Job responsibilities include the following:• Provided a significant revision for Front Line of Defense: The Role of Nurses in Preventing Sentinel Events, 3rd edition, which published January 2019• Serve on the editorial board and write articles for The Source, a monthly newsletter published by Joint Commission Resources which provides guidance on Joint Commission standards as well as strategies to improve patient safety as it relates to medication safety, infection control, health literacy, new technologies, wrong-site surgeries, pressure ulcers, falls, hand-off communication, and more.• Update articles for Relias/Oncourse Learning Healthcare• Write and edit various projects for Joint Commission Resources (such as The Medication Reconciliation Handbook, 2nd edition, a pressure ulcer monograph, infographics on pain management and single use vials, and lessons including PowerPoint slides on advance directives, high reliability, and interdisciplinary care).• Wrote the draft manuscript for Joint Commission Resources' book, High Reliability Field Guide• Wrote 8 online CEU courses for Medline University to help nurses prevent catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs)• Wrote articles for Nursing Spectrum to create awareness about the various jobs nurses can perform, such as nurses who perform outreach for homeless veterans or care for addicted patients.

Providing safe, high-quality, efficient, flexible, convenient health care to employees in on-site clinics within a business setting.

Provide guidance to seven nurse practitioner students in the Women's Health course, reviewing their weekly journals, SOAP notes, as well as mid-term and final self evaluations and discussing their progress with their preceptors

Job responsibilities include the following:• Provide evidence-based, compassionate, and safe care as a family nurse practitioner to the students attending Elmhurst University in collaboration with an overseeing physician from the local community, treating sexually transmitted infections (STIs), upper and lower respiratory infections, strep throat, sinus infections, various skin infections as well as musculoskeletal injuries, wounds, burns, and so on• Provide women’s health care, including pap smears, evaluation of vaginal infections, and prescriptions for and administration of various forms of birth control• Serve on the COVID-19 taskforce advising and educating the student, faculty, and staff on appropriate COVID-19 protocols as directed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Illinois Board of Higher Education • Serve as a consultant to faculty and staff on health issues affecting student success

Job responsibilities included providing assistance and guidance to nurses within the entire hospital, attending and leading medical emergency team calls, assisting with code blues, and expediting the emergent treatment of patients showing symptoms of an ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke.

Job responsibilities included the following:• Apply the nursing process and critical thinking skills to provide evidence-based, high-quality care to critically ill patients • Serve as a team leader, change champion, and stroke level II responder • Designated a Clinical Resource Nurse (CRN) by NCH’s Center for Clinical Affairs• Attend unit-based meetings to improve patient care, including the Critical Care Quality Improvement and Practice Guidelines meetings• Lead initiatives to improve quality, such as reducing central line infections, promoting intra-abdominal pressure monitoring, and encouraging early mobilization and increasing the of use continuous lateral rotation therapy for ventilated patients

Provide standardized, compassionate, and safe care to the students of North Park University by partnering with Swedish Covenant Medical Group and following nurse-driven protocols. Serve as a consultant to faculty and staff on issues affecting the student population. Served on the leadership team to reopen the campus amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.

Job responsibilities included the following:• Assign new patients to rooms and designate appropriate staffing on each unit• Address and rectify patient, family, nurse, and physician concerns and complaints

Job responsibilities included the following:• Developed, wrote, edited, and approved articles in Perspectives on Patient Safety.• Created proposals for new books (such as Patients as Partners, Improving Handoff Communication, and The Nurse’s Role in Medication Safety) and followed through with the revision and production process.• Assisted in the research for You: The Smart Patient, written by Michael F. Roizen, M.D., Mehmet C. Oz, M.D., and the Joint Commission. This book is aimed at teaching patients how to navigate through the health care system and speak up about their concerns.