A nurse executive focused on providing strategic guidance to hospital executives as they marry technology with their organizational imperatives to produce more efficient workflows for their clinicians and better outcomes for their patients. Analyze data to understand time spent in the electronic medical record (EMR) and real time charting to drive greater efficiencies at the bedside. Responsible for clinical relationship management for a group of clients on the east coast

Responsible for strategic road mapping of clients centered around regulatory, meaningful use, ICD-10, value based purchasing, thirty day readmission requirements and the organizations strategic imperatives. Responsible for long term relationship management with clients in the southeast.Establishing baseline metrics and project goals in conjunction with executive leadership. Identifying project risks and developing mitigation strategies. Identifying key internal process issues and bringing resolution in a multidisciplinary collaborative environment.

•Responsible for developing and driving successful clinical engagements through the application of Cerner's methodology. •Engage client organization leadership to articulate vision, demonstrate benefits and localize change management strategies on their journey to automate clinical practice and business operations.•Conduct outcomes assessments and communicate key findings, conclusions and recommendations to the executive and project leadership as well as assess organizational opportunities to improve quality of care and patient safety.•Winner of the Atlantic East Innovation award 2010•Winner of the Adoption Project Team of the Year award for work performed at the BayCare Healthcare System in Tampa, Florida 2010.•Consulting ACE Award February 2012•Winner of a Daisy Award May 2012

•Fully automated and centralized the patient placement process for two of the five hospitals in the Moses Cone Healthcare System, Greensboro NC. Led a multidisciplinary team in the research and selection of a bed management software solution. Developed the RFI, ROI and assisted in contract negotiations. Project managed the flow process redesign and build of the system using weekly collaborative meetings with the multidisciplinary team, information services department and the vendor. Accountable for the time line and implementation of the software including the training of all end users. Led a successful adoption of the redesign processes and software using a unit level reporting system designed to build in end user accountability. This resulted in a 50% increase in compliance with bed turns. Decreased wait times for step down beds by 50%.•Led multiple levels of clinicians in researching and developing a Rapid Response Team program system wide. Responsible for selection of team members, financial aspects, implementation, management and adoption of the program that resulted in a 46% decrease in code blue events occurring outside of the ICU over a two year period on the Moses Cone main campus.•Past member of the Institute for Healthcare Improvements Flow Community. •Responsible for supervision of decentralized staffing program and assignment of float pool staff.•Developed a concept and led a multidisciplinary team in redesigning the incentive pay structure throughout the healthcare system by building end user accountability for nursing hours worked.