addition to establishing bonus structure and merit raises, and implementing performance improvement plans as needed.Created physician protocols and procedure improvements to increase patient satisfaction, worked with administration and the medical director to ensure regulatory compliance, and served as a leader and mentor for department managers in patient safety, quality of care and daily productivity.Planned and executed a pre-operative orthopedic and neurosurgical patient care program, planned new services, participated in cross-departmental decision-making, and conducted performance improvement activities.Increased staff involvement on various committees and professional organizations, and served as the Chief Nursing Officer during absences, leading to the receipt of a Leadership Award.

Phoenix, Az, Us

Successfully developed clinical operations for the opening of a 60-inpatient surgical bed and four ICU-bed Orthopedic and Spine Specialty Hospital. Tracked and escalated compliance, care and quality issues, and provided direct patient care while completing tasks as a charge nurse as dictated by staffing levels. Recognized for building the entire Orthopedic program for the facility.Managed the performance and tasks of 52 licensed, unlicensed and ancillary staff, and facilitated in-services on new training and products to ensure efficiency.Assisted in developing and implementing the Meditech electronic medical record documentation system. Successfully led State and Joint Commission accreditation processes for opening, recruited and retained staff, developed and implemented staffing plans, engaged in budget planning and supply cost assessments, and established clinical practice guidelines in addition to devising policies, procedures and nursing competencies.Assisted floor nurses in making care decisions and applying exceptional clinical judgement.

Mesa, Az, Us

Played a key role in the development and processes/procedures of the new organization and specialty care units. Managed daily assignments, work oversight, staff scheduling, payroll and performance evaluations for six RNs, four patient care assistants, and one unit secretary while serving as the charge nurse for two units with 36 beds each.Assisted in building the Ortho and Neuro programs while actively delivering patient care and identifying educational needs of staff, collaborating between patients and the healthcare team to coordinate care protocols.Investigated and followed up on patient concerns and quality issues, and delivered skills instruction to staff.Engaged in patient assessments, interventions, discharge planning and disposition.

Scottsdale, Az, Us

General Studies, Health Sciences

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Nursing

Associate Of Science - As, Nursing

Bachelor'S Degree, Registered Nursing/Registered Nurse