Seasoned DNP executive with 40 years nursing experience and 28+ years in strong leadership/quality roles. Strengths include serving as a liaison between the bedside nurse and boardroom executive. Highly effective with operational start-ups, team building, and programmatic implementation. Additional interests include: research, enterprise risk management, patient safety integration, and regulatory compliance. Candace Eden's work experience is impressive, having worked in various healthcare organizations with increasing responsibilities, which shows her capabilities to handle critical situations. Her current experience as a consultant with Joint Commission Resources (JCR) has provided her with the expertise to conduct mock surveys for healthcare facilities and improve their processes. Her previous role as Corporate Director, Patient Safety at Orlando Health, FL, has given her the opportunity to provide support to multiple facilities within the organization, oversee system patient safety initiatives, and lead the clinical task force initiatives successfully. She also received the Patient Safety Collaboration award in Florida. At Northside Hospital, The Tampa Bay Heart Institute, Candace served as the Vice President of Quality and Patient Safety, where she provided oversight for all quality and patient safety programs, including Stroke, Sepsis, Core Measures, Infection Prevention, OPPE, Peer Review, and Risk Management/Patient Safety. Candace is a certified change management practitioner and has expertise in education and mentoring, research, enterprise risk management, patient safety integration, infection prevention, and regulatory compliance.
Listed skills include Healthcare, Hospitals, Clinical Research, Process Improvement, and 20 others.