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California, United States

Stanford, California, United States

Lead and managed our department with three direct reports. Lead and managed numerous projects and process improvements within our department, BMT-CT program, National Marrow Donor Program, including ASTCT.Created SOPS, guides, processes for standard of care, clinical trials, and commercialized products for operational use within our department to manage donor search and procurement with associated treatment plans.Developed training, onboarding and educational material for new hires and continued education and training within our department.Instituted best practices, improved efficiencies, and effective communication with internal and external multidisciplinary teams managing donor search and procurement.Applied evidenced-based research in donor selection management. Continued leadership training.Lead Donor Selection Committee

Stanford, California, United States

Identified HLA matched donors and coordinate unrelated and related allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplants (HSCT), including umbilical cord blood transplantation.Collaborate with National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP), apheresis, donor center and collection centers to obtain HSC products.Collaborate with multidisciplinary departments to urgently coordinate treatment plan for BMT.Highly skilled working in fast paced, high patient volume in blood and marrow transplant program.Increased use of umbilical cord blood unit transplantation, complex clinical trials, requiring comprehensive, manual and thorough donor review. Including randomization and planning for double cord transplants, expansion UCBs, standard of care vs study.Comprehensive understanding of unidirectional mismatched donors.Creating consistent standards and donor selection based on protocol and graft source.Developed a donor selection committee to provide preliminary search prognosis and comprehensive HLA and UCB Consultation, including compatibility of graft against donor specific antibodies, providing alternative donor options for difficult search results.Developed and implemented numerous process improvement projects for URD-BMT Program to identify a donor urgently, created efficiencies, streamlined communication within departments, contributed to the successful growth of BMT program by increasing identification and procurement of unrelated allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplants.Comprehensive knowledge with high-risk hematologic malignancies.Educated clinical and non-clinical staff on best practice.Collaborated with interdisciplinary departments to increase efficiency and efficacy within the BMT program.Responsible for new hire training.

Stanford, California, United States

Assisted with various responsibilities for the unrelated donor program within the blood and marrow transplant program. Collaborate with the National Marrow Donor Program, BMT physicians, nurse coordinators, HLA labs, Cellular therapy lab, research study coordinators, inpatient and outpatient units.Assisting in active donor searches, workups and transplant processes. Accurately reported and charted patient’s and donor’s HLA typing. Responsible for NMDP URD search billing and search assistance fund reimbursement requests. Creating standard operating processes for the unrelated donor program. Overhauled and developed electronic reporting for the URD/NMDP billing process within our EMR to eliminate paper and reduce errors. Actively involved and responsible for creating A3’s for our department; as well as facilitating recipient and donor correspondences and meeting events.

Stanford, California, United States

Worked directly under the supervision of nursing and management staff, in the Blood and Marrow Transplant Unit. Provided excellent care in a high acuity setting for BMT patients, accurately charted and reported critical changes in patient care. Managed the floor and flow of the unit, organized admissions, discharges, transfers, MD orders and consents for BMT protocols, studies and procedures. Provided a high level of CI CARE to all patients, family members, physicians and staff. Helped organized patient events for holidays and special occasions.Safe patient handling committee.Member of the Kaizen Nursing Communication workshop for E1 BMT inpatient unit.

Aurora, Colorado, United States

Duties included working directly under the supervision of nursing staff, in the Pulmonary Thoracic surgery/Lung Transplant/Med surge unit as a CNA, unit secretary and trainer for new staff. While providing exceptional service and care for CT surgical, Stroke, Cards, Lung Transplant and Cystic Fibrosis patients. PSC, answering phones, faxing, billing, ordering supplies, delegating tasks on the floor. Handled all admissions and discharges, assisting physicians, surgeons and working directly with the charge nurse.

Aurora, Colorado, United States

Duties included working directly under the supervision of nursing staff, in the rehabilitation department. Providing high quality care for patients including activities of daily living, maintaining patient’s safety and privacy, obtaining vital signs, and providing various care in sub-acute unit.