Vanessa joined Acecco Canada to launch their national healthcare division as an established expert leader in Canadian Healthcare in November of 2023. She brings a wealth of experience and knowledge. She has been working in this industry since the age of 14 as a volunteer. She has experience working as a Personal Support Worker and a Registered nurse giving her a unique perspective on the healthcare system. She graduated from York University in the top 6th percentile of the entire Health Sciences Department while obtaining her BScN with Honors and graduated with a 4.0. She specialized in Peri-operative Nursing and practiced this for many years. She has experience in Long-term care homes, Tele-triaging, Clinical Team Management, and as a Regional Director for a healthcare staffing agency for 5 years. She is adept at change management, restructuring organizations, Accreditation Canada preparation, identifying areas of improvement, strategizing effective solutions, quality improvement plans, project management, and business efficiency. She has many certifications in coaching and development and created a coaching program based on these skills to promote new ways of training and retraining employees to support learning and remove the punitive barriers to allow employees to thrive and grow within a company.Her “outside-the-box ideas” have been beneficial in many ways and have improved the efficiency and quality of work my teams produced as well as increased retention in all areas. Her previous role as a Regional Business Development Manager, allowed het to create true partnerships with all of her clients/vendors/facilities/employees and work with them to ensure their engagements with her are of the utmost quality. She believes that compassion and education is the key to a successful career and leadership. She envisions a holistic caring model that creates patient empowerment, autonomy, and well-being. By supplying high-quality healthcare providers and excellent client service throughout Canada she can continue to put patients first as well as provide effective healthcare staffing solutions in a field that is so important to the health and wellness of all Canadians.
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Small Business OwnerCryosnaxOxford Station, On, Ca
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Head Of Business Development - Canadian Healthcare DivisonAdecco Nov 2023 - PresentToronto, Ontario, Canada
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Member Board Of DirectorsLeeds & Grenville Community Family Health Team Sep 2023 - PresentBrockville, Ontario, Canada -
Regional Business Development ManagerGreenstaff Medical Canada Mar 2023 - Nov 2023CanadaHired to source and create business with hospitals, LTCs, etc, across Canada. Create, edit, and negotiate contracts with Health Authorities/Procurement Departments to deploy medical personnel to their facilities to cover gaps and shortages in the Healthcare industry. Manage my portfolio of contracts by liasing with unit Mangers, Directors, Procument, Finance, Education, Staffing, and various other client departments. I manage my own team of Business Developers, staffing, recruiting, HR, Marketing to ensure shifts are filled with quality staff. Reviewing KPIs, revenue, fill rates, budgets, incidents/complaints with the team to ensure necessary changes are made to keep the quality high and the right staff to meet the clients needs. leasing with different departments for marketing tools, job postings, social media promotion, HR related inquiries, terminations, coaching and development, etc. -
Regional Director Of Client ServicesCarecor Health Services Ltd. Jun 2018 - Feb 2023Ottawa, Ontario, CanadaI ran the entire operations of my branch from startup to where it is now. I created new policies where needed. I created new business by pivoting our needs from acute care to LTC/Screening and created all orientations, skills checklists, training documents, interview guides, postings, and lead the entire LTC /Screening movement across Canada in addition to managing my existing clients and regional branch needs. As a new branch/region. I worked all roles (HRA/Recruiting/Education/Client Management/Marketing/Attendance Manager/Staffing/etc) My team grew to full complement and focused on the operations of my branch from our field staff (250+), office staff, and other support service teams, in addition to all my clients. I created a coaching and development model for corporate implementation and changed the way the company addressed coaching, development, training, and incident and complaint management to better train our staff and ensure our customers were satisfied with the resolutions. I trained all my office and field staff in their roles. I created support roles to assist with workload and efficiency while decreasing administrative burden on the budget. I updated job descriptions, skills checklists, client/corporate orientations.Icreated new business in Western Canada, Toronto, and within my own region. I assisted with Accreditation Canada - received exemplary status. I liased with 100 unit managers ongoing. I managed privacy breaches, legal cases, performance, absenteeism, WSIB, medical/non-medical leaves, hiring and termination, payroll, conducted interviews for various roles in the organization.I analyzed KPIs, revenue reports, set budgets, set bill and pay rates, WSIB reports, fill rates, etc. I assisted with corporate structure, business innovation and growth, client relations, procurement, contract negotiations, among many other duties to ensure the quality and quantity of staff excelled and promoted retention of both clients and field staff. -
Cardiovascular Operating Room NurseThe University Of Ottawa Heart Institute Jun 2015 - Jun 2018Ottawa, Canada AreaCardiac Perioperative RN - Scrubbing/Circulating for various cardiac surgeries. assisting the surgeon with instrumentation, sutures, grafts, cryo valves and tissue, organ harvesting for cardiac deaths, assisting with bypass, retraction, cauterization under surgeon direction, assisting with chest and leg openings, assisted with placing a patient on bypass if it was an emergency and no additional surgeon was available at that time. Heart Transplants, Aortic Dissections, CABG, Valves repair/replacements, Comando procedures, LVAD, Aortic balloon pumps, cardiac tamponade, drownings, hypothermia, TVARs, etc. Assisting with training new staff. performing assessments on patients, surgical checklist, maintaining aesptic technique, catherizations, surgical prep/positioning, ensure all required equipment is in the room and ready to open if called for. Assisting anaesthsia with intubation, swan ganz insertion, arterial line insertion, IV insertions. Reviewing lab results for anything that may hinder surgery that day. ensuring the patient has informed consent and conduct patient/family teaching. Documenting all equipment and single use items throughout the surgery for inventory. Documentaion/charting on the surgery itself, surgical counts, pathology requisitions, donor/organ harvesting documentation, patient death documentation, etc. Charge nurse on evenings and on call shifts. Team leader on day shift when the team leader was away. managing room assignments, breaks, creating case carts for the following surgeries that day or the next morning. managed canceling cases or adding cases with the Nursing Coordinator of the facility. manage emergency surgeries, finding staff to come in if the call team was already in use. -
Perioperative RnThe Ottawa Hospital Nov 2012 - Jun 2015Ottawa, Canada Areapeeioperative nurse - all services. mostly worked in Neuro/General Surgery. -
Clinical Team ManagerSykes Assistance Services Corporation Mar 2011 - Jul 2014Ottawa, Canada Areaas a clinical team manager, I had a team of 20-40 nurses that I managed for Tele-Health. I ensured quality of their calls and assessed their skills monthly. training of new staff, preceptorship, metrics analysis and monthly performance improvement plans to ensure each employee met or was below the company metrics. Monitored and coached for critical incidents. listened to various calls each nurse conducted each month for quality checks and coaching and development. I managed 3 branches for one week each month (Sudbury/North Bay/Ottawa). I ensured all staff were working, any difficult calls they had and needed assistance or help with came directly to me in real time to solve and assist. Ensuring staff were following the queue and all critical calls were taken first. Assist nurses with suicide calls and connect with local police in their area to assist. employee life cycle management, assess learning gaps and work with other departments to assist with education, training, etc. Managed and implemented the office FISH Committee and Employee Equity Committee. implemented company policies and procedures. -
Perioperative RnSt. Michael'S Hospital Mar 2007 - Nov 2010Toronto, Canada Areanew graduate from Nursing and began working in the operating room. I started with Cardiac/Vascular, then Urology/Cysto, and lastly ENT/Ophthalmology. Covered for the team leader in her absence. Trained colleagues in my class during our perioperative certificate course to ensure all colleagues passed the course. Trained/precepted new hires and seasoned nurses changing services. -
Personal Support Worker & Registered NurseMackenzie Place Ltc Apr 2004 - Jan 2009Newmarket, OntarioI was a night shift personal support worker while attending university for my BScN. managed and car3d for 50 patients per night. Provided personal care, feeding, toilet ingredients, ambulatory, lifts, transfers, repositioning, end of life care, cleaning wheel chairs, security and room checks hourly, documentation in patient care plans, assisted nurses with MARS/TARS checks monthly for changes from the previous month, medication checks, restocking, wound care, skin breakdown prevention, vac-dressings, G-feeds, catheterization, etc.once I graduated, I transfered to a casual RN on nights while quaking at Saint Michael's Hospital. I did MARS/TARS reviews, medication administration, feeding, GTubes/feeding, insulin checks and injections, managing narcotics, building secimurity checks, managed a team of PSWs each shift, managed flow of the shift and ensuring the PSWs were performing their roles correctly. dressing changes, catheters, health assessments, medication restocking, inventory, documentation in patient care charts, hospice/end of life care, etc.
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Vanessa Patterson Education Details
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Regina Mundi CollegeCatholic Hisgh School
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Vanessa Patterson works for Cryosnax
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Vanessa Patterson's current role is Small Business Owner.
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Vanessa Patterson attended York University, Centennial College, Georgian College, Sacred Heart Chs, Regina Mundi College, 3m.
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