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San Antonio, Texas Area

San Antonio, Texas Area

Facilitate National/Hospital initiatives through project design optimization and organization. Conduct new provider onboarding orientations, personalized trainings and provide physician support for Electronic Health Record (EHR) utilization as well as other medical applications. Oversee and lead projects to improve patient care and safety for Obstetrics, Nursery, Gynecology and Gynecology-Oncology specialties and assists with projects for Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Collaborate with IT and Clinical Informatics to streamline the provider proficiency of electronic ordering and documentation. Perform gap analysis to identify areas of improvement. Spool reports related provider EHR utilization, documentation deficiencies, analyze, and provide education as necessary. Increased the CPOE utilization in Physicians through personalized trainings and elbow support. Provides support for physicians, residents and advanced practice nurses. Effectively collaborate with multidisciplinary teams focusing on patient safety. Analyze statistics of providers to identify areas in need of improvement and better assist in order entry utilization. Create educational material for the changes in Meditech incorporating evidence-based practices. Develop presentations to educate providers on alternate methods to workflow within EHR system, changes and initiatives being implemented nationally. Track and analyze trends in meaningful use compliance. Involvement in Methodist Health System Change Control Board, Methodist Children’s Hospital Facility Change Control Board, OB Clinical Excellence Committee, OB/GYN Clinical Service Line Meeting, Perinatal Committee, Post-Partum Hemorrhage Committee, Employee Advisory Group, HIMSS Member attending monthly HIMSS Functions and Lead Analyst for the implementation of Centricity Perinatal for documentation in Mother-Baby and Nursery. Proficient with Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Publisher for effective presentations, communication and education.

San Antonio, Texas

Post-Partum Unit and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at North Central Baptist and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at St Luke's Baptist Hospital. Care and management of the Level 2 and 3 infants in a neonatal intensive care environment. Education and support to parents. Collaboration of care with other specialty departments such as speech, physical therapy, developmental practitioners and radiology. Attend deliveries as requested to assess infants and determine need for admission to NICU. Care and monitoring of Ante-Partum, GYN medical-surgical, Post-partum and nursery patients. Educate new parents on care and safety of newborn. Assess and coordinate discharge planning needs and readiness. Assign/delegate patient care appropriately based on staffing needs and competencies as a charge nurse. Educate and assist breastfeeding mothers with breastfeeding in absence of Lactation Consultant.

Brooke Army Mc, Dewitt Army Community Hosp, Landstuhl Regional Mc

Conduct quality assurance reviews, evaluating medical record documentation, and identifying unrecorded diagnoses, inadequate coding, over or under use of services or resources, inadequate documentation, and other procedural problems. Conducted and led meetings to discuss audit results and education points for providers and coding personnel of over 35 military hospitals world-wide. Review medical record documentation to ensure completeness on the selection of principle and secondary diagnoses and procedures, on the assignment of ICD-9-CM and or CPT-4 and HCPCS. Extensive knowledge of procedural guides & hospital accreditation reference.

San Antonio, Texas Area

Performed specific medical technician and clerical duties i.e. test preparations, specimen collection and blood drawn for laboratory to comply with the physician's orders. Monitored non-stress testing, blood pressure reading from expectant mothers. Assisted physicians with exams & procedures to include but not limited to ultrasounds, Endometrial Biopsies, Endocervical Curettage, transferring blood supplies to and from L&D, OR and Neonatal Intensive Care Units. Entered patients’ data into Centralized Computer System (Firstnet) and the patient charting system (Emtek).

Yokota Ab, Japan And Andrews Afb, Md

Assisted Medical Clinical duties i.e. test preparation, specimen collection, blood drawn for laboratory to comply with the physicians orders, monitored medical treatment such as medical inhalation, fluid intake (IV infusion), Electrocardiogram tracing, simple suturing and suture removal, fundal massage, applying and monitoring non-stress tests, Neonatal Resuscitation, monitoring of newborn infants. Assisted with gynecological exams as well as other general medical procedures. Clerical duties in support of clinics and departments in a hospital (e.g. OB/GYN, Labor and Delivery including Nursery and Post-Partum Unit, Adult Medicine, Family Practice, Internal Medicine and Pediatrics).

Master Of Science - Ms, Nursing In Care Coordination

Activities and Societies: Sigma Theta Tau Honor Society, graduated Cumma Sum Laude

Associates Degree In Nursing, Registered Nursing/Registered Nurse

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer And Information Systems Security/Information Assurance

Master'S Degree, Informatics