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Gig Harbor, Wa, Us

Pacific Northwest

Helping to make any member's dream of parenthood come true through a healthy, timely, and supported fertility and family-building journey.

Greater Chicago Area

Direct management of 30+ nurses, medical assistants, and ultrasound sonographers for a well-respected and leading fertility center that performs 1300 egg retrievals a year, 800 embryo transfers, 1500 IUIs (intrauterine inseminations), and minor surgical procedures. - Creates and oversees the clinical staffing and procedure room schedules, weekend coverage, PTO requests, schedule shifts, and time card sign off in Kronos - Staffs and supervises 30 weekly clinic sessions with team of nine MDs, 17 nurses, six sonographers, and six medical assistants. - Leads staff meetings with nurses, medical assistants, and sonographers every two weeks. - Problem solves nursing-related patient care issues. - Acquires and on-boards new talent for the FRM team. - Supports roll-out and transition to Epic update. - Develops IVF flowsheets with cross disciplinary team to transition from paper charting to EMR. - Guides team and center to become a Nursing Center of Excellence through ASRM (American Society of Reproductive Medicine). Team met requirements and was officially recognized in October 2018.

Chicago, Illinois

Responsible for managing the clinical staff along with developing and implementing improvements in patient-care models. The coordinator oversees various clinical functions that impact patient care, patient flow and patient satisfaction and has an active role in providing direct patient care and patient education. The role is key in achieving the Division's vision of growing a multi-region service line that is focused on the advancement of high quality reproductive medicine in a patient-centric manner. - Managed day-to-day operations of fertility clinic staff by working closely with practice and physician leadership to ensure smooth and efficient operations in the practice in an environment that is both challenging and rewarding. - Developed office-based procedures, rolled-out to maintain solid understanding of all relevant policies, procedures, and regulatory requirements to ensure compliance. - Integrated nurse clinicians functioning in various areas of fertility nursing into three interdisciplinary teams to provide superior patient care. - Provides and facilitates staff education related to clinical care and quality issues. - Addresses clinical patient concerns and consistently models the organization’s philosophy of customer service.

Chicago, Illinois

Primary clinic nurse for MD in team approach care model and oversaw the clinical support provided to MDs by the clinic nurses - Functioned as key resource for front office staff, nurses, and phone room. - Prepared weekend schedule for clinic coverage. - Assisted various patient care activities and performs related administrative functions to provide optimal service to patients. - Preceptor to new nursing hires to clinic.

Chicago, Illinois

- Met individually with clinic patients and interpreted ultrasound results for clomid/letrozole starts, injectable med starts, and decides when to administer HCG for IUIs - Performed intrauterine inseminations, provided education administration of injectable infertility medications, working with physicians providing patient care, ordered lab work and related tests, calculated and administered methotrexate, IVF coordination, MyChart messages and phone call triage, participated in data collection for research projects - Worked closely with medical students, residents, fellows and related departments

Greater Chicago Area

Supported ovulation induction patients and IVF infertility patients with physician, phone triage, venipuncture, teaches IVF medication administration along with center protocols for cycle evaluations, performs IUIs, assists with hysterosonograms, oocyte retrievals, IV sedation, and embryo transfers

Greater Los Angeles Area

Responsible for patient histories, telephone triage, assists in office surgical procedures, teaches childbirth and breastfeeding classes, provides pre- and postoperative instructions for surgical patients, laboratory follow-up, venipuncture, and non-stress testing for obstetrical patients.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Perioperative nurse in general, gynecologic, and laparoscopic surgical cases.

Greater Chicago Area

Charge nurse for obstetric and gynecologic patients in Prentice Ambulatory Care Clinic. Initial year as staff nurses on a Medical-Surgical Unit.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Liberal Arts And Sciences, Psychology

Bachelor Of Science In Nursing