• Responsible for the day-to-day operations• Maintains full responsibility over cost controls, adheres to financial and accounting policies and procedures and manages expenditures in a fiscally responsible manner• Manage clinical, administrative, clerical staff, and marketing personnel• Regularly visit contracted facilities to maintain good working relationships with administrators and staff of contracted facilities• Oversee the development, implementation, and maintenance of an effective, ongoing hospice-wide data-driven quality assessment and performance improvement program that meets TJC deemed status requirements

• Coordinated all patient transfers to a new level of care. This included orientation and ongoing education of facility staff providing care to patients• Supervised the care and services provided by all disciplines• Assisted with continuous quality improvement activities• Assessed and implemented a pain/symptom management program formulated with the participation of family and patient, attending physician and the interdisciplinary group, utilizing pharmacological and non-pharmacological methods of pain/symptom control to enhance quality of life

• Cared for patients with congestive heart failure, patients experiencing a heart attack, stroke, arrhythmias, and electrolyte imbalances• Became certified in stroke assessment and care of the stroke patient• Provided patient education for new diabetics, patients in congestive heart failure, and post stroke• Member of the vascular access team, providing education to other staff on accessing a port and central line care

• Areas of experience included general surgery, medical oncology, ambulatory care, neurology, orthopedics, and telemetry

• Cared for patients after elective and traumatic orthopedic surgeries• Responsibilities included charge duties and participation in post op pain control research projects

• Assessment of all patients, drain care, pain control, and monitoring of lab values• Served on a joint committee of pharmacists and nurses to improve medication order accuracy