- Circulating and scrub nurse, specializing in open heart, vascular and thoracic service line.- Provides skilled nursing care for the whole patient during surgery, with regards to the national standard of care.- Skilled in providing pre-operative patient education and counseling regarding procedure.- Performs ongoing patient assessments during intra­operative period, updating and implementing care plan as necessary.- Serves as clinical preceptor for new staff, training nurses to scrub and circulate cardiovascular, thoracic and vascular service line.- Communicates with interdisciplinary team members and family with regards to patient condition and patients needs.

Nurse Clinician II, Operating Room - November 2013 - February 2016Nurse Clinician I, Operating Room December 2011 - November 2013- Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center is a Level I trauma center, with an 18 room operating room serving the Chicago, IL community- Served as circulating and scrub nurse specializing in Adult Open Heart, Cardiothoracic, Vascular and General Oncology surgeries- Cross trained in Trauma, Gyne, Ortho, Podiatry, Plastics and Cysto- Acted as preceptor for new nursing and surgical tech staff as well as service resource for open heart and general surgery services- Integral part of the development and facilitation of brand new 6 bed surgical center- Collaborated with various departments and construction teams regarding necessary room layout and supply needs- Coordinated with patient access and prep & recovery staff to streamline patient flow through new surgical center- Developed scripting and schedule for staff training for new surgical center- Unit Council Chair April 2013 ­ January 2016

- Utilize the nursing process as a framework for evidence-based nursing practice in the admission, assessment, treatment and evaluation of a variety of post-surgical, orthopedic and medical patients on a 32 bed unit. - Collaborate closely with multi-disciplinary health care team regarding the management and implementation of patients' care plan.- Organize and prioritize appropriately in order to care for all patient needs.- Maintain safe practice standards for patients, families and staff per hospital policies.- Provide discharge instruction and education to patients, families and health care facilities.

- Solely responsible for all product decisions for multi-million dollar custom apparel website including: product selection, pricing, promotions and site display, quality standards testing- Directed and coached multi-person customer service team in product and related concerns.- Coordinated with marketing to communicate product to customers. - Developed and maintained distributor and manufacturer relationships.

- Supported Program Manager in launching, auditing and troubleshooting online search campaigns.- Analyzed campaign performance and managed campaign budget.- Assisted in creating, uploading and maintaining online ad copy and keyword accounts, created customized keyword lists and wrote appropriate ad copy.

- Integral partner in growing Active business from $32M business in 2005 to $44M business in 2006.- Translated trend inspiration into saleable product line, with regard to customer profile, including the development and execution of product, development packages and product details.- Collaborated with buying team to develop strategic business plan.- Presented concepts to product development, merchandising and executive teams.