Staff RN ~ Charge Nurse ~ Manager

  Registered Nurse, Florida RN9176948; BLS Certified

  Offer decades of experience in broad nursing specialties across diverse clinical/healthcare environments; extensive leadership background as Case Manager, Charge RN and member of multiple committees and councils along with quality improvement (QI) and performance enhancement teams/initiatives

  RN-MSN in progress and on track for 2017 completion; Capstone pending

  Proficient in providing comprehensive patient nursing from admission through discharge and including assessment, care planning/implementation, treatments/therapies, interventions, pain management, medications administration, labs coordination, and supporting documentation

  Well versed in auditing charts and evaluating policies, procedures and processes for compliance and performance optimization

  Effectively collaborate and coordinate with multidisciplinary teams and healthcare sector resources to maximize patient outcomes

  Motivating leader experienced in staff orientation, in-service education, scheduling, and evaluation

  Dynamic communication and interpersonal relation skills instrumental to productively interfacing with patients/family, physicians, staff, and administrators/senior management

RN-MSN, Chamberlain University; pending 2017

BSN Credits, Kaplan University; 2011-2012

ADN, Maysville Community College-Maysville, KY; 1983

Charge RN, UF Health Shands Psychiatric Hospital 2013-Current:

  Have held multiple positions including Intermittent Charge RN-Adult Psychiatric Unit as well as a year as Charge RN-Child/Adolescent Unit and Charge RN on former Eating Disorder Recovery Unit

  Efficiently conduct morning rounds with physicians/treatment team and coordinate patient information and care to optimize outcomes; work closely with Case Managers as part of a multidisciplinary team

  Effectively audit charts for compliance as well as manage occurrence reporting

  Productively interface with patients/family physician and clinical staff to define and address individual patient issues; develop and implement individual care plans

  Participate in weekly meetings with management, focusing on boosting best practices, enhancing staff performance, improving communications, and maximizing results

  Contribute expertise toward ensuring patient safety as member of Safety Council as well as supporting QI initiatives

Pain Care Manager, Palm Gardens 2012-2013

  Proficiently audited charts to ensure optimal compliance and effectiveness of pain management; position included monthly QI with direct reporting to senior leadership

  Efficiently monitored pain indicators/responses to therapies and medications, nurse compliance with charting standards and updates on medication status

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Case Manager, Senior Home Care 2012

  Effectively managed home care services from patient admission through discharge

  Provided direct patient care across multiple diagnoses; included wound care, maintenance and administration of injections along with follow up both in home and facility settings

  Actively collaborated with clinics to coordinate lab draws and manage patient appointments

On-Call Triage RN, Haven Hospice 2008-2011

  Relied on as on-call staff member in strategically arranging after-hour case managers for hospice patients; often held full-accountability as sole RN for 16 counties, requiring dynamic personnel triage, critical thinking, decision making, and communication skills along with ability to thrive in self-managed environment

  Partnered with physicians along with patients and families in delivering quality end-of-life care plans; included coordinating transfers with care centers

Cardiac Catheterization Lab RN, Alachua General Hospital 2001-2003

  Effectively assisted with multiple complex invasive pacer insertion procedures from cardiac to peripheral; additionally provided pre-/post-cath patient care

Charge RN/Staff RN, St. Luke Hospital (now St. Elizabeth Hospital East) 1983-2000

  Specialized in providing quality care of Med-Surg, Telemetry and ICU patients, from assessment and care plan implementation through monitoring, interventions and documentation

  Concurrently held leadership role in scheduling ICU staff, conducting in-service education and performing annual evaluations

  Collaboratively upgraded ICU assessment tool subsequently adopted for hospital-wide implementation

  Actively served on committee instrumental to improving productivity, efficiency and quality of hospital operations by implementing computerized charting system