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Supports healthcare organizations as they strive to improve performance and overcome obstacles to providing safe, quality driven patient care.

Engages health care organization staff in interactive dialogues on standards-based issues in health care in order to assess compliance and to identify opportunities for improving compliance. Prepares management reports that clearly link individual standards deficiencies with potential systems vulnerabilities and related organization risk points. Effectively communicates this information to health care organization leadership in a constructive, educational, and professional manner.

Chief Quality Officer accountable for the Quality program that includes oversight of accreditation site visits to maintain compliance with TJC, DHEC, CMS, and other accrediting bodies. Oversight all data abstraction initiatives to meet core measure and meaningful use requirements. Implemented performance improvement monitoring throughout the organization including monitoring for hospital acquired conditions, procedures requiring the use of moderate sedation, surgical appropriateness and surgical complications, resuscitation events, and restraint usage. Oversight of the risk management, patient advocate, patient safety, and infection prevention program. Responsible for ensuring that all credentialing and privileging standards are met. Implemented the first OPPE (ongoing performance improvement evaluation) and FPPE (focused performance improvement evaluation) to ensure physician based competency. Chair of the Quality Improvement Council. Co-chair for physician satisfaction and patient satisfaction teams.

responsible for the daily management and/or oversight of Risk Management activities including day-to-day coordination and implementation of Occurrence Screen processes, case management of Peer Reviews, processes relating to Tort Claims, processes relating to State Licensure and National Practitioner Data Bank reporting, formal Fact Findings, and Patient Safety, Credentialing and Privileging, and Administrative Boards of Investigation. Reviews all risk management issues that relate to the facility, maintains necessary records, and ensures that issues are handled in an appropriate, accurate, and timely manner to include Institutional Disclosure. Serves as a liaison to District Counsel for technical-legal clinical and administrative issues, facilitator/consultant for Root Cause Analysis (RCA) teams, facilitator/consultant for process improvement teams, and consultant for policies and procedures involving risk management related issues. Provides direct staff support to service chiefs, and others in planning, designing, integrating, implementing, modifying, and evaluating the effectiveness of program components and/or services to improve the quality of patient care and the appropriateness and timeliness of services provided. Responsible for trending, tracking, and reporting Moderate Sedation, Code Five and Code White data that is reported monthly to the ICU committee and quarterly to the Medical Executive Board. Functions in the role of the Chief of Quality Management when assigned in her absence.

responsible for preparing the organization for accreditation by surveying bodies such as the Joint Commission and the Office of the Inspector General. Organizes weekly tracers to keep the organization in constant survey readiness. Collects and analyzes data on pertinent topics such as moderate sedation and restraint use to improve outcome at the program and service level. Reports monthly to the Non-OR Invasive Procedure Committee. Works closely with Patient Safety to promote National Patient Safety Goals. Accountable for the provision of education, consultation, and communication to the medical center management and staff. Provides leadership in the application of the nursing process to patient care and organizational processes. Guides staff in the application of critical thinking and process improvement. Provides leadership in identifying and addressing ethical issues that impact patients and staff. Demonstrates knowledge and ability to apply principles of evidence-based practice. Reviews and updates medical center memorandums to include best-practice initiatives. Participates in the Professional Practice Council to ensure that standard operating policies are current and follow VHA directive. Serves as Publications Officer.

Duties include circulating, facilitating the flow of the catheterization lab, facilitating the flow of the holding room, monitoring, and scrubbing. Responsible for updating policy and procedure manual. Responsible for performance improvement processes. Orients new employees. Super user for MacLab. Responsible for knowledge of devices, coronary, and peripheral cases. Performs pre- and post-procedure assessments. Educates clients and their families pre- and post-procedure. Precepts new employees and student nurses. Administers moderate sedation and other prescribed medications to assigned clients accurately. Knowledge of equipment (i.e., balloon pump, angiojet, rotoblator, and laser). Floats to radiology and specials to circulate and recover patients as needed. Coordinate education for orientation and annual training for: catheterization lab, electrophysiology lab, cardiac rehabilitation, and cardiovascular ultrasound unit.

responsible for educational program development for the Baptist and Richland campuses. Working closely with the leaders and educators of Palmetto Health to develop the ongoing education material utilized during the fiscal year. Ensures that regulatory information required by Joint Commission is met. Participates in accreditation tracers. Leads conferences to present information to leaders and staff. Chair of the Information and Technology Work group. Actively participates in policy and procedure committee. Leads weekly meetings to ensure consistency in a team of 50 nurse educators. Conducts leadership forums to prepare for training opportunities. Developed electronic care plan and intranet tool kits. Functions in the role of the Director of Nursing Education/Research when assigned in her absence.

through the DEU program at Providence. Responsible for teaching 2 nursing students a semester while maintaining a fullpatient load of 5-6 patients, on a telemetry unit. This unit is primarily South Carolina Heart Center’s post procedure unit.

of the Family Care Unit and Intensive Care Unit. Duties include overseeing the daily operations ofa 48 bed unit with approximately 65 staffmembers, maintaining staffing needs, providing education and support for all staff, support and assist the nurse manager,ensuring quality of care and patient satisfaction. Charge Nurse in an interventional catheterization lab. Duties include circulating, facilitating the flow of the catheterization lab, facilitating the flow of the holding room, monitoring, and scrubbing. Responsible for knowledge of coronary and peripheral cases. Performs pre- and post-procedure assessments. Educates clients and their families pre- and post-procedure. Precepts new employees and student nurses. Administers moderate sedation and other prescribed medications to assigned clients accurately. Knowledge of equipment (i.e., balloon pump, angiojet, rotoblator, and laser). Super user for MacLab. Charge Nurse in the Medical Coronary Care Unit and Emergency Department. Responsible for the care of critical patients. Floats to ICU, IICU, and IIMCU. Duties include performing assessments, administering medications accurately, managing ventilator and balloon pump patients, and working closely with physicians and ancillary staff. Super user for Meditech.

for the EKG course. Responsible for teaching BasicDysrhythmia and 12 Lead EKG interpretation to students in the Classroom setting and coordinating their clinical rotations.

Scheduled outpatient surgical procedures by determining the time the case can be posted, room assignment, and type of anesthesia. Noted special equipment, supply requests, instrumentation needs and communicated this to the OR supervisor. Coordinated with pathologist if necessary for frozen section. Scheduled pre-operative visits per physicians’ orders. Maintained block times for physicians. Communicated with Administrator, OR supervisor, and Medical Director for efficiency of staffing rooms and anesthesia coverage. Prepared OR schedule daily for staff.

Proficient in outpatient ICD-9 and CPT coding. Obtained thirty or more education hours annually, consistently maintained high coding accuracy rating in annual audit of Medicare patients (98%). Followed up on operative reports, pathology, and culture reports. Queried physicians and documented discrepancies and outcomes in medical records. Trained new coders for Evans Surgical Center. Conducted audits on coders to determine their accuracy rate.

Managed medical record assistants and provided guidance by holding monthly staff meetings. Suspended physicians for failure to comply with policy and procedure for completion of medical records in a timely manner. Analyzed records for accuracy and completion. Handled requests for medical record release and insured that release was properly executed. Provided business office coverage. Maintained communication between outside transcription and facility. Oversaw completion of transcription in accordance to policy and procedure.

Doctorate Of Nursing Practice, Nursing Administration, 4.0

Thesis Topic: Performance Improvement Data and Staff Responsibility Historically, nurses are concerned with the quality of care that is.

Masters Of Science, Nursing Education, 4.0

Bachelor Of Science, Nursing

General Studies