• Developed patient safety dashboard indicators in conjunction with the medical and nursing staff and hospital leadership as a mechanism for tracking adherence to agreed-upon patient safety goals• Provides leadership in patient safety committees with responsibility for communicating vertically and horizontally to all constituents within RUMC • Ensured that clinical services are provided in accordance with safety standards established by federal and state regulatory agencies including… Show more • Developed patient safety dashboard indicators in conjunction with the medical and nursing staff and hospital leadership as a mechanism for tracking adherence to agreed-upon patient safety goals• Provides leadership in patient safety committees with responsibility for communicating vertically and horizontally to all constituents within RUMC • Ensured that clinical services are provided in accordance with safety standards established by federal and state regulatory agencies including the National Patient Safety Goals• Fostered and maintained collaborative relationships within RUMC and with external agencies, purchasers, and stakeholders related to patient safety• Collaborated with the RUMC Patient Safety Officers and departmental quality and safety committees to implement system-wide patient safety measures Show less

• Facilitate leadership training sessions on Just Culture and safety science topics• Educate new nursing staff on organizational safety initiatives• Developed Patient Safety Champion leadership training program• Conduct root cause analyses and failure mode and effects analyses• Collaborate with operational leadership on process improvement efforts

• Facilitated enterprise-wide classes on error prevention and high reliability concepts• Reviewed and classified voluntarily reported safety events and trigger tools • Led weekly multidisciplinary review committee meetings to triage safety events • Served as a resource for quality and patient safety improvement initiatives• Conducted apparent- and root-cause analyses in collaboration with department leaders• Co-chaired 2017 Patient Safety Awareness Week planning group

-Provided care to special needs pediatric population with complex medical conditions-Managed complex workload of up to 7 children with varying acuity levels-Identified achievement of developmental milestones in children

-Monitored ICU plans-of-care in daily interdisciplinary patient care rounds-Developed an education-based quality improvement project related to unplanned extubation-Facilitated nursing team investigation to address alarm management issues

-Utilized nursing process and critical thinking to provide safe care to patients with a variety of diagnoses-Developed a proficiency in interpretation and treatment of cardiac arrhythmias-Collaborated with physicians, mid-level providers, nurses and ancillary staff-Managed complex patient work loads-Documented cares and health information accurately in EHR software

-Collected data for a multidisciplinary study investigating parental/child attitudes and behaviors regarding nutrition and exercise-Instructed study participants, in person and via email, on the use of an on-line interface used for education and logging activities-Established rapport with participants to promote long-term participation